Bill Text: NJ A3859 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires rental car company to provide notice to renter to delete personal information from motor vehicle computer system upon return of vehicle.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-10-24 - Reported out of Asm. Comm. with Amendments, and Referred to Assembly Transportation and Independent Authorities Committee [A3859 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2024-A3859-Amended.html

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[First Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 3859

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

221st LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 27, 2024

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman  ALIXON COLLAZOS-GILL

District 27 (Essex and Passaic)

Assemblywoman  ANNETTE QUIJANO

District 20 (Union)

Assemblyman  WILLIAM B. SAMPSON, IV

District 31 (Hudson)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblyman Rodriguez, Assemblywoman Carter and Assemblyman Karabinchak

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

      Requires rental car company to provide notice to renter to delete personal information from motor vehicle computer system upon return of vehicle.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As reported by the Assembly Consumer Affairs Committee on October 24, 2024, with amendments.

  

An Act concerning rental car companies and supplementing P.L.1960, c.39 (C.56:8-1 et seq.). 

 

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

 

      1.   a.  As used in this section:

      "Motor vehicle" shall have the same meaning as defined in R.S.39:1-1. 

      "Personal information" means any information that identifies, relates to, describes, or is associated with, a person, including, but not limited to, navigation history, phone data, and garage door codes. 

      "Rental car company" means a person engaged in the business of renting motor vehicles to the general public at retail, including renting vehicles on an hourly, daily, per trip, or other short-term basis. 

      "Renter" means a person renting a motor vehicle from a rental company. 

      b.   ¹[When a rented motor vehicle is returned to a rental car company, the rental car company shall delete the personal information of a renter from the motor vehicle computer system by performing data-clearing protocols in accordance with the Guidelines for Media Sanitization developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology using techniques specified by the vehicle manufacturer to overwrite data or by using a menu option to reset the device to  original factory settings.] 

      A rental car company shall provide notice advising renters to unpair personal devices from a rented vehicle and to delete their personal information from the motor vehicle's computer system upon returning the vehicle to the rental car company.  The notice shall be posted at the return area of a rental car company's premises.  Notice also may be posted on the rental car company's Internet website or in the rental agreement.¹ 

      c.   A rental car company that violates the provisions of this section shall be subject to a civil penalty of $500 for a first offense, and $1,000 for any subsequent offense, to be collected and enforced by the Director of the Division of Consumer Affairs in the Department of Law and Public Safety in a summary proceeding pursuant to the "Penalty Enforcement Law of 1999," P.L.1999, c.274 (C.2A:58-10 et seq.).  The Superior Court shall have jurisdiction over proceedings for the enforcement of the penalty provided by this section. 

 

      2.   This act shall take effect ¹[immediately] on the first day of the seventh month after enactment¹.