Bill Text: NJ A4759 | 2014-2015 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides courts authority to sentence disorderly and petty disorderly persons to house arrest.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-11-16 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Judiciary Committee [A4759 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2014-A4759-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman CARMELO G. GARCIA
District 33 (Hudson)
SYNOPSIS
Provides courts authority to sentence disorderly and petty disorderly persons to house arrest.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning sentencing of disorderly and petty disorderly persons offenses and amending N.J.S.2C:43-8.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. N.J.S 2C:43-8 is amended to read as follows:
2C:43-8 A person who has been convicted of a disorderly persons offense or a petty disorderly persons offense may be sentenced to a period of imprisonment or a period of home confinement with electronic monitoring for a definite term, which shall be fixed by the court and shall not exceed [6] six months in the case of a disorderly persons offense or 30 days in the case of a petty disorderly persons offense.
(cf: N.J.S.2C:43-8)
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill provides courts with authority to sentence disorderly and petty disorderly persons to a period of home confinement, commonly referred to as "house arrest."
Under current law, a petty disorderly persons offense is punishable by a term of imprisonment of up to 30 days and a disorderly persons offense carries a maximum term of six months. This bill specifically provides the court with the authority to sentence disorderly and petty disorderly persons to a period of home confinement with electronic monitoring in lieu of incarceration. Under the bill, the periods of home confinement would not exceed the current maximum allowable jail terms.
