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NJ S4784

Bill

Status

Introduced

10/27/2025

Primary Sponsor

Angela Mcknight

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Origin

Senate

2024-2025 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Increases the frequency of mandatory sexual assault training for county prosecutors and assistant prosecutors from every three years to every two years (biennial)

  • Expands required training curriculum to include cultural competency, emotional intelligence and counseling techniques, and victim-centered approaches with trauma-informed care to minimize re-traumatization

  • Requires the Division of Criminal Justice to review the training curriculum annually instead of every five years, and mandates in-person training every two years instead of every six years

  • Directs the Attorney General to implement a compliance evaluation system with periodic audits of county prosecutors' offices and a mechanism for addressing noncompliance with training requirements

  • Adds a rape care advocate to the sexual assault unit within the Division of Criminal Justice, alongside the existing sexual assault investigator and certified forensic sexual assault nurse examiner

Legislative Description

Concerns sexual assault training for prosecutors.

Law and Public Safety

Last Action

Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Law and Public Safety Committee

10/27/2025

Committee Referrals

Law and Public Safety10/27/2025

Full Bill Text

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