Bill Text: NJ A4837 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires prescriptions for certain patients to include patients' weight.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-09-23 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Health Committee [A4837 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2024-A4837-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 4837

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

221st LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman  ANDREA KATZ

District 8 (Atlantic and Burlington)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires prescriptions for certain patients to include patients' weight.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  

An Act concerning prescriptions for medication and supplementing Title 45 of the Revised Statues.

 

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

 

     1.  Notwithstanding the provision of any law, regulation, rule, or order to the contrary, any prescription or order for medication issued by an authorized prescriber for a patient, who is 18 years of age or younger, shall include the patient's weight expressed in kilograms on the prescription or order.

 

     2. This act shall take effect 180 days after the date of enactment.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill provides that any prescription or order for medication issued by an authorized prescriber for a patient, who is 18 years of age or younger, is to include the patient's weight expressed in kilograms on the prescription or order.