Bill Text: NJ A2583 | 2022-2023 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires information on seizure first-aid to be disseminated to employers.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-2)

Status: (Passed) 2023-11-20 - Approved P.L.2023, c.173. [A2583 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2022-A2583-Amended.html

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[Third Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 2583

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

220th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 14, 2022

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  LOUIS D. GREENWALD

District 6 (Burlington and Camden)

Assemblyman  HERB CONAWAY, JR.

District 7 (Burlington)

Assemblyman  STERLEY S. STANLEY

District 18 (Middlesex)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblywomen Speight and Lampitt

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires information on seizure first-aid to be disseminated to employers.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As amended by the Senate on February 2, 2023.

  

An Act concerning seizures in the workplace 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.  As used in this section:

     "Seizure first aid" means non-medical procedures to respond, attend, and provide comfort and safety to a person suffering from a primary generalized tonic-clonic seizure or complex partial seizure. 

     b.    The Department of Health shall ¹[make available on its Internet website information] create an informational pamphlet^{1 3}or poster³ for employers on rendering seizure first aid to an individual who has suffered a seizure in the workplace.  ³The informational pamphlet or poster may incorporate any available federal guidance, or guidance from non-profit organizations that support the welfare of individuals with epilepsy and seizure disorders, concerning seizure first aid.³  The Department of ¹[Health] Labor and Workforce Development shall make the informational pamphlet ³or poster³ available on its Internet website and¹ shall additionally disseminate such information to employers in a manner to be determined by the Commissioner of ¹[Health] Labor and Workforce Development¹.

     c.     An employer in this State may provide the information disseminated by the department, pursuant to subsection ²[a.] b.² of this section, to employees and post the information in a prominent place within the employer's workplace.

 

     2.  This act shall take effect immediately.