Assemblywoman Greenstein

ASSEMBLY PANEL CLEARS WATSON COLEMAN/ GREENSTEIN BILL CREATING ENERGY EFFICIENCY STANDARDS FOR APPLIANCES

Measure Would Include More Appliances under Federal ENERGY STAR Standards

(TRENTON) - An Assembly committee today released legislation Assembly Majority Leader Bonnie Watson Coleman and Assemblywoman Linda R. Greenstein sponsored to create energy efficiency standards for a variety of appliances.

WATSON COLEMAN/PANTER/GREENSTEIN BILL
CREATING ENERGY EFFICIENCY STANDARDS FOR APPLIANCES ADVANCES

Measure Would Include More Appliances under Federal ENERGY STAR Standards

(TRENTON) - The Assembly today approved legislation Assembly Majority Leader Bonnie Watson Coleman, Assemblyman Mike Panter, and Assemblywoman Linda R. Greenstein sponsored to create energy efficiency standards for a variety of appliances.

JOHNSON/VAINIERI HUTTLE/GREENSTEIN BILL PROHIBITING POLITICAL DONATIONS BY PUBLIC AGENCIES BECOMES LAW

(TRENTON) -Legislation Assembly members Gordon M. Johnson, Valerie Vainieri Huttle, and Linda R. Greenstein sponsored to prohibit public agencies from making political contributions was signed into law today by Governor Jon S. Corzine.

GREENSTEIN/MORIARTY PUBLIC RIGHT-TO-KNOW BILL
ON HOSPITAL INFECTION RATES SIGNED INTO LAW

Action Comes Two Weeks  after New CDC Report Finds Deadly Super-Staph Infections Rising at Dangerous Rates
 
(HAMILTON) - New Jersey today became the 20th state in the country to enact a law providing health-care consumers with unfettered access to reports on infection rates at all New Jersey hospitals.

GREENSTEIN: CONSUMERS CAN SAVE MONEY
WITH ONLINE STATE PRESCRIPTION DRUG REGISTRY 

New Price Index Gives Residents Ability to Comparison Shop for Best Values

(PRINCETON) - Assemblywoman Linda Greenstein today joined with Governor Jon S. Corzine, AARP, Attorney General Ann Milgram, Senator Barbara Buono (D-Middlesex) and health and consumer advocates to spread the word to New Jersey residents about a new state Web site that gives consumers the ability to comparison shop for the lowest prescription medicine prices.

GREENSTEIN: FEDERAL ACTION NEEDED TO CLOSE LOOPHOLE IN NATIONAL 'DO NOT CALL' LIST

Sponsor of Nation's Toughest Anti-Telemarketing Law Says Five-Year Sunset On Registrations Must be Eliminated

(MONROE TOWNSHIP) - Assemblywoman Linda Greenstein, sponsor of the state's 2003 "Do Not Call" law, today called for passage of federal legislation that would prevent registrations on the landmark anti-telemarketing list from expiring in five years.

ASSEMBLY PASSES MORIARTY/GREENSTEIN/FISHER BILL REQUIRING PUBLIC REPORTING OF HOSPITAL ERRORS

Measure Would Create Searchable Online Database
Of Anonymously Catalogued Serious Medical Mistakes

(TRENTON) - The Assembly today passed legislation Assembly members Paul Moriarty, Linda R. Greenstein, and Douglas H. Fisher sponsored to require annual public disclosure of serious medical mistakes made in New Jersey.

'GLOBAL WARMING RESPONSE ACT'PASSES ASSEMBLY

(TRENTON) - The Assembly today passed landmark legislation that would make New Jersey the second state in the nation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through an aggressive plan to drastically cut global warming over the next half century.  The bill is sponsored by Assembly members Linda Stender, Valerie Vainieri Huttle, Reed Gusciora, Linda R. Greenstein, and John F. McKeon.

GREENSTEIN/PANTER BILL TO MANDATE ETHICS TRAINING FOR LEGISLATIVE STAFF PASSES SENATE

Measure Also Would Create Separate Post of Legislative Ethics Counsel

(TRENTON) - The Senate today passed legislation Assemblywoman Linda Greenstein and Assemblyman Michael J. Panter sponsored to require annual ethics training for legislative staff and to create specific Ethics Counsel post for the Legislature.

GREENSTEIN/PANTER GREEN BUILDING BILL CLEARS ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE
 

Measure Would Allow Municipalities to Adopt Green Buildings, Sustainability Plans

(TRENTON) - The Assembly Environment and Solid Waste Committee today released legislation Assemblywoman Linda R. Greenstein and Assemblyman Mike Panter sponsored that would promote energy efficiency through construction of "green buildings" and the use of sustainable energy plans by municipalities.