Bill Text: NJ A4332 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Requires certain ultrasounds on pregnant women to be performed by licensed health care professionals.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-14 - Reported out of Asm. Comm. with Amendments, and Referred to Assembly Health Committee [A4332 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2024-A4332-Amended.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblywoman SHANIQUE SPEIGHT
District 29 (Essex and Hudson)
Assemblyman REGINALD W. ATKINS
District 20 (Union)
SYNOPSIS
Requires certain ultrasounds on pregnant women to be performed by licensed health care professionals.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As reported by the Assembly Regulated Professions Committee on November 14, 2024, with amendments.
An Act concerning the performance of ultrasounds on pregnant women by licensed health care professionals and supplementing Title 45 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. The performance of any ultrasound on a pregnant woman in a limited service pregnancy center shall be performed by a health care professional whose scope of practice includes performing ultrasounds 1or a sonographer who is certified by the American Registry of Diagnostic Medical Sonographers or the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists1.
b. For the purposes of this section:
"Health care professional" means a person licensed or otherwise authorized pursuant to Title 45 or Title 52 of the Revised Statutes to practice a health care profession that is regulated by the Director of the Division of Consumer Affairs or by one of the professional licensing boards located thereunder.
"Limited service pregnancy center" means 1[an organization, including a pregnancy counseling organization or crisis pregnancy center, that for a fee or free of charge provides pregnancy counseling or information but does not perform abortions or make referrals to an abortion provider and ] a facility or entity, including a mobile facility, the primary purpose of which is to provide services to clients who are or may be pregnant, that:
(1) (a)1 is not 1a health care facility1 licensed 1[or certified by this State or the federal government to provide medical or health care services.
"Limited service pregnancy center" shall not include a health care provider, a hospital, an abortion clinic, or a family planning clinic that performs abortions, provides contraception, or provides abortion or contraception referrals] pursuant to P.L.1971, c.136 (C.26:2H-1 et seq.); or (b) is not providing services under the direction of a health care provider licensed pursuant to Title 45 of the Revised Statutes who is acting within the scope of practice of the profession; and
(2) fails to provide or refer clients to health care providers for the full range of comprehensive reproductive health care services reimbursed under the NJ FamilyCare program including, but not limited to contraception, testing, and treatment of sexually transmitted infections, abortion care, and prenatal care1.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
