New Jersey S 2612: Allows issuance of limited license to individual who would otherwise be denied license due to criminal conviction.

Bill Text

S2612 

SENATE, No. 2612 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Senator VIN GOPAL

District 11 (Monmouth)

Co-Sponsored by:

Senator Greenstein

SYNOPSIS

���� Includes certain employees of the DLPS as members of 
the Prosecutors Part of PERS.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

���� Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative 
Counsel.

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An Act concerning membership of certain employees of 
the Department of Law and Public Safety in the Prosecutors Part of PERS, and 
amending P.L.2001, c.366.

���� Be It 
Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of 
the State of New Jersey:

���� 1.��� Section 1 of P.L.2001, 
c.366 (C.43:15A-155) is amended to read as follows:

���� 1.��� As used in [this act,] P.L.2001, 
c.366 (C.43:15A-155 et seq.):

���� "Service" includes 
service as (1) a county prosecutor, first assistant prosecutor or assistant 
prosecutor as defined in N.J.S.2A:158-1 et seq.; (2) the Director of the [Division] Divisions 
of Criminal Justice, Law, and Alcoholic Beverage Control in the 
Department of Law and Public Safety; (3) an assistant director, deputy 
director, assistant attorney general or deputy attorney general in that 
department and assigned to [that 
division] 
those divisions pursuant to P.L.1970, c.74 (C.52:17B-97 et seq.) or 
P.L.1948, c.439 (C.52:17B-3); or (4) a criminal investigator in the 
Division of Criminal Justice in the Department of Law and Public Safety who is 
not eligible for enrollment in the Police and Firemen's Retirement System, 
established pursuant to P.L.1944, c.255 (C.43:16A-1 et seq.).

���� "Beneficiary" means 
any person entitled to receive any benefit pursuant to the provisions of [this act] P.L.2001, 
c.366 (C.43:15A-155 et seq.) by reason of the death of a prosecutor or 
retirant.

���� "Final compensation" 
means the annual salary received by the member of the Prosecutors Part at the 
time of retirement or death.

���� "Retirant" means any 
former member of the Prosecutors Part receiving a pension or retirement 
allowance as provided by [this 
act] P.L.2001, 
c.366 (C.43:15A-155 et seq.).

���� "Prosecutor" means 
(1) a county prosecutor, first assistant prosecutor or assistant prosecutor as 
defined in N.J.S.2A:158-1 et seq.; (2) the Director of the [Division] Divisions 
of Criminal Justice, Law, and Alcoholic Beverage Control in the 
Department of Law and Public Safety; (3) an assistant director, deputy 
director, assistant attorney general or deputy attorney general in that 
department and assigned to that division pursuant to P.L.1970, c.74 
(C.52:17B-97 et seq.) or P.L.1948, c.439 (C.52:17B-3); or (4) a criminal 
investigator in the Division of Criminal Justice in the Department of Law and 
Public Safety who is not eligible for enrollment in the Police and Firemen's 
Retirement System.

(cf: P.L.2001, c.366, s.1)

���� 2.��� Section 2 of P.L.2001, 
c.366 (C.43:15A-156) is amended to read as follows:

���� 2.��� a.� Notwithstanding the 
provisions of any other law, prosecutors shall be members of the Prosecutors 
Part, established pursuant to P.L.2001, c.366 (C.43:15A-155 et seq.), of the 
Public Employees' Retirement System, established pursuant to P.L.1954, c.84 (C.43:15A-1 
et seq.), and shall be subject to the same membership and benefit provisions as 
State employees, except as provided by P.L.2001, c.366.� Membership in the 
retirement system shall be a condition of employment for service as a 
prosecutor.� Any service credit which has been established in the Public 
Employees' Retirement System prior to the effective date of [this act, 
P.L.2021, c.226] 
P.L.��� , c.��� (pending before the Legislature as this bill), shall be 
established in the Prosecutors Part without further assessment of cost to the 
prosecutor; provided, however, any service credit which has been established in 
the Public Employees' Retirement System and the Judicial Retirement System not 
deferred pursuant to section 1 of P.L.2019, c.287 (C.43:6A-11.1) by a member of 
the retirement system in any position prior to service as a county prosecutor, 
nominated and appointed pursuant to Article VII, Section II, paragraph 1 of the 
New Jersey Constitution, shall be established in the Prosecutors Part without 
further assessment of cost to the prosecutor.� Any county prosecutor or acting 
county prosecutor enrolled in the Defined Contribution Retirement Program as a 
county prosecutor or acting county prosecutor shall be eligible for service 
credit in the Prosecutors Part, except that the county prosecutor or acting 
county prosecutor shall first pay the amount equivalent to that amount 
contributed pursuant to section 3 of P.L.2007, c.92 (C.43:15C-3) during each 
fiscal year of membership in the Defined Contribution Retirement Program to be 
credited.

���� b.��� All outstanding 
obligations, such as loans, purchases and other arrearage, shall be satisfied 
by a prosecutor as previously scheduled for payment