New Jersey A 1462: Allows gross income tax deductions totaling $300,000 over five taxable years for certain primary care physicians.

Bill Text

A1462 

ASSEMBLY, No. 1462 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman ANTWAN L. MCCLELLAN

District 1 (Atlantic, Cape May and Cumberland)

Assemblywoman CAROL A. MURPHY

District 7 (Burlington)

Assemblyman BRIAN BERGEN

District 26 (Morris and Passaic)

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblyman Simonsen, Assemblywoman Flynn and Assemblyman 
Scharfenberger

SYNOPSIS

���� "Michelle's Law"; requires health benefit 
plans to cover mammogram for an individual if recommended by health care 
provider.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

���� Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative 
Counsel.

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An Act concerning health benefits for mammograms, 
designated as Michelle�s Law, and amending P.L.1991, c.279 and P.L.2004, c.86.

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

���� 1.��� Section 1 of P.L.1991, 
c.279 (C.17:48-6g) is amended to read as follows:

���� 1.��� a.� No group or individual hospital service corporation contract 
providing hospital or medical expense benefits shall be delivered, issued, 
executed, or renewed in this State or approved for issuance or renewal in this 
State by the Commissioner of Banking and Insurance, on or after the effective 
date of this act, unless the contract provides benefits to any subscriber or 
other person covered thereunder for expenses incurred in conducting:

���� (1)�� one baseline 
mammogram examination for women who are 40 years of age; a mammogram 
examination every year for women age 40 and over; and[, in the case of 
a woman who is under 40 years of age and has a family history of breast cancer 
or other breast cancer risk factors,] a mammogram examination at such age and intervals as [deemed medically 
necessary] recommended by [the woman's] a covered 
person�s health care provider; and

���� (2)�� an 
ultrasound evaluation, a magnetic resonance imaging scan, a three-dimensional 
mammography, or other additional testing of an entire breast or breasts, after 
a [baseline] mammogram examination, if the mammogram demonstrates 
extremely dense breast tissue, if the mammogram is abnormal within any degree 
of breast density including not dense, moderately dense, heterogeneously dense, 
or extremely dense breast tissue, or if the patient has additional risk factors 
for breast cancer including but not limited to family history of breast cancer, 
prior personal history of breast cancer, positive genetic testing, extremely 
dense breast tissue based on the Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System 
established by the American College of Radiology, or other indications as 
determined by the patient's health care provider. 
The coverage required under this paragraph may be subject to utilization 
review, including periodic review, by the hospital service corporation of the 
medical necessity of the additional screening and diagnostic testing.

���� b.��� These 
benefits shall be provided to the same extent as for any other sickness under 
the contract.

���� c.���� The 
provisions of this section shall apply to all contracts in which the hospital 
service corporation has reserved the right to change the premium.

(cf: 
P.L.2013, c.196, s.1)

���� 2.��� Section 2 of P.L.1991, 
c.279 (C.17:48A-7f) is amended to read as follows:

���� 2.��� a.� No group or 
individual medical service corporation contract providing hospital or medical 
expense benefits shall be delivered, issued, executed, or renewed in this State 
or approved for issuance or renewal in this State by the Commissioner of 
Banking and Insurance, on or after the effective date of this act, unless the 
contract provides benefits to any subscriber or other person covered thereunder 
for expenses incurred in conducting:

���� (1)�� one baseline mammogram examination for women who are 
40 years of age; a mammogram examination every year for women age 40 and over; 
and[, in the case of a woman who is under 40 years of age and has a family 
history of breast cancer or other breast cancer risk factors,] a mammogram 
examination at such age and intervals as [deemed medically necessary] recommended 
by [the woman's] a covered person�s health care provider; and

���� (2)�� an 
ultrasound evaluation, a magnetic resonance imaging scan, a three-dimensional 
mammography, or other additional testing of an entire breast or breasts, after 
a [baseline] mammogram examination, if the mammogram demonstrates 
extremely dense breast tissue, if the mammogram is abnormal within any degree 
of breast density including not dense, moderately dense, heterogeneously dense, 
or extremely dense breast tissue, or if the patient has additional risk factors 
for breast cancer including but not limited to family history of breast cancer, 
prior personal history of breast cancer, positive genetic testing, extremely 
dense breast tissue based on the Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System 
established by the American College of Radiology, or