Bill Text: NJ S2499 | 2022-2023 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Permits title of Attorney General for person who served as Acting Attorney General for 180 days.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-12 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Law and Public Safety Committee [S2499 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2022-S2499-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Senator PATRICK J. DIEGNAN, JR.
District 18 (Middlesex)
SYNOPSIS
Permits title of Attorney General for person who served as Acting Attorney General for 180 days.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning the title of Attorney General and amending P.L.1948, c.142.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Section 1 of P.L.1948, c.142 (C.52:17A-3.1) is amended to read as follows:
a. The Attorney-General shall, within six months after the effective date of this act or after [he] the Attorney General shall take office, as the case may be, designate one of the Deputy Attorneys-General or Assistant Deputy Attorneys-General of the Department of Law to be Acting Attorney-General by written designation filed with the Secretary of State, which designation may be revoked and a new designation made in writing similarly filed.
b. The official title of a person who serves as Acting Attorney General for a continuous period of at least 180 days shall, after termination of service as Acting Attorney General, thereafter be, for all historical purposes, "Attorney General of the State of New Jersey." A temporary discontinuance of service as Acting Attorney General due to travel outside of the State or inability to discharge the duties of the office because of illness shall not render a period of service non-continuous.
(cf: P.L.1948, c.142. s.1)
2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to any qualified person who serves as Acting Attorney General before, on, or after the effective date of this act.
STATEMENT
This bill permits the use of the title Attorney General for a person who served as the Acting Attorney General for 180 days.
Under the bill, after termination of service as Acting Attorney General, the official title of a person who served as Acting Attorney General for a continuous period of at least 180 days is to be for all historical purposes "Attorney General of the State of New Jersey."
The bill provides that a discontinuance of service as Acting Attorney General due to travel outside of the State or inability to discharge the duties of the office because of illness will not render a period of service non-continuous.
