Bill Text: NJ A4157 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires AG to create voting fraud task force.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-04 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly State and Local Government Committee [A4157 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2024-A4157-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 4157

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

221st LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED APRIL 4, 2024

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman  DAWN FANTASIA

District 24 (Morris, Sussex and Warren)

Assemblyman  MICHAEL INGANAMORT

District 24 (Morris, Sussex and Warren)

Assemblyman  ROBERT AUTH

District 39 (Bergen)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires AG to create voting fraud task force.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  

An Act concerning voting fraud and supplementing Title 52 of the Revised Statutes.

 

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

 

     1.    The Attorney General shall create a voting fraud task force in the Division of Criminal Justice, Specialized Crimes Bureau to investigate and prosecute crimes involving voting fraud. 

     The task force shall be comprised of members of State, county, and municipal law enforcement agencies, as determined by the Attorney General, and shall utilize a coordinated law enforcement strategy to address voting fraud in this State.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect on the first day of the sixth month next following enactment.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill requires the Attorney General to create a voting fraud task force in the Division of Criminal Justice, Specialized Crimes Bureau.  The purpose of the task force is to investigate and prosecute crimes involving voting fraud.

     Under the bill, the task force is to be comprised of members of State, county, and municipal law enforcement agencies, as determined by the Attorney General, and is to utilize a coordinated law enforcement strategy to address voting fraud in this State.