Bill Text: NJ A1135 | 2010-2011 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides for increased penalties for a crime committed in a church, synagogue, temple or other place of public worship.
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-11-28 - Reported out of Assembly Committee, 2nd Reading [A1135 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2010-A1135-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
214th LEGISLATURE
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2010 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Assemblywoman ELEASE EVANS
District 35 (Bergen and Passaic)
Assemblyman GARY S. SCHAER
District 36 (Bergen, Essex and Passaic)
Co-Sponsored by:
Assemblywoman Vainieri Huttle
SYNOPSIS
Provides for increased penalties for a crime committed in a church, synagogue, temple or other place of public worship.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel
An Act concerning criminal penalties and supplementing Title 2C of the New Jersey Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, any person who commits a crime in a church, synagogue, temple or other place of public worship or on any property used for religious purposes shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment appropriate to a crime one degree higher than that of the crime for which he is convicted.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill would provide that any person who commits a crime in a church, synagogue, temple or other place of public worship or on any property used for religious purposes would be sentenced to a term of imprisonment appropriate to a crime one degree higher than that of the crime for which he is convicted.