Bill Text: NJ A2558 | 2014-2015 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires assisted living residences and comprehensive personal care homes to ensure connection of emergency cords in residential units to facility staff.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-02-10 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Health and Senior Services Committee [A2558 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2014-A2558-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 2558

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

216th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 10, 2014

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  CARMELO G. GARCIA

District 33 (Hudson)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires assisted living residences and comprehensive personal care homes to ensure connection of emergency cords in residential units to facility staff.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  

An Act concerning emergency response by assisted living residences and comprehensive personal care homes and supplementing Title 26 of the Revised Statutes.

 

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

 

     1.    A facility licensed to operate as an assisted living residence or comprehensive personal care home pursuant to P.L.1971, c.136 (C.26:2H-1 et seq.) shall ensure that each of its residential units is equipped with an emergency cord that is continuously connected, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to a station or person responsible for responding in the event that a resident uses the emergency cord to contact facility staff.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill requires that all State-licensed assisted living residences and comprehensive personal care homes ensure that each of their residential units is equipped with an emergency cord that is continuously connected, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to a station or person responsible for responding in the event that a resident uses the emergency cord to contact facility staff.