Bill > AJR164

Introduced Session

This joint resolution establishes the "New Jersey Advanced Autonomous Vehicle Task Force" (task force). The task force is to conduct a study of advanced autonomous vehicles and to make recommendations on laws, rules, and regulations that this State may enact to safely integrate advanced autonomous vehicles on the State's highways, streets, and roads. In this bill, an advanced autonomous vehicle means a motor vehicle equipped with autonomous technology that has a driving automation level of three, four, or five, as defined in the SAE J3016, which is an information report related to automated driving systems issued by the Society of Automotive Engineers International and is used by the United States Department of Transportation for autonomous vehicle policy guidance. The bill requires the task force to issue a report to the Governor and Legislature, which is to include, but not be limited to, an evaluation of the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration's safety standards for advanced autonomous vehicles and whether this State may enact stricter safety standards, an evaluation of existing state and federal law concerning advanced autonomous vehicles with a focus on safety standards, an evaluation of existing legislation and regulations in other states concerning advanced autonomous vehicles with a focus on safety standards, recommendations on how New Jersey could safely integrate advanced autonomous vehicles on the highways, streets, and roads of this State, any other information relevant to the subject of the report, and any draft legislation the task force deems appropriate to implement the purposes of this bill. The bill states that the task force is to expire upon the issuance of the report to the Governor and to the Legislature.

Committee Categories

Daniel Benson (D)*,  Patrick Diegnan (D)*,  Tom Kean (R)*,  Pam Lampitt (D)*,  Andrew Zwicker (D)*,  Herbert Conaway (D),  Roy Freiman (D),  Linda Greenstein (D),  Eric Houghtaling (D),  Nancy Pinkin (D),  Annette Quijano (D), 

Approved P.L.2019, JR-2. (on 03/18/2019)