Bill Text: NJ A4487 | 2020-2021 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Establishes NJMVC Virtual Check-In Pilot Program.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-10-22 - Reported out of Assembly Comm. with Amendments, 2nd Reading [A4487 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2020-A4487-Amended.html

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[First Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 4487

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

219th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED AUGUST 10, 2020

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  DANIEL R. BENSON

District 14 (Mercer and Middlesex)

Assemblyman  WILLIAM F. MOEN, JR.

District 5 (Camden and Gloucester)

Assemblyman  JON M. BRAMNICK

District 21 (Morris, Somerset and Union)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblymen Johnson, McGuckin, Catalano, DiMaio, Assemblywoman Chaparro and Assemblyman Freiman

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Establishes NJMVC Virtual Check-In Pilot Program.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As reported by the Assembly Transportation and Independent Authorities Committee on October 22, 2020, with amendments.

  

An Act establishing a New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission Virtual Check-In Pilot Program.

 

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

 

      1.   a.   The New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission¹[, in consultation with the Office of Information Technology,]¹ shall establish a one-year pilot program known as the NJMVC Virtual Check-In Pilot Program.  The pilot program shall allow a customer visiting a commission agency to:

     (1)   reserve a spot in the queue through the commission's Internet website without being physically present at the commission agency;

     (2)   advance in the queue without being physically present at the commission agency; and

     (3)   check-in remotely from the parking lot of the commission agency by using a mobile application developed pursuant to subsection e. of this section to claim the customer's spot in the queue; or, if the customer is not able to check-in remotely, check-in in-person at the commission agency by using a kiosk or tablet or by speaking with a commission employee, as determined by the Chief Administrator of the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission. 

      b.   The customer shall have four hours or less, as determined by the commission, from the time the customer reserves a virtual spot in the queue to check-in remotely from the parking lot of the commission agency or in-person at the commission agency.

      c.    Under the pilot program, the commission shall allow a customer who is physically present in the parking lot of a commission agency, but who has not reserved a virtual spot in the queue on the commission's Internet website prior to arriving at the agency, to check-in remotely from the agency's parking lot by using a mobile application developed pursuant to subsection e. of this section to reserve a spot in the queue.

      d.   After a customer checks-in remotely from the parking lot of the commission agency or in-person at the commission agency, the commission shall either:

     (1)   notify the customer electronically when the customer may enter the commission agency to complete the requested transaction; or

     (2)   send a commission employee to the customer waiting outside of the agency to ensure that the customer has the required documentation to complete the requested transaction and to notify the customer when the customer may enter the commission agency to complete the requested transaction.

     e.     The commission¹[, in consultation with the Office of Information Technology,]¹ shall ¹[contract with a private or public entity to]¹ develop and maintain¹, or enter into or modify an agreement with a third party to develop and maintain,¹ a mobile application to allow customers to check-in remotely to a commission agency when the customer is physically present in the parking lot of the agency.  The mobile application shall be available in English and Spanish. 

     f.     The Chief Administrator of the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission shall select at least ¹[10] six¹ commission agencies to participate in the pilot program ¹and shall expand the pilot program to four additional commission agencies by the 180th day preceding the completion of the one-year pilot program¹.

 

     2.    Within 150 days after the completion of the one-year pilot program, the Chief Administrator ¹of the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission¹ shall decide whether to continue the pilot program.  Within 180 days after completion of the one-year pilot program, the Chief Administrator of the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission shall prepare and submit a report to the Governor and, pursuant to section 2 of P.L.1991, c.164 (C.52:14-19.1), to the Legislature containing an evaluation of the pilot program.  The report shall provide a comprehensive review of the pilot program, including, but not limited to, an evaluation of the effectiveness of the pilot program, an evaluation of ¹[whether the pilot program will continue and] why the chief administrator has decided to continue or discontinue the pilot program and whether the pilot program will¹ be expanded to additional commission agencies, and any other information the chief administrator determines is relevant to the report.

 

     3.    This act shall take effect 30 days after enactment, but the Chief Administrator of the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission may take such anticipatory administrative action in advance as may be necessary for the implementation of this act.