Bill Text: NJ A4007 | 2014-2015 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Expands category of lists from which a single juror source list is compiled to include recipients of cash assistance or food stamps.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-02-12 - Reported out of Assembly Comm. with Amendments, 2nd Reading [A4007 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2014-A4007-Amended.html

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[First Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 4007

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

216th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED DECEMBER 15, 2014

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  TROY SINGLETON

District 7 (Burlington)

Assemblyman  RAJ MUKHERJI

District 33 (Hudson)

Assemblyman  JOHN J. BURZICHELLI

District 3 (Cumberland, Gloucester and Salem)

Assemblywoman  ELIANA PINTOR MARIN

District 29 (Essex)

Assemblywoman  SHAVONDA E. SUMTER

District 35 (Bergen and Passaic)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblymen Cryan, Wimberly, Green and Assemblywoman Oliver

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS                                                                           

     Expands category of lists from which a single juror source list is compiled to include recipients of cash assistance or food stamps.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As reported by the Assembly Judiciary Committee on February 12, 2015, with amendments.

  

An Act concerning juror source lists and amending N.J.S.2B:20-2.

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    N.J.S.2B:20-2 is amended to read as follows:

     2B:20-2.     a.  The names of persons eligible for jury service shall be selected from a single juror source list of county residents whose names and addresses shall be obtained from a merger of the following lists:  registered voters, licensed drivers, filers of State gross income tax returns [and], filers of homestead rebate or credit application forms and recipients of cash assistance or food stamps pursuant to a federal or State program except as prohibited by federal law or regulation.  The county election board, the ¹[Division of Motor Vehicles] Motor Vehicle Commission¹ [and], the State Division of Taxation and the Division of Family Development in the Department of Human Services shall provide these lists annually to the Assignment Judge of the county.  The Assignment Judge may provide for the merger of additional lists of persons eligible for jury service that may contribute to the breadth of the juror source list.  Merger of the lists of eligible jurors into a single juror source list shall include a reasonable attempt to eliminate duplication of names.

     b.    The juror source list shall be compiled once a year or more often as directed by the Assignment Judge.

     c.     The juror source list may be expanded by the Supreme Court as it deems appropriate.

(cf: P.L.2007, c.62, s.41)

 

     2.    This act shall take effect ¹[180 days] on the 365^th day¹ following enactment ¹[but] except that¹ the ¹[Director of the Division of Family Development] Commissioner of Human Services and the Assignment Judge of each vicinage¹ may take such anticipatory administrative action in advance ¹to share and merge information to supplement the juror source list,¹ as shall be necessary for the implementation of this act.