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Senate panel advances bill reforming chiropractor board

May 13, 2021 12:40 pm

The Senate Commerce Community unanimously advanced a bill that would expand the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners and bar individuals convicted of a sex offense from being licensed to work in the health care industry. The bill would add two...

Murphy will nominate LaTourette to head DEP

April 14, 2021 12:11 pmApril 14, 2021 1:52 pm

Gov. Phil Murphy will nominate acting Commissioner Shawn LaTourette to permanently head the Department of Environmental Protection, the New Jersey Globe has learned. LaTourette, a longtime environmental law attorney whom Murphy appointed to lead the department following former Environmental Commissioner...

Murphy proposes $20 million program to insure state’s children

March 30, 2021 11:43 amMarch 30, 2021 5:40 pm

Gov. Phil Murphy on Tuesday announced a new proposal that would appropriate $20 million to pay for unemployed children’s health insurance, a move he said has won the support of President Joe Biden’s administration. “We know that lack of coverage...

Weinberg, Sweeney to introduce bill dissolving, reforming chiropractic board

February 26, 2021 5:50 pm

The Senate’s top two Democrats will introduce a bill dissolving and reforming the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners after the body dismissed Attorney General Gurbir Grewal’s motion to block the reinstatement of a sex offender’s license. “If the board can’t...

Murphy won’t rule out dissolving chiropractor board

February 26, 2021 3:36 pmFebruary 26, 2021 5:37 pm

Gov. Phil Murphy on Friday declined to rule out dissolving the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners for reinstating the license of a Paramus man convicted of convicted for luring or enticing underage girls. “I saw the action taken by the...

Chiropractic board earns bipartisan condemnation for reinstating sex offender’s license

February 25, 2021 6:28 pmFebruary 25, 2021 6:28 pm

The Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee’s top two members damned the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners after the body shot down Attorney General Gurbir Grewal’s motion to reconsider a license reinstatement for a convicted sex offender. “This...

Vitale still backing bill to eliminate vaccine religious exemptions

December 9, 2020 12:13 pmDecember 9, 2020 1:12 pm

State Sen. Joe Vitale (D-Woodbridge) hasn’t abandoned a bill that would eliminate religious exemptions for vaccinations, but the measure still doesn’t appear to have the support needed to pass a vote in the legislature’s upper chamber. “Still happy to have...