STATE OF NEW JERSEY
222nd LEGISLATURE
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Assemblywoman MELINDA KANE
District 6 (Burlington and Camden)
SYNOPSIS
Allows physicians to report patients with epilepsy or related conditions to MVC.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.
An Act concerning the reporting of epileptiform conditions and amending P.L.1970, c.195.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Section 1 of P.L.1970, c.195 (C.39:3-10.4) is amended to read as follows:
1. Each physician treating any person 16 years of age or older for recurrent convulsive seizures or for recurrent periods of unconsciousness or for impairment or loss of motor coordination due to conditions such as, but not limited to, epilepsy in any of its forms, when such conditions persist or recur despite medical treatments, [shall, within 24 hours after his determination of such fact,] may report the same to the [Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles] Chief Administrator of the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission. The [director] chief administrator, in consultation with the State Commissioner of Health, shall prescribe and furnish the forms on which such reports shall be made.
(cf: P.L.1970, c.195, s.1)
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill allows a physician to report to the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission (commission) that the physician is treating a person 16 years of age or older for recurrent convulsive seizures, recurrent periods of unconsciousness, or impairment or loss of motor coordination when the conditions persist or recur despite medical treatments.
Under current law, physicians that are treating a person 16 years of age or older for recurrent convulsive seizures, recurrent periods of unconsciousness or impairment or loss of motor coordination when the conditions persist or recur despite medical treatments are required to report this information to the commission within 24 hours.