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NJ A4749

Bill

Status

Introduced

9/19/2024

Primary Sponsor

Annette Quijano

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Origin

General Assembly

2024-2025 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Allows persons completing Recovery Court (special probation) to expunge their entire record including indictable crimes, disorderly persons offenses, municipal violations, and juvenile adjudications upon successful program completion

  • Permits petitioners to include all expungeable convictions—indictable crimes, disorderly persons offenses, municipal ordinance violations, and juvenile adjudications—on a single petition rather than requiring separate filings

  • Expands expungement eligibility by making second-degree robbery, certain non-sexual child endangerment offenses, and drug distribution near public housing/parks/buildings expungeable; removes out-of-state and federal convictions from eligibility calculations

  • Reduces the "Clean Slate" automatic expungement waiting period from 10 years to 7 years and extends automatic expungement to include juvenile delinquency adjudications

  • Requires law enforcement agencies reviewing expungement petitions to provide correct or missing documentation to both the court and petitioner, and reconstitutes the Clean Slate task force to update implementation recommendations

Legislative Description

Makes certain procedural and substantive reforms to expungement statutes to reduce filing burdens and expand eligibility.

Judiciary

Last Action

Introduced, Referred to Assembly Judiciary Committee

9/19/2024

Committee Referrals

Judiciary9/19/2024

Full Bill Text

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