STATEMENT TO

[First Reprint]

SENATE, No. 2593

with Senate Floor Amendments

(Proposed by Senators CUNNINGHAM and POU)

ADOPTED: OCTOBER 29, 2020

      These floor amendments would eliminate the provisions of the bill which would permit the reduction of inmates’ current mandatory terms of imprisonment for second degree robbery, N.J.S.2C:15-1, and second degree burglary, N.J.S.2C:18-2, from 85 percent of the sentence imposed, as required under current law pursuant to section 2 of P.L.1997, c.117 (C.2C:43-7.2), known as the No Early Release Act (NERA), to 50 percent of the sentence imposed.

      The floor amendments also eliminate current subsection b. from section 1 of the bill concerning retroactive modification and resentencing of the conviction of those persons convicted of these same offenses.