‘New Jersey Fair Play Act’ & Measures Banning Smoking in Airport Pickup Areas, Establishing Regional Health Hub Program on Thursday Assembly Panel Agendas
‘New Jersey Fair Play Act’ & Measures Banning Smoking in Airport Pickup Areas, Establishing Regional Health Hub Program on Thursday Assembly Panel Agendas
Also: Legislation Concerning Hospitals in Financial Distress, Creating the ‘New Jersey Investing in You Promise Neighborhood Commission’ & Protecting Our Neighborhoods under the New Townhouse Safety Act To Be Reviewed by Assembly Committees
(TRENTON) – Increasing college affordability for New Jersey’s brightest, allowing college athletes to profit off their name and likeness, establishing regional health hubs throughout the state and legislation derived from the Bayonne Hospital closing are all up for a vote in Assembly Committees Thursday.
A bill establishing the ‘James Nicholas Rentas Law,’ revises ‘New Jersey Smoke-Free Air Act’ to apply to passenger pickup areas at New Jersey airports will also be heard by an Assembly panel tomorrow.
All committees will be held in the Statehouse in Trenton starting at 10 a.m.
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-5863
Swain/Tully |
“New Jersey Fair Play Act”; allows collegiate student-athletes to earn compensation for use of name, image, or likeness. |
| A-4683
Speight/Munoz, N/Tucker S-3116 (2R) Ruiz |
Requires certain medical facilities to undertake end-of-life planning and training as condition of licensure. |
| A-4685
Speight/Pinkin/Munoz, N S-3117 (1R) Ruiz |
Requires emergency departments to take certain measures concerning palliative care for patients. |
| A-5916
Chiaravalloti/McKnight |
Authorizes DOH to notify elected officials of financial distress of certain hospitals. |
| A-5917
Chiaravalloti/McKnight |
Expands DOH oversight of hospital finances. |
| A-5918
Chiaravalloti/McKnight |
Expands hospital reporting requirements. |
| A-5977
Greenwald |
Provides for establishment of Regional Health Hub Program as replacement to Accountable Care Organization Demonstration Project, and designates existing accountable care organizations and look-alike organizations as Regional Health Hubs. |
| A-5832
Verrelli/Greenwald/ Sumter |
Requires State and county correctional facilities to offer inmates hepatitis B and hepatitis C testing. |
| AJR-64
McKeon/Danielsen SJR-34 (2R) Greenstein |
Establishes Commission on Drunk and Impaired Driving. |
| AJR-189
Verrelli/Reynolds-Jackson SJR-51 Rice/Turner |
Establishes the “New Jersey State Commission on Urban Violence.” |
| A-5028
Mukherji/Conaway/ Pintor Marin
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Establishes “James Nicholas Rentas’s Law,” revises “New Jersey Smoke-Free Air Act.” |
