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Bill Text

A640 

ASSEMBLY, No. 640 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman BRIAN BERGEN

District 26 (Morris and Passaic)

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblyman Scharfenberger

SYNOPSIS

���� Exempts honorably discharged veterans from payment of 
passenger motor vehicle registration fee; requires notification of eligible 
motorists.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

���� Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative 
Counsel.

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An Act concerning certain motor vehicle registration fee 
exemptions for certain veterans 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 not charge a fee 
for the registration of a motor vehicle of passenger type, which is not to be 
used for hire, and that is owned by any resident of this State, individually or 
jointly with a spouse, who is an honorably discharged veteran.� The chief 
administrator, after consultation with the Adjutant General of the Department 
of Military and Veterans� Affairs, shall determine the manner for application 
and the documentation that an honorably discharged veteran shall use to provide 
proof of eligibility for the registration fee exemption.

���� b.��� The Adjutant General of 
the Department of Military and Veterans� Affairs, in consultation with the 
chief administrator, shall notify all eligible motorists of the availability of 
the registration fee exemption provided for pursuant to subsection a. of this 
section.

���� c.���� As used in this 
section, �honorably discharged veteran� means an individual who served on 
active duty in the Armed Forces of the United States, a Reserve component thereof, 
or the National Guard, who received an honorable discharge, and has received 
documentation that provides proof of the honorable discharge as determined by 
the Adjutant General of the Department of Military and Veterans� Affairs.

���� 2.��� This act shall take 
effect on the first day of the sixth month after enactment, but the Adjutant 
General of the Department of Military and Veterans� Affairs and the Chief 
Administrator of the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission may take such 
administrative action in advance of that date as shall be necessary for the 
timely implementation of this act.

STATEMENT

���� This bill prohibits the Chief 
Administrator of the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission (chief administrator) 
from charging a fee for the registration of a motor vehicle of passenger type, 
which is not to be used for hire, that is owned by any resident of this State, 
individually or jointly with a spouse, who is an �honorably discharged� veteran 
as defined in the bill. �The bill requires the chief administrator, after 
consultation with the Adjutant General of the Department of Military and 
Veterans� Affairs (adjutant general), to determine the manner for application 
and the documentation that an honorably discharged veteran is to use to provide 
proof of eligibility for the registration fee exemption. The bill requires the 
adjutant general, in consultation with the chief administrator, to notify all 
eligible motorists of the availability of the fee exemption.