Bill Text: NJ A2188 | 2010-2011 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires all prison commissary profits be turned over to Victims of Crime Compensation Agency.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-11 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Law and Public Safety Committee [A2188 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2010-A2188-Introduced.html

ASSEMBLY, No. 2188

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

214th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 11, 2010

 


 

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman  NANCY F. MUNOZ

District 21 (Essex, Morris, Somerset and Union)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires all prison commissary profits be turned over to Victims of Crime Compensation Agency.

 

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 Agency 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 Agency 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, any commissary profits are used for the benefit and general welfare of the inmates.

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