Bill Text: NJ S2024 | 2018-2019 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Prohibits plea bargain if sex offender who committed Megan's Law offense would not be required to register.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-26 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Judiciary Committee [S2024 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2018-S2024-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Senator ANTHONY R. BUCCO
District 25 (Morris and Somerset)
SYNOPSIS
Prohibits plea bargain if sex offender who committed Megan's Law offense would not be required to register.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning sex offenders and supplementing chapter 7 of Title 2C of the New Jersey Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. In any case where a person has been charged with or indicted for a sex offense, as defined in section 2 of P.L.1994, c.133 (C.2C:7-2), the prosecutor shall not offer or accept a plea agreement which permits that person to plead guilty to an offense for which the person would not be required to register pursuant to P.L.1994, c.133 (C.2C:7-1 et seq.).
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill prohibits certain sex offenders from pleading guilty to an offense for which that offender would not be required to register under Megan's Law. Specifically, the bill prohibits a prosecutor from entering into a plea agreement with a defendant who has been charged with or indicted for a Megan's Law offense if that plea agreement would result in the person not being required to register as a sex offender.
