Bill Text: NJ S2405 | 2012-2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Allows person with diabetes to voluntarily make notation on driver's license.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-06-24 - Substituted by A945 (1R) [S2405 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2012-S2405-Amended.html

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[First Reprint]

SENATE, No. 2405

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

215th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED DECEMBER 20, 2012

 

 

Sponsored by:

Senator  FRED H. MADDEN, JR.

District 4 (Camden and Gloucester)

Senator  JAMES BEACH

District 6 (Burlington and Camden)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Allows person with diabetes to voluntarily make notation on driver's license.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As reported by the Senate Transportation Committee on March 4, 2013, with amendments.

  

An Act concerning drivers licenses 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 ¹[provide with every new license, renewal license, identification card or renewal identification card the opportunity for a person] permit a license or identification card holder¹ to voluntarily ¹[designate] indicate¹ that the person ¹[suffers from diabetes,]¹ is ¹an¹ insulin dependent ¹[, and as a result may be susceptible to convulsive seizures] diabetic¹. 

     b.    The designation indicating that a person is an insulin dependent diabetic pursuant to subsection a. of this section shall be done in accordance with procedures prescribed by the chief administrator.  ¹[The designation shall be displayed in print in a conspicuous form and manner on the license or identification card by substantially the following statement: "INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETIC". DIABETIC."]¹  The designation shall be used ¹[exclusively]¹ by ¹[any] a¹ law enforcement official or emergency medical professional to diagnose a person who has been rendered unable to communicate due to a diabetic seizure ¹and shall not be used for any other purpose by any other person¹.  

 

     2.    This act shall take effect on the first day of the ¹[thirteenth] 13th¹ month following enactment.