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S1207 • 2026

Requires municipalities to designate parking spaces for disabled veterans and Purple Heart recipients.

Requires municipalities to designate parking spaces for disabled veterans and Purple Heart recipients.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Greenstein, Linda R.
Last action
2026-06-01
Official status
Reported from Senate Committee, 2nd Reading
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Requires municipalities to designate parking spaces for disabled veterans and Purple Heart recipients.

Requires municipalities to designate parking spaces for disabled veterans and Purple Heart recipients.

What This Bill Does

  • Requires municipalities to designate parking spaces for disabled veterans and Purple Heart recipients.
  • Topic: 2nd Reading in the Senate Fiscal note: This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-06-01 New Jersey Legislature

    Reported from Senate Committee, 2nd Reading

  2. 2026-01-13 New Jersey Legislature

    Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Community and Urban Affairs Committee

Official Summary Text

Requires municipalities to designate parking spaces for disabled veterans and Purple Heart recipients.
Topic:
2nd Reading in the Senate
Fiscal note:
This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

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S1207 TR

SENATE, No. 1207

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Senator LINDA R. GREENSTEIN

District 14 (Mercer and Middlesex)

Senator JAMES BEACH

District 6 (Burlington and Camden)

Co-Sponsored by:

Senator Amato

SYNOPSIS

���� Requires municipalities to designate parking spaces
for disabled veterans and Purple Heart recipients.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

���� As reported by the Senate Community and Urban Affairs
Committee with technical review.

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An Act
requiring municipalities to designate parking spaces
for disabled veterans and Purple Heart recipients and amending P.L.2015, c.218.

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

���� 1.��� Section 1 of P.L.2015,
c.218 (C.39:4-207.10) is amended to read as follows:

���� 1.��� a.�
(1)
� A person
who is a disabled veteran or a recipient of the Purple Heart is exempt from the
payment of municipal parking meter fees when a motor vehicle owned by the
disabled veteran or the Purple Heart recipient displays disabled veteran's or
Purple Heart license plates or a placard issued by the New Jersey Motor Vehicle
Commission pursuant to the provisions of Title 39 of the Revised Statutes,
unless the vehicle has been parked in one location for more than 24 hours.� The
exemption provided under this subsection shall apply only when the disabled
veteran or recipient of the Purple Heart to whom the special license plates or
placards have been issued is either the driver, or a passenger, of the vehicle.

����
(2)�� The governing body of
each municipality shall designate a parking space at or near the municipality's
city hall or other principal municipal building for the exclusive use of a
motor vehicle owned by and transporting a disabled veteran or Purple Heart
recipient, which vehicle displays a disabled veteran's or Purple Heart license
plate or a placard issued by the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission pursuant
to the provisions of Title 39 of the Revised Statutes.�

���� b.��� The Chief Administrator
of the Motor Vehicle Commission shall promulgate such rules and regulations as
may be necessary to effectuate the provisions of subsection a. of this section,
pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410
(C.52:14B-1 et seq.), and shall include provisions for the
issuance of disabled veteran's or Purple Heart recipient's placards.

(cf: P.L.2015, c.218, s.1)

���� 2.��� This act shall take
effect immediately but shall be inoperative until the first day of the sixth
month following the date of enactment.