New Jersey A 1437: Establishes COVID-19 Transitional Assistance Local Grant Program in DHS.

Bill Text

A1437 

ASSEMBLY, No. 1437 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman ERIK K. SIMONSEN

District 1 (Atlantic, Cape May and Cumberland)

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblyman McClellan

SYNOPSIS

���� Requires emergency medical services provider to 
provide certain information regarding person who experienced drug overdose to 
DLPS.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

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

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An Act concerning opioid overdoses and supplementing Title 52 
of the Revised Statutes.

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

���� 1.��� An emergency medical 
services provider who administers an opioid antidote or provides other 
emergency treatment to a person experiencing a drug overdose shall provide 
information regarding that person, as deemed appropriate by the Attorney 
General, to the Department of Law and Public Safety.� The information shall be 
provided for the purpose of informing the person who experienced the overdose 
about harm reduction strategies and available recovery resources in order to 
reduce the imminent threat to the health and safety of that person. 

���� As used in this section 
�emergency medical services provider� means any association, organization, 
company, department, agency, service, program, unit, or other entity that 
provides pre-hospital emergency care to patients in New Jersey, including, but 
not limited to, a basic life support ambulance service, a mobile intensive care 
program or mobile intensive care unit, an air medical service, or a volunteer 
or non-volunteer first aid, rescue and ambulance squad.

���� 2.��� The Attorney General, in 
consultation with the Commissioner of Health, shall adopt rules and regulations 
pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 
(C.52:14B-1 et seq.) to effectuate the purposes of this act.

���� 3.��� This act shall take 
effect on the first day of the fourth month after enactment. 

STATEMENT

���� This bill requires emergency 
medical service providers to provide certain information regarding persons who 
experienced a drug overdose to the Department of Law and Public Safety.

���� Specifically, under the 
provisions of this bill, an emergency medical services provider who administers 
an opioid antidote or provides other emergency treatment to a person 
experiencing a drug overdose is required to provide information regarding that 
person, as deemed appropriate by the Attorney General, to the Department of Law 
and Public Safety.� 

���� The information is to be 
provided for the purpose of informing the person who experienced the overdose 
about harm reduction strategies and available recovery resources. 

���� Finally, the bill requires the 
Attorney General, in consultation with the Commissioner of Health to adopt 
rules and regulations to effectuate the purposes of the bill.�