Press Room

PANEL OK'S QUIGLEY/WATSON COLEMAN/GREENSTEIN BILL TO SPUR NEW 'SAFE HAVEN' AWARENESS CAMPAIGN

For Immediate Release: June 14th, 2007

(JERSEY CITY) – The Assembly Human Services Committee today released legislation Assemblywoman Joan Quigley, Majority Leader Bonnie Watson Coleman, and Assemblywoman Linda Greenstein sponsored to enhance the state’s “Safe Haven” newborn protection law to promote greater awareness of the state program aimed at reducing infant abandonment.

WATSON COLEMAN/CARABALLO BILL TO DEDICATE AFFORDABLE HOUSING FOR WORKING POOR

For Immediate Release: May 10th, 2007

(TRENTON) – An Assembly Committee today released legislation Assemblywoman Bonnie Watson Coleman and Assemblyman Wilfredo Caraballo sponsored to expand the state’s “Fair Housing Act” to set aside at least twenty-five percent of all affordable housing units for New Jersey families who earn the lowest incomes in the state.

WATSON COLEMAN: MORE GUNS ON CAMPUS WON'T PREVENT VIRGINIA TECH TRAGEDIES

For Immediate Release: April 19th, 2007

(TRENTON) – Assembly Majority Leader Bonnie Watson Coleman today assailed gun advocates, conservative columnists like Ann Coulter and political reactionaries for seizing on the Virginia Tech shooting deaths as a vehicle to promote sales of firearms to college students.

WATSON COLEMAN: NEW JERSEY NEEDS LAW TO SHIELD WITNESSES FROM GANG INTIMIDATION

For Immediate Release: April 3rd, 2007

(TRENTON) – Assembly Majority Leader Bonnie Watson Coleman today said the entire state should follow the example of the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office in shielding crime-scene witnesses from intimidation and threats by criminal street gangs and said she is redoubling efforts to pass such witness protections into law.

WATSON COLEMAN/BURZICHELLI COMPTROLLER BILL SIGNED INTO LAW

For Immediate Release: March 15th, 2007

(TRENTON) – Governor Jon S. Corzine today signed into law legislation Assembly Majority Leader Bonnie Watson Coleman and Assemblyman John Burzichelli sponsored to strengthen the state’s oversight and accountability capabilities, enhance the state’s ability to control the spending of taxpayer dollars, and combat fraud, waste, abuse or mismanagement in government through an independent Office of State Comptroller.

SENATE PASSES PORTION OF WATSON COLEMAN ANTI-STREET GANG PACKAGE

For Immediate Release: March 15th, 2007

(TRENTON) – The Senate today passed a piece of a sweeping “Fighting Gangs, Protecting Our Youth” legislative initiative Assembly Majority Leader Bonnie Watson Coleman championed to provide
municipalities, schools, and law enforcement authorities with new tools to combat the growing menace of street gangs in New Jersey.

WATSON COLEMAN: NJ MUST KEEP PACE WITH OTHER STATES SCHEDULING EARLY PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES

For Immediate Release: March 14th, 2007

(TRENTON) – Noting how as many as 22 other states could hold presidential primaries on February 5, 2008, Assembly Majority Leader Bonnie Watson Coleman today said New Jersey would be negligent if it didn’t follow through in moving its presidential primary to February 5 next year.

WATSON COLEMAN SHOCKED BY LACK OF REPUBLICAN SUPPORT ON RESOLUTION OPPOSING IRAQ TROOP ESCALATION

For Immediate Release: March 8th, 2007

(TRENTON) – Assembly Majority Leader Bonnie Watson Coleman today expressed shock and disappointment that Assembly Republicans chose partisanship over the sentiments of New Jersey Residents by refusing to support a resolution opposing President Bush’s plan to send more troops to Iraq.

Corporate America is Tracking Your Every Move

For Immediate Release: February 20th, 2007

It would be positively Orwellian if corporate America was using high technology to track your whereabouts without your knowledge. Welcome to “1984.”

GOVERNOR SIGNS FIRST ELEMENTS OF WATSON COLEMAN ANTI-GANG PACKAGE INTO LAW

For Immediate Release: January 26th, 2007

(TRENTON) – The Governor today signed into law two pieces of a sweeping “Fighting Gangs, Protecting Our Youth” legislative initiative Assembly Majority Leader Bonnie Watson Coleman championed to provide municipalities, schools, and law enforcement authorities with new tools to combat the growing menace of street gangs in New Jersey.

WATSON COLEMAN, QUIGLEY, VAS MEASURE COMBATING DECEPTIVE CALLING CARD ADVERTISING ADVANCES

For Immediate Release: January 18th, 2007

(TRENTON) – Legislation sponsored by Assembly Majority Leader Bonnie Watson Coleman, Assemblywoman Joan M. Quigley, and Assemblyman Joseph Vas that would require the full disclosure of terms, limitations, and conditions of use for prepaid telephone calling cards sold in New Jersey was released from the Assembly Consumer Affairs Committee today, by a vote of 5 to 0.

STATE SHOULD RETHINK SUBSIDIES TO HOSPITALS LEAVING CITIES UNSERVED

For Immediate Release: June 6th, 2006

New Jersey’s urban hospitals are under siege. Squeezed by sky-rocketing costs, increases in the number of patients who don’t have health insurance and sharp declines in insurance reimbursements, these health care institutions of last resort increasingly are becoming estranged from the communities where they are located.

LEGISLATION CREATING EMERGENCY PLANS FOR ANIMALS APPROVED BY ASSEMBLY

For Immediate Release: March 16th, 2006

(TRENTON) – Legislation Assemblyman John J. Burzichelli and Assemblywomen Joan M. Quigley and Bonnie Watson Coleman sponsored to require state, county and local offices of emergency management (OEM) to include plans and provisions to support animals in emergency situations was passed today by the General Assembly.

WATSON COLEMAN: GOVERNOR DELIVERED REASSURING MESSAGE ON PROPERTY TAX REFORM

For Immediate Release: January 9th, 2006

(TRENTON)-- Assembly Majority Leader Bonnie Watson Coleman applauded Governor corzine for delivering a speech aimed at prodding the Legislature to complete work on a comprehnsive plan to fix New Jersey's property tax problem.

LANDMARK IDENTITY THEFT, CREDIT PROTECTION LEGISLATION SIGNED INTO LAW

For Immediate Release: September 22nd, 2005

(TRENTON) – Legislation Assemblywoman Bonnie Watson Coleman and Assemblymen Joseph Cryan, Reed Gusciora and Joseph Vas sponsored to give consumers better protections against identity thieves and establish stronger safeguards for the compiling and reporting of consumer personal data was signed into law today by Acting Governor Richard J. Codey.

N.J. Families Need Relief Rebates Offer

For Immediate Release: June 24th, 2005

For more than three decades, New Jersey's outdated and onerous property-tax system has hung like a great weight around the necks of our residents. Regardless of who gets asked, residents loathe few things more than property taxes.

WATSON COLEMAN: BREACH AFFECTING 3.9 MILLION BANK CUSTOMERS DEMONSTRATES NEED FOR ID THEFT PROTECTION LAW

For Immediate Release: June 7th, 2005

(TRENTON) – Citing the recent loss of personal financial account information belonging to 3.9 million customers of the nation’s largest financial services company, Assemblywoman Bonnie Watson Coleman today announced she will intensify her efforts to secure passage of comprehensive identity theft protection legislation in New Jersey.

WATSON COLEMAN/QUIGLEY BILL COMBATING PREPAID TELEPHONE CALLING CARD PRICE-GOUGING ADVANCES

For Immediate Release: May 12th, 2005

(TRENTON) -- The Assembly Consumer Affairs Committee today released legislation Assemblywomen Bonnie Watson Coleman and Joan Quigley sponsored to require full disclosure of terms, limitations, and conditions of use on telephone prepaid calling cards sold in New Jersey.

MEASURE APPROVING $6.4 MILLION IN HISTORIC PRESERVATION FUNDS FOR CENTRAL JERSEY SIGNED INTO LAW

For Immediate Release: May 4th, 2005

(TRENTON) -- Legislation approving more than $6.4 million for historic preservation projects in central New Jersey was signed into law today by Acting Governor Richard J. Codey.

WATSON COLEMAN UNVEILS COMPREHENSIVE CREDIT, IDENTITY THEFT PROTECTION LEGISLATION

For Immediate Release: May 2nd, 2005

(TRENTON) – Assemblywoman Bonnie Watson Coleman today teamed with local consumer advocates to announce the introduction of legislation that would give consumers better protections against identity thieves and establish stronger safeguards for the compiling and reporting of consumer personal data.