Bill Text: NJ A720 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Eliminates weekly COVID-19 testing requirement for unvaccinated State employees.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-09 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly State and Local Government Committee [A720 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2024-A720-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 720

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

221st LEGISLATURE

 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2024 SESSION

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  MICHAEL TORRISSI, JR.

District 8 (Atlantic and Burlington)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblyman McGuckin and Assemblywoman Flynn

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Eliminates weekly COVID-19 testing requirement for unvaccinated State employees.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.

  

An Act concerning COVID-19 testing for unvaccinated State employees and supplementing chapter 6 of Title 11A of the New Jersey Statutes.

 

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

 

     1.    a. Notwithstanding any provision of law, rule, or regulation to the contrary, a State employer shall not maintain a policy requiring employees unvaccinated against COVID-19 to submit periodic COVID-19 testing or provide proof of a negative COVID-19 test.

     b. Nothing in subsection a. of this section shall be construed to prohibit any employee of the State from voluntarily testing for COVID-19.

     c. Nothing in subsection a. of this section shall be construed to prohibit a State employer from imposing a requirement regarding testing of a symptomatic employee, regardless of vaccination status.

 

     2.  This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill eliminates the periodic COVID-19 testing requirement for unvaccinated State employees.

     Under the bill, a State employer will not maintain a policy requiring that employees, regardless of vaccination status, submit to periodic COVID-19 testing or show proof of a negative COVID-19 test.  This bill does not prohibit an employee of the State from voluntarily testing for COVID-19.  The bill also does not prohibit a State employer from requiring testing of an employee who is symptomatic for COVID-19, regardless of vaccination status.