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A1437 • 2026

Requires emergency medical services provider to provide certain information regarding person who experienced drug overdose to DLPS.

Requires emergency medical services provider to provide certain information regarding person who experienced drug overdose to DLPS.

Healthcare
Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Simonsen, Erik K.
Last action
2026-01-13
Official status
Introduced, Referred to Assembly Public Safety and Preparedness Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Requires emergency medical services provider to provide certain information regarding person who experienced drug overdose to DLPS.

Requires emergency medical services provider to provide certain information regarding person who experienced drug overdose to DLPS.

What This Bill Does

  • Requires emergency medical services provider to provide certain information regarding person who experienced drug overdose to DLPS.
  • Topic: Public Safety and Preparedness Fiscal note: This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

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Bill History

  1. 2026-01-13 New Jersey Legislature

    Introduced, Referred to Assembly Public Safety and Preparedness Committee

Official Summary Text

Requires emergency medical services provider to provide certain information regarding person who experienced drug overdose to DLPS.
Topic:
Public Safety and Preparedness
Fiscal note:
This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

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A1437

ASSEMBLY, No. 1437

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman ERIK K. SIMONSEN

District 1 (Atlantic, Cape May and Cumberland)

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblyman McClellan

SYNOPSIS

���� Requires emergency medical services provider to
provide certain information regarding person who experienced drug overdose to
DLPS.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

���� Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative
Counsel.

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An Act
concerning opioid overdoses and supplementing Title 52
of the Revised Statutes.

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

���� 1.��� An emergency medical
services provider who administers an opioid antidote or provides other
emergency treatment to a person experiencing a drug overdose shall provide
information regarding that person, as deemed appropriate by the Attorney
General, to the Department of Law and Public Safety.� The information shall be
provided for the purpose of informing the person who experienced the overdose
about harm reduction strategies and available recovery resources in order to
reduce the imminent threat to the health and safety of that person.

���� As used in this section
�emergency medical services provider� means any association, organization,
company, department, agency, service, program, unit, or other entity that
provides pre-hospital emergency care to patients in New Jersey, including, but
not limited to, a basic life support ambulance service, a mobile intensive care
program or mobile intensive care unit, an air medical service, or a volunteer
or non-volunteer first aid, rescue and ambulance squad.

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

���� 3.��� This act shall take
effect on the first day of the fourth month after enactment.

STATEMENT

���� This bill requires emergency
medical service providers to provide certain information regarding persons who
experienced a drug overdose to the Department of Law and Public Safety.

���� Specifically, under the
provisions of this bill, an emergency medical services provider who administers
an opioid antidote or provides other emergency treatment to a person
experiencing a drug overdose is required to provide information regarding that
person, as deemed appropriate by the Attorney General, to the Department of Law
and Public Safety.�

���� The information is to be
provided for the purpose of informing the person who experienced the overdose
about harm reduction strategies and available recovery resources.

���� Finally, the bill requires the
Attorney General, in consultation with the Commissioner of Health to adopt
rules and regulations to effectuate the purposes of the bill.�