The Whitman Administration has been promoting the AccessNJ card, which would be a 10-year drivers license that would incorporate smart card features so that bank ATM card and medical record information could be stored on the card s embedded computer chip. After bills were introduced to implement the AccessNJ proposal in both the state Senate and Assembly in June, hearings were held less than two weeks later and a vote scheduled a week after that for the last day of session. In response to the AccessNJ plan, a coalition comprised of such diverse groups as League of American Families, ACLU, Concerned Women for America, New Jersey Family Policy Council, Eagle Forum and Christian Coalition of NJ began a last minute blitz of legislators. The day of the scheduled vote the Democrats in both houses expressed their opposition to the measure, and the Republican caucuses showed that the proposal did not have enough votes to pass. The legislature went into summer recess without considering the bill, although the Whitman Administration vows to push the measure through when the legislature comes back in session.
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