New Legislation
Bill: S2996/ A4052 APN practice restrictions
Bills on the Move
Bill: A4656 / S3869
Broadens epinephrine administration mechanisms permitted in schools, institutions of higher education, and youth camps.
Bill: A1424
"Lyme Screening Act." - For physicians
Bill: A2195
Directs DOE and DOH to develop guidelines for school districts and institutions of higher education concerning student vaping awareness campaigns
Bill: A4493 / S1742
Establishes grant program for school districts to establish substance abuse prevention programs for eighth grade students.
Bill: A4538
Requires school districts to establish procedures for online reporting of harassment, intimidation, and bullying.
Bill: A4539
Requires each school district to annually submit interscholastic athletic opportunity report to the Commissioner of Education.
Bill: A4540
Requires school districts and nonpublic schools to develop emergency operations plans; requires school districts to provide instruction on environmental and natural disasters to students enrolled in grades kindergarten through 12.
Bill: A4548
Concerns administration of ready-to-use undesignated glucagon rescue therapy in public schools.
Bill: A4561
Requires school districts to provide access to preschool and submit plan for preschool implementation.
Bill: A4567
Requires certain school districts to partner with union apprenticeship programs for development of career exploration program.
Bill: A4571
Establishes funding for transportation services for preschool students.
Bill: A4572
Regulates certain vapor products.
Bill: A4576
Legalizes growing or possessing up to six marijuana plants for personal recreational use, and up to 10 plants for personal medical use, by persons aged 21 or older.
Bill: A4581
Requires boards of education to post on website information summarizing payroll, total accounts payable, and weekly accounts payable.
Bill: A4582
Requires placement of portable FDA-approved anti-choking devices in schools.
Bill: S1123 / A162
Requires portable anti-choking devices be placed in schools.
Bill: A4584
Establishes pilot program to study feasibility of regionalization of certain school districts; appropriates $150,000.
Bill: A4586
Requires SHBP coverage of hearing aids and cochlear implants for covered persons.
Bill: A4591
Permits school districts to define excused absences from school to include illness based on student's mental or behavioral health and requires Commissioner of Education to develop guidelines for defining excused absence for this reason.
Bill: A4596
Establishes task force to examine public school programs and services designed to address student mental health.
Bill: A4598
Expands Medicaid coverage regarding assistive devices for hearing impaired under certain circumstances.
Bill: A4600
Establishes minimum Medicaid reimbursement rate of $200 for basic life support emergency ambulance transportation services.
Bill: A4602
Requires State Board of Education to include instruction on mental health first aid training as part of professional development requirement for public school teachers.
Bill: A4660
Requires DHS to provide psychiatric service dogs to first responders, health care workers, and other frontline workers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorders due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Bill: A4663
Requires boards of education to adopt suicide prevention policies and DOE to establish model suicide prevention policy.
Bill: A4672
Directs Commissioner of Education to develop guidelines on outdoor education opportunities.
Bill: A4676
Requires public schools to develop policy for administration of nasal seizure rescue medication and use of manual vagas nerve stimulators for students with seizure disorder on emergent basis.
Bill: A4679 / S3019
Increases scope of practice for licensed practical nurses and patient care technicians under certain circumstances.
Bill: AJR155
Designates October of each year as "Walk to School Month."
Bill: AJR157
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."
Bill: AJR160
Designates May 30 of each year as "Stigma Free Awareness Day" in NJ.
Bill: S3728 / A445
Requires school districts to maintain supply of nasal rescue medication and oxygen for seizure emergencies; provides for training of designees to administer nasal rescue medication and oxygen when school nurse is not physically present.
Bill: S3761 / A758
Requires that warning notices regarding certain health risks of alcohol consumption be reviewed and updated.
Bill: S3766
Requires New Jersey Board of Nursing to establish Nursing Scribe Program.
Bill: S3771
Concerns registration and operation of temporary nurse staffing agencies.
Bill: S3779
Prohibits workplace discrimination based on menstruation, perimenopause, and menopause.
Bill: S3782
Concerns New Jersey 2-1-1 information and referral system; makes appropriation.
Bill: S3783 / A2685
The "New Jersey Bleacher Safety Act."
Bill: S3803 / A1759
Establishes pilot program to create student mental health assistance programs in selected school districts.
Bill: S3804
Establishes five-year community schools pilot program.
Bill: S3807 / A2180
Requires DCF and DOE to establish policies and procedures relating to child abuse and neglect and child abuse prevention during certain public health emergencies.
Bill: S3809
Establishes "Period Equity and Menstrual Disorders Committee" in DOH.
Bill: S3817 / A1982
Requires business using text-based chat to offer transcription of chat to consumer.
Bill: S3825
Establishes "New Jersey Community Health Worker Program" in DOH and certain training programs for community health workers.
Bill: S3840 / A4181
Permits pharmacists to dispense certain drugs in emergency without prescription.
Bill: S3868 / A3385
Clarifies public school student attendance recording and reporting requirements.
Bill: SCR111 / ACR117
Urges United States President to expand access to menstrual products in schools.
Bill: SJR94 / AJR89
Establishes "Autism and Developmental Disabilities Study Commission."
Bill: SJR96
Designates November 21 of each year as "Urinary Tract Infection Awareness Day" in NJ.
Bill: SJR97
Designates calendar week that includes September 10th of each year as "Suicide Prevention Week" in NJ.
Bill: SJR102
Designates May 17 of each year as "Menstrual Empowerment Day" in New Jersey.
Bill: SJR103 / AJR64
Designates November of each year as "Transgender Awareness Month."
Bill: SJR105
Designates November each year as "Hospice and Palliative Care Awareness Month."
Bill: SJR106 / AJR59
Designates May 15 of each year as "Water Safety Day" in New Jersey.
Bill: SJR107
Establishes "New Jersey Cybersecurity Task Force."
Bill: S155 / A335
Permits school bus driver to administer epinephrine to student in emergency under certain circumstances.
Bill: S533 / A1894
Concerns training of employees about access to public facilities for individuals with service or guide dogs.
Bill: S1374 / A3115
Requires local boards of education to employ certain number of school psychologists.
Bill: S2689
Requires employer to provide certain accommodations to employee who is breast feeding.
Bill: S3712 / A434
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.