Increases monetary thresholds for grading of theft offenses.

This New Jersey bill raises the monetary amounts used to classify theft crimes into different severity levels. It directly affects prosecutors, judges, and individuals accused of stealing property by changing the financial thresholds that determine whether a case is charged as a second, third, fourth degree crime, or a disorderly persons offense. Under the new rules, thefts involving $100,001 or more become second-degree crimes, while amounts between $2,501 and $100,000 become third-degree crimes, and thefts of $1,001 to $2,500 become fourth-degree crimes. The bill also adjusts the threshold for fiduciary breaches from $50,000 to $100,000 for second-degree charges and lowers the disorderly persons threshold from $200 to $1,000.