Bill Text: NJ A3941 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Changes classification of State Investigators in civil service.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-04 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly State and Local Government Committee [A3941 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2024-A3941-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman ROY FREIMAN
District 16 (Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex and Somerset)
SYNOPSIS
Changes classification of State Investigators in civil service.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act changing the classification of State Investigators in the civil service and amending P.L.1977, c.275.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Section 1 of P.L.1977, c.275 (C.52:17B-100.1) is amended to read as follows:
1. There is hereby created in the Division of Criminal Justice, the office or position of State Investigator which shall be [in the unclassified service of] a classified title within the civil service. The Attorney General may appoint such number of suitable persons to serve as State investigators, [to serve at his pleasure and subject to removal by him,] as are necessary to assist in the detection, apprehension, arrest and conviction of offenders against the law. Persons so appointed shall possess all the powers and rights and be subject to all the obligations of police officers, constables and special deputy sheriffs, in criminal matters. The Division of Criminal Justice and the Civil Service Commission shall convert the titles of all employees in the position of State Investigator on the effective date of P.L. , c. (pending before the Legislature as this bill) from the unclassified to the classified service.
(cf: P.L.1977, c.275, s.1)
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill changes the classification of State Investigators in civil service. State Investigators employed with the Division of Criminal Justice in the Department of Law and Public Safety are currently in the unclassified service of the civil service. In New Jersey, employees serving in classified titles receive the full protections of the civil service system, while unclassified employees do not. This bill will allow all current and future State Investigators to receive those protections.
