Bill Text: NJ S4241 | 2026-2027 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires State agencies to provide information regarding living donations; appropriates $1 million.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced) 2026-05-14 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee [S4241 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2026-S4241-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Senator BENJIE E. WIMBERLY
District 35 (Bergen and Passaic)
SYNOPSIS
Requires State agencies to provide information regarding living donations; appropriates $1 million.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning State agencies and living donation information, supplementing Title 26 of the Revised Statutes, and making an appropriation.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. Each State agency, in consultation with the Department of Human Services, shall provide information for the purpose of educating the public about living donations. The information shall be provided in both a hard copy paper form at each State agency location and prominently posted in a digital format on the respective agency's Internet website, and in any other location and manner as the department deems appropriate.
b. The Department of Human Services shall provide each State agency with the appropriate information for distribution to the public and shall update the information as necessary and appropriate, but not less than on a biennial basis.
c. As used in this section:
"Living donation" means the donation of an anatomical gift by a living donor for the purpose of transplantation into another individual.
"State agency" means any State department in the executive branch, and any authority, commission, office, department, division, bureau, board, or instrumentality thereof, including any State college or public institution of higher education, but not including local government units.
d. The Department of Human Services shall adopt, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), such rules and regulations as may be necessary to implement the provisions of this section.
2. There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Human Services the sum of $1,000,000 to effectuate the purposes of this act, P.L. , c. (C. ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill).
3. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill requires each State agency, in consultation with the Department of Human Services, to provide information for the purpose of educating the public about living donations. The information will be provided in both a hard copy paper form at each State agency location and prominently posted in a digital format on the respective agency's Internet websites.
The Department of Human Services will provide each State agency with the appropriate information for distribution to the public and will update the information on no less than a biennial basis.
The bill defines "living donation" to mean the donation of an anatomical gift by a living donor for the purpose of transplantation into another individual.
The bill also appropriates from the General Fund to the Department of Human Services the sum of $1,000,000 to effectuate the purposes of this bill.
