Exempts 100 percent disabled veterans from payment of motor vehicle registration fees; requires notification of eligible motorists.

S3828

SENATE, No. 3828

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

�

INTRODUCED MARCH 10, 2026

Sponsored by:

Senator� LINDA R. GREENSTEIN

District 14 (Mercer and Middlesex)

Senator� KRISTIN M. CORRADO

District 40 (Bergen, Essex and Passaic)

Co-Sponsored by:

Senators Diegnan and Amato

SYNOPSIS

���� Exempts 100 percent disabled veterans from payment of
motor vehicle registration fees; requires notification of eligible motorists.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

���� As introduced.

��

An Act

concerning motor vehicle registrations for
veterans and amending P.L.1948, c.28.

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

���� 1.��� Section 1 of P.L.1948,
c.28 (C.39:3-27.1) is amended to read as follows: �

����
[
No
]

1.����� a. �A
fee shall
not

be charged for the registration, in any year or years, of one motor vehicle of
passenger type, which is not to be used for hire, owned by any resident of the
State of New Jersey, individually or jointly with a spouse
[
;
]

, who:

�

���� (1)��
[
who
]
is eligible
for compensation pursuant to
[
R.S.
38:18-1
]

R.S.38:18-1
,
R.S.
38:18-2
,
and
R.S.
38:18-3
[
,
]

;

���� (2)��
[
who
]
has qualified
or shall qualify under the provisions of Public Law 663-79th Congress of the
United States of America (August 8, 1946) or of Public Law 187--82nd Congress
of the United States of America (October 20, 1951) or who is a veteran of World
War I with service-connected disabilities of the kind set forth in
[
said
]

those

Public Laws, and who is the holder of a current driver�s license issued by this
State, if such motor vehicle is equipped with such special attachments and
devices as the
[
Director
of the Division of Motor Vehicles in the Department of Law and Public Safety
]

Chief
Administrator of the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission
may deem necessary
to provide for the safe operation thereof by such person
[
, or
]

;

���� (3)��
[
who
]
is the holder
of the Congressional Medal of Honor, which registration shall be evidenced by
distinctive license plates of a design approved by the
[
Director of
the Division of Motor Vehicles
]

chief administrator; or

����
(4)�� has been honorably
discharged or released under honorable circumstances from active service in any
branch of the Armed Forces of the United States who is adjudicated by the
United States Department of Veterans Affairs, or its successor, as being
permanently 100 percent disabled
.

����
b.��� The Adjutant General
of the Department of Military and Veterans� Affairs, in consultation with the
chief administrator, shall notify all eligible motorists of the availability of
the fee exemption provided for pursuant to subsection a. of this section.

(cf: �P.L.1979, c.122, s.1)

���� 2.��� This act shall take
effect on the first day of the thirteenth month after enactment, but the
Adjutant General of the Department of Military and Veterans� Affairs and the
Chief Administrator of the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission may take such
administrative action in advance as shall be necessary for the implementation
of this act.

STATEMENT

���� This bill exempts from motor
vehicle registration fees one passenger motor vehicle owned by any resident who
has been honorably discharged or released under honorable circumstances from
active service in any branch of the Armed Forces of the United States who is
adjudicated by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, or its
successor, as being permanently 100 percent disabled.� The bill also requires
the Adjutant General of the Department of Military and Veterans� Affairs, in
consultation with the Chief Administrator of the New Jersey Motor Vehicle
Commission, to notify all eligible motorists of the availability of the fee
exemption.