Bill Text: NJ S3063 | 2010-2011 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires driver's licenses to indicate veteran status.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-12-08 - Referred to Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee [S3063 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2010-S3063-Amended.html

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[First Reprint]

SENATE, No. 3063

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

214th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

 

 

Sponsored by:

Senator  KEVIN J. O'TOOLE

District 40 (Bergen, Essex and Passaic)

Senator  ANTHONY R. BUCCO

District 25 (Morris)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires driver's licenses to indicate veteran status.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As reported by the Senate Transportation Committee on December 8, 2011, with amendments.

  

An Act concerning veteran status on driver's licenses and supplementing chapter 3 of Title 39 of the Revised Statutes.

 

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

 

     1.    a.  In addition to the requirements for the form and content of a motor vehicle driver's license under R.S.39:3-10 and a probationary license issued under section 4 of P.L.1950, c.127 (C.39:3-13.4), the Chief Administrator of the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission shall ¹[indicate the licensee's veteran status upon each initial New Jersey license, each renewal of a New Jersey driver's license, and each probationary license upon proper application, as specified by the chief administrator, by any veteran] , upon submission of satisfactory proof, designate on an initial license, renewal license, or probationary license, as appropriate, that the license holder is a veteran of the Armed Forces of the United States of America.  The designation of veteran status on an initial license, renewal license, or probationary license shall not be deemed sufficient valid proof of veteran status for official governmental purposes when any other statute, or any regulation or other directive of a governmental entity, requires documentation of veteran status¹.

     b.    For the purpose of this section ¹[, "veteran"] :

     "Veteran"¹ means a person who has been honorably discharged from the active military service of the United States ¹; and       "Satisfactory proof" means a copy of form DD-214 or federal activation orders showing service under Title 10, subsection 672 or subsection 12301, of the United States Code¹.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect on the first day of the ¹[eighteenth] 18th¹ month after enactment, but the ¹[Chief Administrator of Motor Vehicles] chief administrator¹ may take such anticipatory acts in advance of that date as may be necessary for the timely implementation of this act.