New Jersey A 1639: Requires electric distribution lines be located underground in areas affected by severe weather or natural disasters.

Bill Text

A1639 

ASSEMBLY, No. 1639 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman MELINDA KANE

District 6 (Burlington and Camden)

SYNOPSIS

���� Clarifies that owners of self-driving motor vehicles 
must comply with existing insurance requirements.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

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

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An Act concerning insurance for self-driving motor vehicles 
and amending P.L.1972, c.70 and P.L.1972, c.197.

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

���� 1.��� Section 2 of P.L.1972, c.70 
(C.39:6A-2) is amended to read as follows:

���� 2.��� As used in this act:

���� a.��� "Automobile" 
means a private passenger automobile of a private passenger or station wagon 
type that is owned or hired and is neither used as a public or livery 
conveyance for passengers nor rented to others with a driver; and a motor 
vehicle with a pickup body, a delivery sedan, a van, or a panel truck or a 
camper type vehicle used for recreational purposes owned by an individual or by 
husband and wife who are residents of the same household, not customarily used 
in the occupation, profession or business of the insured other than farming or 
ranching.� An automobile owned by a farm family copartnership or corporation, 
which is principally garaged on a farm or ranch and otherwise meets the 
definitions contained in this section, shall be considered a private passenger 
automobile owned by two or more relatives resident in the same household. An 
automobile shall include a self-driving private passenger automobile which 
meets any SAE automation level as defined by the National Highway Traffic 
Safety Administration.� 

���� b.��� "Essential 
services" means those services performed not for income which are 
ordinarily performed by an individual for the care and maintenance of such 
individual's family or family household.

���� c.��� "Income" means 
salary, wages, tips, commissions, fees and other earnings derived from work or 
employment.

���� d.��� "Income 
producer" means a person who, at the time of the accident causing personal 
injury or death, was in an occupational status, earning or producing income.

���� e.��� "Medical 
expenses" means reasonable and necessary expenses for treatment or 
services as provided by the policy, including medical, surgical, rehabilitative 
and diagnostic services and hospital expenses, provided by a health care 
provider licensed or certified by the State or by another state or nation, and 
reasonable and necessary expenses for ambulance services or other 
transportation, medication and other services as may be provided for, and 
subject to such limitations as provided for, in the policy, as approved by the 
commissioner.� "Medical expenses" shall also include any nonmedical 
remedial treatment rendered in accordance with a recognized religious method of 
healing.

���� f.���� "Hospital 
expenses" means the cost of treatment and services, as provided in the 
policy approved by the commissioner, by a licensed and accredited acute care 
facility which engages primarily in providing diagnosis, treatment and care of 
sick and injured persons on an inpatient or outpatient basis; the cost of 
covered treatment and services provided by an extended care facility which 
provides room and board and skilled nursing care 24 hours a day and which is 
recognized by the administrators of the federal Medicare program as an extended 
care facility; and the cost of covered services at an ambulatory surgical 
facility supervised by a physician licensed in this State or in another 
jurisdiction and recognized by the Commissioner of Health [and Senior 
Services], 
or any other facility licensed, certified or recognized by the Commissioner of 
Health [and 
Senior Services] 
or the Commissioner of Human Services or a nationally recognized system such as 
the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities, or by another 
jurisdiction in which it is located.

���� g.��� "Named 
insured" means the person or persons identified as the insured in the 
policy and, if an individual, his or her spouse, if the spouse is named as a 
resident of the same household, except that if the spouse ceases to be a 
resident of the household of the named insured, coverage shall be extended to 
the spouse for the full term of any policy period in effect at the time of the 
cessation of residency.

���� h.��� "Pedestrian" 
means any person who is not occupying, entering into, or alighting from a 
vehicle propelled by other than muscular power and designed primarily for use 
on highways, rails and tracks.

���� i.���� "Noneconomic 
loss" means pain, suffering and inconvenience.

���� j.���� "Motor 
vehicle" means a motor vehicle as defined in R.S.39:1-1, exclusive of an 
automobile as defined in subsection a. of this section.

���� k.��� "Economic 
loss" means uncompensat