Bill Text: NJ S2587 | 2020-2021 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Expands category of lists from which a single juror source list is compiled to include recipients of cash assistance or food stamps.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-06-22 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Judiciary Committee [S2587 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2020-S2587-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Senator TROY SINGLETON
District 7 (Burlington)
SYNOPSIS
Expands category of lists from which a single juror source list is compiled to include recipients of cash assistance or food stamps.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning juror source lists and amending N.J.S.2B:20-2.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. N.J.S.2B:20-2 is amended to read as follows:
2B:20-2. a. The names of persons eligible for jury service shall be selected from a single juror source list of county residents whose names and addresses shall be obtained from a merger of the following lists: registered voters, licensed drivers, filers of State gross income tax returns [and], filers of homestead rebate or credit application forms and recipients of cash assistance or food stamps pursuant to a federal or State program except as prohibited by federal law or regulation. The county election board, the [Division of Motor Vehicles] Motor Vehicle Commission [and], the State Division of Taxation and the Division of Family Development in the Department of Human Services shall provide these lists annually to the Assignment Judge of the county. The Assignment Judge may provide for the merger of additional lists of persons eligible for jury service that may contribute to the breadth of the juror source list. Merger of the lists of eligible jurors into a single juror source list shall include a reasonable attempt to eliminate duplication of names.
b. The juror source list shall be compiled once a year or more often as directed by the Assignment Judge.
c. The juror source list may be expanded by the Supreme Court as it deems appropriate.
(cf: P.L.2007, c.62, s.41)
2. This act shall take effect on the 365th day following enactment except that the Commissioner of Human Services and the Assignment Judge of each vicinage may take such anticipatory administrative action in advance to share and merge information to supplement the juror source list, as shall be necessary for the implementation of this act.
STATEMENT
This bill would expand the category of lists from which a single juror source list is compiled to include county residents and recipients of cash assistance or food stamps pursuant to a federal or State program except as prohibited by federal law or regulation.
The bill would take effect on the 365th day following enactment except that the Commissioner of Human Services and the Assignment Judge of each vicinage may take anticipatory administrative action in advance to share and merge information to supplement the juror source list.
