Joan Quigley

ASSEMBLY DEMS APPLAUD INCREASE TO HOME HEATING ASSISTANCE FUNDING

(TRENTON) – Assembly members Wayne P. DeAngelo, Fred Scalera, Joan M. Quigley, Annette Quijano, and Nellie Pou today commended the swift response of Governor Jon S. Corzine and the state Department of Community Affairs in enacting the recommendations of legislation (AR-165) they sponsored to allow more working families to receive help paying their heating bills this winter.

BILL SEEKING TO HELP RESIDENTS PAY HOME HEATING BILLS APPROVED

(TRENTON) –Legislation to push the federal government to allow more low-income households to receive help paying home heating costs has been approved 78-1 by the Assembly.

The measure (AR165) urges the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs (DCA) to take all administrative steps necessary to increase the annual income eligibility level for receiving assistance under the federal Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program.

ASSEMBLY DEMOCRATS REACT TO BUDGET COMMITTEE HEARING AIMED AT HELPING STATE AMID FINANCIAL MELTDOWN

(TRENTON) - Assembly Democrats today issued the following multimedia package as the Assembly Budget committee considered legislation that would expand the state's network of social support programs amid a continuing global economic meltdown.

The panel met as part of a concerted effort by the Assembly to continue its focus on helping New Jerseyans and businesses emerge strong from the global financial crisis.

Assembly committees today considered 19 pieces of legislation to revamp state business taxes and incentives, help struggling homeowners, promote jobs, protect consumers from financial fraud and help low-income residents.

QUIGLEY MULTIMEDIA PACKAGE ON THE 'VOTE BY MAIL LAW OF 2008'

(JERSEY CITY) - With the November general election two weeks away, Assemblywoman Joan M. Quigley (D-Hudson), chairwoman of the Assembly State Government Committee today issued a multimedia package on her legislation (A-2451) to clarify and expand New Jersey's no-fault absentee voting program, more commonly known as "Vote by Mail."

QUIGLEY/SPENCER/SMITH INTRODUCE BILL TO REQUIRE PROPER BEDBUG EXTERMINATION IN MULTI-UNIT RESIDENCES

Measure Stems From July Outbreak of Bedbugs in Hudson County Apartment Complexes; Would Make Landlords Legally, Financially Responsible for Ending Infestations

(TRENTON) - Assembly members Joan M. Quigley, L. Grace Spencer, and L. Harvey Smith have introduced legislation that would make landlords entirely responsible for keeping apartment complexes free of bedbug infestations.

QUIGLEY MULTIMEDIA PACKAGE ON LANDLORD/TENANT EXTERMINATION RESPONSIBILITY LEGISLATION

Measure Stems From July Outbreak of Bedbugs in Hudson County Apartment Complexes

(JERSEY CITY) - Assemblywoman Joan M. Quigley (D-Hudson) today issued a multimedia package focusing on the recent rash of bedbug infestations in apartment buildings across the state and the legislation she is crafting to ensure that the responsibilities for extermination of the vermin are clearly delineated.

DENVER -- Assemblywoman Joan Quigley (D-Jersey City) is candid about her feelings on the upcoming Jersey City mayoral race.

She’s with Mayor Jerramiah Healy. Not that it’s unusual, considering he’s chairman of the Hudson County Democratic Organization (HCDO). She wasn’t in 2004, however, when he ran to replace the late Glen Cunningham.

“He was a dark horse at that point and I didn’t know him well,” she said. And while his status as the head of the powerful Democratic organization could certainly win him friends, Quigley said that’s not the reason.

“I learned to like him a lot better before that happened.”

A four-hour impasse over public employee benefits reform legislation Monday night in the General Assembly left a number of top Assembly Democrats fuming after several Hudson Democrats held out their votes on the measure causing the delay.  The boycott -- apparently orchestrated by State Senator Nicholas Sacco, who holds three public jobs in addition to his wife's employment with the Hudson County School of Technology, forced Democrats to rely on Republicans to pass the measure, a common occurrence in the Senate but a rarity in the lower House which infuriated veteran Democrats. 

ASSEMBLY PASSES QUIGLEY/CONNERS 'VOTE BY MAIL LAW OF 2008'

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

(TRENTON) - The General Assembly today passed legislation Assembly members Joan M. Quigley and Jack Conners sponsored to eliminate New Jersey's current absentee ballot system and replace it with a true "vote-by-mail" system.