Bill Text: NJ S1856 | 2018-2019 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Allows person with implanted medical device to voluntarily make notation on driver's license or identification card.*

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-05-10 - Referred to Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee [S1856 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2018-S1856-Amended.html

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[First Reprint]

SENATE, No. 1856

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

218th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 15, 2018

 

 

Sponsored by:

Senator  SHIRLEY K. TURNER

District 15 (Hunterdon and Mercer)

Senator  JOSEPH PENNACCHIO

District 26 (Essex, Morris and Passaic)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Allows person with implanted medical device to voluntarily make notation on driver's license or identification card.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As reported by the Senate Transportation Committee on May 10, 2018, with amendments.

  

An Act concerning ¹[drivers] driver's¹ licenses ¹and identification cards¹ and supplementing Title 39 of the Revised Statutes.  

 

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

 

     1.    a.  The Chief Administrator of the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission shall permit a license or identification card holder to voluntarily indicate that the person has an implanted medical device.

     b.    The designation indicating that a person has an implanted medical device pursuant to subsection a. of this section shall be done in accordance with procedures prescribed by the chief administrator.  The designation shall be used by a law enforcement official or emergency medical professional to diagnose ¹or to provide appropriate emergency medical care to¹ a person who has been rendered unable to communicate as a result of an accident or injury and shall not be used for any other purpose by any other person.

     c.     The Chief Administrator of the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission shall adopt rules and regulations pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), necessary to effectuate the purposes of this act.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect on the first day of the seventh month after enactment, but the Chief Administrator of the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission may take any administrative action in advance as shall be necessary for the implementation of the act.