SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE

STATEMENT TO

SENATE, No. 1254

with committee amendments

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

DATED: JANUARY 14, 1997

      The Senate Judiciary Committee reports favorably and with committee amendments Senate Bill No. 1254.

      This bill would authorize a court, in sentencing a defendant convicted of a crime, to require the defendant to make restitution to any law enforcement authority for costs incurred in extraditing the defendant from another jurisdiction. In order to impose restitution for these costs, the court would be required to find that, at the time of extradition, the defendant was located in the other jurisdiction in order to avoid prosecution for a crime committed in this State or service of a criminal sentence imposed by a New Jersey court.

      The committee amendments added a new section 3 amending N.J.S.2C:46-4.1 which lists the order in which monetary penalties imposed on criminal defendants are to be satisfied to include reference to restitution for extradition costs. The committee amendments also added language to reflect the provisions of P.L.1996, c.95, which authorized the creation of central municipal courts.