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Introduced Session

This bill requires the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission (MVC) to accept a licensee's birth certificate, marriage certificate, social security card, divorce decree, or court order as sufficient proof of the licensee's legal name for display on the driver's license. The bill also extends the time period that a licensee has to change the licensee's name with MVC from two weeks after a legal name change to six months after a legal name change or upon the next driver's license renewal, whichever date is sooner. It is the sponsor's intent to remove the barriers to changing a licensee's legal name on a driver's license that have been created by the MVC. The MVC does not currently permit a licensee to change the middle name of a licensee's legal name, as a result of marriage, without a court order, despite the fact that the Social Security Administration and many other States allow this change.

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Tony Bucco (R)*,  Nellie Pou (D)*, 

Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Transportation Committee (on 11/05/2020)