Assembly Committees to Consider Bills Creating a State-Based ACA Marketplace, Cleaning Up Vacant Properties, Tracking Fentanyl and Illegal Drugs & Requiring Outbreak Response Plans
Assembly Committees to Consider Bills Creating a State-Based ACA Marketplace, Cleaning Up Vacant Properties, Tracking Fentanyl and Illegal Drugs & Requiring Outbreak Response Plans
**Also on Tap: Testimony Regarding a Student Loan Investigative Office and a Resolution to Designate a “Knock Out Opioid Abuse Day”**
(TRENTON) – Seven Assembly committees will meet on Thursday starting at 10:00 AM in the State House Annex in Trenton.
The Assembly Financial Institutions and Insurance Committee will consider several bills that would ensure the continuation of existing health insurance regulations, regardless of what happens on a federal level, by codifying certain provisions in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) into state law. The panel begins at 10:00 AM in Committee Room 16.
The Assembly Consumer Affairs Committee will consider a bill regarding the sale of devices to help prevent accidents due to furniture tipping over. The committee will meet at 10:00 AM in Committee Room 13.
In addition, the Assembly Higher Education Committee will receive testimony from Seth Frotman, former Student Loan Ombudsman for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and current Executive Director of the Student Borrower Protection Center. He will provide testimony on a proposed bill to establish an office dedicated to the investigation of complaints regarding student loan mismanagement. The panel will begin at 10:00 AM in Committee Room 15.
The full Assembly committee agendas can be found here.
Audio live stream is available: https://www.njleg.state.nj.us/media/live_audio.asp
Committee agenda highlights include:
| A-4593
Schaer |
Requires certain furniture retailers to provide notice of furniture tip over risks; requires tip restraint devices be available for purchase. |
| A-5499
Conaway/McKeon (pending intro and referral) |
Authorizes DOBI to establish State-based exchange for certain health benefits plans. |
| A-5500
Greenwald/Lopez (pending intro and referral) |
Expands rate review process in DOBI for certain individual and small employer health benefits plans. |
| A-5501
McKeon/Vainieri Huttle (pending intro and referral) |
Requires continuation of health benefits dependent coverage until child turns 26 years of age. |
| A-5502
Sumter/Verrelli/Reynolds-Jackson (pending intro and referral) |
Revises definition of small employer under New Jersey Small Employer Health Benefits Program. |
| A-5503
Reynolds-Jackson/Swain (pending intro and referral) |
Establishes open enrollment period under Individual Health Coverage Program. |
| A-5504
Benson/Schaer (pending intro and referral) |
Applies 85 percent loss ratio requirement to large group health insurance plans. |
| A-5505
Quijano/Pinkin (pending intro and referral) |
Revises certain permissible rating factors for premiums charged for individual and small employer health benefits plans. |
| A-5506
Tully/Danielsen (pending intro and referral) |
Repeals statute authorizing offering of “Basic and Essential” health benefits plans under individual health benefits and small employer health benefits plans and other statutes concerning basic health plans; makes conforming amendments. |
| A-5507
McKeon/Conaway (pending intro and referral) |
Requires health benefits coverage for certain preventive services. |
| A-5508
Zwicker/Murphy (pending intro and referral) |
Revises law requiring health benefits coverage for certain contraceptives. |
| A-5509
Mosquera/Timberlake (pending intro and referral) |
Requires health benefits coverage for breastfeeding support. |
| A-5510
McKeon/DeAngelo (pending intro and referral) |
Expands “Law Against Discrimination” to apply to health programs and activities and to prohibit discrimination based on association with individuals in protected classes. |
| A-5192
Freiman/Lopez/Tully |
Requires pharmaceutical manufacturers to institute drug take back programs and certain pharmacies to become authorized collectors of unused drugs. |
| A-5527
Conaway/Tully/Swain (pending intro and referral) |
Requires certain long-term care facilities to submit outbreak response plan to DOH. |
| A-455
Schaer/Quijano/Mukherji/Holley/Danielsen S-1149 Cunningham/Brown |
Establishes Office of Student Loan Ombudsman; regulates student loan servicers. |
| A-3216
Andrzejczak/Land/ Murphy/Milam |
Requires creditors to maintain interior of vacant and abandoned residential property under foreclosure. |
| A-5084
Speight/ Reynolds-Jackson/ Vainieri Huttle |
Requires registration of certain vacant and abandoned properties with municipalities and provides enforcement tools related to maintenance of these properties. |
| A-5445
Swain/Tully/Spearman |
Requires AG to establish program to detect fentanyl in State’s illegal drug supply and make information related to presence of fentanyl available in database accessible by law enforcement. |
| A-5451
Freiman/Danielsen/ Vainieri Huttle |
Establishes public awareness campaign about Pregnant Women/Women With Dependent Children initiative and Maternal Wrap Around program. |
| AJR-95
Vainieri Huttle (pending referral) |
Permanently designating October 6 as “Knock Out Opioid Abuse Day” in New Jersey. |
