FISCAL NOTE TO

SENATE, No. 1242

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

DATED: November 20, 1996

      Senate Bill No. 1242 of 1996 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. This provision would now make the suspension run concurrently with the period of adjournment. It does not trigger postponement.

      The bill also removes the court's discretion to avoid imposing the suspension or postponement for persons admitted to supervisory treatment or persons admitted to pretrial intervention. The suspension of driving privileges during a period of supervisory treatment would be a term and condition of the treatment. The suspension would run concurrently with the period of treatment for the first six months of treatment.

      The Division of Probation Services in the Administrative Office of the Courts states that there would be no costs associated with the implementation of this bill.

      The Office of Legislative Services (OLS) concurs with this estimate. OLS observes that a fiscal note of a similar bill in a prior session indicated that there would be no costs associated with implementation of this bill for the Division of Motor Vehicles in the Department of Transportation.

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