Bill Text: NJ A5490 | 2022-2023 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires NJTA and SJTA to automatically offer toll discounts to senior citizens.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-05-18 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Transportation and Independent Authorities Committee [A5490 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2022-A5490-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 5490

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

220th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED MAY 18, 2023

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  KEVIN J. ROONEY

District 40 (Bergen, Essex, Morris and Passaic)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires NJTA and SJTA to automatically offer toll discounts to senior citizens.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  

An Act concerning toll discounts for senior citizens and supplementing Title 27 of the Revised Statutes.

 

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

 

     1. The New Jersey Turnpike Authority shall establish and maintain a program to provide a discounted toll rate to all persons 65 years of age and older who have an account with the New Jersey electronic toll collection system for passenger vehicles.  The discount shall be available at all hours and shall be for an amount at least 10 percent less than the amount of the toll rate for persons with a New Jersey electronic toll collection system account for a passenger vehicle.  The authority shall automatically apply the discount when: an account holder who has an electronic toll collection system account for a passenger vehicle turns 65 years of age; and when a person who is 65 years of age or older applies for an electronic toll collection system account for a passenger vehicle.

    

     2.  The South Jersey Transportation Authority shall establish and maintain a program to provide a discounted toll rate to all persons 65 years of age and older who have an account with the New Jersey electronic toll collection system for passenger vehicles.  The discount shall be available at all hours and shall be for an amount at least 10 percent less than the amount of the toll rate for persons with a New Jersey electronic toll collection system account for a passenger vehicle.  The authority shall automatically apply the discount when: an account holder who has an electronic toll collection system account for a passenger vehicle turns 65 years of age; and when a person who is 65 years or age or older applies for an electronic toll collection system account for a passenger vehicle.

    

     3.  This act shall take effect on the first day of the third month after enactment.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill requires the New Jersey Turnpike Authority (NJTA) and South Jersey Transportation Authority (SJTA) to establish and maintain a toll discount program for all persons age 65 and older who have an account with the New Jersey electronic toll collection system (NJ E-ZPass) for passenger vehicles.  The discount is to be available at all hours and is to be at least 10 percent less than the NJ E-ZPass rate for passenger vehicles.

     NJTA and SJTA are required to automatically apply the discount when a NJ E-ZPass account holder turns 65 and when a person who is 65 or older applies for a NJ E-ZPass account for a passenger vehicle.