Sponsored by:
Senator LORETTA WEINBERG
District 37 (Bergen)
Senator CHRISTOPHER "KIP" BATEMAN
District 16 (Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex and Somerset)
SYNOPSIS
Amends “Law Against Discrimination” to include crime victims as protected status.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As reported by the Senate Law and Public Safety Committee on September 17, 2018, with amendments.
An Act concerning victims of crime and amending P.L.1945, c.169.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Section 4 of P.L.1945, c.169 (C.10:5-4) is amended to read as follows:
4. a. All persons shall have the opportunity to obtain employment, and to obtain all the accommodations, advantages, facilities, and privileges of any place of public accommodation, publicly assisted housing accommodation, and other real property without discrimination because of race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, familial status, disability, liability for service in the Armed Forces of the United States, nationality, sex, gender identity or expression [or], source of lawful income used for rental or mortgage payments, or crime victim status subject only to conditions and limitations applicable alike to all persons. This opportunity is recognized as and declared to be a civil right.
b. For the purposes of this section, 1[“victim”] “crime victim status”1 shall include a victim as defined in section 4 of P.L.1985, c.249 (C.52:4B-37) and a victim of domestic violence as defined in subsection d. of section 3 of P.L.1991, c.261 (C.2C:25-19).
(cf: P.L.2017, c.184, s.1)
2. This act shall take effect immediately.