Bill Text: NJ A4878 | 2018-2019 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Permits undesignated non-binary gender individuals to indicate "X" for sex on any driver's license or non-driver identification card issued by MVC.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-01-15 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Transportation and Independent Authorities Committee [A4878 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2018-A4878-Introduced.html

ASSEMBLY, No. 4878

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

218th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED JANUARY 15, 2019

 


 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  JAMES J. KENNEDY

District 22 (Middlesex, Somerset and Union)

Assemblywoman  MILA M. JASEY

District 27 (Essex and Morris)

Assemblyman  NICHOLAS CHIARAVALLOTI

District 31 (Hudson)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Permits undesignated non-binary gender individuals to indicate "X" for sex on any driver's license or non-driver identification card issued by MVC.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  


An Act concerning information on driver's licenses and non-driver identification cards 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.  Each motor vehicle driver's license issued pursuant to R.S.39:3-10, probationary license issued pursuant to section 4 of P.L.1950, c.127 (C.39:3-13.4), commercial driver's license issued pursuant to P.L.1990, c.103 (C.39:3-10.9), non-driver identification card, or any other driver's license or identification card issued by the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission, shall allow a person who identifies as an undesignated non-binary gender individual to indicate "X" for sex, if applicable. The commission shall not require a person to provide documentation for the indication.

     b.    Any change to a driver's license or non-driver identification card issued pursuant the provisions of subsection a. of this section shall be subject to any fee required by law applicable to changes to that driver's license or non-driver identification card.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill requires that any motor vehicle driver's license, probationary license, non-driver identification card, or any other identification card issued by the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission (commission), is to allow a person who identifies as an undesignated non-binary gender individual to indicate "X" for sex, if applicable. The bill prohibits the commission from requiring a person to provide documentation for the indication. The bill also provides that changes to any driver's licenses or non-driver identification cards are to be subject to any fee already required by law.

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