New Jersey S 933: Revises current law permitting paid leave of absence for municipal police officers.

Bill Text

S933 

SENATE, No. 933 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Senator MICHAEL L. TESTA, JR.

District 1 (Atlantic, Cape May and Cumberland)

Co-Sponsored by:

Senator Space

SYNOPSIS

���� Imposes criminal penalties for harboring aliens who 
have outstanding warrants and are unlawfully present in U.S.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

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

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An Act concerning hindering arrests or prosecutions, 
and amending N.J.S.2C:29-3.

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

���� 1. N.J.S.2C:29-3 is amended to 
read as follows:

���� 2C:29-3.���� Hindering 
Apprehension or Prosecution. a. A person commits an offense if, with purpose to 
hinder the detention, apprehension, investigation, prosecution, conviction, 
or punishment of another for an offense, or violation of Title 39 of the 
Revised Statutes, or a violation of chapter 33A of Title 17 of the 
Revised Statutes, or deportation as an alien unlawfully present in the 
United States, he:

���� (1)�� Harbors or conceals the 
other;

���� (2)�� Provides or aids in 
providing a weapon, money, transportation, disguise or other means of avoiding 
discovery or apprehension or effecting escape;

���� (3)�� Suppresses, by way of 
concealment or destruction, any evidence of the crime, or tampers with a 
witness, informant, document or other source of information, regardless of its 
admissibility in evidence, which might aid in the discovery or apprehension of 
such person or in the lodging of a charge against him;

���� (4)�� Warns the other of 
impending discovery or apprehension, except that this paragraph does not apply 
to a warning given in connection with an effort to bring another into 
compliance with law;

���� (5)�� Prevents or obstructs, 
by means of force, intimidation or deception, anyone from performing an act 
which might aid in the discovery or apprehension of such person or in the 
lodging of a charge against him;

���� (6)�� Aids such person to 
protect or expeditiously profit from an advantage derived from such crime; or

���� (7)�� Gives false information 
to a law enforcement officer or a civil State investigator assigned to the 
Office of the Insurance Fraud Prosecutor established by section 32 of P.L.1998, 
c.21 (C.17:33A-16).

���� An offense under subsection 
a. of this section committed with knowledge that the person aided is an alien 
unlawfully present in the United States and is the subject of an arrest 
warrant, or an immigration warrant issued by the U.S. Department of Homeland 
Security, is a crime of the fourth degree.� An offense under paragraph (5) 
of subsection a. of this section is a crime of the second degree, unless the 
actor is a spouse, domestic partner, partner in a civil union, parent or child 
to the person aided who is the victim of the offense, in which case the offense 
is a crime of the fourth degree.� An offense under paragraph (3) or (7) of 
subsection a. of this section is a crime of the third degree if the conduct 
which the actor knows has been charged or is liable to be charged against 
another person would constitute leaving the scene of a motor vehicle accident 
that results in the death of another person in violation of section 1 of 
P.L.1997, c.111 (C.2C:11-5.1).� Notwithstanding the presumption of non-imprisonment 
for certain offenders set forth in subsection e. of N.J.S.2C:44-1, the actor 
shall serve a term of imprisonment, which shall be fixed at not less than one 
year, during which the actor shall not be eligible for parole.� Otherwise, the 
offense under subsection a. of this section is a crime of the third degree if 
the conduct which the actor knows has been charged or is liable to be charged 
against the person aided would constitute a crime of the second degree or 
greater, unless the actor is a spouse, domestic partner, partner in a civil 
union, parent or child of the person aided, in which case the offense is a 
crime of the fourth degree.� The offense is a crime of the fourth degree if 
such conduct would constitute a crime of the third degree.� Otherwise it is a 
disorderly persons offense.

���� b.��� A person commits an 
offense if, with purpose to hinder his own detention, apprehension, 
investigation, prosecution, conviction, or punishment for an offense, 
or violation of Title 39 of the Revised Statutes, or a violation of 
chapter 33A of Title 17 of the Revised Statutes, or deportation as an alien 
unlawfully present in the United States, he:

���� (1)�� Suppresses, by way of 
concealment or destruction, any evidence of the crime or tampers with a 
document or other source of information, regardless of its admissibility in 
evidence, which might aid in his discovery or apprehension or in the lodging of 
a charge against him; or

���� (2)�� Prevents or obstructs by 
means of force or intimidation anyone from performing an act w