New Jersey S 3604: Authorizes use of healthcare platforms providing discounted prices for payment of prescription and non-prescription drugs or devices and for telehealth and telemedicine services.

Bill Text

S3604 

SENATE, No. 3604 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 19, 2026

Sponsored by:

Senator� ANTHONY M. BUCCO

District 25 (Morris and Passaic)

Senator� GORDON M. JOHNSON

District 37 (Bergen)

SYNOPSIS

���� Exempts certain workers and organizations from 
Domestic Workers� Bill of Rights. 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

���� As introduced.

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An Act concerning domestic workers and amending P.L.2023, 
c.262.

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

���� 1.��� Section 2 of P.L.2023, 
c.262 (C.34:11-70) is amended to read as follows:

���� 2.��� As used in P.L.2023, 
c.262 (C.34:11-69 et al.):

���� "Casual work" means 
work that is:

���� (1)�� irregular, uncertain, or 
incidental in nature and duration; and

���� (2)�� different in nature from 
the type of paid work in which the worker is customarily engaged.

���� "Domestic services" 
means services of a household nature and performed by an individual in or about 
a private home on a permanent or temporary basis and includes services 
performed by a domestic worker.

���� "Domestic worker" or 
"worker" means hourly and salaried employees, full-time and part-time 
individuals, and temporary individuals and is narrowly construed to mean any 
worker who: 

���� (1)�� works for one or more 
employers; and 

���� (2)�� is an individual who 
works in residence for the purposes of providing any of the following services: 
caring for a child; serving as a companion or caretaker for a sick, 
convalescing, or elderly person or a person with a disability; housekeeping or 
house cleaning; cooking; providing food or butler service; parking cars; 
cleaning laundry; gardening; personal organizing; or for any other domestic 
service purpose, provided that the term domestic worker does not include:

���� (a)�� A family member, with 
"family member" meaning a spouse, child, parent, sibling, aunt, 
uncle, niece, nephew, first cousin, grandparent, grandchild, father-in-law, 
mother-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, stepparent, stepchild, stepbrother, 
stepsister, half-brother, or half-sister, whether the individual is related by 
blood, marriage, or adoption;

���� (b)�� An individual primarily 
engaged in house sitting, pet sitting, or dog walking;

���� (c)�� An individual working at 
a business operated primarily out of the residence, such as a home day-care 
business;

���� (d)�� An individual whose 
primary work involves household repair or maintenance, such as a roofer, 
plumber, mason, painter, or other similar contractor;

���� (e)�� An employee of the State 
or the United States; [or]

���� (f)�� An individual 
established as a kinship legal guardian, as defined by section 2 of P.L.2001, 
c.250 (C.3B:12A-2), of a child who lives in the residence or an individual who 
participates in the Kinship Navigator Program, as authorized by the Department 
of Children and Families, as a caregiver of a child who lives in the residence 
and receives services provided by a kinship navigator service provider ;

���� (g) An individual who is 
duly licensed or certified under State law and has satisfied background check 
and credentialing requirements pursuant to that licensure or certification, 
including certified homemaker-home health aides;

���� (h) A home care services 
agency, as defined in section 1 of P.L.1947, c. 262 (C.45:11-23) and licensed pursuant 
to P.L.1971, c.136 (C.26:2H-1 et al.), including a health care service firm 
registered pursuant to P.L.1989, c.331 (C.34:8-43 et al.), which performs 
employee background checks; and 

���� (i) A hospice care program 
licensed under P.L.1997, c.78 (26:2H-79 et seq.) and subject to personnel 
screening and background-check requirements.

���� "Department" means 
the Department of Labor and Workforce Development.

���� "Employment agency" 
means any person or entity that procures, or attempts to procure, any workers 
for referral to a third party.

���� "Hiring entity" 
means any employer, as defined in section 1 of P.L.1965, c.173 (C.34:11-4.1), 
who employs a domestic worker and also means any person, firm, business, 
partnership, association, corporation, limited liability company, or other entity, 
including referral, employment, and internet based or on-demand platforms, that 
provides compensation directly or indirectly to a domestic worker for the 
performance of domestic services and any person or persons acting directly or 
indirectly in the interest of the employer in relation to the domestic worker. �Hiring 
entity� shall not include a home care service agency, including a health care 
service firm, or a licensed hospice care program, with respect to services 
performed by licensed or certified workers acting within the scope of their 
licensure or certification.

���� "Live-in domestic 
worker" includes any individuals, who, as part of their employment, reside 
in the personal residence of the employer.

���� "Referral agency" 
means an