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Former Chair, Commerce Committee, New Jersey State Senate
Former Vice Chair, Judiciary Committee, New Jersey State Senate
Former Chair, Commerce Committee, New Jersey State Senate
Former Vice Chair, Judiciary Committee, New Jersey State Senate
Member, Law and Public Safety Committee
Member, Legislative Oversight Committee
Member, Legislative Services Commission
Member, Transportation Committee
Gill's campaign website highlighted the following issues:
Excerpt: "When the governor decimated the school funding formula, Senator Gill stood with local districts to ensure the state’s urban and suburban schools remained fully funded. She also believes that keeping public education dollars in public schools is critical, and therefore opposes any voucher scheme that pulls resources out of neighborhood schools."
Excerpt: "We should be doing everything we can to make it easier—not harder—for people to vote. In today’s hectic world, nobody should be denied their right to have their voice heard because voting is inconvenient."
Excerpt: "Nia is fighting for legislation that would require mandatory instant background checks. She is sponsoring legislation that reduces the number of rounds in high capacity magazines."
Excerpt: "Sen. Nia Gill believes that we must provide meaningful property tax relief. Sen. Gill has been an advocate to increase eligibility to the Senior Freeze program as well as the Homestead Rebate program."
Excerpt: "She supported legislation to limit emissions and reduce greenhouse gasses, to require strict inspections of hazardous materials coming through our state, and preserve open space and farmland across the state.
Jersey education commission member draws blank on Abbott January 16, 2011 By The Auditor/The Star-Ledger State Sen. Nia Gill voted against Claire Chamberlain Eckert for the state Board of education after the latter said she'd never heard of Abbott vs. Burke. Claire Chamberlain Eckert, a new member of the state Board of Education, knows a thing or two about education. She's president of the board of trustees at the Peck School, a private Morristown K-8 institution where tuition for middle schoolers is $28,500. In her former job as a vice president at Goldman Sachs, she worked in a partnership with New York City to establish a charter school in Brooklyn. But until Monday, Chamberlain Eckert, a major GOP donor and secretary of the Republican State Committee, had never heard of Abbott v. Burke -- New Jersey's well-known series of court decisions that mandated urban students get an education equal to students in the wealthiest districts. The revelation came during her hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, after state Sen. Nia Gill (D-Essex) asked Eckert, a Bernardsville resident, if she thought money that schools receive from private foundations should be calculated into the state's school funding formula. "I don't pretend to even know what the state school spending formula is, so it would be hard for me to comment on that," she said. Gill asked if she had ever heard of Abbott v. Burke. "Sorry?" Chamberlain Eckert responded. "Abbott v. Burke?" Gill asked again. "No," Chamberlain Eckert said. "I have no further questions, thank you," Gill said. Sen. Joe Kyrillos defended Eckert, saying she "misspoke" because in their conversations they "talked about the inordinate amount of funding for some districts versus others." Gill was the only senator to vote against Chamberlain Eckert in committee and in the full Senate, where she was confirmed. Chamberlain Eckert told The Auditor she was familiar with the arguments over the way New Jersey funds its schools, but did not know the case by name. "I didn't know it as the decision Abbott v. Burke. I decided to err on the side of looking uninformed on that question rather than dishonest," she said.
