STATEMENT TO

[First Reprint]

SENATE, No. 4099

with Senate Floor Amendments

(Proposed by Senator BUCCO)

ADOPTED: DECEMBER 20, 2021

      This amendment provides that a sheriff’s investigator in a sheriff’s department will be eligible for transfer to a sheriff’s officer position in that same department in accordance with this law (N.J.S.A.11:4-1.3) provided that:

      (1)  the investigator has completed at least one year in the position of sheriff’s investigator in that sheriff’s department or has served at least one year as a police officer or sheriff’s officer in a municipal or county police or sheriff’s department in this State; and

      (2)  the sheriff’s investigator is not over 35 years of age at the time of initial appointment in accordance with this law to the sheriff’s officer position.

      The amendment also provides that, beginning on January 1, 2023, a sheriff cannot appoint sheriff’s investigators in accordance with this law to more than 50 percent of open sheriff’s officer positions in any calendar year.