Bill Text: NJ S3442 | 2020-2021 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires DOT, NJT, and DHS to study and implement transportation mobility and accessibility improvements for persons with autism and developmental disabilities.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-10 - Substituted by A5334 (1R) [S3442 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2020-S3442-Amended.html

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[First Reprint]

SENATE, No. 3442

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

219th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 11, 2021

 

 

Sponsored by:

Senator  PATRICK J. DIEGNAN, JR.

District 18 (Middlesex)

Senator  THOMAS H. KEAN, JR.

District 21 (Morris, Somerset and Union)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Senator Pou

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires DOT and NJT to study and implement transportation mobility and accessibility improvements for persons with autism and developmental disabilities.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As reported by the Senate Transportation Committee on June 10, 2021, with amendments.

  

An Act concerning transportation mobility and accessibility for persons with autism and developmental disabilities and supplementing Title 27 of the Revised Statutes.

 

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

 

     1.    Section 6 of P.L.1980, c.47 (C.39:3-29.7) is amended to read as follows:

     6.    a.  The chief administrator shall charge fees as follows:

     Standard Identification Card, Original     $18

     Identification Card, Duplicate                  $5

     Identification Card, Renewal                    $18

     REAL ID Identification Card                   $29

     Digitized photograph                                 $6, in addition to the fees required above

     b.    The chief administrator [may] shall waive the fees established under subsection a. of this section for:

     (1) a person who is homeless who submits proof of temporary residence through a social worker or the coordinator of an emergency shelter for the homeless where the person is temporarily residing; and

     (2)   a person with disabilities who submits proof of disability, as determined by the chief administrator in consultation with the ¹[Division of Disability Determination Services] federal Social Security Administration¹, in a form prescribed by the chief administrator. 

     On or before December 31 of each year, the commission shall report to the Office of Homelessness Prevention in the Department of Community Affairs an accounting of each instance in which the commission provided a fee waiver pursuant to [this section] paragraph (1) of this subsection. 

     For the purposes of this section, "person who is homeless" means a person without a domicile who is unable to secure permanent and stable housing as determined by a social worker or the coordinator of an emergency shelter for the homeless established pursuant to P.L.1985, c.48 (C.55:13C-1 et seq.).

     c.     The chief administrator may waive the fee imposed for a duplicate identification card if the applicant, at the time of application: is applying for a REAL ID identification card, as that term is defined in R.S.39:1-1; currently holds a valid identification card issued by the commission; and is not eligible to renew the applicant's current identification card.  The chief administrator's authority to waive the duplicate identification card fee under this subsection shall expire on October 1, 2020.  In order to receive a

REAL ID identification card pursuant to this subsection, the applicant shall first surrender to the commission the applicant's current identification card.

(cf: P.L.2019, c.271, s.18)

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.