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A1495 • 2026

Changes classification of State Investigators in civil service.

Changes classification of State Investigators in civil service.

Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor
Freiman, Roy
Last action
2026-01-13
Official status
Withdrawn Because Approved P.L.2025, c.351.
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Changes classification of State Investigators in civil service.

Changes classification of State Investigators in civil service.

What This Bill Does

  • Changes classification of State Investigators in civil service.
  • Topic: Withdrawn Because Approved Fiscal note: This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-01-13 New Jersey Legislature

    Introduced, Referred to Assembly State and Local Government Committee

  2. 2026-01-13 New Jersey Legislature

    Withdrawn Because Approved P.L.2025, c.351.

Official Summary Text

Changes classification of State Investigators in civil service.
Topic:
Withdrawn Because Approved
Fiscal note:
This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

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A1495

ASSEMBLY, No. 1495

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman ROY FREIMAN

District 16 (Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex and Somerset)

Assemblyman ROBERT J. KARABINCHAK

District 18 (Middlesex)

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman Drulis

SYNOPSIS

���� Changes classification of State Investigators in
civil service.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

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

��

An Act
changing the classification of State Investigators in the
civil service and amending P.L.1977, c.275.

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

���� 1.��� Section 1 of P.L.1977,
c.275 (C.52:17B-100.1) is amended to read as follows:

���� 1.��� There is hereby created
in the Division of Criminal Justice, the office or position of State
Investigator which shall be
[
in
the unclassified service of
]

a classified title within
the civil service.� The Attorney General may
appoint such number of suitable persons to serve as State investigators,
[
to serve at
his pleasure and subject to removal by him,
]

as are necessary to assist in the detection, apprehension, arrest and
conviction of offenders against the law.� Persons so appointed shall possess
all the powers and rights and be subject to all the obligations of police
officers, constables and special deputy sheriffs, in criminal matters.�
The
Division of Criminal Justice and the Civil Service Commission shall convert the
titles of all employees in the position of State Investigator on the effective
date of P.L.��� , c.�� (pending before the Legislature as this bill) from the
unclassified to the classified service.

(cf: P.L.1977, c.275, s.1)

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

STATEMENT

���� This bill changes the
classification of State Investigators in civil service.� State Investigators
employed with the Division of Criminal Justice in the Department of Law and
Public Safety are currently in the unclassified service of the civil service.�
In New Jersey, employees serving in classified titles receive the full
protections of the civil service system, while unclassified employees do not.�
This bill will allow all current and future State Investigators to receive
those protections.