Bill Text: NJ A2403 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires emergency medical services provider to provide certain information regarding person who experienced drug overdose to DLPS.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-09 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Public Safety and Preparedness Committee [A2403 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2024-A2403-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
221st LEGISLATURE
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2024 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman ERIK K. SIMONSEN
District 1 (Atlantic, Cape May and Cumberland)
SYNOPSIS
Requires emergency medical services provider to provide certain information regarding person who experienced drug overdose to DLPS.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.
An Act concerning opioid overdoses and supplementing Title 52 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. An emergency medical services provider who administers an opioid antidote or provides other emergency treatment to a person experiencing a drug overdose shall provide information regarding that person, as deemed appropriate by the Attorney General, to the Department of Law and Public Safety. The information shall be provided for the purpose of informing the person who experienced the overdose about harm reduction strategies and available recovery resources in order to reduce the imminent threat to the health and safety of that person.
As used in this section "emergency medical services provider" means any association, organization, company, department, agency, service, program, unit, or other entity that provides pre-hospital emergency care to patients in New Jersey, including, but not limited to, a basic life support ambulance service, a mobile intensive care program or mobile intensive care unit, an air medical service, or a volunteer or non-volunteer first aid, rescue and ambulance squad.
2. The Attorney General, in consultation with the Commissioner of Health, 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 this act.
3. This act shall take effect on the first day of the fourth month after enactment.
STATEMENT
This bill requires emergency medical service providers to provide certain information regarding persons who experienced a drug overdose to the Department of Law and Public Safety.
Specifically, under the provisions of this bill, an emergency medical services provider who administers an opioid antidote or provides other emergency treatment to a person experiencing a drug overdose is required to provide information regarding that person, as deemed appropriate by the Attorney General, to the Department of Law and Public Safety.
The information is to be provided for the purpose of informing the person who experienced the overdose about harm reduction strategies and available recovery resources.
Finally, the bill requires the Attorney General, in consultation with the Commissioner of Health to adopt rules and regulations to effectuate the purposes of the bill.
