Bill Text: NJ S383 | 2016-2017 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires certain DOC, county, and municipal prison physicians to acquire certain training.

Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-08 - Referred to Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee [S383 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2016-S383-Amended.html

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[First Reprint]

SENATE, No. 383

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

217th LEGISLATURE

 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2016 SESSION

 

 

Sponsored by:

Senator  PETER J. BARNES, III

District 18 (Middlesex)

Senator  BRIAN P. STACK

District 33 (Hudson)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Senator Bateman

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires certain DOC, county, and municipal prison physicians to acquire certain training.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As reported by the Senate Law and Public Safety Committee on February 4, 2016, with amendments.

  

An Act concerning qualifications for certain physicians assigned supervisory authority in State, county, and municipal correctional facilities and supplementing Title 30 of the Revised Statutes.

 

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

 

     1.    Within 180 days of a physician being assigned primary supervisory authority over other medical personnel at each correctional facility operated by the Department of Corrections, each county correctional facility, or each municipal jail, ¹[such] the¹ physician shall be trained or certified in addiction medicine to meet ¹or hold¹ one or more of the following ¹[qualifications]¹:

     a.     ¹[The physician holds a] A¹ subspecialty board certification in addiction psychiatry from the American Board of Medical Specialties;

     b.    ¹[The physician holds an] An¹ addiction certification from the American Society of Addiction Medicine;

     c.     ¹[The physician holds] A¹ subspecialty board certification in addiction medicine from the American Osteopathic Association; or

     d.    ¹[The physician has completed not] Not¹ less than eight hours of training with respect to the treatment and management of opioid-addicted patients.

     ¹[This] The¹ training ¹authorized by this subsection¹ may be provided through classroom situations, seminars, at professional society meetings, through electronic communications, or otherwise.  The training ¹[must] shall¹ be conducted by an organization that the ¹[Commissioner of Health] State Board of Medical Examiners¹ determines to be appropriate.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.