Bill Text: NJ A4669 | 2014-2015 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires DOH to provide information about crib safety on its Internet website.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-06-29 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Human Services Committee [A4669 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2014-A4669-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 4669

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

216th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED JUNE 29, 2015

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  GARY S. SCHAER

District 36 (Bergen and Passaic)

Assemblywoman  PAMELA R. LAMPITT

District 6 (Burlington and Camden)

Assemblywoman  VALERIE VAINIERI HUTTLE

District 37 (Bergen)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires DOH to provide information about crib safety on its Internet website.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  

An Act concerning crib safety 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. The Department of Health shall prepare and make available on the department's Internet website informational literature on crib safety, including, but not limited to, information about the ban on traditional drop-side cribs from the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission and the dangers of using traditional drop-side cribs that may still be in existence.

     b.    The SIDS Center of New Jersey and the New Jersey branch of Keeping Babies Safe shall also post the informational literature made available by the department pursuant to subsection a. of this section on their Internet websites. 

 

     2.    The Commissioner of Health, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), shall adopt rules and regulations to effectuate the purposes of this act.

 

     3.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill requires the Department of Health to make available on the department's Internet website informational literature on crib safety, including, but not limited to, information about the ban on traditional drop-side cribs from the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission and the dangers of using traditional drop-side cribs that may still be in existence.

     The bill also requires the SIDS Center of New Jersey and the New Jersey branch of Keeping Babies Safe to post the informational literature on their Internet websites.