New Jersey A 2334: Exempts 100 percent disabled veterans from payment of motor vehicle registration fees; requires notification of eligible motorists.

Bill Text

A2334 

ASSEMBLY, No. 2334 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman WILLIAM F. MOEN, JR.

District 5 (Camden and Gloucester)

Assemblyman ANTHONY S. VERRELLI

District 15 (Hunterdon and Mercer)

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblymen Simonsen, McClellan, Assemblywomen Haider, 
Park, Peterpaul, Dunn and Flynn

SYNOPSIS

���� Exempts 100 percent disabled veterans from payment of 
motor vehicle registration fees; requires notification of eligible motorists.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

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

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An Act concerning motor vehicle registrations for 
veterans and amending P.L1948, c.28. 

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

���� 1.��� Section 1 of P.L.1948, 
c.28 (C.39:3-27.1) is amended to read as follows: 

���� [No]�� 1.�� a.�� A fee shall not 
be charged for the registration, in any year or years, of one motor vehicle of 
passenger type, which is not to be used for hire, owned by any resident of the 
State of New Jersey, individually or jointly with a spouse[;] , who: 

���� (1)�� [who] is eligible 
for compensation pursuant to R.S. 38:18-1, R.S.38:18-2, and R.S.38:18-3[,] ; 

���� (2)�� [who] has qualified 
or shall qualify under the provisions of Public Law 663-79th Congress of the 
United States of America (August 8, 1946) or of Public� Law 187--82nd Congress 
of the United States of America (October 20, 1951) or who is a veteran of World 
War I with service-connected disabilities of the kind set forth in [said] those 
Public Laws, and who is the holder of a current driver's license issued by this 
State, if such motor vehicle is equipped with such special attachments and 
devices as the [Director 
of the Division of Motor Vehicles in the Department of Law and Public Safety] Chief 
Administrator of the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission may deem necessary 
to provide for the safe operation thereof by such person[, or] ;

���� (3)�� [who] is the holder 
of the Congressional Medal of Honor, which registration shall be evidenced by 
distinctive license plates of a design approved by the [Director of 
the Division of Motor Vehicles] 
chief administrator; or

���� (4)�� has been honorably 
discharged or released under honorable circumstances from active service in any 
branch of the Armed Forces of the United States who is adjudicated by the 
United States Department of Veterans Affairs, or its successor, as being 
permanently 100 percent disabled.

���� 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 fee exemption provided for pursuant to subsection a. of this section. 

(cf: P.L.1979, c.122, s.1)

���� 2.��� This act shall take 
effect on the first day of the thirteenth 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 as shall be necessary for the implementation 
of this act.

STATEMENT

���� This bill exempts from motor 
vehicle registration fees one passenger motor vehicle owned by any resident who 
has been honorably discharged or released under honorable circumstances from 
active service in any branch of the Armed Forces of the United States who is 
adjudicated by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, or its 
successor, as being permanently 100 percent disabled.� The bill also requires 
the Adjutant General of the Department of Military and Veterans� Affairs, in 
consultation with the Chief Administrator of the New Jersey Motor Vehicle 
Commission, to notify all eligible motorists of the availability of the fee 
exemption.