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Bill Text

S888 

SENATE, No. 888 

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)

SYNOPSIS

���� Upgrades certain penalties for criminal street gang 
recruitment and criminality; imposes mandatory minimum sentence for certain 
offenses; establishes accomplice liability and imposes restrictions for certain 
recruiters.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

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

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An Act concerning criminal street gangs, amending 
various parts of the statutory law, and supplementing Title 2C of the New 
Jersey Statutes.

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

���� 1.��� N.J.S.2C:2-6 is amended 
to read as follows:

���� 2C:2-6.� a.� A [person] defendant 
is guilty of an offense if it is committed by his own conduct or by the conduct 
of another person for which he is legally accountable, or both.

���� b.��� A [person] defendant 
is legally accountable for the conduct of another person when:

���� (1)�� [Acting] acting 
with the kind of culpability that is sufficient for the commission of the 
offense, he causes an innocent or irresponsible person to engage in such 
conduct;

���� (2)�� [He] he is 
made accountable for the conduct of such other person by the code or by the law 
defining the offense;

���� (3)�� [He] he is 
an accomplice of such other person in the commission of an offense; or

���� (4)�� [He] he is 
engaged in a conspiracy with such other person.

���� c.���� A [person] defendant 
is an accomplice of another person in the commission of an offense if:

���� (1)�� [With] with the 
purpose of promoting or facilitating the commission of the offense; he

���� (a)�� [Solicits] solicits 
such other person to commit it;

���� (b)�� [Aids] aids 
or agrees or attempts to aid such other person in planning or committing it; [or]

���� (c)�� [Having] having 
a legal duty to prevent the commission of the offense, fails to make proper 
effort so to do; or

���� (d)�� the act is committed 
by a person that the defendant has caused, encouraged, intimidated, coerced, or 
solicited to commit while soliciting or recruiting the person to join or 
actively participate in a criminal street gang in violation of section 1 of 
P.L.1999, c.160 (C.2C:33-28); or

���� (2) [His] his conduct is expressly 
declared by law to establish his complicity.

���� d.��� A [person] defendant 
who is legally incapable of committing a particular offense himself may be 
guilty thereof if it is committed by another person for whose conduct he is 
legally accountable, unless such liability is inconsistent with the purpose of 
the provision establishing his incapacity.

���� e.���� Unless otherwise 
provided by the code or by the law defining the offense, a [person] defendant 
is not an accomplice in

an offense committed by another 
person if:

���� (1)�� [He] he is 
a victim of that offense;

���� (2)�� [The] the 
offense is so defined that his conduct is inevitably incident to its 
commission; or

���� (3)�� [He] he 
terminates his complicity under circumstances manifesting a complete and 
voluntary renunciation as defined in [section 
2C:5-1 d.] 
subsection d. of N.J.S.2C:5-1 prior to the commission of the offense.� 
Termination by renunciation is an affirmative defense which the defendant must 
prove by a preponderance of evidence.

���� f.���� An accomplice may be 
convicted on proof of the commission of the offense� and of his complicity 
therein, though the person claimed to have committed the offense has not been 
prosecuted or convicted or has been convicted of a� different offense or degree 
of offense or has an immunity to prosecution or� conviction or has been 
acquitted.

(cf: N.J.S.2C:2-6)

���� 2.��� Section 1 of P.L.1999, 
c.160 (C.2C:33-28) is amended to read as follows:

���� 1.��� a.� An actor who causes, 
encourages, intimidates, coerces, solicits, or recruits another to 
join or actively participate in a criminal street gang with the knowledge or 
purpose that the person who is solicited or recruited will promote, further, 
assist, plan, aid, agree, or attempt to aid in the commission of criminal conduct 
by a member of a criminal street gang commits a crime of the fourth degree and shall be liable as 
an accomplice under subsection c. of N.J.S.2C:2-6 for any criminal offense 
committed by the person as a result of the defendant causing, encouraging, 
intimidating, coercing, soliciting, or recruiting the person to join or 
actively participate in a criminal street gang.� For purposes of this 
section, the actor shall have the requisite knowledge or purpose if he knows 
that the person who is solicited or recruited will engage in some form, though 
not necessarily which form, of criminal activity.� "Criminal street gang" 
shall have the meaning set forth in section 1 of P.L.2007, c.341 (C.2C:33-29).

���� b.�