New Jersey A 1543: Directs that cannabis product be stored or kept in locked container; establishes civil penalty for violation.

Bill Text

A1543 

ASSEMBLY, No. 1543 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

� 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman CLINTON CALABRESE

District 36 (Bergen and Passaic)

SYNOPSIS

���� Requires redaction of certain personal identifying 
information on vehicle accident reports.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

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

�� 

An Act requiring redaction of certain personal identifying 
information on vehicle accident reports, amending P.L.1995, c.23 and P.L.2001, 
c.404, and supplementing chapter 1A of Title 47 of the Revised Statutes.

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

���� 1.��� Section 1 of P.L.1995, 
c.23 (C.47:1A-1.1) is amended to read as follows:

���� 1.��� As used in P.L.1963, 
c.73 (C.47:1A-1 et seq.) as amended and supplemented:

���� "Biotechnology" 
means any technique that uses living organisms, or parts of living organisms, 
to make or modify products, to improve plants or animals, or to develop 
micro-organisms for specific uses; including the industrial use of recombinant 
DNA, cell fusion, and novel bioprocessing techniques.

���� "Child protective 
investigator in the Division of Child Protection and Permanency" means an 
employee of the Division of Child Protection and Permanency in the Department 
of Children and Families whose primary duty is to investigate reports of child 
abuse and neglect, or any other employee of the Department of Children and 
Families whose duties include investigation, response to, or review of 
allegations of child abuse and neglect.

���� "Commercial purpose" 
means the direct or indirect use of any part of a government record for sale, 
resale, solicitation, rent, or lease of a service or any use by which the user 
expects a profit either through commission, salary, or fee.� "Commercial 
purpose" shall not include the use of a government record for any purpose 
by:

���� (1) the news media, or any 
parent company, subsidiary, or affiliate of any news media, as defined by 
section 2 of P.L.1977, c.253 (C.2A:84A-21a) ;

���� (2) any news, journalistic, 
educational, scientific, scholarly, or governmental organization;

���� (3) any person authorized to 
act on behalf of a candidate committee, joint candidate committee, political 
committee, continuing political committee, political party committee, or 
legislative leadership committee, as defined by section 3 of P.L.1973, c.83 
(C.19:44A-3), registered with the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement 
Commission;

���� (4) any labor organization;

���� (5) any contractor signatory 
to a collective bargaining agreement seeking information material to the 
enforcement of State or federal statutes or regulations regarding, but not 
limited to, wage and hour protections, workplace safety, or public procurement 
and public bidding, including, but not limited to, requests for certified 
payrolls or information about all bids submitted in response to a public 
procurement process subsequent to the deadline for the submission of all bids 
for that solicitation; 

���� (6) any employee, agent, 
contractor, or affiliates of any entity identified in paragraphs (1) through 
(5) of this definition in this section; or

���� (7) any non-profit entity, 
including organizations or individuals qualified for exemption from federal 
taxation pursuant to section 501(c)(3) of the federal Internal Revenue Code, 26 
U.S.C. s.501(c)(3) and section 501(c)(4) of the federal Internal Revenue Code, 
26 U.S.C. s.501(c)(4), when the entity does not sell, resell, solicit, rent, or 
lease a government record to an unaffiliated third party in a way in which the 
entity expects a fee.

���� "Constituent" means 
any State resident or other person communicating with a member of the 
Legislature.

���� "Criminal investigatory 
record" means a record which is not required by law to be made, maintained 
or kept on file that is held by a law enforcement agency which pertains to any 
criminal investigation or related civil enforcement proceeding.

���� "Custodian of a 
government record" or "custodian" means in the case of a 
municipality, the municipal clerk and in the case of any other public agency, 
the officer officially designated by formal action of that agency's director or 
governing body, as the case may be.

���� "Government record" 
or "record" means any paper, written or printed book, document, 
drawing, map, plan, photograph, microfilm, data processed or image processed 
document, information stored or maintained electronically or by sound-recording 
or in a similar device, or any copy thereof, that has been made, maintained or 
kept on file in the course of his or its official business by any officer, 
commission, agency or authority of the State or of any political subdivision 
thereof, including subordinate boards thereof, or that has been received in the 
course of his or its official business by any such offi