Bill Text: NJ A2086 | 2012-2013 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires all prison commissary profits be turned over to Victims of Crime Compensation Office.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-17 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Law and Public Safety Committee [A2086 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2012-A2086-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblywoman NANCY F. MUNOZ
District 21 (Morris, Somerset and Union)
SYNOPSIS
Requires all prison commissary profits be turned over to Victims of Crime Compensation Office.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning correctional facility commissaries and supplementing chapter 4 of Title 30 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Any other law to the contrary notwithstanding, all profits accruing from the sale of items in any commissary operated by a county or State corrections facility shall be forwarded on a quarterly basis to the State Treasurer for deposit in the Victims of Crime Compensation Board Account, shall be subject to reporting and accounting procedures pursuant to the provisions of section 2 of P.L.1979, c.396 (C.2C:43-3.1) and shall be used in satisfying claims pursuant to the provisions of the "Criminal Injuries Compensation Act of 1971," P.L.1971, c.317 (C.52:4B-1 et seq.).
2. This act shall take effect on the first day of the second month following enactment.
STATEMENT
This bill would require that all profits accruing from the sale of items in any State or county prison commissary be turned over to the State Treasurer for deposit in the Victims of Crime Compensation Board Account for use in satisfying claims under the "Criminal Injuries Compensation Act of 1971," P.L.1971, c.317 (C.52:4B-1 et seq.).
Currently under N.J.S.A. 30:4-15.1, 10 percent of commissary profits are turned over to the Victims of Crime Compensation Office and 90 percent of commissary profits are used for the benefit and general welfare of the inmates.
