Sponsored by:
Assemblyman L. HARVEY SMITH
District 31 (Hudson)
Assemblyman JOHN S. WISNIEWSKI
District 19 (Middlesex)
Assemblywoman ELEASE EVANS
District 35 (Bergen and Passaic)
Co-Sponsored by:
Assemblywoman Rodriguez, Assemblyman P. Barnes, III, Assemblywomen Tucker, Spencer and Wagner
SYNOPSIS
Prohibits employment and licensing background checks to go back further than seven years under certain circumstances.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As reported by the Assembly Law and Public Safety Committee on October 23, 2008, with amendments.
An Act concerning criminal history record background checks and supplementing Title 53 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, the State Bureau of Identification shall not disseminate criminal history record information for a noncriminal justice purpose to an authorized requester when that information concerns a crime or offense that was committed by the person identified in the request more than seven years immediately preceding the request if the person:
a. Was convicted of a crime of the third or fourth degree, or of a disorderly or petty disorderly persons offense, other than a sex offense for which registration is required pursuant to subsection b. of section 2 of P.L.1994, c.133 (C.2C:7-2); and
b. Has not been convicted of another crime or offense in the seven years immediately preceding the request.
1The provisions of this section shall not apply if the criminal history record information is requested for the purpose of licensing attorneys-at-law of this State pursuant to N.J.S.2B:1-3, or for the purpose of hiring a probation, law enforcement, or corrections officer.1
2. This act shall take effect on the first day of the seventh month after enactment, but the Superintendent of State Police may take any anticipatory administrative action in advance as necessary to implement this act.