Bill Text: NJ S2695 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires menopause information to be distributed under certain circumstances.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-12 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee [S2695 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2024-S2695-Introduced.html

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SENATE, No. 2695

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

221st LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 12, 2024

 

 

Sponsored by:

Senator  ANGELA V. MCKNIGHT

District 31 (Hudson)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires menopause information to be distributed under certain circumstances.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  

An Act concerning menopause and supplementing Title 26 of the Revised Statutes.

 

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

 

     1.    a. Commencing 180 days following the effective date of this act, a licensed health care professional who performs an annual physical examination on a female patient who is 40 years of age or older shall provide the female patient an informational pamphlet on perimenopause, menopause, and post-menopause, as prepared and published by the Department of Health pursuant to subsection b. of this section, during the visit. 

     b. Within 90 days following the effective date of this act, the Department of Health shall prepare and publish on its Internet website an informational pamphlet on perimenopause, menopause, and post-menopause, in order to effectuate the purposes of this act.

 

     2.  This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill requires menopause information to be distributed under certain circumstances.

     Under the bill, commencing 180 days following the bill's effective date, a licensed health care professional who performs an annual physical examination on a female patient who is 40 years of age or older is to provide the female patient an informational pamphlet on perimenopause, menopause, and post-menopause, as prepared and published by the Department of Health pursuant to the bill, during the visit. 

     The bill provides that, within 90 days following the bill's effective date, the Department of Health is to prepare and publish on its Internet website an informational pamphlet on perimenopause, menopause, and post-menopause.