Bill Text: NJ S4156 | 2022-2023 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires Department of Health to provide information to Statewide 2-1-1 telephone system regarding the location of safe disposal sites for hypodermic syringes and needles and prescription drugs.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-01-08 - Substituted by A4337 (1R) [S4156 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2022-S4156-Introduced.html

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SENATE, No. 4156

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

220th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED NOVEMBER 30, 2023

 

 

Sponsored by:

Senator  TROY SINGLETON

District 7 (Burlington)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires Department of Health to provide information to Statewide 2-1-1 telephone system regarding the location of safe disposal sites for hypodermic syringes and needles and prescription drugs.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  

An Act concerning hypodermic syringes and needles and prescription drugs and medication, and supplementing Title 45 of the Revised Statutes.

 

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

 

      1.   The [Division of Consumer Affairs in the] Department of [Law and Public Safety] Health shall periodically provide the Statewide 2-1-1 telephone system with information regarding the location of safe disposal sites for hypodermic syringes and needles and prescription drugs and medication for dissemination to customers of the Statewide 2-1-1 telephone system upon customers' request.

 

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

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     Under the bill, the Department of Health is to periodically provide the Statewide 2-1-1 telephone system with information regarding the location of safe disposal sites for hypodermic syringes and needles and prescription drugs and medication for dissemination to customers of the Statewide 2-1-1 telephone system upon customers' requests.