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Senate Commerce Committee Statement to Senate, No. 2740 (State of New Jersey, December 4, 2023)

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This is the Senate Commerce Committee statement to Senate, No. 2740 with committee amendments, State of New Jersey, dated December 4, 2023. The committee reports Senate Bill No. 2740 favorably and with committee amendments. As amended, the bill requires motor vehicle dealers to offer to delete, for a reasonable fee, certain personal information from a motor vehicle computer system prior to resale. The information to be deleted includes, but is not limited to, navigation history, paired phones, and garage door codes. A dealer who violates the bill is subject to a civil penalty of $500 for a first offense and $1,000 for any subsequent offense. As amended and reported, the bill is identical to Assembly Bill No. 4723 (1R).

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“Senate Commerce Committee Statement to Senate, No. 2740 (State of New Jersey, December 4, 2023).” Archived at Pandemic Darlings, https://pandemicdarlings.com/source-documents/2023-12-04-scm-s2740-s1-413da8bc6d/, SHA-256 1ff82a9da865039e1d6bf01d2fb767255a11af9fb0d9736a797c988229b5f27b.

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     SENATE COMMERCE COMMITTEE

                     STATEMENT TO

                   SENATE, No. 2740
                    with committee amendments



 STATE OF NEW JERSEY
                    DATED: DECEMBER 4, 2023

    The Senate Commerce Committee reports favorably and with
committee amendments Senate Bill No. 2740.
   As amended, this bill requires motor vehicle dealers to offer to
delete, for a reasonable fee, certain personal information from a
motor vehicle computer system prior to resale.
   Under the bill, a motor vehicle dealer who takes possession of a
motor vehicle from a consumer is required to offer to delete the
consumer’s personal information in the motor vehicle by
performing data clearing protocols in accordance with the
Guidelines for Media Sanitization developed by the National
Institute of Standards and Technology and using techniques specified
by the vehicle manufacturer to overwrite data or by using a menu
option to reset the device to original factory settings prior to resale or
lease. The information to be deleted includes, but is not limited to,
navigation history, paired phones, and garage door codes.
   A motor vehicle dealer who violates the provisions of this bill is
subject to a civil penalty of $500 for a first offense, and $1,000 for
any subsequent offense, which may be collected and enforced by
the Director of the Division of Consumer Affairs.
   As amended and reported, Senate Bill No. 2740 is identical to
Assembly Bill No. 4723 (1R).

COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS
    The committee amended the bill to:
    (1) require motor vehicle dealers to offer to delete certain personal
information rather than require them to delete the information;
    (2) specify that a motor vehicle dealer is to delete a consumer’s
personal information by performing a data clearing protocol in
accordance with the Guidelines for Media Sanitization developed by
the National Institute of Standards and Technology and using
techniques specified by the vehicle manufacturer to overwrite data or
by using a menu option to reset the device to original factory settings;
and
    (3) permit a motor vehicle dealer to charge a reasonable fee for
deleting the consumer’s personal information.

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