Bill Text: NJ S2620 | 2018-2019 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides earned time credits to reduce parole eligibility date for inmates who participate in substance abuse treatment program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-05-31 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Law and Public Safety Committee [S2620 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2018-S2620-Introduced.html

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SENATE, No. 2620

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

218th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED MAY 31, 2018

 

 

Sponsored by:

Senator  TROY SINGLETON

District 7 (Burlington)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Provides earned time credits to reduce parole eligibility date for inmates who participate in substance abuse treatment program.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  

An Act concerning inmates and supplementing Title 30 of the Revised Statutes.

 

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

 

     1.    In addition to credits received pursuant to R.S.30:4-92, section 3 of P.L.2009, c.330 (C.30:4-92a), and R.S.30:4-140, the commissioner shall award an inmate credits in the amount of 1.5 times the number of commutation credits that the inmate is entitled to receive pursuant to R.S.30:4-140 while the inmate is participating in a full-time substance abuse treatment program.

 

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

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill provides earned time credits to reduce the parole eligibility date for inmates who participate in substance abuse treatment programs.

     Under current law, an inmate may receive certain credits that reduce the inmate's parole eligibility date if he or she has not been sentenced to a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment.  In addition to other credits, an inmate may receive commutation credits, also known as good time credits, which are determined based on a statutory schedule.

     This bill provides that in addition to any other credits that an inmate may receive, the commissioner is to award an inmate 1.5 times the number of commutation or good time credits that an inmate is entitled to receive under current law during the period of time that an inmate is participating in a full-time substance abuse treatment program.