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.