LEGISLATIVE FISCAL ESTIMATE

ASSEMBLY, No. 2240

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

 

DATED: JUNE 9, 2026

 

 

SUMMARY

 

Synopsis:

Requires Judiciary and law enforcement to notify State Parole Board when parolee violates domestic violence restraining order.

Type of Impact:

One-time expenditure increase to the State.

Agencies Affected:

The Judiciary; State Parole Board; County Prosecutors.

 

 

Office of Legislative Services Estimate

Fiscal Impact

 

One-Time 

 

 

State Expenditure Increase

 

Indeterminate

 

 

 

·         The Office of Legislative Services (OLS) finds that this bill will primarily result in a one-time indeterminate increase in State expenditures.  The requirement to develop and implement the data sharing system within one year of the bill’s effective date will result in indeterminate expenditures to the Administrative Office of the Courts and the State Parole Board. Further, the domestic violence central registry is not publicly accessible, and the Administrative Office of the Courts may incur some upfront information technology costs to provide the State Parole Board access to the database. However, the OLS does not have sufficient information to quantify the magnitude of the expenditure increase. 

·         The Administrative Office of the Courts, the State Parole Board, and county prosecutors could also experience some ongoing administrative costs related to their responsibilities under the bill.

 

 

BILL DESCRIPTION

 

      This bill requires a prosecutor or law enforcement officer to notify the State Parole Board when a parolee is charged with violating a domestic violence restraining order.  The bill establishes procedures for reflecting a person’s status as a parolee in the domestic violence central registry and requires the prosecutor or law enforcement agency to notify the parole board when a parolee is charged with a violation.

      Under current law, the Administrative Office of the Courts is required to maintain a domestic violence central registry of any person who has had a domestic violence restraining order entered against them, who has been charged with a crime or offense involving domestic violence, and who has been charged with a violation of a court order involving domestic violence.  Current law does not, however, establish procedures for notifying the parole board when a parolee is charged with violating a domestic violence restraining order, or for notifying the Administrative Office of the Courts that a person on the registry is on parole or will be paroled.

      Under the bill, the parole board is required to notify the Administrative Office of the Courts, and the Administrative Office of the Courts is required to update the registry to reflect that a person in the registry is currently serving a term of parole supervision.  The bill requires the Administrative Office of the Courts, in consultation with the State Parole Board, to develop a data sharing system within one year of the bill’s effective date. 

      To facilitate this notification process, the bill authorizes the State Parole Board to access the registry to determine if a parolee is the subject of a domestic violence restraining order or has been charged with a violation of a domestic violence restraining order.  The parole board is required to notify the Administrative Office of the Courts when the term of parole supervision has terminated.  The parole board is also required to indicate in the parole report, which is required to be filed with the board panel prior to an inmate’s parole eligibility date, whether the person is the subject of a domestic violence restraining order.  Finally, if a restraining order is in effect, the bill authorizes the State Parole Board to impose conditions of parole to conform to the terms of the restraining order.

 

 

FISCAL ANALYSIS

 

EXECUTIVE BRANCH

 

        None received.

 

OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE SERVICES

 

      The OLS finds that this bill will primarily result in a one-time indeterminate increase in State expenditures.  The requirement to develop and implement the data sharing system within one year of the bill’s effective date will result in indeterminate expenditures to the Administrative Office of the Courts and the State Parole Board. Further, the domestic violence central registry is not publicly accessible, and the Administrative Office of the Courts may incur some upfront information technology costs to provide the State Parole Board access to the database. However, the OLS does not have sufficient information to quantify the magnitude of the expenditure increase. Also, there could be some additional technical and administrative work from the bill’s provision requiring the Administrative Office of the Courts to update the registry to reflect that a person in the registry is currently serving a term of parole supervision.

      The bill requires the State Parole Board to notify the Administrative Office of the Courts that a person in the registry is currently serving a term of parole supervision.  The parole board is required to indicate in the parole report, which is required to be filed with the board panel prior to an inmate’s parole eligibility date, whether the person is the subject of a domestic violence restraining order.  The State Parole Board is also required to notify the Administrative Office of the Courts when the term of parole supervision has terminated. Further, the bill’s provisions on imposition of conditions of parole to conform to the terms of a restraining order may result in prolonged or altered conditions of parole supervision resulting in increased workload for the State Parole Board. 

      For context, in response to an FY 2026 OLS Discussion Point, the Judiciary noted that 33,280 domestic violence related temporary restraining orders were granted in 2022, out of which 4,809 were then granted a final restraining order, with no further indication as to how many of these individuals were under parole supervision.

 

 

Section:

Judiciary

Analyst:

Anuja Pande Joshi

Senior Research Analyst

Approved:

Thomas Koenig

Legislative Budget and Finance Officer

 

 

This legislative fiscal estimate has been produced by the Office of Legislative Services due to the failure of the Executive Branch to respond to our request for a fiscal note.

 

This fiscal estimate has been prepared pursuant to P.L.1980, c.67 (C.52:13B-6 et seq.).