By Vin Gopal 

Our efforts to increase recruitment of volunteer first responders have been gaining bipartisan support in Trenton.

Our efforts to increase recruitment of volunteer first responders have been gaining bipartisan support in Trenton.

By Vin Gopal

The Senate passed legislation to establish separate offenses of home invasion burglary and residential burglary. As a prime sponsor of this bill, it’s gratifying to report that it had bipartisan support and passed the Senate 36 to 1.

By Vin Gopal

My Legislative District 11 partners, Assemblywomen Margie Donlon and Luanne Peterpaul, and I have joined other state lawmakers and independent pharmacists to address the impact of Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) on rising drug prices.

By Vin Gopal

To give our kids the best future possible, we need to put them on the right road to learning as early as possible.

By Vin Gopal

Getting the right medications to people who have been diagnosed with a serious mental illness in a timely fashion is critical to effective treatment.

It is gratifying to report that the Governor has signed our legislation restoring $44.7 million in state aid to local school districts.

By Vin Gopal

Local health departments are critical to the wellbeing of communities. 

We saw the important role local health departments played in maintaining community health during the pandemic, when they provided information about the availability of COVID-19 vaccines to residents and helped track the spread of the virus. Yet, there currently is no sustainable source of funding for them from year to year.

By Vin Gopal

We are sponsoring legislation to ensure that insurance coverage keeps pace with an important innovation in cancer treatment.

By Vin Gopal

April is Autism Awareness Month and we ask all LD11 residents to be mindful of how they can help make our communities be more inclusive for children and adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).

By Vin Gopal

Our Legislative District 11 office celebrated Women’s History Month, Irish-American Heritage Month, and Greek Independence Day this month and I couldn’t help but think of how these three seemingly very different groups have something very important in common.

By Vin Gopal

In 2018, the state legislature passed a bill to prevent educators and school employees with documented histories of sexual misconduct or child abuse from obtaining new employment in another school district by keeping their past misconduct private.

By Vin Gopal

The Senate Education Committee is focused on developing a fairer school funding formula to address funding cuts to schools, many of which are being forced to reduce staff and eliminate programs as a result.