[Second Reprint]

SENATE, No. 3839

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

220th LEGISLATURE

INTRODUCED MAY 11, 2023

Sponsored by:

Senator  LINDA R. GREENSTEIN

District 14 (Mercer and Middlesex)

Senator  DOUGLAS J. STEINHARDT

District 23 (Hunterdon, Somerset and Warren)

Assemblyman  RAJ MUKHERJI

District 33 (Hudson)

Assemblyman  HAROLD "HAL" J. WIRTHS

District 24 (Morris, Sussex and Warren)

Assemblyman  PARKER SPACE

District 24 (Morris, Sussex and Warren)

Co-Sponsored by:

Senators O'Scanlon, Oroho, Durr, Assemblywoman Murphy, Assemblyman Rooney, Assemblywoman Pintor Marin and Senator Pou

SYNOPSIS

     Requires Commissioner of Corrections to institute 10-minute shift overlap in State correctional facilities; appropriates $13 million.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As reported by the Assembly Budget Committee on June 28, 2023, with amendments.

An Act concerning shift overlap in State correctional facilities ²[and] ,² supplementing Title 30 of the Revised Statutes ², and appropriating $13 million² .

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

     1.    In addition to the duties of the commissioner set forth in section 6 of P.L.1976, c.98 (C.30:1B-6), the commissioner shall institute in each State correctional facility a shift overlap of 10 minutes for the purpose of information dissemination between correctional police officers beginning and ending their shifts.

²[¹2.          As compensation for working the shift overlap required pursuant to section 1 of P.L.    , c.    (C.        ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill), each State correctional police officer shall receive a three percent salary increase during the one-year period following the effective date of P.L.    , c.    (C.        ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill).  The increase shall be applied to each correctional police officer’s base pensionable salary and shall be paid in 26 equal installments, payable on each regular pay period designated on the State of New Jersey’s annual payroll calendar during the one-year period following the effective date of P.L.    , c.    (C.        ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill).¹]²

²2.   There shall be appropriated from the general fund to the Department of Corrections $13,000,000 for the purpose of implementing the shift overlap required pursuant to section 1 of P.L.    , c.   (C.       ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill) , which shall be distributed to Department of Corrections correctional police officers, sergeants, and lieutenants, subject to the terms of a collective negotiation or collective bargaining agreement.²

¹[2.] 3.¹     This act shall take effect on the first day of the fourth month after enactment.