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2025 New Jersey legislative session

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2025 New Jersey legislative session
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General information
Scheduled session start:    January 14, 2025

Scheduled session end:    December 31, 2025

Leadership
Senate President
Nicholas Scutari (D)

House Speaker
Craig Coughlin (D)
Majority Leader
Senate: Teresa Ruiz (D)
House: Louis Greenwald (D)
Minority Leader
Senate: Anthony M. Bucco (R)
House: John DiMaio (R)

Elections
Next Election:    November 4, 2025

Last Election:    November 7, 2023

Previous legislative sessions
2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018
Other 2025 legislative sessions


In 2025, the New Jersey State Legislature is scheduled to convene on January 14 and adjourn on December 31.

The legislators serving in this session took office following the 2023 elections. Democrats won a 25-15 majority in the Senate and a 52-28 majority in the Assembly. The party also controlled the governorship, creating a Democratic state government trifecta. At the start of the 2025 session, New Jersey was one of 23 state legislatures where neither party had a veto-proof supermajority in both chambers.

At the beginning of the 2025 legislative session:
  • Democrats held a majority in the New Jersey state Assembly and state Senate.
  • New Jersey was one of 15 Democratic state government trifectas.
  • New Jersey's governor was Democrat Phil Murphy.

    • Leadership in 2025

    See also: Leadership positions in state legislatures

    New Jersey State Senate

    New Jersey General Assembly

    Partisan control in 2025

    See also: State government trifectas

    New Jersey was one of 15 Democratic state government trifectas at the start of 2025 legislative sessions. A state government trifecta occurs when one political party holds the governor's office, a majority in the state Senate, and a majority in the state House. For more information about state government trifectas, click here.

    New Jersey was also one of 23 state legislatures where neither party had a veto-proof supermajority in both chambers. Veto overrides occur when a legislature votes to reverse a veto issued by an executive such as a governor or the president. If one party has a majority in a state legislature that is large enough to override a gubernatorial veto without any votes from members of the minority party, it is called a veto-proof majority or, sometimes, a supermajority. To read more about veto-proof supermajorities in state legislatures, click here.

    The following tables show the partisan breakdown of the New Jersey State Legislature in the 2025 legislative session.

    New Jersey State Senate

    Party As of January 2025
         Democratic Party 25
         Republican Party 15
    Total 40

    New Jersey General Assembly

    Party As of January 2025
         Democratic Party 52
         Republican Party 28
    Total 80

    Regular session

    The list below shows up to 25 pieces of legislation in the 2025 legislative session that most recently passed both chambers of the legislature, were signed by the governor, or were approved by the legislature in a veto override. If no bills are displayed below, no legislation has met these criteria yet in 2025. This information is provided by BillTrack50.

    Legislation trackers

    See also: Legislation Trackers

    Ballotpedia’s legislation trackers are your go-to resource for staying on top of key legislative topics. We capture any bill introduced on the topic across all of the 50 state legislatures, and we track the movement of the bill every step of the way. We provide real-time updates and translate legislative legalese into easily understandable language. As of the 2025 session, Ballotpedia provided tracking on the following topics. Click on the links below to view related bills from the 2025 session:

    Standing legislative committees

    See also: Standing committee and List of committees in New Jersey state government


    A standing committee of a state legislature is a committee that exists on a more-or-less permanent basis, from legislative session to session, that considers and refines legislative bills that fall under the committee's subject matter.

    At the beginning of the 2025 legislative session, there were 49 standing committees in New Jersey's state government, including 6 joint legislative committees, 16 state Senate committees, and 27 state Assembly committees.

    Joint legislative committees

    Senate committees

    House committees

    Legislatively referred constitutional amendments

    In every state but Delaware, voter approval is required to enact a constitutional amendment. In each state, the legislature has a process for referring constitutional amendments before voters. In 18 states, initiated constitutional amendments can be put on the ballot through a signature petition drive. There are also many other types of statewide measures.

    The methods by which the New Jersey Constitution can be amended:

    See also: Article IX of the New Jersey Constitution and Laws governing ballot measures in New Jersey

    The New Jersey Constitution provides for a legislative process to amend the state constitution.

    Legislature

    See also: Legislatively referred constitutional amendment

    The New Jersey Constitution provides two legislative methods for referring a constitutional amendment to the ballot. First, the legislature can refer an amendment to the ballot through a 60% vote of both chambers during one legislative session. That amounts to a minimum of 48 votes in the New Jersey General Assembly and 24 votes in the New Jersey State Senate, assuming no vacancies. Second, the legislature can refer an amendment through a simple majority vote (50%+1) in each legislative chamber during two successive legislative sessions. That amounts to a minimum of 41 votes in the New Jersey General Assembly and 21 votes in the New Jersey State Senate, assuming no vacancies. Amendments do not require the governor's signature to be referred to the ballot.


    Historical partisan control

    The table below depicts the historical trifecta status of New Jersey.

    New Jersey Party Control: 1992-2025
    Fourteen years of Democratic trifectas  •  Eight years of Republican trifectas
    Scroll left and right on the table below to view more years.

    Year 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
    Governor D D R R R R R R R R D D D D D D D D R R R R R R R R D D D D D D D D
    Senate R R R R R R R R R R S S D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D
    Assembly R R R R R R R R R R D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D

    Historical Senate control

    Democrats won control of the New Jersey State Senate in 2003. In 2023, they won a 25-15 majority.

    The table below shows the partisan history of the New Jersey Senate following every general election from 1991 to 2023. All data from 2006 or earlier comes from Michael Dubin's Party Affiliations in the State Legislatures (McFarland Press, 2007). Data after 2006 was compiled by Ballotpedia staff.

    New Jersey State Senate election results: 1991-2023

    Party 91 93 97 01 03 07 11 13 17 21 23
    Democrats 13 16 16 20 22 23 24 24 25 24 25
    Republicans 27 24 24 20 18 17 16 16 15 16 15

    Historical Assembly control

    Democrats won control of the New Jersey General Assembly in 2001. In 2023, they won a 52-28 majority.

    The table below shows the partisan history of the New Jersey General Assembly following every general election from 1991 to 2023. All data from 2006 or earlier comes from Michael Dubin's Party Affiliations in the State Legislatures (McFarland Press, 2007). Data after 2006 was compiled by Ballotpedia staff.

    New Jersey General Assembly election results: 1991-2023

    Year '91 '93 '95 '97 '99 '01 '03 '05 '07 '09 '11 '13 '15 '17 '19 '21 '23
    Democrats 22 27 30 32 35 44 47 48 48 47 48 48 52 54 52 46 52
    Republicans 58 53 50 48 45 36 33 32 32 33 32 32 28 26 28 34 28

    Analysis

    Adopted legislation, 2011-2024

    See also: The State Legislative Decade - New Jersey

    In 2024, Ballotpedia released analysis of bills enacted in each state in the preceding decade. The charts and table below detail legislation passed each year by party sponsorship.

    See also

    Elections New Jersey State Government State Legislatures State Politics
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