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Introduced Session

P.L.2007, c.128 (C.30:4-123.89) the "Sex Offender Monitoring Act," established a permanent sex offender monitoring program which provides for continuous, satellite-based monitoring of high risk sex offenders. This bill requires sex offenders monitored under the program to pay for certain costs associated with their monitoring. Specifically, the sex offender would be required to pay for the cost of any equipment he or she must carry or wear and to pay the daily cost charged to the State by the monitoring company for his or her monitoring. An exception could be made for a sex offender who provides proof to the satisfaction of the Chairman of the State Parole Board that paying for the cost of the equipment and monitoring would subject the offender to extreme financial hardship. The chairman is required to develop a test to determine whether the requirements would constitute an extreme financial hardship for a monitored offender.

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Joe Pennacchio (R)*,  Stephen Sweeney (D)*,  Jim Beach (D),  Anthony Bucco (R),  Fred Madden (D),  Kevin O'Toole (R), 

Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Law and Public Safety Committee (on 01/12/2016)