Bill Text: NJ A2343 | 2016-2017 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires appropriate insurance company to provide coverage to Good Samaritan injured at scene of accident.*

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-12-04 - Reported out of Assembly Comm. with Amendments, 2nd Reading [A2343 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2016-A2343-Amended.html

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[First Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 2343

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

217th LEGISLATURE

INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 4, 2016

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  DANIEL R. BENSON

District 14 (Mercer and Middlesex)

Assemblyman  JAY WEBBER

District 26 (Essex, Morris and Passaic)

Assemblyman  EDWARD H. THOMSON

District 30 (Monmouth and Ocean)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman Jones

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires appropriate insurance company to provide coverage to Good Samaritan injured at scene of accident.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As reported by the Assembly Homeland Security and State Preparedness Committee on December 4, 2017, with amendments.

 

An Act concerning ambulance services provided to certain individuals and supplementing P.L.1963, c.140 (C.2A:62A-1 et seq.).

 

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

 

     1.    a.  ¹[Any] The appropriate insurance carrier providing coverage to a¹ person¹[,]¹ who ¹[would qualify as being] is¹ afforded immunity from civil liability under section 1 of P.L.1963, c.140 (C.2A:62A-1), section 5 of P.L.1996, c.115 (C.2A:62A-1.1), section 1 of P.L.1998, c.101 (C.2A:62A-1.2), or section 10 of P.L.2004, c.17 (C.2A:62A-1.3) ¹[,]¹ and who receives ambulance service as the result of an injury incurred while rendering or attempting to render care at the scene of an accident or emergency to ¹[the] any¹ victim ¹[or victims thereof]¹, or while transporting ¹[the] any¹ victim ¹[or victims thereof]¹ to a hospital or other facility where treatment or care is to be rendered, shall ¹[not be required to pay] assume¹ the cost for ¹[such] the¹ ambulance service.

     b.    For the purposes of this section, "ambulance service" means the provision of emergency health care services, basic life support services, advanced life support services, critical care services, mobile intensive care services, or emergency medical transportation in a vehicle that is licensed, equipped, and staffed in accordance with the requirements set forth by the Commissioner of Health.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.