New Jersey A 184: Authorizes creation of Second Amendment license plates.

Bill Text

A184 

ASSEMBLY, No. 184 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman DAWN FANTASIA

District 24 (Morris, Sussex and Warren)

Assemblyman ROBERT AUTH

District 39 (Bergen)

SYNOPSIS

���� Authorizes creation of Second Amendment license 
plates.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

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

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An Act authorizing the creation and issuance of Second 
Amendment license plates 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.� Upon proper 
application, the Chief Administrator of the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission 
shall issue Second Amendment license plates for any motor vehicle owned or 
leased and registered in this State.� In addition to the registration number 
and other markings or identification otherwise prescribed by law, the license 
plates shall display a militiaman along with the words �Protect the Second 
Amendment� at the bottom of the license plate.� The chief administrator shall, 
in consultation with the Fish and Game Council, select the design and color 
scheme of the Second Amendment license plates.� The Second Amendment license 
plates shall be subject to the provisions of chapter 3 of Title 39 of the 
Revised Statutes, except as hereinafter otherwise provided.

���� b.� Application for issuance 
of Second Amendment license plates shall be made to the chief administrator in 
a form and manner prescribed by the chief administrator.� In order to be deemed 
complete, an application shall be accompanied by a fee of $50, payable to the 
commission, which shall be in addition to the fees otherwise prescribed by law 
for the registration of a motor vehicle.� The chief administrator shall collect 
annually, subsequent to the year of issuance of the Second Amendment license 
plates, a $10 fee for the license plates in addition to the fees otherwise 
prescribed by law for the registration of a motor vehicle.� The additional fees 
required by this subsection shall be deposited in the �Second Amendment License 
Plate Fund� created pursuant to paragraph (1) of subsection c. of this section.

���� c.���� (1) There is created in 
the Department of the Treasury a special non-lapsing fund to be known as the 
�Second Amendment License Plate Fund.�� There shall be deposited in the fund 
the amount collected from all license plate fees collected pursuant to subsection 
b. of this section, less the amounts necessary to reimburse the commission for 
administrative costs pursuant to paragraph (1) of subsection d. of this section.� 
The monies deposited in the fund shall be appropriated annually to the Fish and 
Game Council and are to be used to provide funding to support State-owned gun 
ranges.� 

���� (2)�� Monies deposited in the 
fund shall be held in interest-bearing accounts in public depositories as 
defined pursuant to section 1 of P.L.1970, c.236 (C.17:9-41), and may be 
invested or reinvested in securities approved by the State Treasurer.� Interest 
or other income earned on monies deposited into the fund, and any monies that 
may be appropriated or otherwise become available for purposes of the fund, 
shall be credited to and deposited in the fund for use as set forth in P.L.��� 
, c.���� (C.�������� ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill).

���� d.��� (1)� Prior to the 
deposit of the additional fees collected pursuant to subsection b. of this 
section into the �Second Amendment License Plate Fund,� amounts thereof as are 
necessary shall be used to reimburse the commission for all costs reasonably 
and actually incurred, as stipulated by the chief administrator for:

���� (a)�� designing, producing, 
issuing, renewing, and publicizing the availability of the Second Amendment 
license plates; and

���� (b)�� any computer programming 
changes that may be initially necessary to implement the Second Amendment 
license plate program in an amount not to exceed $150,000.

���� (2)�� The chief administrator 
shall annually certify to the State Treasurer the average cost per license 
plate incurred in the immediately preceding year by the commission in 
producing, issuing, renewing, and publicizing the availability of the Second 
Amendment license plates.� The annual certification of the average cost per 
license plate shall be approved by the Joint Budget Oversight Committee, or its 
successor.

���� (3)�� In the event that the 
average cost per license plate, as certified by the chief administrator and 
approved by the Joint Budget Oversight Committee or its successor, is greater 
than the $50 application fee established in subsection b. of this section in two 
consecutive fiscal years, the chief administrator may discontinue the issuance 
of Second Amendment license plates.

���� e.���� The chief administrator 
shall notify eligible motorists of the opportunity to obtai