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NJ A5456

Bill

Status

Introduced

3/17/2025

Primary Sponsor

Jessica Ramirez

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Origin

General Assembly

2024-2025 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Adds human trafficking, assisting in human trafficking, and commercial sex abuse of a minor to the list of crimes subject to New Jersey's No Early Release Act (NERA), requiring offenders to serve 85% of their sentence before parole eligibility

  • Increases the minimum sentence for human trafficking from 20 years to 24 years to life imprisonment, with parole eligibility only after serving 85% of the sentence (for a life sentence, deemed 75 years, this means 63.75 years before parole eligibility)

  • Requires mandatory post-incarceration parole supervision of five years for first-degree convictions and three years for second-degree convictions under NERA

  • Maintains existing provisions requiring a minimum $25,000 fine for human trafficking convictions, deposited into the Human Trafficking Survivor's Assistance Fund

  • Applies to attempts or conspiracies to commit these human trafficking-related offenses as well as completed crimes

Legislative Description

Makes human trafficking-related crimes subject to No Early Release Act sentencing.

Judiciary

Last Action

Introduced, Referred to Assembly Judiciary Committee

3/17/2025

Committee Referrals

Judiciary3/17/2025

Full Bill Text

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