Neil Cohen

COHEN BILL PREVENTING DOG BREED DISCRIMINATION BY HOMEOWNER INSURERS PASSES ASSEMBLY

(TRENTON) - The General Assembly today passed legislation Assemblyman Neil M. Cohen sponsored to prohibit property and casualty insurers in New Jersey from altering a homeowner's insurance policy based on the type or specific breed of dog kept on the insured property.

COHEN BILL PROTECTING RESIDENTS WHO REPORT SUSPICIOUS, TERRORISTIC ACTIVITIES CLEARS COMMITTEE

(TRENTON) - The Assembly Homeland Security and State Preparedness Committee today released legislation sponsored by Assemblyman Neil M. Cohen that would protect members of the public from civil lawsuits resulting from a good faith report of suspected terrorist activities.

COHEN TO INTRODUCE BILL TO CREATE WARNING NOTICES FOR POISONOUS FLOWERS, PLANTS

Legislation Would Help Protect Children, Pets from Potentially Deadly Floral Gifts

(ROSELLE) - Assemblyman Neil M. Cohen is proposing an interesting gift for Mother's Day:  safety.

Cohen (D-Union) plans to introduce legislation Monday that would create a list of poisonous plants and flowers available for sale in the state and require physicians, veterinarians, and retailers to provide information on how these plants should be handled and displayed.

CRUZ-PEREZ/MORIARTY/GUSCIORA/COHEN CONSUMER ELECTRONICS LEMON LAW ADVANCES

Measure Would Regulate Warranties, Extended Warranties, Service Contracts for Electronics

(TRENTON) - The Assembly Consumer Affairs Committee today released legislation Assembly members Nilsa Cruz-Perez, Paul D. Moriarty, Reed Gusciora, and Neil M. Cohen sponsored to extend the consumer protections of the state's stringent automotive lemon law to consumer-electronic products such as televisions, iPods, and home entertainment systems.

COHEN APPLAUDS LATEST ADDITION TO NJ'S GROWING STEM CELL RESEARCH MARKET

Assemblyman Says StemCyte Facility will Help Find Keys to Lifesaving Treatments, Boost State Economy

(ROSELLE) - Assemblyman Neil M. Cohen today praised the decision by California-based stem cell research company StemCyte - one of the world's largest umbilical cord blood stem cell banks - to open a research facility in Ewing.

Assemblyman Neil Cohen (D-Union) and fellow Obama volunteers 

Assemblyman Neil Cohen (D-Union) this weekend led a contingent of about 100 Sen. Barack Obama supporters to Philadelphia to go door-to-door for the Democratic Party presidential candidate days before the Pennsylvania primary.

The latest MSNBC poll puts Obama behind Sen. Hillary Clinton, 48% to 43% in Pennsylvania.

Selected last week by his party to serve as an Obama delegate at the Democratic National Convention in August, Cohen has volunteered for Obama for the past year.

COHEN UNVEILS COMPREHENSIVE PLAN TO SAVE FAMILY HOMES FROM FORECLOSURE DURING NATIONAL MORTGAGE CRISIS

Provide Three-Year Payment Plan for Families in Foreclosure to Protect Their Homes; Bill Would Give Families More Notice of Changes to Interest Rates

(ROSELLE) - Assemblyman Neil M. Cohen, chairman of the Assembly Financial Institutions and Insurance Committee, today unveiled legislation he has crafted to help give the thousands of New Jersey families caught-up in the recent mortgage market upheaval an opportunity to retain their homes.

State Sen. Raymond Lesniak says he'll step down from the Senate today
State Sen. Raymond Lesniak, who has represented Union County in the Legislature since 1977 and is one of the state’s most powerful lawyers and political powerbrokers, said today that he would retire from the Senate.

“There’s nothing left for me to accomplish,” Lesniak said in a statement released early this morning that is certain to shock the political world.

Assemblymen Neil Cohen and Joseph Cryan, the Democratic State Chairman, could face-off in a Special Election Convention for the District 20 Senate seat later this month.

GOVERNOR SIGNS COHEN BILL PROHIBITING LIFE INSURANCE DISCRIMINATION BASED ON FOREIGN TRAVEL

Measure Would Prevent Companies from Using Past or Future Travel Plans as a Means of Denying or Altering Coverage

(TRENTON) - Legislation Assemblyman Neil M. Cohen sponsored to prohibit life insurance companies from unfairly discriminating against individuals based on their past or future foreign travel plans was signed into law today by Governor Jon S. Corzine.

NEW STATE LAW BANS HARVEST OF HORSESHOE CRABS
McKeon/Gusciora/Fisher/Cohen/Stender Measure Protects Endangered Red Knot Shorebird

(TRENTON) - Legislation Assembly members John McKeon, Reed Gusciora, Douglas H. Fisher, Neil Cohen and Linda Stender sponsored to ban the harvest of horseshoe crabs and their eggs was signed into law today by Governor Jon S. Corzine.