Bill Text: NJ A4129 | 2020-2021 | Regular Session | Amended


Bill Title: Requires health care facilities to report certain coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) data related to health care workers and certain first responders.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-12-17 - Substituted by S2384 (2R) [A4129 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2020-A4129-Amended.html

[First Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 4129

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

219th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED MAY 4,  2020

 


 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  WILLIAM W. SPEARMAN

District 5 (Camden and Gloucester)

Assemblywoman  VALERIE VAINIERI HUTTLE

District 37 (Bergen)

Assemblyman  RAJ MUKHERJI

District 33 (Hudson)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman Tucker, Assemblyman Giblin, Assemblywoman Downey and Assemblymen Benson and Danielsen

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires health care facilities to report certain coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) data related to health care workers and certain first responders.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As reported by the Assembly Appropriations Committee on December 14, 2020, with amendments.

  


An Act concerning data reporting related to the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.

 

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

 

     1.    a.  (1)  The Commissioner of Health shall require general acute care hospitals, special hospitals, ambulatory care facilities, ambulatory surgical centers, 1assisted living facilities, home health agencies,1 and nursing homes licensed pursuant to P.L.1971, c.136 (C.26:2H-1 et seq.) 1, as well as hospice programs licensed pursuant to P.L.1997, c.78 (C.26:2H-79 et seq.),1 to report to the Department of Health 1, either directly or through a non-profit trade association, on a bi-monthly basis, de-identified1 data on the number of health care professionals, ancillary health care workers, and emergency medical services personnel 1[affiliated with] employed by1 the facility who 1[:]1 tested positive for the coronavirus disease 2019 1[;] and who1 died from the coronavirus disease 2019 1[; and were admitted for treatment for the coronavirus disease 2019]1

     (2)   1[The commissioner shall compile the data reported pursuant to this subsection by facility type and by professional license or certification type, if any, or by job title or category] The information required pursuant to this subsection shall be filed in a form and manner as shall be required by the department.  To ensure the integrity and accuracy of the information reported pursuant to this subsection, the department shall seek to identify and minimize duplicative reporting from multiple facilities concerning the same individual in the event that the individual is employed by, or affiliated with, more than one facility that is subject to the reporting requirements set forth in this section1 .

     b.    The department shall 1[publish on its Internet website] issue a report concerning1 the occupational data received pursuant to subsection a. of this section 1[.  The department shall update its Internet website on a daily basis by publishing the latest data received by the department pursuant to subsection a. of this section.  To the extent possible, the data reported by the department pursuant to this subsection may be merged and cross-referenced with the data published by the department pursuant to subsection b. of section 1 of P.L.2020, c.28] no later than 12 months after the end of both the state of emergency and public health emergency declared in response to the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.

     c.     Nothing in this section shall be construed to require disclosure of any private health information or personal identifying information in violation of any State or federal law, including the federal "Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996," Pub.L.104-191 and any regulations promulgated thereunder by the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services1 .

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire one month after 1[the end of both the state of emergency and the public health emergency declared in response to the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic] issuance of the report required pursuant to subsection b. of section 1 of this act1 .

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