Bill Text: NJ A2340 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires long-term care facilities to meet with residents and residents' families to review emergency contact information and to offer residents opportunity to update information.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-09 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Aging and Human Services Committee [A2340 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2024-A2340-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 2340

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

221st LEGISLATURE

 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2024 SESSION

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  CHRIS TULLY

District 38 (Bergen)

Assemblywoman  LISA SWAIN

District 38 (Bergen)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman Speight and Assemblyman Danielsen

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires long-term care facilities to meet with residents and residents' families to review emergency contact information and to offer residents opportunity to update information.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.

  

An Act concerning long-term care facilities and supplementing Title 26 of the Revised Statues.

 

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

 

     1.    a.  As used in this section:

     "Long-term care facility" means a nursing home, assisted living residence, comprehensive personal care home, residential health care facility, or dementia care home licensed pursuant to P.L.1971, c.136 (C.26:2H-1 et seq.).

     b.    Consistent with federal and State privacy laws, a long-term care facility shall meet, at a minimum, once annually with each resident and the resident's family to discuss and review the emergency contact information for the resident on file with the long-term care facility. 

     c.     Consistent with federal and State privacy laws, and in addition to the meeting required pursuant to subsection b. of this section with the resident's family, a long-term care facility shall offer each resident the opportunity to update the resident's emergency contact information with the long-term care facility, at a minimum, twice annually.

     d.    For the purposes of this section, emergency contact information shall include a primary and a secondary contact.

     e.     The provisions of this section shall not be construed to prohibit a long-term care facility from sharing information regarding a resident to an individual not on file as an emergency contact.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

      This bill requires long-term care facilities to offer residents the opportunity to update emergency contact information.

      Under the bill, consistent with federal and State privacy laws, a long-term care facility is to meet, at a minimum, once annually with each resident and the resident's family to discuss and review the emergency contact information for the resident on file with the long-term care facility.  Moreover, in addition to the meeting required with the resident's family, a long-term care facility is to offer each resident the opportunity to update the resident's emergency contact information with the long-term care facility, at a minimum, twice annually.  Under the bill, emergency contact information is to include a primary and a secondary contact

      Finally, the bill provides that its provisions are not to be construed

to prohibit a long-term care facility from sharing information regarding a resident to an individual not on file as an emergency contact.