Bill Text: NJ S3867 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires prescriptions for certain patients to include patients' weight.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-18 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee [S3867 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2024-S3867-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Senator RENEE C. BURGESS
District 28 (Essex and Union)
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.
