Bill Text: NJ A1135 | 2010-2011 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides for increased penalties for a crime committed in a church, synagogue, temple or other place of public worship.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-11-28 - Reported out of Assembly Committee, 2nd Reading [A1135 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2010-A1135-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 1135

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

214th LEGISLATURE

 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2010 SESSION

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman  ELEASE EVANS

District 35 (Bergen and Passaic)

Assemblyman  GARY S. SCHAER

District 36 (Bergen, Essex and Passaic)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman Vainieri Huttle

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Provides for increased penalties for a crime committed in a church, synagogue, temple or other place of public worship.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel

  

An Act concerning criminal penalties and supplementing Title 2C of the New Jersey Statutes.

 

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

 

     1.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, any person who commits a crime in a church, synagogue, temple or other place of public worship or on any property used for religious purposes shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment appropriate to a crime one degree higher than that of the crime for which he is convicted.

 

     2.  This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill would provide that any person who commits a crime in a church, synagogue, temple or other place of public worship or on any property used for religious purposes would be sentenced to a term of imprisonment appropriate to a crime one degree higher than that of the crime for which he is convicted.