ASSEMBLY JUDICIARY COMMITTEE

STATEMENT TO

[First Reprint]

SENATE, No. 490

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

DATED: MAY 1, 1996

      The Assembly Judiciary Committee reports favorably Senate Bill No. 490 (1R).

      Presently, the salary of county prosecutors is set at $100,000.00. The bill would increase this salary to $115,000.00. The bill contains language providing for an annual appropriation to the Department of Community Affairs to reimburse the counties for any additional costs resulting from any increase in the salary of county prosecutors above $100,000.00.

      To cover the salary increase for the first six months of this year, the bill would appropriate $157,000.00 to Community Affairs. The bill would be retroactive to January 1, 1996.

      This bill repeals certain statutes that concern the salaries of assistant prosecutors and substitutes a provision indicating that the annual salaries of first assistant prosecutors and other assistant prosecutors shall be set by the board of freeholders of each county in consultation with the county prosecutor.

      This bill is identical to Assembly Bill No. 1448 (1R).