Bill Text: NJ A5832 | 2018-2019 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires State and county correctional facilities to offer inmates hepatitis B and hepatitis C testing.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-01-06 - Received in the Senate, Referred to Senate Law and Public Safety Committee [A5832 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2018-A5832-Amended.html

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[First Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 5832

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

218th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED NOVEMBER 14, 2019

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  ANTHONY S. VERRELLI

District 15 (Hunterdon and Mercer)

Assemblyman  LOUIS D. GREENWALD

District 6 (Burlington and Camden)

Assemblywoman  SHAVONDA E. SUMTER

District 35 (Bergen and Passaic)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman Vainieri Huttle and Assemblyman Caputo

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires State and county correctional facilities to offer inmates hepatitis B and hepatitis C testing.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As reported by the Assembly Law and Public Safety Committee on December 5, 2019, with amendments.

  

An Act concerning the testing of inmates for hepatitis B and hepatitis C and supplementing Title 30 of the Revised Statutes.

 

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

 

     1.    The Commissioner of Corrections shall, upon commencement of the period of confinement, offer blood testing for hepatitis B and hepatitis C to every inmate who is sentenced to a term of incarceration at a State correctional facility.  An inmate shall not be required to submit to the testing.

 

     2.    The chief executive officer, warden, or keeper of any county correctional facility shall, upon commencement of the period of confinement, offer blood testing for hepatitis B and hepatitis C to each person incarcerated in the facility.  An inmate shall not be required to submit to the testing.

 

     3.    The Commissioner of Corrections shall adopt rules and regulations pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.) to effectuate the purposes of ¹[this act] sections 1 and 2 of P.L.      , c.     (C.      ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill)¹.

 

     4.    This act shall take effect on the first day of the sixth month after enactment.