Bill Text: NJ S3303 | 2014-2015 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Makes fraudulent use of social security number to collect lottery winnings crime of fourth degree.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)

Status: (Passed) 2016-01-19 - Approved P.L.2015, c.259. [S3303 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2014-S3303-Amended.html

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[First Reprint]

SENATE, No. 3303

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

216th LEGISLATURE

INTRODUCED DECEMBER 10, 2015

 

 

Sponsored by:

Senator  JIM WHELAN

District 2 (Atlantic)

Assemblywoman  ANNETTE QUIJANO

District 20 (Union)

Assemblyman  RAJ MUKHERJI

District 33 (Hudson)

Assemblywoman  ANGELICA M. JIMENEZ

District 32 (Bergen and Hudson)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblyman Webber

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Makes fraudulent use of social security number to collect lottery winnings crime of fourth degree.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As amended by the General Assembly on January 11, 2016.

 

An Act concerning fraudulent use of social security number to collect lottery winnings and supplementing P.L.1970, c.13 (C.5:9-1 et seq.).

 

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

 

      1.   Any person who fraudulently uses a social security number that is not that person's social security number to collect lottery winnings to evade detection for the purposes of section 1 of P.L.2007, c.106 (C.5:9-13.17), or any other law requiring an offset of indebtedness or liability against lottery winnings, shall be guilty of a crime of the fourth degree.  ¹Nothing in this section shall be deemed to limit the authority or discretion of the State to charge or prosecute any person for theft under N.J.S.2C:20-3, theft by deception under N.J.S.2C:20-4, or for any other offense.¹

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.