Bill Text: NJ A4110 | 2014-2015 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires MVC conduct study and make recommendations concerning electronic driver's licenses and mobile applications.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-11 - Substituted by S2695 (1R) [A4110 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2014-A4110-Amended.html

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[First Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 4110

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

216th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED JANUARY 29, 2015

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  RONALD S. DANCER

District 12 (Burlington, Middlesex, Monmouth and Ocean)

Assemblyman  DANIEL R. BENSON

District 14 (Mercer and Middlesex)

Assemblywoman  ANGELICA M. JIMENEZ

District 32 (Bergen and Hudson)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires MVC conduct study and make recommendations concerning electronic driver's licenses and mobile applications.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As reported by the Assembly Transportation and Independent Authorities Committee on January 7, 2016, with amendments.

  

An Act requiring the MVC to conduct a study and make recommendations concerning electronic driver's licenses.

 

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

 

     1.    a.   ¹[The] Within one year of the effective date of P.L.    , c.     (pending before the Legislature as this bill), the¹ New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission, in consultation with the New Jersey Office of Information Technology, shall prepare and submit to the Governor and to the Legislature pursuant to section 2 of P.L.1991, c.164 (C.52:14-19.1) a report concerning the feasibility of electronic driver's licenses. 

     The report shall describe the findings of the commission concerning the cost and resources required, advantages and disadvantages, privacy, security issues, use by law enforcement, and any other concerns related to the issuance of electronic driver's licenses by the commission.  The report shall also include an assessment of the means of issuing electronic driver's licenses through a mobile application, and accessibility thereof. 

     b.    The report shall make recommendations to the Governor and Legislature concerning the development and publication of a mobile application for the issuance and use of electronic driver's licenses.  The recommendations shall provide information related to the fiscal implications, such as: the cost, savings, and efficiencies of creating electronic driver's licenses; keeping personal identifying information secure; whether charges should be assessed upon drivers for electronic driver's licenses or the use of an application; and the anticipated amount of time necessary for effective implementation.

     c.     As used in this section:

     "Application" means a program downloaded onto and used in conjunction with a mobile electronic communication device, and available through multiple software platforms.

     "Mobile electronic communication device" means any mobile device capable of communication or other transmission of information and includes, but is not limited to, a cellular telephone, wireless tablet, or other device with Internet capability, or other wireless communication device.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.