A 4652 New Jersey General Assembly · 2024-2025 Regular Session

Establishes offense of inciting public brawl; upgrades penalty for disorderly conduct in certain circumstances.

This bill (A4652) creates a new offense for "inciting a public brawl" when someone purposefully organizes or promotes a group of four or more people to engage in disorderly conduct. It upgrades penalties for disrupting public gatherings or events, making such conduct a "disorderly persons offense" (up to 6 months jail or $1,000 fine) instead of a lesser "petty disorderly persons offense." The bill also adds a provision penalizing people who conceal their identity during disorderly conduct to avoid arrest. These changes directly affect individuals organizing group disturbances or attempting to hide their identity at public events. The law amends New Jersey statutes N.J.S.2C:33-1 and N.J.S.2C:33-2.
Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jun 2024
Committee Review
Mar 2025
General Assembly Passage
May 2025
Senate Passage
Jun 2025
Signed into Law
Jun 2025
Introduced Jun 25, 2024 Signed Jun 2, 2025
Floor votes · Senate Mar 24, 2025 · General Assembly Feb 27, 2025

How they voted

390
Passed · 1 other
Total votes 40
Mar 24, 2025
D Democratic25
24 Yea 1
96% Yea
R Republican15
15 Yea
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
21
Key actions
8
Committee
4
Jun 2, 2025
Signed into law
Approved P.L.2025, c.59.
executive
Jun 2, 2025
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate (Passed Both Houses) (38-0)
upper
May 22, 2025
Lower · Passed
Passed Assembly (74-1-2)
lower
May 8, 2025
Vetoed
Conditional Veto, Received in the Assembly
lower
Mar 24, 2025
Lower · Passed
Passed Assembly (Passed Both Houses) (75-0-0)
lower
Mar 24, 2025
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate (39-0)
upper
Mar 17, 2025
Upper · Passed
Reported out of Senate Committee with Amendments, 2nd Reading
upper
Mar 3, 2025
Committee
Received in the Senate, Referred to Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee
upper
Feb 27, 2025
Lower · Passed
Passed Assembly (76-0-0)
lower
Feb 20, 2025
Lower · Passed
Reported out of Assembly Committee, 2nd Reading
lower
Jan 27, 2025
Committee
Reported and Referred to Assembly Appropriations Committee
lower
Jun 25, 2024
Introduced
Introduced in the Assembly, Referred to Assembly Public Safety and Preparedness Committee
lower
4 primary · 15 co-sponsors

Sponsors