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S3172 - Establishes teacher certification route for candidates with Montessori teaching credentials.
Vin Gopal, Shirley K. Turner, Pamela Rosen Lampitt
Last updated 8 months ago
4 Co-Sponsors
STATUS
Vetoed
S1662 - Requires NJ Youth Suicide Prevention Advisory Council to prepare report regarding suicide prevention instruction in public schools.
M. Teresa Ruiz, Pamela Rosen Lampitt, Renee C. Burgess
Last updated 8 months ago
9 Co-Sponsors
STATUS
Passed
S4265 - Makes various revisions to alcoholic beverage manufacturing and retailing license laws.
Vin Gopal, Paul A. Sarlo, Troy Singleton
Last updated 8 months ago
7 Co-Sponsors
STATUS
Passed
S3080 - Establishes position of Youth Disconnection Prevention and Recovery Ombudsperson; establishes "School Disconnection Prevention Task Force."; appropriates $200,000.
M. Teresa Ruiz, Renee C. Burgess, Cleopatra G. Tucker
Last updated 8 months ago
9 Co-Sponsors
STATUS
Passed
S2304 - Permits excused absences for students who attend civic events.
Vin Gopal, James Beach, Andrew Zwicker
Last updated 8 months ago
4 Co-Sponsors
STATUS
Passed
S659 - "Manufacturing in Higher Education Act"; requires various State entities to promote manufacturing career pathways for students and provides assistance to manufacturing industry.
Linda R. Greenstein, Herbert C. Conaway, Kristin M. Corrado
Last updated 8 months ago
11 Co-Sponsors
STATUS
Passed
S2006 - Requires certain providers to perform intimate partner violence screenings and all health care professionals to take certain actions to prevent perpetrator of intimate partner violence from obtaining copies of victim's medical record.
Vin Gopal, Shirley K. Turner
Last updated 9 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
STATUS
Introduced
S1458 - Requires DMVA to develop mobile application to provide guidance on available resources to veterans and their families.
Joseph A. Lagana, Vin Gopal, Anthony M. Bucco
Last updated 9 months ago
5 Co-Sponsors
STATUS
Introduced
S418 - Makes FY2023 supplemental appropriation of $17 million to DEP for grants for certain lake management activities.
Joseph Pennacchio, Vin Gopal, Anthony M. Bucco
Last updated 9 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
STATUS
Introduced
S2010 - Requires minimum annual State appropriation of $10 million for Public Health Priority Funding.
Vin Gopal, M. Teresa Ruiz, Declan J. O'Scanlon
Last updated 9 months ago
15 Co-Sponsors
STATUS
Introduced
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INCUMBENT
Senator from New Jersey district SD-011
COMMITTEES
New Jersey Senate
BIRTH
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ABOUT
Vin Gopal is currently serving his first term in the New Jersey State Senate representing District 11, having assumed office in 2018. Senator Gopal graduated summa cum laude from the Honors College at Rutgers University with a triple major in Economics, Political Science and Cognitive Science. Prior to being elected, Senator Gopal served on the Long Branch City Council. He also founded the Lakehouse Music Academy, a school that provides music education to students between ages 5 and 18 regardless of ability to pay. Senator Gopal lives in Long Branch.read less
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