Bill Text: NJ S951 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Prohibits DOH from issuing recommendations or regulations that are more stringent than recommendations or regulations issued by federal government.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-09 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee [S951 Detail]
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY
221st LEGISLATURE
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2024 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Senator KRISTIN M. CORRADO
District 40 (Bergen, Essex and Passaic)
Senator HOLLY T. SCHEPISI
District 39 (Bergen)
SYNOPSIS
Prohibits DOH from issuing recommendations or regulations that are more stringent than recommendations or regulations issued by federal government.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.
An Act concerning the Department of Health and supplementing Title 26 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Notwithstanding any law, rule, regulation, or order to the contrary, the Department of Health shall not issue any guideline, recommendation, directive, rule, regulation, or take any other administrative action that is more stringent than any comparable:
a. guideline, mandate, or recommendation that is issued by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or any other or federal agency, department, or entity; or
b. guideline, mandate, or recommendation that is prescribed by any federal law, rule, regulation, or order.
2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall be retroactive to any guideline, recommendation, directive, rule, regulation, or any other administrative action issued or taken by the Department of Health on or before the effective date of this act.
STATEMENT
This bill prohibits the Department of Health (department) from issuing recommendations or regulations that are more stringent than recommendations or regulations issued by the federal government.
Under the bill, the department is not to issue any guideline, recommendation, directive, rule, regulation, or take any other administrative action that is more stringent than any comparable: 1) guideline, mandate, or recommendation that is issued by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or any other or federal agency, department, or entity; or 2) guideline, mandate, or recommendation that is prescribed by any federal law, rule, regulation, or order.
The bill is to be retroactive to any guideline, recommendation, directive, rule, regulation, or any other administrative action issued or taken by the department on or before the bill's effective date.
