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A5072 • 2026

Permits persons who are hearing impaired to apply for vehicle identification placards.

Permits persons who are hearing impaired to apply for vehicle identification placards.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Murphy, Carol A.
Last action
2026-05-14
Official status
Introduced, Referred to Assembly Transportation and Independent Authorities Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Permits persons who are hearing impaired to apply for vehicle identification placards.

Permits persons who are hearing impaired to apply for vehicle identification placards.

What This Bill Does

  • Permits persons who are hearing impaired to apply for vehicle identification placards.
  • Topic: Transportation and Independent Authorities Fiscal note: This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-05-14 New Jersey Legislature

    Introduced, Referred to Assembly Transportation and Independent Authorities Committee

Official Summary Text

Permits persons who are hearing impaired to apply for vehicle identification placards.
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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A5072

ASSEMBLY, No. 5072

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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INTRODUCED MAY 14, 2026

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman� CAROL A. MURPHY

District 7 (Burlington)

SYNOPSIS

���� Permits persons who are hearing impaired to apply for
vehicle identification placards.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

���� As introduced.

��

An Act
concerning vehicle identification placards for persons
with certain disabilities 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 application by
any person who has been issued a driver�s license with a numerical code
designating hearing-impairment pursuant to section 1 of P.L.1983, c.493
(C.39:3-11a), the Chief Administrator of the New Jersey Motor Vehicle
Commission shall issue a corresponding windshield placard for use on a vehicle
owned or operated by the applicant.� The windshield placard shall bear the
international symbol of the deaf and shall be posted or attached to the motor
vehicle in a place and manner to be determined by the chief administrator.� The
commission shall not charge a fee for the issuance of the windshield placard.

���� b.��� Nothing in this section
shall permit a person who uses the windshield placard, issued pursuant to this
section, to receive parking privileges reserved for persons with disabilities,
unless the person is otherwise eligible to receive those parking privileges and
has received a placard, issued in accordance with P.L.1949, c.280 (C.39:4-204
et seq.).

���� 2.��� This act shall take
effect on the first day of the thirteenth month after the date of enactment and
the Chief Administrator of the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission may take
such administrative action in advance as may be necessary for the timely implementation
of this act.

STATEMENT

���� This bill permits any person
who has been issued a driver�s license with the numerical code designating
hearing-impairment to apply to the Chief Administrator of the New Jersey Motor
Vehicle Commission (chief administrator) for a corresponding windshield placard
for use on a vehicle owned or operated by the applicant.

���� The windshield placard is to
bear the international symbol of the deaf, be posted or attached to the motor
vehicle in a place and manner to be determined by the chief administrator, and
be free of charge to applicants.

���� Under the bill, a person who
uses the windshield placard is not permitted to receive parking privileges
reserved for persons with disabilities, unless the person is otherwise
qualified and authorized to receive those parking privileges.