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Requires prescription drug coverage for serious mental illness without prior authorization or utilization management, including step therapy.
Establishes pancreatic cancer awareness campaign.
Establishes NJ Council on Lupus Education and Awareness in DOH.
Establishes men's health commission in DOH.
Establishes New Jersey Pancreatic Cancer Commission.
Authorizes provision of residential mental health services in residential substance use disorders treatment facility or program under specified hospital affiliation and clinical support criteria.
Designates 22nd day in October of each year as "Stuttering Awareness Day" and second full week in May of each year as "Stuttering Awareness Week."
Provides for licensure of emergency medical responders and emergency medical technicians and certification of mobility assistance vehicle operators; revises requirements for delivery of emergency medical and patient transportation services.
Requires New Jersey State Board of Dentistry to include oralfacial pain as a special area of dentistry.
Regulates certain vapor products.
Removes requirements for surgical practices to be licensed as ambulatory care facilities to provide surgical and related services.
Designates May 30 of each year as "Stigma Free Awareness Day" in NJ.
Broadens epinephrine administration mechanisms permitted in schools, institutions of higher education, and youth camps.
Increases amount of cigarette and other tobacco products tax revenues provided to New Jersey Commission on Cancer Research to $10 million; establishes dedicated, non-lapsing Cancer Research Fund.
Designates May of each year as "Apraxia Awareness Month" in NJ.
Revises distribution of monies from Alcohol Education, Rehabilitation and Enforcement Fund to municipalities.
Authorizes hospital patient with developmental disabilities to have designated family member, guardian, direct support professional, or other caregiver accompany patient throughout hospital stay.
"Dementia Dignity and Advance Care Planning Act."
Directs DOH to develop guidelines for school districts and institutions of higher education concerning student vaping awareness campaigns.
Requires DOH to study cost of establishing long-term health care benefit for certain individuals.
"Lyme Screening Act."
Requires DOH to establish public awareness campaign and develop policies and procedures to promote recognition and treatment of perinatal mood and anxiety disorders.
Requires DOH to conduct survey on status of antenatal and prenatal care clinics in New Jersey.
Exempts medical alert devices and services from sales and use tax.
Provides gross income tax deduction for certain health club membership fees and personal training services.
Designates second week of November of each year as "Urinary Incontinence Awareness Week" in New Jersey.
Designates November 7 of each year as "Shwachman Diamond Syndrome Awareness Day" in NJ.
Requires midwives and physicians to provide pregnant women information on birthing options prior to delivery.
Repeals law that revises coverage for certain immunizations and reference to Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.
Permits pharmacists to dispense certain drugs in emergency without prescription.
Establishes Task Force on Institutional Discrimination in Health Care.
Increases maximum age for pediatric long-term care facility residents to 26.
Prohibits use of electronic smoking devices and tobacco products by food delivery drivers while engaged in food delivery.
Requires DOH to inspect reports of mold infestation in health care facilities.
Requires DOH to maintain emergency stockpile of insulin and authorizes dispensing of emergency supply of insulin to certain patients.
Requires that certain medical education programs give priority to certain applicants.
Establishes requirements for incentive-based value payment system for home health agencies and health care service firms.
Requires patient to receive notification of abnormality in chest x-ray; designated as Claudia's Law.
Codifies certain regulatory provisions regarding controlled dangerous substances and prescription monitoring.
Requires certain doctors and nurses to ask patients questions regarding menstrual cycles, previous tampon use, and toxic shock syndrome.
Revises eligibility criteria for adult medical day care services.
Requires menopause information to be distributed under certain circumstances.
Designates May of each year as "Better Hearing Month."
Establishes Chief Executive Nurse position in DOH.
Prohibits excessive increases in prices charged for essential off-patent and generic prescription drugs and biological products.
Addresses long-term effects of COVID-19.
Designates month of September each year as "Deaf Awareness Month" in New Jersey; designates last full week of September each year as "Deaf Awareness Week" in New Jersey.
Expands requirements for health insurance carriers concerning prostate cancer screening and requires coverage be provided without cost sharing.
Updates requirements for licensure in occupational therapy.
Prohibits SHBP, SEHBP, and Medicaid from denying coverage for maintenance medications for chronic conditions for covered persons solely because of change in health benefits plan or pharmacy benefits manager.
Requires DHS and DOH to study disordered eating; establishes "Disordered Eating Prevention Research Grant Pilot Program."
Requires midwives and physicians to provide pregnant women information on birthing options prior to delivery.
Requires DHS and DOH to study disordered eating; establishes "Disordered Eating Prevention Research Grant Pilot Program."
Regulates provision of pharmaceutical services in long-term care facilities.
Establishes minimum Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare reimbursement rate for pediatric special care nursing facilities.
Designates March 30th of each year "Menstrual Toxic Shock Syndrome Awareness Day."
Revises certain references to Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices in statutory and regulatory law; Requires health benefits coverage for certain immunizations recommended by DOH.
Provides for identification and study of infant fatalities and near fatalities resulting from vaccination; requires inclusion of vaccination information in sudden infant death reports; and requires use of federal infant death reporting form.
Requires Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare managed care organizations to offer patient-centered medical home model or other alternative payment model to primary care providers.
Requires parents and guardians be provided access medical records of minor patients.
Establishes act of disseminating misinformation as professional misconduct for health care professionals.
Designates May 6th of each year as "Nurse's Day."
Requires annual suicide prevention training for mental health practitioners.
Requires practitioners to disclose business relationship with out-of-State facilities when making patient referrals to those facilities.
Requires DOH to use Basic Screening Survey to assess oral health in children.
Designates March 10 of each year as "COVID-19 Memorial Day."
Revises statutory obligations of Advisory Graduate Medical Education Council of New Jersey.
Restricts use of restrictive employment covenants for physicians and nurses.
Provides gross income tax credit to certain taxpayers who pay for certain in-home services through health care service firm.
Establishes certain protections for persons providing, receiving, and allowing children to receive gender-affirming health care.
Requires retail establishments to allow individuals with certain medical conditions access to employee restrooms.
Requires health insurance coverage of prescribed anti-obesity medication.
Establishes "New Jersey Pandemic Bill of Rights for the Welfare of the People."
"Informed Consent for Vaccination Act"; revises requirements for administration of vaccines to patients.
Establishes "Kidney Disease Prevention and Education Task Force."
Requires DOH to provide for voluntary registration of trauma scene waste management service providers and establish trauma scene waste management registry.
Extends "Epinephrine Access and Emergency Treatment Act" to include administration of epinephrine auto-injector devices by individuals in possession of devices pursuant to personal prescriptions.
Requires crisis pregnancy centers to disclose certain information in multiple languages.
Provides sales and use tax exemption for purchases of rapid or laboratory tests for purposes of detecting infections.
Requires continued employment for physicians diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder under certain conditions.
Requires labeling of over-the-counter and prescription drugs containing major food allergen or gluten-containing grain.
Designates May 7 of each year as "Cystinosis Awareness Day" in New Jersey.
Prohibits sale of tobacco products and electronic smoking devices at pharmacies and certain businesses with on-site pharmacies.
Prohibits health care professionals from providing gender-affirming health care services to persons under 21 years of age.
Provides civil immunity to licensed health care professionals who provide care at health care facilities for no compensation.
Provides that sterile syringe access programs are inherently beneficial uses.
Grants parents, guardians, and authorized representatives online access to medical and personal history of residents of certain residential care facilities.
Prohibits certain forms of discrimination in DOH policies concerning allocation of critical health care resources.
Establishes "South Jersey Community Resilience Center"; appropriates $500,000.
Establishes Behavioral Health Services Task Force.
Requires health care practitioners prescribing opioid medications to limit amount of prescribed medication to seven-day supply, except in certain circumstances.
Permits telemedicine services to be provided using audio-only technology when providing behavioral health care services.
Establishes State Parkinson's disease registry.
Requires DOH to create and disseminate materials and resources related to cardiomyopathy.
Designates September of each year as "Chiari Malformation-Syringomyelia Awareness Month."
Amends FY2026 annual appropriations act to increase Supplemental Graduate Medical Education Subsidy by $496,000 for support to additional acute care hospital.
Requires health care representative to make health care decisions for incapacitated patient in accordance with patient's religious beliefs.
Requires medical testing for certain persons in circumstances when first responders may be exposed to bloodborne pathogens.
"HOPE Initiative Act"; requires establishment of public awareness campaign to educate citizens about dangers and causes of, and appropriate responses to, heroin and opioid addiction.
Establishes process for independent informal dispute resolution hearings in DOH.
Prohibits using cadaveric fetal tissue obtained from elective abortion procedure for research purposes and using any cadaveric fetal tissue to research cosmetic treatments.
Requires testing for infectious disease for certain persons who have been administered opioid antidote by first responder.
Requires unrestricted Medicaid coverage for ovulation enhancing drugs and medical services related to administering such drugs for certain beneficiaries experiencing infertility.
Memorializes Department of Defense to authorize changes on certain military service forms of veterans who are transgender.
Urges U.S. President and Congress to cease funding gain-of-function research.
Creates "New Jersey Dialysis Patient Support Person Accommodation Act."
Urges Congress to compel Department of Health and Human Services to fulfill its obligations pursuant to the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986.
Permits import of prescription drugs from certain countries.
Restricts establishment of mandates to become vaccinated against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19); establishes reimbursement program to cover certain out-of-pocket costs incurred in obtaining COVID-19 vaccine.
Establishes Psilocybin Behavioral Health Access and Therapy Pilot Program; appropriates $6 million.
Makes $250,000 supplemental appropriation to New Jersey Center for Tourette Syndrome and Associated Disorders for pediatric clinical services at Tourette Syndrome Clinic of Rutgers University.
Requires physicians and other prescribers to obtain electronic or written consent for certain medications with "black box warnings."
Establishes "Nursing Home Emergency Preparedness Study Commission."
Requires health care professionals to order bi-lateral ultrasounds concurrently when ordering mammograms; requires insurers to cover concurrent mammograms and bi-lateral ultrasounds.
Establishes "New Jersey Right to Try-Plus Act" permitting terminally ill patients access to certain investigational and off-label treatments.
Establishes civil immunity for damages arising out of birth injury or congenital defect for physicians providing prenatal care under certain circumstances.
Establishes program in DOH for health care provider evaluation and response for patients who are victims of domestic violence.
Establishes Statewide Opioid Antidote Coordinator position; appropriates funds.
Provides phased-in increases in cigarette tax rate over four-year period.
Exempts protective face coverings from sales and use tax.
Adds postpartum depression services to State's behavioral health crisis services system.
Establishes multiple sclerosis public awareness campaign.
Establishes Children's Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System.
Designates last day of February of each year as "Rare Disease Awareness Day" in New Jersey.
Limits "tobacco and vapor products tax" on cigars to up to $0.50 per cigar.
Requires SHBP, SEHBP, Medicaid, and NJ FamilyCare to cover anti-obesity medications.
Prohibits substitution of prescribed epilepsy drugs by pharmacists without prior notification to and written consent of physician and patient.
Requires Medicaid coverage for motorized wheelchairs for nursing facility residents under certain circumstances.
"Reasonable Pediatric Questions Act"; eliminates requirement for clinical laboratories to ask certain children questions about gender identity and sexual orientation.
Establishes bipartisan task force to study response to COVID-19 in New Jersey.
Designates month of May each year as "Nurse's Month."
Establishes Overdose Fatality and Near Fatality Review Board.
Requires child care centers to be equipped with epinephrine.
Repeals "Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act."
Clarifies authorization for any person or entity to distribute opioid antidotes.
Prohibits government entity or school from requiring influenza vaccinations for persons who are 18 years of age or younger.
Requires Executive Branch departments, agencies, and instrumentalities to identify and assess COVID-19 measures and their viability for future potential emergency scenarios.
Requires physician to offer to test patient for dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase deficiency prior to patient undergoing chemotherapy.
Allows gross income tax deductions totaling $300,000 over five taxable years for certain primary care physicians.
Requires hospitals to test for fentanyl and xylazine as part of urine drug screenings.
Prohibits automatic registration with New Jersey Immunization Information System.
Permits individuals to establish voluntary nonopioid directives.
Establishes Direct Care Worker Support Program in DOH; makes appropriation.
Requires prescriptions for certain patients to include patients' weight.
Prohibits smoking within 20 feet of areas outside of indoor public places or workplaces.
Authorizes issuance of electronic copies of vital records.
Exempts protective face coverings from sales and use tax during public health emergencies.
Establishes State Parkinson's disease registry and awareness campaign.
Establishes certain protocols for prescribing and dispensing benzodiazepine.
Increases penalties for certain prohibited sales of tobacco and vapor products.
Requires hospitals to establish sepsis recognition and treatment protocols.
"Gary Letizia Pre-Hospital Blood Transfusion Act"; authorizes advanced life support providers, under medical oversight, to administer blood products to patients in pre-hospital settings, and establishes certain reimbursement for such providers.
Creates special license plates supporting Autism Awareness.
Requires DOH to develop mobile cancer screening program; appropriates $100,000.
Requires implicit bias training for physicians.
Extends time period in which to enroll newborn infant in health benefits coverage.
Expands New Jersey's certificate of need exemption list.
Requires adult day care centers to provide reasonable accommodations for certain persons.
Requires certain ambulances to carry epinephrine.
Provides for voluntary contributions for taxpayers on gross income tax returns to support reproductive health care services.
Permits corrections officers, firefighters, and police officers to administer epinephrine auto-injector device.
Establishes State stockpile of medicine and medical supplies; makes appropriation.
Secures protections for patients and providers accessing and providing legally protected health care activities; establishes right of residents to legally protected health care services, which are restricted in other states.
Requires Commissioner of Community Affairs to notify certain municipal officials of receipt of application for licensure of cooperative sober living residence.
Establishes MOM Project oral health three-year pilot program in DOH; appropriates $4,150,000.
Requires urgent care and retail health clinics to have defibrillator on site and employees trained to use defibrillator.
Codifies authority for certain health care providers to provide abortions and clarifies certain operational requirements for abortion facilities.
Makes various revisions to law pertaining to electronic medical records and recording certain minor patients' demographic information.
Streamlines emergency medical technician certification process for certain veterans.
Establishes telecommunication fee to support Statewide behavioral health crisis system of care.
Encourages expansion of community mental health programs to include mental health services to veterans; prohibits veterans from being denied county mental health services.
Establishes education requirements for certain officers of State Board of Medical Examiners.
Establishes "New Jersey COVID-19 Long-Term Health Effects Task Force."
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for New Jersey Commission on Cancer Research.
Requires DOH to provide information regarding spina bifida to certain parents and families of newborns; "Levi's Law."
Designates February 12th of each year as "Carly Day" in NJ.
Requires pharmacies to sell hypodermic syringes and needles to any customer over the age of 18 and post sign concerning consumer right to purchase clean syringes and needles.
Streamlines certification standards for emergency medical technicians.
Enhances access to public health emergency supplies and services.
Enacts Dentist and Dental Hygienist Compact.
Establishes one New Jersey Suicide Prevention Advisory Council in DOH.
Provides gross income tax deduction for in vitro fertilization treatment expenses.
Designates last full week of September of each year as "Frontotemporal Degeneration Awareness Week" in NJ.
Requires NJ FamilyCare payment for multiple medical encounters per day for enrollee at federally qualified health center.
Requires that warning notices regarding certain health risks of alcohol consumption be reviewed and updated.
Requires county health departments to maintain reserve stock of opioid antidotes to dispense to certain entities on interim basis to ensure uninterrupted supply.
Requires inspections of retail cigarette and vapor product dealers.
Enters New Jersey into Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Interstate Compact.
Urges NJ DOH to increase public awareness on effects of xylazine.
Waives 15 day waiting period for medical aid in dying under certain circumstances.
Requires licensed health care professionals providing prenatal care to offer and screen, upon request, pregnant patients with history of depression for postpartum depression.
Establishes "Mental and Behavioral Health for Hispanics and Latinos Act"; appropriates $1 million.
Designates first week of May of each year as "Children's Mental Health Awareness Week."
Requires hospital urine drug screenings to include test for fentanyl.
Authorizes pharmacists to dispense HIV prophylaxis without individual prescription under certain circumstances; mandates prescription benefits coverage.
Prohibits sale of flavored cigarettes, non-premium cigars, and oral nicotine pouches.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $500,000 to DOH for Huntington's Disease Grant Program.
Expressly allows health care professionals located outside New Jersey to provide services using telemedicine and telehealth to patients in New Jersey.
Establishes Training Clinicians to Support Adults with Autism Workforce Development Program in Rutgers Center for Adult Autism Services; appropriates $500,000.
Requires parents and guardians be provided access to medical records of minor patients; provides immunity to health care facilities and professionals that provide access to records.
"Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act"; bans abortion 20 weeks or more after fertilization.
Increases maximum age for pediatric long-term care facility residents to 26.
Adopts Dentist and Dental Hygienist Compact.
Establishes task force to study and make recommendations concerning health care service needs of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, and queer or questioning individuals, and persons with intersex conditions in the State.
Requires death certificates to include drug responsible for drug overdose death under certain circumstances.
Prohibits mandatory vaccination against COVID-19 as condition of attending public K-12 schools.
Requires hospitals to provide breast cancer patients with information concerning reconstructive surgery; prohibits certain provisions in managed care plan contracts.
Permits individual holding a nursing multistate license to be eligible for school nurse certification.
Creates New Jersey Mental Health Residential Reform Treatment Act.
Requires certain golf courses to maintain automated external defibrillator.
Establishes minimum Medicaid reimbursement rates for private duty nursing services.
Prohibits acquisition or disclosure of certain personal health information without consent.
Establishes certain data privacy protection requirements for consumer health data, health care providers, and patients.
Establishes "New Jersey Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act."
Establishes minimum Medicaid reimbursement rate for pediatric special care nursing facilities; makes an appropriation.
Renames Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital as Richard J. Codey Psychiatric Hospital.
Expands epinephrine administration mechanisms permitted in schools.
Designates May of each year as "Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and Hypermobility Spectrum Disorders Awareness Month."
Expands scope of practice of pediatricians and advanced practice nurses with respect to pediatric behavioral and developmental health care.
Establishes commission to study mental health impact of COVID-19 pandemic on K-12 students.
Urges New Jersey members of Congress to join Congressional Brain Injury Task Force.
Establishes requirements for certain tobacco product retailers to stock and sell nicotine replacement therapy products.
Designates July of each year as "Cleft and Craniofacial Awareness and Prevention Month" in NJ.
Requires NJ FamilyCare reimbursement for pediatric medication management services provided for certain children by licensed pharmacist.
Provides for Medicaid coverage of certain home blood pressure monitors and cuffs for pregnant persons at risk for preeclampsia.
Establishes Office of Ombudsman for Mental Health and Addiction Services.
Establishes central registry for sickle cell trait diagnoses; provides for informational outreach and genetic counseling.
Requires automatic registration with New Jersey Immunization Information System upon administration of vaccine for certain persons who consent to registration.
Designates May of each year as "Skin Cancer Awareness Month" in New Jersey.
Designates September of each year as "Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Awareness Month" in NJ.
Increases amount of cigarette and other tobacco products tax revenues provided to New Jersey Commission on Cancer Research from $1 million to $4 million; establishes dedicated, non-lapsing Cancer Research Fund.
Exempts oral healthcare products from sales and use tax.
Designates March 17 of each year as "Profound Autism Day."
Expands epinephrine administration mechanisms permitted in schools, institutions of higher education, and youth camps.
Revises certain references to Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices in statutory and regulatory law; Requires health benefits coverage for certain immunizations recommended by DOH.
Expands New Jersey's certificate of need exemption list.
Regulates provision of pharmaceutical services in nursing homes.
Permits individuals to establish voluntary nonopioid directives.
Clarifies which health care professional may provide documentation to school district of need for home instruction due to student's health condition.
Establishes Psilocybin Behavioral Health Access and Therapy Pilot Program; appropriates $6 million.
Requires DOH to study racial aspects of ovarian cancer.
Authorizes medical cannabis for treatment of sickle cell anemia.
Prohibits delivery of electronic smoking devices and tobacco products to individuals under 21 years of age.
Requires health care professionals to report cases of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and motor neuron disease.
Authorizes pharmacists to dispense HIV prophylaxis without individual prescription under certain circumstances; mandates prescription benefits coverage.
Extends time period in which to enroll newborn infant in health benefits coverage.
Requires prescription drug coverage for serious mental illness without prior authorization or utilization management, including step therapy.
Requires licensed health care professionals providing prenatal care to offer and screen, upon request, pregnant patients with history of depression for postpartum depression.
Requires DHS to establish Alzheimer's disease public awareness campaign.
Establishes State Parkinson's disease registry.
Establishes State Parkinson's disease registry.
Amends FY2026 annual appropriations act to increase Supplemental Graduate Medical Education Subsidy by $496,000 for support to additional acute care hospital.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $1.5 million from General Fund to DOH and DCA for Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers.
Designates July of each year as "Cleft and Craniofacial Awareness and Prevention Month" in NJ.
Permits up to three credits of continuing medical education on menopause to be used by nurses and physicians for license renewal.
Urges Governor to direct all relevant State departments and agencies to help decrease number of fatalities caused by atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.
Declares amendments proposed by DOH concerning communicable disease reporting inconsistent with legislative and judicial intent.
Establishes procedures for licensing of certain international medical graduates; repeals R.S.45:9-14.
"Reasonable Pediatric Questions Act"; eliminates requirement for clinical laboratories to ask certain children questions about gender identity and sexual orientation.
Revises penalties for certain prohibited sales of tobacco and vapor products and smoking in indoor places.
Requires hospitals to maintain minimum services when relocating from underserved community.
Creates "New Jersey Dialysis Patient Support Person Accommodation Act."
"Lyme Screening Act."
Requires hospital to install and operate electronic monitoring device at request of incapacitated patient or patient's legal representative.
Provides for licensure of emergency medical responders and emergency medical technicians and certification of mobility assistance vehicle operators; revises requirements for delivery of emergency medical and patient transportation services.
Requires unrestricted Medicaid coverage for ovulation enhancing drugs and medical services related to administering such drugs for certain beneficiaries experiencing infertility.
Designates July of each year as "Cleft and Craniofacial Awareness and Prevention Month" in NJ.
"Dementia Dignity and Advance Care Planning Act."
Revises certain requirements for involuntary commitment for substance use disorder treatment.
Requires NJ FamilyCare to reimburse inpatient providers for long-acting injectable antipsychotic drugs at outpatient reimbursement rate.
Establishes certain data privacy protection requirements for consumer health data, health care providers, and patients.
Shifts $45 million appropriation for opioid related care and treatment provided at certain hospitals from Opioid Recovery and Remediation Fund to General Fund.
Requires labeling of over-the-counter and prescription drugs containing major food allergen or gluten-containing grain.
Establishes State Parkinson's disease registry and awareness campaign.
Authorizes cremation of unclaimed bodies by counties and storage of unclaimed bodies by hospitals.
Enacts Dentist and Dental Hygienist Compact.
Requires Commissioner of Community Affairs to notify certain municipal officials of receipt of application for licensure of cooperative sober living residence.
"Public-Private Alliance to Retain Talent and Expand Regional Health Program Act"; creates grant program within DOH for student-loan and tuition relief and appropriates $5 million.
Expands requirements for health insurance carriers concerning prostate cancer screening and requires coverage be provided without cost sharing.
Establishes Office of Professional Corporate Guardians.
Requires health care professionals to order bi-lateral ultrasounds concurrently when ordering mammograms; requires insurers to cover concurrent mammograms and bi-lateral ultrasounds.
Establishes Health Equity Access and Leadership Fund; appropriates $25 million from General Fund, and allocates portion of Health Care Subsidy Fund revenues, to fund.
Implements Blue Band Program to address preeclampsia in New Jersey.
Permits import of prescription drugs from certain countries.
Prohibits acquisition or disclosure of personal health information without consent.
Expands epinephrine administration mechanisms permitted in schools.
Designates May of each year as "Skin Cancer Awareness" in New Jersey.
Supplemental appropriation of $25 million from General Fund to DOH for Hudson Regional Health.
Establishes the "South Jersey Community Resilience Center"; appropriates $500,000.
Establishes Office of Ombudsman for Mental Health and Addiction Services.
Establishes telecommunication fee to support Statewide behavioral health crisis system of care.
Increases maximum age for pediatric long-term care facility residents to 26.
Updates requirements for licensure in occupational therapy.
Requires certain golf courses to maintain automated external defibrillator.
Revises certain provisions concerning, and establishes certain education and data reporting requirements related to, involuntary commitment.
Revises statutory obligations of Advisory Graduate Medical Education Council of New Jersey.
Revises certain provisions concerning, and establishes certain education and data reporting requirements related to, involuntary commitment.
Revises provisions of State law concerning licensure of ambulatory care facility.
Creates New Jersey Mental Health Residential Reform Treatment Act.
Removes requirements for surgical practices to be licensed as ambulatory care facilities and requires surgical practices to register with DOH.
Requires continued employment for physicians diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder under certain conditions.
Establishes education requirements for certain officers of State Board of Medical Examiners.
Establishes "Graduate Physician Licensing Act."
Requires DOH to use Basic Screening Survey to access oral health in children.
Designates first week of May of each year as "Children's Mental Health Awareness Week."
Establishes requirements to evaluate certain people who are pregnant and who have given birth for preeclampsia.
Designates May of each year as "Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and Hypermobility Spectrum Disorders Awareness Month."
Requires hospitals to perform psychological and psychiatric evaluations on certain patients and requires health insurance coverage for such evaluations.
"Gary Letizia Pre-Hospital Blood Transfusion Act"; authorizes paramedics, under medical oversight, to administer blood products to patients in pre-hospital settings, and establishes certain reimbursement for emergency medical services providers.
Requires patient to receive notification of abnormality in chest x-ray; designated as Claudia's Law.
Requires DOH to establish public awareness campaign and develop policies and procedures to promote recognition and treatment of perinatal anxiety.
Increases income threshold limit for certain Medicaid eligibility groups.
Establishes basic life support services as essential; requires municipalities to arrange for basic life support services; makes an appropriation.
Requires Medicaid reimbursement of mental health rehabilitation services provided via clubhouse program.
Requires Medicaid reimbursement of mental health rehabilitation services provided via clubhouse program.
Establishes certain guidelines for SHBP, SEHBP, and Medicaid concerning step therapy protocols.
Establishes State stockpile of medicine and medical supplies; makes appropriation.
Requires hospitals to adopt and develop environmental sustainability plan.
Requires that warning notices regarding certain health risks of alcohol consumption be reviewed and updated.
Requires health insurance and Medicaid coverage for the treatment of stuttering.
Designates month of March of each year as "Amyloidosis Awareness Month."
Designates month of March of each year as "Amyloidosis Awareness Month."
Designating May 15 of each year as "Tuberous Sclerosis Complex Awareness Day" in New Jersey.
Provides for designation and establishment of Public Health Institute in New Jersey.
Makes various revisions to law pertaining to electronic medical records and recording certain minor patients' demographic information.
Designates March 17 of each year as "Profound Autism Day."
Requires DOH to develop shared decision-making tool and establish maternal health care pilot program.
Permits dental service corporations to be subsidiaries of nonprofit parent companies.
Prohibits health care professionals from providing gender-affirming health care services to persons under 21 years of age.
Requires pregnancy centers to disclose certain information in multiple languages.
Regulates medication administration in certain residential facilities.
Designates September of each year as "Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Awareness Month" in NJ.
Establishes pilot program to provide Medicaid coverage of remote maternal health services for eligible beneficiaries.
Designates first full week of May of each year as "Tardive Dyskinesia Awareness Week" in NJ.
Requires DOH to create and disseminate materials and resources related to cardiomyopathy.
"Right to Mental Health for Individuals who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing Act"; establishes certain requirements concerning provision of mental health services to individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing.
Requires DOH to study cost of establishing long-term health care benefit for certain individuals.
Requires NJ FamilyCare reimbursement for comprehensive medication management services provided for certain children by licensed pharmacist.
Expands authority of pharmacy technician in administering drugs and vaccines and permits certain pharmacists and pharmacy interns, externs, and technicians to administer COVID-19 vaccine.
Establishes education requirements for certain officers of State Board of Medical Examiners.
Authorizes health care professionals to engage in the use of remote patient monitoring devices; requires health care insurance coverage by certain insurers for remote patient monitoring devices.
Extends certain pay parity regarding telemedicine and telehealth until July 1, 2026.
Urges NJ DOH to increase public awareness on effects of xylazine.
Establishes Direct Care Worker Support Program in DOH; makes appropriation.
Provides for independent prescriptive authority for midwives.
Provides incentives for certified nurse aides and nursing students to work as direct support professionals; makes appropriation.
Requires NJ FamilyCare payment for multiple medical encounters per day for enrollee at federally qualified health center.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $500,000 to DOH for Huntington's Disease Grant Program.
Requires DOH to inspect reports of mold infestation in health care facilities.
Requires New Jersey Board of Nursing to establish Nursing Scribe Program.
Consolidates and makes technical updates to certain definitions used in Title 26 of the Revised Statutes.
Prohibits sale of certain diet pills and dietary supplements for weight loss or muscle building to persons under 18 years of age under certain circumstances.
Requires certain ultrasounds on pregnant women to be performed by licensed health care professionals.
Updates requirements for licensure in occupational therapy.
Designates November of each year as "C. Difficile Awareness Month."
Urges amendment of Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement to create definition for oral health care products.
Recognizes loneliness as public health crisis.
Creates New Jersey Board of Paramedicine.
Establishes multiple sclerosis public awareness campaign.
Designates May of each year as "Apraxia Awareness Month" in NJ.
Requires certain supermarkets, grocery stores, and food suppliers to donate food under certain circumstances.
Clarifies authorization for any person or entity to distribute opioid antidotes.
Requires Medicaid coverage for community violence prevention services; Requires DOH to approve training and certification program for violence prevention professionals.
Directs DOE and DOH to develop guidelines for school districts and institutions of higher education concerning student vaping awareness campaigns.
Establishes "Mental and Behavioral Health for Hispanics and Latinos Act"; appropriates $1 million.
Urges Congress to enact "Find It Early Act."
Requires DOH and DEP to develop best practices, and certain health care providers to develop plan, concerning medical waste management.
Supports work of pregnancy resource centers and condemns harassment of pregnancy resource centers by AG.
Removes requirements for surgical practices to be licensed as ambulatory care facilities to provide surgical and related services.
Requires prescriptions for certain patients to include patients' weight.
Declares March of each year as "Blood Clot Awareness Month."
Requires DOH to establish partnerships with certain entities to improve emergency response to public health crisis.
Requires Executive Branch departments, agencies, and instrumentalities to identify and assess COVID-19 measures and their viability for future potential emergency scenarios.
Requires DOH to prepare comprehensive plan to invest in State's public health system.
Requires DOH to revise emergency response plan for pandemic influenzas.
Enhances access to public health emergency supplies and services.
Establishes act of disseminating misinformation as professional misconduct for health care professionals.
Requires DOH to establish Regional Hospital System Program for Emergency Preparedness and to annually survey preparedness and resiliency of State's hospital system in event of public emergency.
Designates February 12th of each year as "Carly Day" in NJ.
Designates May 7 of each year as "Cystinosis Awareness Day" in New Jersey.
Creates Health Care Cost Containment Commission; appropriates $5 million.
Prohibits pre-approval or precertification of prenatal ultrasound screenings covered under health benefits plans.
Requires Medicaid coverage for motorized wheelchairs for nursing facility residents under certain circumstances.
Clarifies cap on fees imposed, and modifies definition of participating county, under "County Option Hospital Fee Program Act."
Increases amount of cigarette and other tobacco products tax revenues provided to New Jersey Commission on Cancer Research to $10 million; establishes dedicated, non-lapsing Cancer Research Fund.
Requires hospitals to inquire whether patients have substance use disorder and establish protocols for providing or referring to treatment.
Secures protections for patients and providers accessing and providing legally protected health care activities; establishes right of residents to legally protected health care services, which are restricted in other states.
Codifies authority for certain health care providers to provide abortions and clarifies certain operational requirements for abortion facilities.
Provides for voluntary contributions for taxpayers on gross income tax returns to support reproductive health care services.
Revises statutory definition of "elevated blood lead level."
Designates month of May each year as "Nurse's Month."
"Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act"; bans abortion 20 weeks or more after fertilization.
Designates May 6th of each year as "Nurse's Day."
Permits procurement of medical countermeasures, products, and therapeutics.
Designates July of each year as "Self-Care Awareness Month" in New Jersey.
Requires hospitals to test for fentanyl and xylazine as part of urine drug screenings.
Adopts Dentist and Dental Hygienist Compact.
Requires inspections of retail cigarette and vapor product dealers.
Provides gross income tax deduction for in vitro fertilization treatment expenses.
Establishes "New Jersey COVID-19 Long-Term Health Effects Task Force."
Establishes initiatives related to behavioral health care, including increasing reimbursement rates, providing cost-of-living adjustments, establishing grant programs for facility upkeep and provider training, and relaxing clinical supervision requirements.
Revises eligibility criteria for adult medical day care services.
Revises distribution of monies from Alcohol Education, Rehabilitation and Enforcement Fund to municipalities.
Designates month of November as "Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome Awareness Month" in NJ.
Expands scope of practice of pediatricians and advanced practice nurses with respect to pediatric behavioral and developmental health care.
Designates March of each year as "Fibromuscular Dysplasia Awareness Month."
Establishes task force to study and make recommendations concerning health care service needs of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, and queer or questioning individuals, and persons with intersex conditions in the State.
Requires DOH to conduct survey on status of antenatal and prenatal care clinics in New Jersey.
Designates November of each year as "Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease Awareness Month."
Enters New Jersey into Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Interstate Compact.
Requires DOH to expand services provided under plan to improve perinatal mental health services and health insurers to cover costs of perinatal mood and anxiety disorder screening.
Renames Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital as Richard J. Codey Psychiatric Hospital.
Provides for Medicaid coverage of certain home blood pressure monitors and cuffs for pregnant persons at risk for preeclampsia.
Provides phased-in increases in cigarette tax rate over four-year period.
Requires DOH to develop Statewide Emergency Medical Services Plan.
Prohibits substance use disorder treatment providers from using deceptive marketing practices.
Establishes requirements for State entities to enter into bulk purchasing arrangements for pharmaceutical products.
Revises licensure and regulatory requirements for residential substance use disorders treatment facilities or programs.
Prohibits sale of tobacco products and electronic smoking devices at certain pharmacies and certain businesses with on site pharmacies.
Revises law concerning substance use disorder treatment facility patient referrals.
Regulates residential mental health treatment facilities.
Designates May of each year as "Youth Smoking Prevention and Awareness Month."
Requires certain doctors and nurses to ask patients questions regarding menstrual cycles, previous tampon use, and toxic shock syndrome.
Requires adult day health care facilities to establish hybrid model for provision of adult day health care services under certain circumstances.
Establishes Task Force on Institutional Discrimination in Health Care.
Establishes "Patient Protection and Safe Staffing Act."
Permanently designating January 18th as "Alexandra 'Alex' Scott Day" in New Jersey.
Establishes Office of State Dental Director and New Jersey Oral Health Commission.
Designates month of September each year as "Deaf Awareness Month" in New Jersey; designates last full week of September each year as "Deaf Awareness Week" in New Jersey.
Establishes Chief Executive Nurse position in DOH.
Prohibits excessive increases in prices charged for essential off-patent and generic prescription drugs and biological products.
Makes $250,000 supplemental appropriation to New Jersey Center for Tourette Syndrome and Associated Disorders for pediatric clinical services at Tourette Syndrome Clinic of Rutgers University.
Requires that certain medical education programs give priority to certain applicants.
Permits pharmacists to dispense certain drugs in emergency without prescription.
Establishes requirements for incentive-based value payment system for home health agencies and health care service firms.
Codifies certain regulatory provisions regarding controlled dangerous substances and prescription monitoring.
Increases maximum age for pediatric long-term care facility residents to 26.
Requires physicians and other prescribers to obtain electronic or written consent for certain medications with "black box warnings."
Designates May of each year as "Better Hearing Month."
Requires assessments prior to laboratory and diagnostic testing of persons undergoing mental health screening.
Exempts specialty heart hospital from 0.53 percent hospital assessment under certain circumstances.
Prohibits use of electronic smoking devices and tobacco products by food delivery drivers while engaged in food delivery.
Requires DOH to maintain emergency stockpile of insulin and authorizes dispensing of emergency supply of insulin to certain patients.
Establishes Health Care Workers COVID-19 Supplemental Benefits Program; appropriates $30 million.
Urges Congress to pass "Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act" and fund initiatives to expand palliative care.
Requires parents and guardians be provided access to medical records of minor patients; provides immunity to health care facilities and professionals that provide access to records.
Designates second week of November of each year as "Urinary Incontinence Awareness Week" in New Jersey.
Requires all hospitals with maternity departments to maintain Baby-Friendly and Mother-Friendly designations.
Permanently designating March 28th as "Progressive Multiple Sclerosis Day" in New Jersey.
Designates October 23 of each year as "Aromatic L-amino Acid Decarboxylase Deficiency Awareness Day."
Establishes minimum registered professional nurse staffing standards for hospitals and ambulatory surgery facilities and certain DHS facilities.
Designates the month of September as "National Obesity Awareness Month" in New Jersey.
Designates July 22 of each year as "Fragile X Awareness Day."
Requires retail health clinics to develop policies and procedures identifying services provided by the clinics.
Requires Division of Purchase and Property to provide additional notification of contracting opportunities to vendors or potential vendors providing or interested in providing home health care services to State agencies.
Prohibits mandatory vaccination against COVID-19 as condition of attending public K-12 schools.
Designates May 6 of each year as "Visiting Nurse Association Day."
Requires DOH to develop and implement plan to improve access to perinatal mood and anxiety disorder screening.
Requires certain health care professionals to undergo bias training.
Enters New Jersey into Counseling Compact.
Requires registration, inspection, testing, cleaning, and disinfection of cooling towers to control outbreaks of Legionnaire's Disease.
Requires feasibility study to examine establishment of regional medical examiner office facility in Southern New Jersey and collaborative development of new medical examiner education initiatives; appropriates $40,000.
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for New Jersey Commission on Cancer Research.
Expressly allows health care professionals located outside New Jersey to provide services using telemedicine and telehealth to patients in New Jersey.
Requires certain hospitals to complete Leapfrog Hospital Survey.
Prohibits persons under 21 years of age from possessing electronic smoking devices.
Requires adult day care centers to provide reasonable accommodations for certain persons.
Authorizes issuance of electronic copies of vital records.
Limits "tobacco and vapor products tax" on cigars to up to $0.50 per cigar.
Establishes "Commission on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Questioning Affairs."
Permits corrections officers, firefighters, and police officers to administer epinephrine auto-injector device.
Designates June of each year as "Cancer Survivor Month."
Requires death certificates to include drug responsible for drug overdose death under certain circumstances.
Authorizes hospital patient with developmental disabilities to have designated family member, guardian, direct support professional, or other caregiver accompany patient throughout hospital stay.
Requires Commissioner of Banking and Insurance to develop standard prior authorization form for prescription drug benefits for use by network providers.
Establishes MOM Project oral health three-year pilot program in DOH; appropriates $4,150,000.
Requires pharmacy practice sites to document reasons for not filling certain prescriptions.
Establishes cap on amount that hospital can charge patients for laboratory services to 150% of Medicare.
Establishes Working Group on End-of-Life Care and Palliative Care in DOH.
Requires DOH to provide information regarding spina bifida to certain parents and families of newborns; "Levi's Law."
Establishes toll free helpline for first responders, health care workers, and other frontline workers experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder.
"Patient Protection Act"; establishes requirements concerning the transfer and referral of certain patients receiving health care services.
Requires DOH to provide for voluntary registration of trauma scene waste management service providers and establish trauma scene waste management registry.
Requires child care centers to be equipped with epinephrine.
Establishes program in DOH for health care provider evaluation and response for patients who are victims of domestic violence.
Restricts use of restrictive employment covenants for physicians and nurses.
Establishes program to subsidize purchase price of medical cannabis for registered qualifying patients enrolled in Medicaid or NJ FamilyCare programs.
Requires pharmacies to sell hypodermic syringes and needles to any customer over the age of 18 and post sign concerning consumer right to purchase clean syringes and needles.
Establishes Behavioral Health Services Task Force.
Permits patients to indicate that they should not be prescribed opiates and certain other controlled substances in prescription monitoring program information.
Establishes public awareness campaign concerning programs and services for first responders, healthcare workers, other frontline workers, and their families experiencing mental health issues related to COVID-19 pandemic.
Designates February 25 through March 3, 2018 as "Eating Disorders Awareness Week" in New Jersey.
Requires hospitals to establish sepsis recognition and treatment protocols.
Designates last day of February of each year as "Rare Disease Awareness Day" in New Jersey.
Establishes certain penalties on clinical laboratories regarding receipt of Medicaid overpayments, and on entities engaged in business with such clinical laboratories.
"Volunteer Medical Professional Health Care Act."
Prohibits sale of flavored cigarettes, non-premium cigars, and oral nicotine pouches.
Establishes certain requirements concerning resident supervision at residential health care facilities.
Establishes commission to study mental health impact of COVID-19 pandemic on K-12 students.
Requires retail establishments to allow individuals with certain medical conditions access to employee restrooms.
Urges U.S. President and Congress to cease funding gain-of-function research.
Grants parents, guardians, and authorized representatives online access to medical and personal history of residents of certain residential care facilities.
Requires certain hospitals to establish bereavement areas.
Removes exemption from law regulating patient referrals.
Clarifies that apologies by health care facilities and professionals to patients or their representatives for adverse events disclosed under "Patient Safety Act" are excluded from discovery and inadmissible in legal actions involving facilities and professionals.
Encourages expansion of community mental health programs to include mental health services to veterans; prohibits veterans from being denied county mental health services.
Requires Governor hold public hearings during declarations under Emergency Health Powers Act.
Requires urgent care and retail health clinics to have defibrillator on site and employees trained to use defibrillator.
Permits emergency medical technicians to administer certain vaccines during certain declared public health emergencies.
Allows gross income tax deductions totaling $300,000 over five taxable years for certain primary care physicians.
Establishes minimum Medicaid reimbursement rates for private duty nursing services.
Streamlines certification standards for emergency medical technicians.
"Improved Suicide Prevention, Response, and Treatment Act."
Permits certain adult day care centers and group homes to restrict access to certain persons who violate food restriction policies.
Requires DOH to encourage health care facilities and licensed health care professionals to develop a "Reach Out and Read Program."
Establishes bipartisan task force to study response to COVID-19 in New Jersey.
Establishes New Jersey Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient Regulatory Commission.
Establishes certain protections for persons, providing, receiving, and allowing children to receive gender-affirming health care.
Prohibits using cadaveric fetal tissue obtained from elective abortion procedure for research purposes and using any cadaveric fetal tissue to research cosmetic treatments.
Exempts from sales and use tax sales of medical marijuana.
Provides bonuses for certain essential healthcare workers; appropriates $400,000,000.
Requires county health departments to maintain reserve stock of opioid antidotes to dispense to certain entities on interim basis to ensure uninterrupted supply.
Requires certain health care facilities to develop certain doula policies and procedures.
Revises polysomnography licensing renewal standards.
Establishes "New Jersey Right to Try-Plus Act" permitting terminally ill patients access to certain investigational and off-label treatments.
Establishes Emergency Services Assistance Grant Program in DOH; appropriates $10 million.
Requires medical testing for certain persons in circumstances when first responders may be exposed to bloodborne pathogens.
Requires publication of guide for licensure as integrated care facility; assigns DOH and DHS employees to communicate with facilities.
Requires DOH to establish Community Health Center Integrated Care Loan Program.
Establishes special committee of General Assembly entitled "New Jersey Nursing Home Pandemic Response Investigation Committee."
Designates September of each year as "Chiari Malformation-Syringomyelia Awareness Month."
Urges Congress to compel Department of Health and Human Services to fulfill its obligations pursuant to the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986.
Expands exemptions from drug paraphernalia laws to also exempt certain harm reduction supplies.
Requires Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services to facilitate establishment of four new recovery community centers.
Addresses long-term effects of COVID-19.
Establishes process for independent informal dispute resolution hearings in DOH.
Requires entities to accept confirmation of prior COVID-19 infection or protective immune response against COVID-19 when proof of vaccination is required.
Authorizes provision of adult day health services on remote basis.
Creates special license plates supporting Autism Awareness.
Requires health care facilities to screen health care workers and first responders for symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder related to COVID-19 pandemic.
Requires physician to offer to test patient for dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase deficiency prior to patient undergoing chemotherapy.
Establishes the "New Jersey COVID-19 Vaccine Outreach Commission" and appropriates $9 million.
Revises requirements for operation of mobile intensive care programs and paramedic licensure.
Urges President to withdraw United States from World Health Organization.
Requires hospitals to provide breast cancer patients with information concerning reconstructive surgery; prohibits certain provisions in managed care plan contracts.
Restricts establishment of mandates to become vaccinated against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19); establishes reimbursement program to cover certain out-of-pocket costs incurred in obtaining COVID-19 vaccine.
Clarifies statutory exemptions from mandatory immunization requirements for child care center and school attendance.
Requires suicide prevention training for mental health practitioners.
Permits telemedicine services to be provided using audio-only technology when providing behavioral health care services.
Permanently designates first Monday in November as "Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Awareness Day" in New Jersey.
Adds and revises items for nursing homes to submit to DOH in annual financial report.
Requires practitioners to disclose business relationship with out-of-State facilities when making patient referrals to those facilities.
Establishes "Matthew's Law Limiting the Use of Restraints."
Requires students and certain other children to be annually vaccinated for influenza as condition of enrollment at public and private K-12 schools, preschools, child care centers, and institutions of higher education.
Streamlines emergency medical technician certification process for certain veterans.
Establishes one New Jersey Suicide Prevention Advisory Council in DOH.
Requires DOH to develop mobile cancer screening program; appropriates $100,000.
Authorizes provision of comprehensive health care coverage to undocumented immigrant aliens.
Requires DOH to establish levels of maternity care at maternity care facilities.
Urges New Jersey members of Congress to join Congressional Brain Injury Task Force.
Establishes "New Jersey Pandemic Bill of Rights for the Welfare of Individuals."
Exempts protective face coverings from sales and use tax.
Provides gross income tax credit to certain taxpayers who pay for certain in-home services through health care service firm.
"Parkinson's Disease Public Awareness and Education Act."
Requires State Medicaid beneficiaries to notify county welfare agencies no later than 20 days of change of circumstances.
Establishes Children's Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System.
Requires certain ambulances to carry epinephrine.
Designates third full week of May of each year as "Clinical Trials Awareness Week" and May 20 of each year as "Clinical Trials Volunteers Appreciation Day" in NJ.
Requires health insurance coverage of prescribed anti-obesity medication.
Requires minimum annual State appropriation of $10 million for Public Health Priority Funding.
Establishes requirements for certain tobacco product retailers to stock and sell nicotine replacement therapy products.
Requires health care representative to make health care decisions for incapacitated patient in accordance with patient's religious beliefs.
Requires biennial inspection of nursing homes and assisted living facilities.
Requires Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare managed care organizations to offer patient-centered medical home model or other alternative payment model to primary care providers.
Provides gross income tax deduction for volunteers of New Jersey Medical Reserve Corps that serve at least 150 hours during public health emergency.
Provides sales and use tax exemption for purchases of rapid or laboratory tests for purposes of detecting infections.
Establishes three-year sickle cell disease pilot program; appropriates $10,200,000.
Requires automatic registration with New Jersey Immunization Information System upon administration of vaccine for certain persons who consent to registration.
Requires Department of Health to provide information to Statewide 2-1-1 telephone system regarding the location of safe disposal sites for hypodermic syringes and needles and prescription drugs.
Requires certain electronic medical programs to include demographic data entry feature; requires laboratories to record certain patients' demographic information; requires certain hospitals and laboratories to implement cultural competency training program.
Prohibits certain medical examinations on female patients without informed consent.
Eliminates use of vaccines containing mercury over three years.
Prohibits government entity or school from requiring influenza vaccinations for persons who are 18 years of age or younger.
Provides employment protections for certain medical professionals diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder under certain conditions.
Designates March 10 of each year as "COVID-19 Memorial Day."
Requires health care practitioners prescribing opioid medications to limit amount of prescribed medication to seven day supply, except in certain circumstances.
Establishes minimum Medicaid reimbursement rate for pediatric special care nursing facilities; makes an appropriation.
Recognizes October 13, 2020 as "Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day" in New Jersey.
Eliminates certain practice restrictions for advanced practice nurses.
Establishes Training Clinicians to Support Adults with Autism Workforce Development Program in Rutgers Center for Adult Autism Services; appropriates $500,000.
Requires hospitals to establish nurse staffing committees.
Authorizes visiting advanced practice nurses who are not certified by endorsement in New Jersey to engage in the limited practice of prescribing medications and devices, if they have appropriate educational qualifications.
Restricts use of electronic benefit cards by cash assistance recipients.
"Ensuring Transparency in Prior Authorization Act."
Requires students, staff, and others present at institutions of higher education to receive COVID-19 vaccine.
Exempts protective face coverings from sales and use tax during public health emergencies.
Requires State to take steps to create additional graduate medical education program slots focused on behavioral health care.
Requires annual suicide prevention training for mental health practitioners.
Requires children's meals served in restaurants to meet certain nutritional standards.
Authorizes pharmacists to dispense HIV prophylaxis without individual prescription under certain circumstances; mandates prescription benefits coverage.
Constitutes special committee of General Assembly entitled Assembly Select Committee on the Executive Branch's Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic."
Grants gross income tax deduction to mental health care professionals providing services in the State.
Establishes Emergency Medical Services Provider Safety Grant Program in DOH; appropriates $10 million.
"Informed Consent for Vaccination Act"; revises requirements for administration of vaccines to patients.
Requires SHBP, SEHBP, Medicaid, and NJ FamilyCare to cover anti-obesity medications.
Establishes New Jersey Commission on Health Equity.
Prohibits automatic registration with New Jersey Immunization Information System.
Prohibits certain steering and marketing practices involving dispensing of prescription drugs and drug samples.
Establishes maternity care standards for general hospitals providing maternity care.
Permits pharmacists to adjust increment in which medication is dispensed for certain prescriptions.
Waives 15 day waiting period for medical aid in dying under certain circumstances.
Requires certain health care professionals to undergo bias training.
Establishes cause of action for residents of assisted living facilities and comprehensive personal care home providers.
Exempts personal protective equipment from sales and use tax.
Prohibits substitution of prescribed epilepsy drugs by pharmacists without prior notification to and written consent of physician and patient.
Requires testing for infectious disease for certain persons who have been administered opioid antidote by first responder.
Designates October as "Lead Poisoning Awareness Month."
Establishes Statewide Opioid Antidote Coordinator position; appropriates funds.
Memorializes Department of Defense to authorize changes on certain military service forms of veterans who are transgender.
Requires all prescriptions be transmitted electronically, subject to certain exceptions.
Requires long-term care facilities to stock and provide COVID-19 antiviral treatments to residents.
"HOPE Initiative Act;" requires establishment of public awareness campaign to educate citizens about dangers and causes of, and appropriate responses to, heroin and opioid addiction.
Adds postpartum depression services to State's behavioral health crisis services system.
Enters New Jersey into Counseling Compact.
Provides that sterile syringe access programs are inherently beneficial uses.
Requires DOH to establish three-year Obstetric Discrimination Prevention and Mitigation Pilot Program.
Revises emergency care services referral standards for providers of telemedicine and telehealth.
Increases amount of cigarette and other tobacco products tax revenues provided to New Jersey Commission on Cancer Research from $1 million to $4 million; establishes dedicated, non-lapsing Cancer Research Fund.
Establishes Overdose Fatality and Near Fatality Review Board.
Provides civil immunity to licensed health care professionals who provide care at health care facilities for no compensation.
Prohibits certain forms of discrimination in DOH policies concerning allocation of critical health care resources.
Extends "Epinephrine Access and Emergency Treatment Act" to include administration of epinephrine auto-injector devices by individuals in possession of devices pursuant to personal prescriptions.
Requires all Medicaid managed care organizations to permit all pharmacies in State to dispense prescriptions for all covered medications.
Establishes Office of Alcohol, Drug, and Tobacco Use Control Policy to reduce incidence of substance use disorder and tobacco use.
Establishes restrictions on designation of new trauma centers.
Establishes central registry for sickle cell trait diagnoses; provides for informational outreach and genetic counseling.
Prohibits smoking within 20 feet of areas outside of indoor public places or workplaces.
Requires parents and guardians be provided access medical records of minor patients.
Expands definition of basic life support to include blood glucose monitoring.
Revises criteria for payment of charity care to certain hospitals.
Imposes requirements on certain pediatric emergency departments; requires DOH to include information on pediatric emergency departments in its annual hospital performance report.
Requires hospital urine drug screenings to include test for fentanyl.
Establishes "Kidney Disease Prevention and Education Task Force."
Establishes certain protocols for prescribing and dispensing benzodiazepine.
Proposes amendment to Constitution establishing a right to comprehensive, affordable, and accessible health care.
Requires NJ FamilyCare to reimburse claims for covered services submitted by clinical social workers, professional counselors, and marriage and family therapists under certain circumstances.
Requires certain health care facilities to develop certain doula policies and procedures.
Codifies and extends authorization for certain out-of-State health care practitioners and recent graduates of health care training programs to practice in New Jersey.
Modifies Nursing Faculty Loan Redemption Program.
Establishes three-year sickle cell disease pilot program; appropriates $10,200,000.
Establishes menstrual health public awareness campaign.
Revises certain requirements concerning eligibility for reimbursement from "Emergency Medical Technician Training Fund."
Renames, extends eligibility, and makes various other changes to Primary Care Practitioner Loan Redemption Program.
Extends certain pay parity regarding telemedicine and telehealth for one year.
Expands exemptions from drug paraphernalia laws to also exempt certain harm reduction supplies.
Provides for coverage of community-based palliative care benefits under Medicaid.
Requires NJ FamilyCare to reimburse claims for covered services submitted by clinical social workers, professional counselors, and marriage and family therapists under certain circumstances.
Requires age verification and parent or guardian consent for minor's use of social media platform; prohibits certain messaging between adults and minors on social media platform.
Creates "Midwifery Licensing Act"; modifies regulation of midwifery.
Makes temporary waiver for certain emergency services vehicle crewmember requirements permanent.
Requires DOH to encourage health care facilities and licensed health care professionals to develop a "Reach Out and Read Program."
Establishes requirements concerning provision of postpartum care, pregnancy loss, and stillbirth information and development of personalized postpartum care plans.
Regulates provision of pharmaceutical services in nursing homes.
Increases Medicaid reimbursement for in-person partial care and intensive outpatient behavioral health and substance use disorder treatment services, and associated transportation services, for adults.
Requires birthing centers and hospitals to offer parents of newborn children opportunity to view video on dangers of drowning for infants and young children.
Provides bonuses for certain essential healthcare workers; appropriates $400,000,000.
Directs DOE and DOH to develop guidelines for school districts and institutions of higher education concerning student vaping awareness campaigns.
Requires inspections of retail cigarette and vapor product dealers.
Removes exemption from law regulating patient referrals.
Expands authority of pharmacy technician in administering drugs and vaccines and permits pharmacists and pharmacy interns, externs, and technicians to administer COVID-19 vaccine.
Urges Governor to direct all relevant State departments and agencies to help decrease number of fatalities caused by atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.
Establishes Training Clinicians to Support Adults with Autism Workforce Development Program in Rutgers Center for Adult Autism Services; appropriates $500,000.
Designates first full week of May of each year as "Tardive Dyskinesia Awareness Week" in NJ.
Requires certain health care facilities to institute COVID-19 vaccine policy for employees.
Adopts Dentist and Dental Hygienist Compact.
Requires urgent care facility health care providers to possess same credentials and degrees applicable to hospital emergency room health care providers.
Replaces statutory terms regarding alcohol and substance use.
Requires information on seizure first-aid to be disseminated to employers.
Establishes "Hospital at Home Act."
Designates July 14 of each year "Fentanyl Poisoning Awareness Day."
Establishes new transparency standards for pharmacy benefits manager business practices.
Designates July 14 of each year as "Fentanyl Poisoning Awareness Day."
Establishes "New Jersey Maternal and Infant Health Innovation Center Act," and appropriates $2,220,000.
Requires establishment of new State website with information on rights related to, and health benefits coverage for, reproductive health care services.
Establishes certain data reporting requirements for prescription drug supply chain; establishes Drug Affordability Council; appropriates $1,500,000.
Requires health insurance carriers to provide coverage for epinephrine auto-injector devices and asthma inhalers; limits cost sharing for health insurance coverage of insulin.
Designates third full week of May of each year as "Clinical Trials Awareness Week" and May 20 of each year as "Clinical Trials Volunteers Appreciation Day" in NJ.
Establishes Emergency Medical Services Provider Safety Grant Program in DOH; appropriates $10 million.
Establishes initiatives related to behavioral health care, including increasing reimbursement rates, providing cost-of-living adjustments, establishing grant programs for facility upkeep and provider training, and relaxing clinical supervision requirements.
Requires adult day care centers to provide reasonable accommodations for certain persons.
Requires DOH to establish three-year Obstetric Discrimination Prevention and Mitigation Pilot Program.
Requires DOH to establish levels of maternity care at maternity care facilities.
Establishes minimum Medicaid and NJ FamilyCare reimbursement rate for pediatric special care nursing facilities.
Establishes pilot program to provide Medicaid coverage of remote maternal health services for eligible beneficiaries.
Allows remote patient monitoring of pregnant patients; requires reimbursement for remote patient monitoring rendered to certain Medicaid beneficiaries.
Requires insurers and SHBP to provide coverage for expenses incurred in screening for ovarian cancer.
Authorizes issuance of electronic copies of vital records.
Requires State Medicaid beneficiaries to notify county welfare agencies no later than 20 days of change of circumstances.
Designates May of each year as "Arthritis Awareness Month" in New Jersey.
Requires child care centers to be equipped with epinephrine.
Designates May of each year as "Arthritis Awareness Month" in New Jersey.
Designates last day of February of each year as "Rare Disease Awareness Day" in New Jersey.
Requires hospital urine drug screenings to include test for fentanyl.
"Medicaid Transportation Brokerage Program Oversight and Accountability Act"; establishes vehicle, staffing, and performance standards, and review and reporting requirements for non-emergency medical transport provided under State's non-emergency medical transportation brokerage program.
Establishes Statewide Opioid Antidote Coordinator position; appropriates funds.
Increases amount of cigarette and other tobacco products tax revenues provided to New Jersey Commission on Cancer Research to $10 million; establishes dedicated, non-lapsing Cancer Research Fund.
"HOPE Initiative Act;" requires establishment of public awareness campaign to educate citizens about dangers and causes of, and appropriate responses to, heroin and opioid addiction.
Urges NJ DOH to increase public awareness on effects of xylazine.
Requires State to take steps to create additional graduate medical education program slots focused on behavioral health care.
Establishes "Alzheimer's and Dementia Care Long-Term Advisory Commission" in DHS.
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Establishes program for certain individuals to become certified as homemaker-home health aides and provide services to certain Medicaid enrollees.
Urges U.S. President and Congress to cease funding gain-of-function research.
Requires DOH to establish public awareness campaign regarding pelvic floor examinations.
Urges President to withdraw United States from World Health Organization.
Permits certain adult day care centers and group homes to restrict access to certain persons who violate food restriction policies.
Appropriates $3 million to DOH to build and operate emergency management and storage center at Hunterdon Medical Center.
Permanently designating March 28th as "Progressive Multiple Sclerosis Day" in New Jersey.
Enters New Jersey in Women's Reproductive Health Care Compact.
Revises eligibility criteria for adult medical day care services.
Constitutes special committee of General Assembly entitled Assembly Select Committee on the Executive Branch's Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic."
Establishes "New Jersey Pandemic Bill of Rights for the Welfare of Individuals."
Requires DOH to use Basic Screening Survey to access oral health in children.
Requires DOH to collect certain data to be shared with certain State departments.
Requires SHBP, SEHBP, Medicaid, and NJ FamilyCare to cover anti-obesity medications.
Revises emergency care services referral standards for providers of telemedicine and telehealth.
Establishes "Alzheimer's and Dementia Care Long-Term Advisory Commission" in DHS.
Provides certain protections to residents of long-term care facilities.
Streamlines emergency medical technician certification process for certain veterans.
Establishes certain protections for persons, providing, receiving, and allowing children to receive gender-affirming health care.
Establishes Office of Ombudsman for Mental Health and Addiction Services.
"Mental Health Access Act;" increases Medicaid reimbursement rates for certain evidence-based behavioral health services.
Establishes Working Group on End-of-Life Care and Palliative Care in DOH.
Revises polysomnography licensing renewal standards.
Designates March 30th of each year "Menstrual Toxic Shock Syndrome Awareness Day."
Designates May of each year as "Let's Move to a Healthier New Jersey Month."
Urges Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to increase access to skilled nursing facility and home office data.
Increases maximum age for pediatric long-term care facility residents to 26.
Establishes act of disseminating misinformation as professional misconduct for health care professionals.
Requires parents and guardians be provided access medical records of minor patients.
Requires Governor hold public hearings during declarations under Emergency Health Powers Act.
Prohibits automatic registration with New Jersey Immunization Information System.
Requires adult day care centers to provide reasonable accommodations for certain persons.
Regulates food and beverage delivery vehicle network companies.
Designates third Thursday of November as "Rural Health Day" in NJ.
Designates November of each year as "Curing Stomach Cancer Month."
Urges federal Food and Drug Administration to ease restrictions on gay and bisexual men donating blood.
Urges U.S. President and Congress to enact legislation giving registered organ donors priority in organ allocation.
Extends temporary waiver of certain basic life support services and specialty care transport unit crewmember requirements.
Encourages expansion of community mental health programs to include mental health services to veterans; prohibits veterans from being denied county mental health services.
Extends temporary waiver of certain basic life support services and specialty care transport unit crewmember requirements.
Permits pharmacists to furnish self-administered hormonal contraceptives pursuant to a standing order, in accordance with protocols established by Board of Pharmacy and Board of Medical Examiners.
Requires private health insurers, SHBP, SEHBP, Medicaid, and NJ FamilyCare to cover wigs under certain circumstances.
Permits pharmacists to dispense certain drugs in emergency without prescription.
Authorizes medical cannabis for treatment of sickle cell anemia.
Recognizes and honors volunteers with NJ Medical Reserve Corps.
Makes supplemental appropriation of $500,000 to DOH for Huntington's Disease Grant Program.
"Psilocybin Behavioral Health Access and Services Act"; authorizes production and use of psilocybin to promote health and wellness; decriminalizes, and expunges past offenses involving, psilocybin production, possession, use, and distribution.
Waives 15 day waiting period for medical aid in dying under certain circumstances.
Prohibits mandatory vaccination against COVID-19 as condition of attending public K-12 schools.
Expands definition of basic life support to include blood glucose monitoring.
Adds postpartum depression services to State's behavioral health crisis services system.
Designates October 23 of each year as "Sudden, Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP) Awareness Day" in New Jersey.
Prohibits sale of certain diet pills and dietary supplements for muscle building to persons under 18 years of age under certain circumstances.
Revises "New Jersey Smoke-Free Air Act" to prohibit smoking at certain outdoor public places.
Makes various changes concerning regulation of emergency medical services; establishes mobile integrated health program and new State Emergency Medical Services Director in DOH.
Streamlines certification standards for emergency medical technicians.
Requires performance of myeloma screening under certain circumstances.
Establishes "Mission Critical Long-Term Care Teams"; provides for identification of and intervention at long-term care facilities at risk of operational and financial distress.
Prohibits annual increase in rent or lease payments of more than two percent for certain nursing homes except in certain circumstances.
Requires pharmacies to sell hypodermic syringes and needles to any customer over the age of 18 and post sign concerning consumer right to purchase clean syringes and needles.
Consolidates and makes technical updates to certain definitions used in Title 26 of the Revised Statutes.
Requires DHS to conduct annual Medicaid eligibility redeterminations.
Authorizes pharmacists to dispense HIV prophylaxis without individual prescription under certain circumstances; mandates prescription benefits coverage.
Designates third week of October as "Lions Club Vision Screening Week" in New Jersey.
Directs DOH to develop standardized perinatal health curriculum for community health workers.
Designates October 23 of each year as "Sudden, Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP) Awareness Day" in New Jersey.
Declares May 28 of each year as Menstrual Equity Day in New Jersey.
Designates February 25 through March 3, 2018 as "Eating Disorders Awareness Week" in New Jersey.
Enters New Jersey into Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Interstate Compact.
Designates October 18 of each year as "Postmenopause Day" in New Jersey.
Designates October of each year as "Eczema Awareness Month" in New Jersey.
Establishes commission to study mental health impact of COVID-19 pandemic on K-12 students.
Requires hospital employees assist uninsured patients with creating account to apply for insurance coverage through Federally-Facilitated Marketplace.
Establishes minimum registered professional nurse staffing standards for hospitals and ambulatory surgery facilities and certain DHS facilities.
Requires DOH to maintain emergency stockpile of insulin and authorizes dispensing of emergency supply of insulin to certain patients.
Requires suicide prevention training for mental health practitioners.
Authorizes certain basic life support services vehicles to be staffed by one emergency medical technician and one first responder while in service.
Designates month of May of each year as "Children's Mental Health and Trauma Awareness Month."
Authorizes hospital patient with developmental disabilities to have designated family member, guardian, direct support professional, or other caregiver accompany patient throughout hospital stay.
Establishes New Jersey Commission on Health Equity.
Requires long-term care facilities to meet with residents and residents' families to review emergency contact information and to offer residents opportunity to update information.
Establishes program in DOH for health care provider evaluation and response for patients who are victims of domestic violence.
Requires DOH to develop mobile senior citizen assistance program.
Establishes requirements to screen certain people who are pregnant and who have given birth for preeclampsia.
Provides $3 million supplemental appropriation to Hunterdon Medical Center for building to stockpile personal protective equipment.
Establishes cause of action for residents of assisted living facilities and comprehensive personal care home providers.
Requires procurement of management support and other services for certain nursing homes.
Expands scope of Office of State Long-Term Care Ombudsman; appropriates $1 million.
Concerns employment security during changes in control of health care entities.
Requires certain homemaker-home health aides to be certified or trained to administer cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Requires bio-analytical or clinical laboratory conducting hepatitis C screening test to draw and store blood for confirmation test.
Urges President and Congress to enact "Lead-Free Future Act of 2019."
Requires licensure for manufacturers, distributors, wholesale dealers, and retail dealers of electronic smoking devices and related products.
Prohibits sale of flavored cigars.
Requires contracts for sale of certain health care entities to preserve employee wages and benefits and to honor collective bargaining agreements.
Limits fees charged for copies of medical and billing records.
Requires students, staff, and others present at institutions of higher education to receive COVID-19 vaccine.
Stengthens access to reproductive health care; appropriates $20 million.
Prohibits use of electronic smoking devices and tobacco products by food delivery drivers while engaged in food delivery.
Adds and revises items for nursing homes to submit to DOH in annual financial report.
Requires vaccinations against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) be reported to New Jersey Immunization Information System.
Requires residential psychiatric and long-term care facilities to provide certain financial information to facility residents and other individuals.
Prohibits smoking in automobile when children are present.
Establishes Children's Health Promotion Fund.
Designates September of each year as "Alopecia Areata Awareness Month."
Requires all hospitals with maternity departments to maintain Baby-Friendly and Mother-Friendly designations.
Requires DOH approval for adverse possessory action against hospitals.
Requires nursing homes to provide training to staff in behavioral health issues.
Requires county health departments to maintain reserve stock of opioid antidotes to dispense to certain entities on interim basis to ensure uninterrupted supply.
Requires DHS to establish five-year pilot program to facilitate coordinated provision of systemic, therapeutic, assessment, resource, and treatment (START) services to adults who have both developmental disabilities and mental illness.
Requires DOH to develop Statewide Emergency Medical Services Plan.
Requires automatic registration with New Jersey Immunization Information System upon administration of vaccine for certain persons who consent to registration.
Designates May of each year as "Let's Move to a Healthier New Jersey Month."
Urges U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to reconsider implementation of new rules concerning organ procurement organizations.
Recognizes International 22q11.2 Foundation, and designates November 22 of each year as "22q Awareness Day" in New Jersey.
Prohibits sale of menthol cigarettes.
Urges President and Congress to enact the "Opportunity Zone Lead Remediation Impact Act of 2019."
Requires each nursing home to employ patient advocate.
Requires all prescriptions be transmitted electronically, subject to certain exceptions.
Requires each guardian of incapacitated persons to provide consent in order for incapacitated persons to obtain vaccinations and booster vaccinations against COVID-19.
Requires minimum annual State appropriation of $10 million for Public Health Priority Funding.
Establishes special committee of General Assembly entitled "New Jersey Nursing Home Pandemic Response Investigation Committee."
Expressly authorizes medical cannabis patients under 18 years of age to have up to four designated caregivers.
Allows costs of medical cannabis to be reimbursed by Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief Fund, PAAD, Senior Gold and VCCO.
Requires reporting of certain attempted and completed suicides by minors.
Requires certain ambulances to carry epinephrine.
Requires certain hospitals to provide sexual assault treatment training for certain staff.
Requires adult day health care facilities to establish hybrid model for provision of adult day health care services under certain circumstances.
Establishes requirements for incentive-based value payment system for home health agencies and health care service firms.
Requires long-term care facilities to stock and provide COVID-19 antiviral treatments to residents.
Establishes program to subsidize purchase price of medical cannabis for registered qualifying patients enrolled in Medicaid or NJ FamilyCare programs.
Establishes MOM Project oral health three-year pilot program in DOH; appropriates $4,150,000.
Establishes cap on amount that hospital can charge patients for laboratory services to 150% of Medicare.
Amends Constitution to provide cancer prevention funding.
"Parkinson's Disease Public Awareness and Education Act."
Protects patients waiting for organ transplants from certain discriminatory actions based on vaccination status.
Allows gross income tax deductions totaling $300,000 over five taxable years for certain primary care physicians.
"Improved Suicide Prevention, Response, and Treatment Act."
Requires DCF, DOE, DOH, and DHS to study impact of COVID-19 on children's health.
Extends COVID-19 Medicaid per diem rate, and requires Medicaid coverage without prior authorization, for certain partial care behavioral health and substance use disorder treatment services.
Prohibits substitution of prescribed epilepsy drugs by pharmacists without prior notification to and written consent of physician and patient.
Permits EMT, paramedic, or investigator for county medical examiner's office to make determination and pronouncement of death under certain circumstances.
Prohibits certain entities from requesting or requiring provision of personal health information.
Designates March as "Triple Negative Breast Cancer Awareness Month."
Expands number of health care professions profiled under "New Jersey Health Care Consumer Information Act."
Provides gross income tax deduction for volunteers of New Jersey Medical Reserve Corps that serve at least 150 hours during public health emergency.
Designates March as "Triple Negative Breast Cancer Awareness Month."
Provides that sterile syringe access programs are inherently beneficial uses.
Designates month of November as "Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome Awareness Month" in NJ.
Restricts use of electronic benefit cards by cash assistance recipients.
Urges Congress to compel Department of Health and Human Services to fulfill its obligations pursuant to the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986.
Revises eligibility criteria for reimbursement from "Emergency Medical Technician Training Fund."
Permits corrections officers, firefighters, and police officers to administer epinephrine auto-injector device.
Requires medical testing for certain persons in circumstances when first responders may be exposed to bloodborne pathogens.
Establishes bipartisan task force to study response to COVID-19 in New Jersey.
Requires hiring of vendor to manage Medicaid Multi-State Pooling Supplemental Rebate Arrangement program and associated uniform Preferred Drug List.
Requires DOH to establish Community Health Center Integrated Care Loan Program.
Requires publication of guide for licensure as integrated care facility; assigns DOH and DHS employees to communicate with facilities.
Authorizes provision of adult day health services on remote basis.
Requires Medicaid coverage for community violence prevention services; Requires DOH to approve training and certification program for violence prevention professionals.
Requires health care facilities to screen health care workers and first responders for symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder related to COVID-19 pandemic.
Establishes special committee of General Assembly entitled "New Jersey Nursing Home Pandemic Response Investigation Committee."
Establishes "New Jersey Right to Try-Plus Act" permitting terminally ill patients access to certain investigational and off-label treatments.
Repeals P.L.2021, c.375, concerning abortion and other matters.
Requires DOH to develop mobile cancer screening program; appropriates $100,000.
Requires health care facilities engaged in telemedicine and teleheath to provide language interpretation services under certain circumstances.
Establishes the "New Jersey COVID-19 Vaccine Outreach Commission" and appropriates $9 million.
Requires informed consent for breast implant surgery.
Designates May of each year as "Emotional and Behavioral Disorder Awareness Month."
Establishes the Working Group on End-of-Life Care and Palliative Care in DOH.
Requires DOH to evaluate whether there is sufficient access to rapid COVID-19 tests and to provide for additional testing if necessary.
Requires implicit bias training for physicians.
Clarifies that apologies by health care facilities and professionals to patients or their representatives for adverse events disclosed under "Patient Safety Act" are excluded from discovery and inadmissible in legal actions involving facilities and professionals.
Exempts protective face coverings from sales and use tax.
Requires urgent care and retail health clinics to have defibrillator on site and employees trained to use defibrillator.
Permits paramedics to administer vaccines during outbreaks of communicable diseases.
Requires Commissioner of DOH to assess how to increase number of teaching hospitals and medical residency programs throughout State.
Urges U.S. President and Congress to enact legislation giving registered organ donors priority in organ allocations.
Designates March 10 of each year as "COVID-19 Memorial Day."
Establishes public awareness campaign concerning programs and services for first responders, healthcare workers, other frontline workers, and their families experiencing mental health issues related to COVID-19 pandemic.
Requires health care facilities to reports cases of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Concerns cigarette manufacturers and production of certain tobacco products using roll-your-own tobacco machines at retail establishments within this State.
Designates first week of May of each year as "Children's Mental Health Awareness Week."
Codifies standard for rehospitalization after conditional discharge from psychiatric facility.
Establishes Behavioral Health Services Task Force.
Establishes Office of Health Transformation to coordinate certain strategic planning for State health care programs.
Permits registered nurse employed in administrative capacity to provide health care in dialysis centers.
Prohibits discrimination against pregnant women who have not received COVID-19 vaccine.
Establishes process for independent informal dispute resolution hearings in DOH.
Requires Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services to facilitate establishment of four new recovery community centers.
Allows pharmacists to prescribe and dispense self-administered hormonal contraceptives under certain circumstances.
Requires DOH to encourage health care facilities and licensed health care professionals to develop a "Reach Out and Read Program."
Requires hospitals and health care professionals to offer hepatitis C testing to certain individuals; authorizes certain laboratories to perform rapid hepatitis C testing.
Provides corporation business tax credit to long-term care facilities that pay for the training and certification of certified nurse aide.
Revises requirements for sale of tobacco and vapor products; increases penalties for prohibited sales; increases fees for cigarette and vapor business licensure.
Requires hospitals to inquire whether patients have substance use disorder and establish protocols for providing or referring to treatment.
Clarifies that Division of Mental Health Advocacy in Office of Public Defender is required to represent indigent patients in all mental health commitment proceedings, whether related to inpatient or outpatient treatment.
Requires hospitals to provide certain resources to certain patients and to ask patients if patients have completed advance directive or practitioner orders for life-sustaining treatment form.
Establishes "Right to Try Act" permitting terminally ill patients to access investigational drugs and treatment.
Urges FDA to make naloxone available over the counter.
Requires hospital, bio-analytical, and clinical laboratories to provide information and offer of HIV screening to patients living in areas with high prevalence of HIV.
Establishes "New Jersey Alzheimer's Disease Master Plan Study Commission."
Urges Congress to pass "Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act" and fund initiatives to expand palliative care.
Requires long-term care facilities to annually review residents' proxy directives.
Requires certain licensed health care professionals and health care facilities to screen adolescents and young adults for symptoms of depression.
Permits import of Canadian prescription drugs.
Requires infection control training for nursing home and assisted living administrator licensure and certification.
Requires long-term care facility to post certain information on its Internet website regarding Office of State Long-Term Care Ombudsman.
Addresses long-term effects of COVID-19.
Permits patients to indicate that they should not be prescribed opiates and certain other controlled substances in prescription monitoring program information.
Prohibits discrimination against corrections workers, first responders, and health care workers who have not received a COVID-19 vaccine or booster.
Requires feasibility study to examine establishment of regional medical examiner office facility in Southern New Jersey and collaborative development of new medical examiner education initiatives; appropriates $40,000.
Requires DOH to provide information regarding spina bifida to certain parents and families of newborns; "Levi's Law."
Clarifies DHS authority over sober living homes, and requires certain sober living homes to be dedicated for use by persons in substance use recovery who have other mental health disorders.
Requires patient to receive notification of abnormality in chest x-ray; designated as Claudia's Law.
Allows 45 day extension for filing a return under the sales tax during state of emergency related to COVID-19 pandemic.
Requires certain businesses to notify customers about availability of no-cost help with applying for public assistance programs.
Requires hospitals to collect and report data on gender identity and sexual orientation in relation to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
Establishes Office of State Dental Director and New Jersey Oral Health Commission.
Designates March of each year as "Fibromuscular Dysplasia Awareness Month."
Requires State to reimburse counties for costs paid for maintenance of county patients in State psychiatric hospitals who are eligible for federal Medicare or Medicaid coverage.
Expands prescription monitoring program to include veterinarians.
Designates September of each year as "Chiari Malformation-Syringomyelia Awareness Month."
Prohibits sale of tobacco products and electronic smoking devices at certain pharmacies and certain businesses with on site pharmacies.
Permits minors aged 14 years or older to consent to certain vaccines without permission of parent or guardian.
Requires biennial inspection of nursing homes and assisted living facilities.
Establishes performance and training standards for certain Medicaid transportation services and requires DHS to report compliance with standards.
Establishes criminal penalties for production and display of false COVID-19 vaccination verification card.
Provides for Medicaid coverage and reimbursement for mental health services provided through telepsychiatry.
Requires certain doctors and nurses to ask patients questions regarding menstrual cycles, previous tampon use, and toxic shock syndrome.
Requires hourly reimbursement rate for home health aide services provided through Statewide Respite Care Program and Jersey Assistance for Community Caregiving Program to be no less than Medicaid fee-for-service rate for personal care services; makes appropriation.
Provides alternate standard for involuntary commitment to treatment in outpatient setting.
Makes annual appropriation of $425,000 for financial assistance program for persons with cystic fibrosis.
Requires Commissioner of Health to establish maternity care public awareness campaign.
Requires certain State employees receive mental health first aid training.
Establishes "Natural Health and Vitality Task Force."
Excludes from gross income tax compensation received by certain nonresident employees related to State's response to COVID-19 pandemic.
Requires certain physicians to provide certain patients written notification explaining how to obtain medical records.
Expands number of disorders included in newborn screening program.
Requires retail health clinics to develop policies and procedures identifying services provided by the clinics.
Authorizes Assistant Commissioner of Division of Developmental Disabilities to establish exception rates, and programmatic and staffing requirements, for individuals with highly acute needs.
Requires all Medicaid managed care organizations to permit all pharmacies in State to dispense prescriptions for all covered medications.
Promotes increased public awareness about Stargardt's Disease.
Requires midwives and physicians to provide pregnant women information on birthing options prior to delivery.
Permanently designates the first Friday in February as "Give Kids a Smile Day" in New Jersey.
Establishes "Autism and Mental Disorders Study Commission."
Requires assessments prior to laboratory and diagnostic testing of persons undergoing mental health screening.
Designates month of September each year as "Deaf Awareness Month" in New Jersey; designates last full week of September each year as "Deaf Awareness Week" in New Jersey.
Requires DHS to establish Alzheimer's disease public awareness campaign.
Encouraging residents and businesses to hang lights to honor healthcare workers and promote "#LightTheFight" campaign.
Requires entities to accept confirmation of prior COVID-19 infection or protective immune response against COVID-19 when proof of vaccination is required.
Prohibits persons under 21 years of age from possessing electronic smoking devices.
Requires certain supermarkets, grocery stores, and food suppliers to donate food under certain circumstances.
Codifies certain regulatory provisions regarding controlled dangerous substances and prescription monitoring.
Establishes "Nursing Home Emergency Preparedness Study Commission."
Establishes criminal penalties for physicians who fail to provide certain information prior to performing abortion procedure involving donation of cadaveric fetal tissue.
Provides sales and use tax exemption for purchases of rapid or laboratory tests for purposes of detecting infections.
Designates May of each year as "Better Hearing Month."
Establishes Chief Executive Nurse position in DOH.
Permanently designates September of each year as "Chiari Malformation Awareness Month" in New Jersey.
Requires Commissioner of Health to examine certain records of nursing home residents' personal funds, and provides that misappropriation of funds is grounds for cause of action.
Prohibits excessive increases in prices charged for essential off-patent and generic prescription drugs and biological products.
Establishes Task Force on Institutional Discrimination in Health Care.
Grants parents, guardians, and authorized representatives online access to medical and personal history of residents of certain residential care facilities.
Designates August of each year as "Gastroparesis Awareness Month."
Provides civil immunity to licensed health care professionals who provide care at health care facilities for no compensation.
Designates March 6 of each year as "Black Balloon Day" in NJ.
Requires DOH to establish Statewide standardized requirements for licensure and operation of mobile food vendors; designated as "Streamlined Food Truck Licensure Act."
Designates June of each year as "Cancer Survivor Month."
Establishes Emergency Services Assistance Grant Program in DOH; appropriates $10 million.
Eliminates smoking ban exemption for casinos and simulcasting facilities.
Exempts protective face coverings from sales and use tax during public health emergencies.
Exempts specialty heart hospital from 0.53 percent hospital assessment under certain circumstances.
Increases amount allowed in initial prescription for opioid drugs in cases of acute pain.
Eliminates certain practice restrictions for advanced practice nurses.
Designates May 6 of each year as "Visiting Nurse Association Day."
Establishes New Jersey Pharmacogenomics Commission.
Requires that certain medical education programs give priority to certain applicants.
Revises requirements for operation of mobile intensive care programs and paramedic licensure.
Prohibits using cadaveric fetal tissue obtained from elective abortion procedure for research purposes and using any cadaveric fetal tissue to research cosmetic treatments.
Prohibits mandatory use of medical devices by minors without informed parental consent.
Grants gross income tax deduction to mental health care professionals providing services in the State.
Requires DOH approval for adverse possessory action against hospitals.
Designates September 7 through 13 of each year as "Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Awareness Week" in New Jersey.
Authorizes visiting advanced practice nurses who are not certified by endorsement in New Jersey to engage in the limited practice of prescribing medications and devices, if they have appropriate educational qualifications.
Establishes New Jersey Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient Regulatory Commission.
Requires hospitals to report coronavirus disease 2019 demographic data.
Requires Division of Purchase and Property to provide additional notification of contracting opportunities to vendors or potential vendors providing or interested in providing home health care services to State agencies.
Establishes "Matthew's Law Limiting the Use of Restraints."