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NJ State Legislature: Busybodies On Steroids!

The numbers below are the combined totals of all state assembly or house bills and all state senate bills for each state’s current legislative session based on their websites’ bill info pages (as best as I could calculate).

Alabama: 23*

Alaska: 244

Arizona: 1334

Arkansas: 512

California: 624

Colorado: 427

Connecticut: **

Delaware: 50

Florida: 993

Georgia: 442

Hawaii: 3224

Idaho: 244

Illinois: 3807

Indiana: 2209

Iowa: 473

Kansas: 534

Kentucky: 633

Louisiana: 2301

Maine: 976

Maryland: 2007

Massachusetts: 53

Michigan: 383

Minnesota: 808

Mississippi: 2494

Missouri: 760

Montana: 870

Nebraska: 698***

Nevada: 289

New Hampshire: 835

New Jersey: 6492

New Mexico: 956

New York: **

North Carolina: **

North Dakota: 840

Ohio: 170

Oklahoma: **

Oregon: 2078

Pennsylvania: 1142

Rhode Island: 593

South Carolina: 872

South Dakota: 458

Tennessee: 1334

Texas: **

Utah: 805

Vermont: 309

Virginia: **

Washington: 2090

West Virginia: 1617

Wisconsin: 41

Wyoming: 420

* Senate only.  ** Website only allowed search for specific bill.  *** Unicameral legislature.

6492 new bills!  I know a lot of them are duplicates and most don’t become law, but that’s true in all the other states too.  Is life in New Jersey so savage and chaotic that we need thousands of new laws every year, six times the average for the other states?  We should amend the state constitution to limit each lawmaker to one new bill per session.  And for each new law they pass they should have to repeal ten.

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