ASSEMBLY JUDICIARY COMMITTEE

STATEMENT TO

SENATE, No. 2503

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

DATED:  MAY 12, 2021

      The Assembly Judiciary Committee reports favorably Senate Bill No. 2503.

Currently, under N.J.S. 2C:12-1b.(13), strangulation is graded as a crime of the third degree, punishable by a term of imprisonment of three to five years, a fine of up to $15,000, or both.  This bill elevates strangulation committed in the domestic violence context against a victim of domestic violence to a crime of the second degree, punishable by a term of five to 10 years imprisonment, a fine of up to $150,000, or both. 

      This bill is identical to Assembly, No. 4588, which was also released by the committee on this date