Bill Text: NJ S1503 | 2016-2017 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Decreases the penalty for certain parole violations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-05-12 - Received in the Assembly, Referred to Assembly Law and Public Safety Committee [S1503 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2016-S1503-Amended.html

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[First Reprint]

SENATE, No. 1503

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

217th LEGISLATURE

INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 16, 2016

 

 

Sponsored by:

Senator  SHIRLEY K. TURNER

District 15 (Hunterdon and Mercer)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Decreases the penalty for certain parole violations.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As reported by the Senate Law and Public Safety Committee on March 10, 2016, with amendments.

 

An Act decreasing the penalty for certain parole violations and supplementing P.L.1979, c.441 (C.30:4-123.45 et seq.).

 

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

 

      1.   a.  ¹[In the case that] If¹ an appropriate board panel revokes parole and returns an adult parolee to custody, the future parole eligibility date shall be no more than nine months from the date of that adult parolee's return to custody when one of the following parole violations is the basis for return to custody pursuant to subsection b. of section 16 of P.L.1979, c.441 (C.30:4-123.60):

      (1)  ¹[Failure] failure¹ to report to the parole officer assigned to supervise the parolee, as implemented by regulation, provided that the inmate is declared by the district parole supervisor or designated representative of the commission, as appropriate, to be missing from parole supervision;

      (2)  ¹[Failure] failure¹ to comply with any special condition of parole imposed pursuant to regulation promulgated by the Department of Corrections; or

      (3)  ¹[Failure] failure¹ to refrain from the use of a controlled dangerous substance or controlled dangerous substance analog as defined in N.J.S.2C:35-2, provided that a two-member parole board panel determines, in ¹[their] its¹ discretion, that the inmate is addicted to ¹[the habitual use of]¹ that controlled dangerous substance¹[;] or analog.¹

      b.   The future parole eligibility date under subsection a. of this section may be increased or decreased by up to three months in the case of an adult parolee if, in the opinion of the appropriate board panel, the circumstances of the parole violation and the characteristics and past record of the parolee warrant an adjustment.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.