ASSEMBLY, No. 5271

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

217th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED DECEMBER 7, 2017

 


 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  RONALD S. DANCER

District 12 (Burlington, Middlesex, Monmouth and Ocean)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Prohibits employers from requiring employees to be implanted with personal identification microchip technology.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  


An Act concerning personal identification microchip technology and supplementing Title 34 of the Revised Statutes.

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    a.  No employer shall refuse to hire or employ any person, discharge any employee from employment, or take any discriminatory or adverse action against any employee with respect to compensation, terms, conditions or other privileges of employment, because that person has not undergone or refuses to undergo implantation of personal identification microchip technology.

     b.    As used in this act, “personal identification microchip technology” means a subcutaneous or surgically implanted microchip technology device or product that contains or is designed to contain a unique identification number, code or other identifier; or personal information; or both, that can be non-invasively retrieved or transmitted with an external scanning device.

 

     2.    An employer who violates the provisions of this act shall be subject to a civil penalty in an amount not to exceed $5,000 for the first violation and $10,000 for each subsequent violation, collectible by the Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development in a summary proceeding pursuant to the "Penalty Enforcement Law of 1999," P.L.1999, c.274 (C.2A:58-10 et seq.).

 

     3.    This act shall take effect on the 30th day next following enactment.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill prohibits employers from refusing to hire or employ any person, discharging any employee from employment, or taking any discriminatory or adverse action against any employee with respect to compensation, terms, conditions or other privileges of employment, because that person has not undergone or refuses to undergo implantation of personal identification microchip technology.  As defined in the bill, “personal identification microchip technology” means a subcutaneous or surgically implanted microchip technology device or product that contains or is designed to contain a unique identification number, code or other identifier; or personal information; or both, that can be non-invasively retrieved or transmitted with an external scanning device.

     Under the bill, an employer who violates the provisions of the bill is subject to a civil penalty in an amount not to exceed $5,000 for the first violation and $10,000 for each subsequent violation.