New Jersey General Assembly

Composition

List of state assembly members

Committees and committee chairs

Committee chairs for the 2024–2026 Legislative Session are:

• Aging & Senior Services - Shanique Speight (D-District 29)
• Children, Families, and Food Security - Shama Haider (D-District 37)
• Appropriations - Lisa Swain (D-District 38)
• Budget - Eliana Pintor Marin (D-District 29)
• Commerce, Economic Development, and Agriculture - William Spearman (D-District 5)
• Community Development & Woman's Affairs - Shavonda E. Sumter (D-District 35)
• Consumer Affairs - William Sampson (D-District 31)
• Education - Verlina Reynolds-Jackson (D-District 15)
• Environment, Natural Resources, and Solid Waste - James J. Kennedy (D-District 22)
• Financial Institutions and Insurance - Roy Freiman (D-District 16)
• Health - Carol Murphy (D-District 7)
• Higher Education - Linda S. Carter (D-District 22)
• Housing - Yvonne Lopez (D-District 19)
• Judiciary - Ellen Park (D-District 37)
• Labor - Anthony Verrelli (D-District 15)
• Military and Veterans' Affairs - Cleopatra Tucker (D-District 28)
• Oversight, Reform, and Federal Relations - Reginald Atkins (D-District 20)
• Public Safety and Preparedness - Joseph Danielsen (D-District 17)
• Regulated Professions - Sterley Stanley (D-District 18)
• Science, Innovation, and Technology - Chris Tully (D-District 38)
• State and Local Government - Robert Karabinchak (D-District 18)
• Telecommunications and Utilities - Wayne DeAngelo (D-District 14)
• Tourism, Gaming, and the Arts - William Moen (D-District 5)
• Transportation and Independent Authorities - Clinton Calabrese (D-District 36)

List of past Assembly speakers

Main article: List of speakers of the New Jersey General Assembly

History

:See: New Jersey Legislature#Colonial period and New Jersey Legislative Council#Composition

Salary and costs

Service as a state senator or member of the General Assembly is considered to be part-time. Effective 2002, state senators and members of the General Assembly receive an annual base salary of $49,000 with the Senate president and the Assembly speaker earning slightly more (1/3 over the base). This was an increase from $35,000, which had been in effect since 1990. Beginning in 2026, the base salary will increase to $82,000. Additionally, each legislator receives an annual allowance of $150,000 for staff salaries. In the 2025 fiscal year, the total cost of the legislature in the state budget was $127,346,000. Of this amount, $18,690,000 was appropriated to the State Senate for salaries and other costs, and $25,208,000 was appropriated to the General Assembly.

"Double dipping"

Under state law that remained in effect until 2008, members of the New Jersey Assembly and Senate were allowed to serve in the legislature while still serving in any other government positions they might have held at the time. Those still doing so in 2008 were "grandfathered":

: Name, Party-County – Second Public Office (name in bold represents state Assembly member still in both local and state offices as of 2025):

Assembly members:

• John J. Burzichelli, D-Gloucester – Mayor, Paulsboro
• Ralph R. Caputo, D-Essex – Freeholder, Essex County
• Anthony Chiappone, D-Hudson – Councilmember, Bayonne
• Ronald S. Dancer, R-Ocean – Mayor, Plumsted Township
• Joseph V. Egan, D-Middlesex – Councilman, New Brunswick
• Elease Evans, D-Passaic – Freeholder, Passaic County
• John F. McKeon, D-Essex – Mayor, West Orange
• Paul D. Moriarty, D-Gloucester – Mayor, Washington Township
• Ruben J. Ramos, D-Hudson – Councilmember, Hoboken
• Scott Rumana, R-Passaic – Mayor, Wayne
• Gary Schaer, D-Passaic – Councilmember, Passaic
• Daniel Van Pelt, R-Ocean – Mayor, Ocean Township
• Joseph Vas, D-Middlesex – Mayor, Perth Amboy

Notes

References

References

1. [http://www.apportionmentcommission.org/documents/ValidationData/ValidationData_LegislativeDistricts.xls Statistical Data Tables] {{Webarchive. link. (2022-03-28 , [[New Jersey Apportionment Commission]]. Accessed August 25, 2021.)
2. [https://www.cityofpassaic.com/242/Gary-Schaer Gary Schaer. Passaic, NJ]
3. "NJ Legislature".
4. [https://www.njleg.state.nj.us/our-legislature Our Legislature. NJ Legislature]
5. [https://lis.njleg.state.nj.us/nxt/gateway.dll/statutes%2F1%2F46391%2F46857 N.J.S.A. 52:10A-1]
6. [https://www.njleg.state.nj.us/bill-search/2022/A5910/bill-text?f=AL23&n=349_ P.L. 2023, CHAPTER 349] ("An Act concerning the annual salary of certain public employees and officers, amending various parts of the statutory law, and supplementing Title 52 of the Revised Statutes.")
7. [https://pub.njleg.state.nj.us/publications/budget/Scoresheet_FY_2025_Appropriations_Act_(P.L.2024,_c.22).pdf FY 2025 Appropriations Act], [https://www.njleg.state.nj.us/budget-finance Legislative Budget & Finance Office]
8. [https://www.njleg.state.nj.us/bill-search/2024/A4700/bill-text?f=AL24&n=22_ P.L.2024, CHAPTER 22] ("An Act making appropriations for the support of the State Government and the several public purposes for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025 and regulating the disbursement thereof.")
9. Seton Hall Legislative Journal]], 2008. Accessed December 29, 2025. "This concern over ethical conflicts has been clearly evidenced by the presentation of a number of bills proposing both a Commission to study the negative effects of dual-office holding as well as an outright ban on the practice. Finally, in June 2007, legislation was passed by both houses of the Legislature banning the practice of dual-office holding in New Jersey"