Bill Text: NJ A5071 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Permits certain individuals to use post office box or different address on driver's license or identification card consistent with Daniel's Law.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-12-09 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Judiciary Committee [A5071 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2024-A5071-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblywoman ROSAURA "ROSY" BAGOLIE
District 27 (Essex and Passaic)
SYNOPSIS
Permits certain individuals to use post office box or different address on driver's license or identification card consistent with Daniel's Law.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning driver's licenses and identification cards issued by the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission and amending P.L.1989, c.326.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Section 2 of P.L.1989, c.326 (C.39:3-9b) is amended to read as follows:
2. a. Each application for a driver's license, or a renewal thereof, required by R.S.39:3-10, shall contain the street address of the place of residence of the licensee at the time of application or renewal. A post office box shall appear on a driver's license application only as part of a mailing address that is submitted by the licensee in addition to the street address of the licensee's residence; provided, however, the chief administrator, upon application, shall permit a person who was a victim of a violation of section 1 of P.L.1992, c.209 (C.2C:12-10), N.J.S.2C:14-2, or P.L.1991, c.261 (C.2C:25-17 et seq.)[,] ; who is a "covered person" as that term is defined pursuant to section 1 of P.L.2021, c.371 (C.47:1B-1) and who has had an application for redaction or nondisclosure approved by the Director of the Office of Information Privacy pursuant to P.L.2021, c.371 (C.47:1B-1 et al.); or who the chief administrator otherwise determines to have good cause, to use as a mailing address a post office box, an address other than the applicant's address, or other contact point. A licensee whose last address appears on the records of the commission as a post office box shall change the address on the application for renewal to the street address of the licensee's residence and, if different from the street address, the licensee's mailing address unless the chief administrator has determined, pursuant to this section, that the licensee may use a post office box, an address other than the licensee's address, or other contact point as a mailing address.
b. Each application for an
identification card issued by the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission, or a
renewal thereof, pursuant to P.L.1980, c.47 (C.39:3-29.2 et seq.), shall contain
the street address of the place of residence of the person at the time of
application or renewal. A post office box shall appear on a person's
identification card application only as part of a mailing address that is
submitted by the person in addition to the street address of the person's
residence; provided, however, the chief administrator, upon application, shall
permit a person who was a victim of a violation of section 1 of P.L.1992, c.209
(C.2C:12-10), N.J.S.2C:14-2, or P.L.1991, c.261 (C.2C:25-17 et seq.); who is a
"covered person" as
that term is defined pursuant to section 1 of P.L.2021, c.371 (C.47:1B-1) and who has had an application for redaction or nondisclosure approved by the Director of the Office of Information Privacy pursuant to P.L.2021, c.371 (C.47:1B-1 et al.); or who the chief administrator otherwise determines to have good cause, to use as a mailing address a post office box, an address other than the applicant's address, or other contact point. A person whose last address appears on the records of the commission as a post office box shall change the address on the application for renewal to the street address of the person's residence and, if different from the street address, the person's mailing address unless the chief administrator has determined, pursuant to this section, that the person may use a post office box, an address other than the person's address, or other contact point as a mailing address.
(cf: P.L.2019, c.271, s.20)
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill allows a "covered person" who has had an application for redaction or nondisclosure of a home address approved pursuant to Daniel's Law to have a post office box, an address other than the person's address, or other contact point listed on the person's driver's license or identification card issued by the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission (commission). Under the bill, a "covered person" includes an active, formerly active, or retired judicial officer, law enforcement officer, or child protective investigator in the Division of Child Protection and Permanency, or prosecutor, and any immediate family member residing in the same household as the judicial officer, law enforcement officer, child protective investigator in the Division of Child Protection and Permanency, or prosecutor.
Under current law, driver's licenses issued by the commission are required to contain the street address of the place of residence of the person at the time of application or renewal. A post office box, an address other than the applicant's address, or other contact point is permitted in lieu of a physical street address in the case of a person who is a victim of certain crimes or who the Chief Administrator of the commission otherwise determines to have good cause.
The bill also clarifies that an identification card issued by the commission is required to contain the street address of the place of residence of the person at the time of application and renewal, except that a post office box, an address other than the applicant's address, or other contact point may be used in the case of a person who is a victim of certain crimes, a covered person who has had an application for redaction or nondisclosure of a home address approved pursuant to current law, or a person who the chief administrator otherwise determines to have good cause.
It is the intent of the sponsor to facilitate a uniform application of the privacy protections currently afforded to "covered persons" under Daniel's Law across various state government agencies overseeing the covered person's sensitive and protected information.
