[First Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 4252

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

219th LEGISLATURE

INTRODUCED JUNE 15, 2020

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  HERB CONAWAY, JR.

District 7 (Burlington)

Assemblyman  ROBERT J. KARABINCHAK

District 18 (Middlesex)

SYNOPSIS

     Requires availability of certain laboratory testing for coronavirus disease 2019.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As reported by the Assembly Health Committee on June 22, 2020, with amendments.

An Act concerning coronavirus disease 2019 laboratory testing.

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

     1.    a.  As used in this section:

     "Clinical laboratory" means a laboratory licensed by the Department of Health, pursuant to the "New Jersey Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act," P.L.1975, c.166 (C.45:9-42.26 et seq.).

     "Health care professional" means a person licensed to practice a health care profession pursuant to Title 45 of the Revised Statutes.

     b.    Subject to the availability of coronavirus disease 2019 tests, a clinical laboratory shall offer in-person 1specimen collection for1 diagnostic testing and 1[in-person]1 serologic testing for the coronavirus disease 2019 1[within the patient care sites of the clinical laboratory]1 to patients who have been authorized by a health care professional to receive a test for the coronavirus disease 2019.  1[Such testing shall include nasopharyngeal or anterior nasal and saliva testing.]1

     2.    This act shall take effect 1[immediately] 30 days following the date of enactment1 and shall expire upon the end of both the state of emergency and the public health emergency declared in response to the coronavirus disease 2019.