Nellie Pou

STANLEY/CARABALLO/POU/VAN DREW BILL OVERHAULING
SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION AGENCY CLEARS ASSEMBLY PANEL
Legislation Would Dismantle Current Schools Construction Corporation,
Enact Reforms to Protect Against Wasteful Spending

(TRENTON) - Legislation to dismantle the troubled Schools Construction Corporation (SCC) and enact a series of structural reforms to restore confidence in the state's efforts to provide New Jersey students with modern school buildings was released today by an Assembly Committee.

POU BILL PROTECTING JOBS AT MARCAL PRODUCTION PLANT
BECOMES LAW
Extends Energy Tax Break So Major North Jersey Employer Can Stay in Business

(TRENTON) - Legislation Assemblywoman Nellie Pou sponsored to ensure that the Marcal Paper Mills Inc. manufacturing plant in Elmwood Park can stay in business - protecting 850 jobs - became law, effective today.

BILL CRACKING DOWN ON BENEFITS ABUSES SIGNED INTO LAW

Measure Attacks Tacking, Boosting, Padding, Other Abuses in Effort to Reduce Tax Costs

(TRENTON) – Legislation sponsored by Assemblywoman Nellie Pou and Assemblyman Thomas P. Giblin that cracks down on abusive practices undermining the financial integrity of the state’s benefits system for public employees – like pension boosting, tacking, and padding – was signed into law today by Governor Jon S. Corzine.

POU BILL TO PROTECT MARCAL JOBS SENT TO GOVERNOR FOR APPROVAL

Legislation Would Extend Energy Tax Break To Keep Major North Jersey Employer Remain Open for Business

(TRENTON) - The Senate today gave final legislative approval to a bill Assemblywoman Nellie Pou sponsored to ensure that Elmwood Park's Marcal Paper manufacturing plant would be able to stay in business - protecting 850 jobs.

POU PRAISES ADMINISTRATION'S EFFORTS AT UNION NEGOTIATING TABLE

(TRENTON) - Assemblywoman Nellie Pou today praised the efforts of the Corzine administration in securing a tentative contract agreement with the state's public employee unions late last night.

POU BILL TO PROTECT MARCAL'S 850 JOBS
RELEASED BY ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE
Legislation Would Give Elmwood Park Manufacturer Necessary Energy Tax Break
To Remain Open for Business

(TRENTON) -- Legislation Assemblywoman Nellie Pou sponsored to ensure that Elmwood Park's Marcal Paper manufacturing plant would remain a North Jersey employer was released today by the Assembly Appropriations Committee.

POU STATEMENT AT BENEFITS REFORM PANEL ON COMMITTEE'S FINAL REPORT

(TRENTON) - Below are remarks prepared for delivery this afternoon by Assemblywoman Nellie Pou (D-Passaic), co-chair of the Joint Legislative Committee on Public Employee Benefits Reform:

GIBLIN STATEMENT ON RECOMMENDATIONS FROM BENEFITS REFORM COMMITTEE

(TRENTON) -- Assemblyman Thomas P. Giblin, a member of the Joint Legislative Committee on Public Employee Benefits Reform, today voiced strong support for the findings and reform recommendations unveiled this morning by co-chairs Senator Nicholas P. Scutari (D-Union) and Assemblywoman Nellie Pou (D-Passaic/Bergen).

Giblin (D-Essex/Passaic) issued the following statement:

BENEFITS COMMITTEE REPORT PROVIDES PROPERTY TAX RELIEF BY REDUCING WASTE, FRAUD, ABUSE
Scutari, Pou Recommend Methods of Reducing Costly Abuses & Reforming Benefits System

(TRENTON) - Senator Nicholas P. Scutari and Assemblywoman Nellie Pou, the co-chairs of the Joint Legislative Committee on Public Employee Benefits Reform, today submitted a report to legislative leaders that includes more than 40 specific reform recommendations, many of them aimed at cracking down on abusive practices that have undermined the security and solvency of the state's public employees' pensions and health benefits system.

POU: TESTIMONY FROM AUTHOR OF MURPHY REPORT PROVIDES VALUABLE INSIGHT

(TRENTON) - In response to testimony provided to the Joint Legislative Committee on Public Employee Benefits Reform by Philip D. Murphy, Chairman of the Governor's Benefits Review Task Force, Assemblywoman Nellie Pou (D-Passaic), one of the committee's co-chairs, issued the following statement: