Bill Text: NJ S592 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes third degree crime of gang assault.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-09 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Judiciary Committee [S592 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2024-S592-Introduced.html

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SENATE, No. 592

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

221st LEGISLATURE

 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2024 SESSION

 

 

Sponsored by:

Senator  JON M. BRAMNICK

District 21 (Middlesex, Morris, Somerset and Union)

Senator  VINCENT J. POLISTINA

District 2 (Atlantic)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Establishes third degree crime of gang assault.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.

  

An Act concerning assault and supplementing chapter 12 of Title 2C of the New Jersey Statutes.

 

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

 

     1.  Gang assault.  A person is guilty of a crime of the third degree when, with intent to cause bodily injury to another person and when aided by two or more other persons actually present, he causes bodily injury to such person or to a third person. 

     "Bodily injury" shall have the meaning set forth in N.J.S.2C:11-1.

 

     2.  This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill establishes the crime of gang assault.  A person commits gang assault, a crime of the third degree, when with intent to cause bodily injury to another person and when aided by two or more other persons actually present, he causes bodily injury to such person or to a third person.  Under the bill, "bodily injury" means physical pain, illness or any impairment of physical condition.  A crime of the third degree is punishable by a term of three to five years imprisonment, a fine of up to $15,000, or both.

     This bill is modeled after New York Consolidated Laws, Penal Law - PEN § 120.06.