Jack Conners

CONNERS/MILAM/CRUZ-PEREZ BILL TO ENSURE DECEASED NEW JERSEY VETERANS ARE TREATED WITH RESPECT NOW LAW

(TRENTON) – Legislation Assemblymen Jack Conners and Matthew Milam and Assemblywoman Nilsa Cruz-Perez sponsored to ensure the cremains of New Jersey veterans are treated with respect is now law.

The law gives veterans’ organizations the right to receive the cremains of a veteran that have not been claimed by a relative or friend.

It was signed Wednesday by Gov. Jon S. Corzine.

“It is particularly important that we do all we can to ensure that fallen service men and women are honorably received,” said Conners (D-Burlington), chairman of the Assembly Veterans and Military Affairs Committee.

QUIGLEY/CONNERS/MORIARTY ‘VOTE BY MAIL LAW’ CONTINUES ADVANCING

Measure Would Streamline Steps Voters Use to Cast Absentee Ballots in Elections

(TRENTON) – Assembly –approved legislation Assembly members Joan M. Quigley, Jack Conners and Paul Moriarty sponsored to eliminate New Jersey’s absentee ballot system and replace it with a “vote-by-mail” system continued advancing today toward law.

The bill was approved by the Assembly in June and was released Monday by the Senate State Government Committee. It’s sponsored in the Senate by Senate Majority Leader Stephen Sweeney (D-Gloucester) and Sen. Raymond Lesniak (D-Union).

“Choosing who to vote for can be a confusing and stressful process,” said Quigley (D-Hudson), chairwoman of the Assembly State Government Committee. “Casting a ballot shouldn’t be. Moving to a true vote-by-mail system will make it easier for people to exercise their right to vote and increase public participation in the democratic process.”

ASSEMBLY DEMOCRATIC COMMENTARY ON MEASURE PROMOTING NJ-BASED 'GREEN' MANUFACTURING

(TRENTON) - Assembly members Pamela R. Lampitt, Wayne P. DeAngelo, Gary S. Schaer and Jack Conners today issued a multimedia package on legislation, released from the Assembly State Government Committee, that would promote home-grown, in-state solar and wind energy manufacturing.

The bill (A-3616), sponsored by Lampitt (D-Camden) and DeAngelo (D-Mercer), would grant a preference to New Jersey businesses that produce alternative energy hardware when awarding state contracts involving solar and wind energy projects, further supporting New Jersey "green" businesses and jobs.  The measure also would support projects that aim to use a majority of parts manufactured or produced in the state in the assembly of a final project.

DIEGNAN/BARNES/CONNERS/RAMOS BILL CREATING ‘TROOPS TO COLLEGE’ PROGRAM ADVANCES

Aims to Help Veterans Make Transition into Classroom

(TRENTON) – Legislation sponsored by Assemblymen Patrick J. Diegnan Jr., Peter J. Barnes III, Jack Conners and Ruben J. Ramos Jr. to help veterans make the transition from the battlefield to the college classroom was released today by an Assembly committee.

The bill would require the New Jersey Commission on Higher Education, in consultation with the Department of Veterans’ and Military Affairs, to establish the Troops to College Program.

The program would assist New Jersey’s public institutions of higher education in coordinating a comprehensive array of services to help veterans make the transition into the college classroom.

“Our veterans deserve the best, and that includes access to higher education,” said Diegnan (D-Middlesex).

ASSEMBLY PANEL ADVANCES BILL TO CREATE SPECIAL LICENSE PLATES FOR GOLD STAR PARENTS

Measure Would Authorize Plate for Parents of Those Killed on Active Duty

(TRENTON) – Legislation sponsored by Assemblymen Jack Conners, Nelson T. Albano and Matthew W. Milam that would create a special license plate for the parents of soldiers killed on active duty was released today by an Assembly committee.

The bill (A-2725) authorizes a special Gold Star Parent license plate for the parents of servicemen and servicewomen who lost their lives while on active duty for the United States. Stepparents and foster parents could also be among those eligible.

The design would include a gold star and the words “Gold Star Parent.”

“Nothing we can do can help parents overcome the loss of a child, but at the very least we can do this to honor those who lost a child on active duty,” said Conners (D-Burlington/Camden), chairman of the Assembly Military and Veterans Affairs Committee that released the bill.

CONNERS/MILAM BILL TO ENSURE DECEASED NEW JERSEY VETERANS ARE TREATED WITH RESPECT CLOSER TO LAW

(TRENTON) – Legislation Assemblymen Jack Conners and Matthew Milam sponsored to ensure the cremains of New Jersey veterans are treated with respect is closer to law.

The bill would give veterans’ organizations the right to receive the cremains of a veteran that have not been claimed by a relative or friend.

The Senate recently gave the measure final legislative approval.

“It is particularly important that we do all we can to ensure that fallen service men and women are honorably received,” said Conners (D-Burlington), chairman of the Assembly Veterans and Military Affairs Committee.

SMALL BUSINESS STIMULATION AND INVESTMENT MEASURE
SIGNED INTO LAW
'Main Street Business Investment Program' to Open Up $50 Million
To Help Small Businesses Survive, Expand

(TRENTON) - Legislation creating a new statewide small business investment program was signed into law today by Governor Jon S. Corzine.

The measure was sponsored by Assembly members Gary Schaer (D-Passaic), Douglas Fisher (D-Cumberland), Grace Spencer (D-Essex), Jack Conners (D-Camden/Burlington), Majority Leader Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-Mercer) and Nellie Pou (D-Passaic).

CONNERS: WORLD WAR II MEMORIAL A FITTING TRIBUTE TO ‘GREATEST GENERATION’

(TRENTON) – Assemblyman Jack Conners, chairman of the Assembly Military and Veterans Affairs Committee, released the following statement on New Jersey’s World War II Memorial.

Conners (D-Camden) sponsored legislation that helped create the memorial built in Trenton across from the State House.

“For too long we have somehow failed to give this fitting tribute to the men and women who fought and struggled so courageously to preserve freedom across the globe, but that finally changed today..."

ASSEMBLYMAN CONNERS GIVEN VETERANS ADVOCACY AWARD

(TRENTON) -- In a ceremony Saturday evening, Assemblyman Jack Conners (D-Pennsauken) was honored as “Veterans Advocate of the Year” for 2008 by the Vietnam Veterans of America South Jersey Chapter.

CONNERS BILL TO IMPROVE REPORTING, OVERSIGHT OF INSURANCE PROVIDERS PASSES ASSEMBLY

(TRENTON) - Legislation Assemblyman Jack Conners sponsored to require additional oversight and reporting requirements for New Jersey's insurance industry today passed the General Assembly by a vote of 79-0-1.