Bill Text: NJ A5446 | 2018-2019 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires reporting of opioid deaths.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-6)

Status: (Vetoed) 2020-01-21 - Pocket Veto - Bills not Acted on by Governor-end of Session [A5446 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2018-A5446-Amended.html

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[First Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 5446

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

218th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED MAY 23, 2019

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  R. BRUCE LAND

District 1 (Atlantic, Cape May and Cumberland)

Assemblywoman  VERLINA REYNOLDS-JACKSON

District 15 (Hunterdon and Mercer)

Assemblyman  ANTHONY S. VERRELLI

District 15 (Hunterdon and Mercer)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman Vainieri Huttle, Assemblymen Armato and Mazzeo

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires reporting of opioid deaths.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As reported by the Assembly Law and Public Safety Committee on June 6, 2019, with amendments.

 

An Act concerning opioid deaths and supplementing Title 26 of the Revised Statutes.

 

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

 

     1.    a.   A coroner, medical examiner, or health care professional who examines an individual whose death was caused by opioid use¹[,]¹ shall report the death and the type of opioid that was the cause of death, if ¹[such] that¹ information is ascertainable, to the Department of Health, ¹[as] in a manner¹ determined by the ¹[Department] Commissioner¹ of Health.

     As used in this ¹[subsection] section¹ :   

     ¹"Department" means the Department of Health.¹

     "Health care professional" means an individual licensed by this State, pursuant to Title 45 of the Revised Statutes, to administer health care in the ordinary course of business or practice of a profession.

     b.    The ¹[Department] Commissioner¹ of Health shall publish on ¹[it's] the department's¹ Internet website the number of deaths caused by opioids and the type of opioid that was the cause of death, if ¹[such] that¹ information is ascertainable, according to reports received by the ¹[Department of Health] department¹  pursuant to subsection a. of this section.

 

     2.    The ¹[Department] Commissioner¹ of Health shall, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), adopt rules or regulations as are necessary to effectuate the provisions of this act.

 

     3.    This act shall take effect 180 days after enactment.