STATEMENT TO

[First Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 364

with Senate Floor Amendments

(Proposed By Senator CIESLA)

ADOPTED: JUNE 19, 1997

      Assembly Bill No. 364(1R) requires the imposition of an extended prison term and a higher fine against a person who is convicted of a first, second or third degree crime committed while released on bail from a charge of committing a crime of the first, second or third degree for which the person is also convicted. Upon conviction for the second crime, the defendant would be sentenced to an extended term of imprisonment, as provided under N.J.S.2C:43-7, and subject to a fine that is double the fine authorized under the provisions of N.J.S.2C:43-3.

      Under this Senate amendment, a person who has been convicted of possession of a firearm with intent to use it unlawfully against another, murder, manslaughter, kidnapping, aggravated sexual assault, aggravated criminal sexual contact, robbery, burglary of the second degree or if the structure was adapted for overnight accommodation of persons, or aggravated assault of the first, second or third degree would be sentenced to an extended term of imprisonment pursuant to the provisions of N.J.S.2C:43-7 and be subject to double the fine authorized for that crime under N.J.S.2C:43-3 if, at the time of the commission of the crime, the defendant was released on bail or on his own recognizance for one of the enumerated crimes and was convicted of that crime.