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Bill Text

A4896 

ASSEMBLY, No. 4896 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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INTRODUCED MAY 7, 2026

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman� VERLINA REYNOLDS-JACKSON

District 15 (Hunterdon and Mercer)

Assemblywoman� LINDA S. CARTER

District 22 (Somerset and Union)

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblymen Danielsen and G.Rodriguez

SYNOPSIS

���� "Behavioral Health Crisis Mobile Response 
Act." 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

���� As introduced.

�� 

An Act concerning behavioral crisis mobile response and 
supplementing Titles 26 and 30 of the Revised Statutes.

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

���� 1.��� This act shall be known, 
and may be cited, as the �Behavioral Health Crisis Mobile Response Act.�

���� 2.��� As used in this act: 

���� �9-8-8 Crisis Hotline Center� 
or �hotline center� means a State identified and funded center participating in 
the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline Network to respond to Statewide or 
regional 9- 8-8 calls. 

���� �9-8-8 Suicide Prevention and 
Mental Health Crisis Hotline� means the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline 
(NSPL) or its successor maintained by the Assistant Secretary for Mental 
Health� and Substance Use under section 520E�3 of the federal Public Health 
Service Act.

���� �Adult in crisis� means an 
adult with disabilities who is experiencing a behavioral health crisis. 

���� �Behavioral health crisis� 
means an emergency or crisis situation� in which an adult with a disability 
experiences mental, emotional, or behavioral health challenges that endanger 
the health, safety, or wellbeing of the disabled adult, or of other persons 
interacting with the disabled adult, and which cannot be controlled, or 
otherwise properly addressed or stabilized by the adult, or by the adult�s 
family members, attendant caregivers, or direct care staff members, without 
professional assistance. 

���� �Crisis bed� means an 
available bed in a temporary stabilization unit that is used, when needed, for 
the temporary placement, not exceeding seven days, and stabilization of an 
adult in crisis. 

���� �Crisis response� means 
face-to-face emergency response, which� is provided by a mobile crisis response 
team under this act, with the� assistance of a temporary stabilization unit, 
where needed, and which is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, to de-escalate 
and stabilize any behavioral health crisis being experienced by an adult with 
disabilities. 

���� �Crisis response services� 
means services that are provided during the initial crisis response period, 
either by a mobile crisis response team, or by a temporary stabilization unit, 
to stabilize the adult in crisis. 

���� �Department� means the 
Department of Human Services. 

���� �Direct care staff member� 
means a person 18 years of age or older who is employed by a group home, and 
who may come into direct contact with group home residents.

���� �Disability� means an 
intellectual or developmental disability, or a mental illness. 

���� �Group home� means the same as 
that term is defined by section� 1 of P.L.2017, c.238 (C.30:6D-9.1). 

���� �Home� means a private 
residence or a community-based residential facility, such as a group home or 
halfway house, where an adult in crisis is a resident. 

���� �Individualized crisis 
stabilization plan (ICSP)� means an individualized service plan, developed by a 
mobile crisis response team for an adult in crisis, which identifies target 
behaviors to be addressed in, desired outcomes to be attained by, and necessary 
mental or behavioral health services to be provided to, the adult in crisis, 
both during the initial crisis response period and, if indicated, during a 
subsequent stabilization management period lasting up to eight weeks 
thereafter, as necessary to ensure the stabilization of the adult in crisis and 
minimize or eliminate the dangers stemming from the crisis. 

���� �Initial 72-hour mobile 
response period� means the initial period of time, lasting 72 hours, over a 
four-day span of time, during which a mobile crisis response team is required 
to provide mobile� crisis response services to an adult in crisis, while at the 
adult�s home or at another place where the adult is located, as provided by 
section 5 of this act. 

���� �Initial 72-hour mobile 
response period� does not include any time during which the adult in crisis is 
housed in a temporary stabilization unit. 

���� �Initial crisis response 
period� means the initial 72-hour mobile response period, and any additional 
period of time, lasting up to seven days, during which the adult in crisis is 
housed in a temporary stabilization unit.

���� �Initial crisis response 
period� shall include the period of time during which an adult in crisis is 
being� transported by a mobile crisis response unit from the person�s home, or 
other place where the person is located, to a temporary� stabilization unit. 

���� �Mental health care 
professional� means a ps