ASSEMBLY JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
STATEMENT TO
ASSEMBLY, No. 2296
with committee amendments
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
DATED: MAY 1, 1997
The Assembly Judiciary Committee reports favorably and with committee amendments Assembly Bill No. 2296.
This bill provides for an additional Superior Court judge in Warren County, increasing the total number of judges there from three to four. It also provides that all four of the judges appointed who are residents of Warren County at the time of appointment shall sit in Warren County. At the present time N.J.S.2B:2-1 requires that two of the three sit in Warren County.
The committee amendments add a new section 2 to the bill providing a $275,000.00 appropriation to the AOC for the costs for this additional judge.