Bill Text: NJ S1351 | 2020-2021 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Allows person with implanted medical device to voluntarily make notation on driver's license or identification card.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-10 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Transportation Committee [S1351 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2020-S1351-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Senator SHIRLEY K. TURNER
District 15 (Hunterdon and Mercer)
SYNOPSIS
Allows person with implanted medical device to voluntarily make notation on driver's license or identification card.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning driver's licenses and 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. 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 or to provide appropriate emergency medical care to 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.
STATEMENT
This bill requires the Chief Administrator of the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission to allow a person who has an implanted medical device to voluntarily make a notation on the person's driver's license or identification card.
Under the provisions of the bill, the designation is required to be made in accordance with procedures established by the chief administrator. The bill provides that the designation is to be used by a law enforcement official or emergency medical professional to diagnose or to provide appropriate emergency medical care to a person who has been rendered unable to communicate as a result of an accident or injury, and cannot be used for any other purpose by any other person.
