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A1393 • 2026

Makes FY2024 supplemental appropriation of $750,000 providing for additional attorneys dedicated to juvenile matters.

Makes FY2024 supplemental appropriation of $750,000 providing for additional attorneys dedicated to juvenile matters.

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Passed Legislature

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Sponsor
Park, Ellen J.
Last action
2026-01-13
Official status
Introduced, Referred to Assembly Judiciary Committee
Effective date
Not listed

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Makes FY2024 supplemental appropriation of $750,000 providing for additional attorneys dedicated to juvenile matters.

Makes FY2024 supplemental appropriation of $750,000 providing for additional attorneys dedicated to juvenile matters.

What This Bill Does

  • Makes FY2024 supplemental appropriation of $750,000 providing for additional attorneys dedicated to juvenile matters.
  • Topic: Judiciary Fiscal note: This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

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Bill History

  1. 2026-01-13 New Jersey Legislature

    Introduced, Referred to Assembly Judiciary Committee

Official Summary Text

Makes FY2024 supplemental appropriation of $750,000 providing for additional attorneys dedicated to juvenile matters.
Topic:
Judiciary
Fiscal note:
This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

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A1393

ASSEMBLY, No. 1393

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman ELLEN J. PARK

District 37 (Bergen)

SYNOPSIS

���� Makes FY2024 supplemental appropriation of $750,000
providing for additional attorneys dedicated to juvenile matters.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

���� Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative
Counsel.

��

A
Supplement
to the annual appropriations act
for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, P.L.2023, c.74.

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

���� 1.� In addition to the amounts
appropriated under P.L.2023, c.74, the annual appropriations act for the fiscal
year ending June 30, 2024, there is appropriated from the General Fund the
following amount for the purpose specified:

80 Special Government Services

82 Protection of Citizens� Rights

57 Trial Services to Indigents

2021 Office of the Public Defender

Direct State Services

57-2021� Trial Services to
Indigents ..................................... $750,000

���������������� Total Direct
State Services appropriation,���������������������������

������������������ Trial
Services to Indigents ................................
$750,0000

Direct State Services:

�������� 57��� Trial
services to Indigents.......................... $750,000

���� 2.� This act shall take effect
immediately.

STATEMENT

���� This bill supplements the
Fiscal Year 2024 appropriations act to provide $750,000 in supplemental funding
to the Office of the Public Defender�s (OPD) Trial Services to Indigents
program. The OPD is in-but-not-of the Department of Treasury.

���� More specifically, the funding
will provide for eight additional attorneys dedicated to juvenile
post-dispositional work and juvenile caseload reduction in some of the highest
volume regions, namely, Essex and Atlantic counties.

���� According to the OPD, youth
custodial sentences are on the rise. In 2022, New Jersey had 277 youth in
custody. As of April 4, 2024, there were 339. The OPD notes that the length of
stay is also on the rise. For example, in Atlantic County, the length of a
custodial sentence for a juvenile has increased by 359 percent between 2022 and
2024. The OPD estimates a 25-30 percent increase in youth defense caseloads in
the next fiscal year.

���� P.L.2021, c.383 expanded the
mandate of the OPD to require representation of juvenile defendants, many of
whom are on the cusp of reentering society as adults. This has resulted in an
increase in juvenile cases for the OPD.