STATEMENT TO

[First Reprint]

SENATE, No. 187

with Senate Floor Amendments

(Proposed By Senators LESNIAK and McGREEVEY)

ADOPTED: MARCH 24, 1997

      These floor amendments restore the offenses in subsections b. and c. of section 2 of the bill to crimes of the third and fourth degree, respectively. Because these offenses now require serious or significant bodily injury be caused (instead of placing a person in danger of the injury), the sponsors believe the higher degrees of crime are more appropriate.