ASSEMBLY TRANSPORTATION AND INDEPENDENT
AUTHORITIES COMMITTEE
STATEMENT TO
ASSEMBLY, No. 5297
with committee amendments
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
DATED: FEBRUARY 13, 2025
The Assembly Transportation and Independent Authorities
Committee reports favorably and with committee amendments
Assembly Bill No. 5297.
As amended and reported, this bill prohibits a person from
selling, leasing, renting, or otherwise distributing, or offering to
sell, lease, rent, or otherwise distribute, a low-speed electric
bicycle, low-speed electric scooter, motorized bicycle, motorized
scooter, or motorized skateboard, or any lithium-ion or storage
battery used to power such product, unless there is a red tag affixed
to the charging cord of such product near the end that is plugged
into the electricity source. Under the bill, the tag is required to
clearly and conspicuously state “UNPLUG WHEN NOT IN USE.”
In addition, the Division of Consumer Affairs (division) is
required to post, on its Internet website, a model tag containing this
warning so that any person selling, leasing, renting, or otherwise
distributing a low-speed electric bicycle, low-speed electric scooter,
motorized bicycle, motorized scooter, or motorized skateboard, or
any lithium-ion or storage battery used to power such product, can
affix the tag to the charging cord of such products.
COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS :
The committee amended the bill to:
(1) remove the requirement for the red tag required under the
bill to include additional information on consumer safety regarding
safe usage of the product and its charging equipment;
(2) specify that the red tag required under the bill is to be
affixed to the charging cord of the products listed in the bill near the
end of the cord that is plugged into the electricity source;
(3) clarify that the division is to post the model tag required
pursuant to the bill on the division’s Internet website;
(4) clarify that any person selling, leasing, renting, or otherwise
distributing a low-speed electric bicycle, low-speed electric scooter,
motorized bicycle, motorized scooter, or motorized skateboard, in
addition to a lithium-ion or storage battery used to power such 2
products, may affix the model tag on the charging cords of such
products as required under the bill;
(5) provide that the bill is to become effective 180 days after
enactment rather than immediately upon enactment;
(6) make technical corrections to the bill.