ASSEMBLY LAW AND PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE

STATEMENT TO

[First Reprint]

SENATE, No. 1254

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

DATED: JUNE 9, 1997

      The Assembly Law and Public Safety Committee reports favorably Senate Bill No. 1254 (1R).

      Senate Bill No. 1254 (1R) amends N.J.S.2C:43-2, P.L.1979, c.396 (C.2C:46-4) and P.L.1991, c.329 (C.2C:46-4.1) and supplements Title 2C of the New Jersey Statutes to authorize a court, in sentencing a defendant convicted of a crime, to require the defendant to make restitution to any law enforcement authority for the costs incurred in extraditing that defendant from another jurisdiction. In order to impose an order of restitution for extradition, the court is required to find that, at the time of the extradition, the defendant was located in the other jurisdiction for the purpose of avoiding prosecution for a crime committed in this State or service of a criminal sentence imposed by a New Jersey court. The bill also amends section 13 of P.L.1991, c.329 (C.2C:46-4.1), the section of law which lists the order in which monetary penalties imposed on criminal defendants are to be satisfied, to include reference to restitution for extradition.

      This bill is identical to Assembly Bill No. 2842.