Bill Text: NJ A680 | 2016-2017 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires emergency action plans for delivery of oxygen to patient residences during public health emergency.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-01-30 - Received in the Senate, Referred to Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee [A680 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2016-A680-Amended.html

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[First Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 680

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

217th LEGISLATURE

 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2016 SESSION

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman  NANCY F. MUNOZ

District 21 (Morris, Somerset and Union)

Assemblywoman  VALERIE VAINIERI HUTTLE

District 37 (Bergen)

Assemblyman  TIM EUSTACE

District 38 (Bergen and Passaic)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman Pinkin

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires emergency action plans for delivery of oxygen to patient residences during public health emergency.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As amended by the General Assembly on December 19, 2016.

 

An Act concerning the delivery of oxygen to a patient's residence under emergency conditions and supplementing Title 52 of the Revised Statutes.

 

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

 

1.      As used in this act:

     "Director" means the Director of the Division of Consumer Affairs in the Department of Law and Public Safety.

     "Pharmacy" means a pharmacy operating in accordance with the provisions of P.L.2003, c.280 (C.45:14-40 et seq.).

     "Public health emergency" means a public health emergency as defined in section 2 of P.L.2005, c.222 (C.26:13-2).

 

     2.    a.  Each pharmacy or other provider of oxygen or an oxygen delivery system that has supplied oxygen or an oxygen delivery system to a patient, for use in the patient's residence, on order from a licensed health care professional shall prepare and adopt an emergency action plan, in accordance with requirements to be established by the director, which sets forth the procedures that the pharmacy or other provider shall follow, in the event of a public health emergency, in order to:  ensure the availability of oxygen to that patient, to the maximum extent practicable; and be responsive to inquiries or requests made by, or on behalf of, the patient concerning the patient's need for, or receipt of, oxygen or an oxygen delivery system by the pharmacy or other provider.

     b. The director shall notify all pharmacies ¹and all other licensed providers of oxygen or oxygen delivery systems¹ in the State of the requirements of this act ¹[, and shall provide public notice to other providers of oxygen or oxygen delivery systems of the requirements of this act in newspapers throughout the State]¹.

 

     3.    The director, in consultation with the Commissioner of Health and the Director of the State Office of Emergency Management and pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), shall adopt rules and regulations to effectuate the purposes of this act.

 

     4.    This act shall take effect on the first day of the seventh month next following enactment, except the director may take such anticipatory administrative action in advance as shall be necessary for the implementation of this act.