FISCAL NOTE TO

ASSEMBLY, No. 909

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

DATED: AUGUST 23, 1996

      Assembly Bill No. 909 of 1996 removes statutory language which made permissive certain suspensions or postponements of driving privileges for drug related offenses. The bill requires that juveniles for whom a formal entry of adjudication is postponed for a drug related offense shall be subject to a mandatory suspension of driving privileges during this period of adjournment. Previously, the statute permitted the court to waive imposition of the suspension or postponement. The suspension would run concurrently with the period of adjournment.

      The bill also removes the court's discretion not to impose this suspension or postponement for persons admitted to supervisory treatment or persons admitted to pretrial intervention. The suspension of driver privileges during the period of supervisory treatment would be a term and condition of the treatment. The suspension would run concurrently with the first six months of treatment.

      The Administrative Office of the Courts states that the enactment of this bill would have no fiscal impact on either the State, counties or municipalities.

      The Office of Legislative Services concurs.

This fiscal note has been prepared pursuant to P.L.1980, c.67.