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A1652 • 2026

Allows physicians to report patients with epilepsy or related conditions to MVC.

Allows physicians to report patients with epilepsy or related conditions to MVC.

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Kane, Melinda
Last action
2026-01-13
Official status
Introduced, Referred to Assembly Transportation and Independent Authorities Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Allows physicians to report patients with epilepsy or related conditions to MVC.

Allows physicians to report patients with epilepsy or related conditions to MVC.

What This Bill Does

  • Allows physicians to report patients with epilepsy or related conditions to MVC.
  • Topic: Transportation and Independent Authorities Fiscal note: This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

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Bill History

  1. 2026-01-13 New Jersey Legislature

    Introduced, Referred to Assembly Transportation and Independent Authorities Committee

Official Summary Text

Allows physicians to report patients with epilepsy or related conditions to MVC.
Topic:
Transportation and Independent Authorities
Fiscal note:
This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

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A1652

ASSEMBLY, No. 1652

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

�

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman MELINDA KANE

District 6 (Burlington and Camden)

SYNOPSIS

���� Allows physicians to report patients with epilepsy or
related conditions to MVC.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

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

��

An Act
concerning the reporting of epileptiform conditions and
amending
P.L.1970, c.195
.

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

���� 1.��� Section 1 of P.L.1970,
c.195
(C.39:3-10.4) is amended to read as follows:

���� 1.��� Each physician treating
any person 16 years of age or older for recurrent convulsive seizures or for
recurrent periods of unconsciousness or for impairment or loss of motor
coordination due to conditions such as, but not limited to, epilepsy in any of
its forms, when such conditions persist or recur despite medical treatments,
[
shall, within
24 hours after his determination of such fact,
]

may
report the same to the
[
Director
of the Division of Motor Vehicles
]

Chief Administrator of the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission
.� The
[
director
]

chief
administrator
, in consultation with the State Commissioner of Health, shall
prescribe and furnish the forms on which such reports shall be made.

(cf: P.L.1970, c.195, s.1)

���� 2.��� This act shall take
effect immediately.

STATEMENT

���� This bill allows a physician
to report to the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission (commission) that the
physician is treating a person 16 years of age or older for recurrent
convulsive seizures, recurrent periods of unconsciousness, or impairment or
loss of motor coordination when the conditions persist or recur despite medical
treatments.�

���� Under current law, physicians
that are treating a person 16 years of age or older for recurrent convulsive
seizures, recurrent periods of unconsciousness or impairment or loss of motor
coordination when the conditions persist or recur despite medical treatments
are required to report this information to the commission within 24 hours.