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A1755 • 2026

Requires State and county correctional facilities to offer inmates hepatitis B and hepatitis C testing.

Requires State and county correctional facilities to offer inmates hepatitis B and hepatitis C testing.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Verrelli, Anthony S.
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 State and county correctional facilities to offer inmates hepatitis B and hepatitis C testing.

Requires State and county correctional facilities to offer inmates hepatitis B and hepatitis C testing.

What This Bill Does

  • Requires State and county correctional facilities to offer inmates hepatitis B and hepatitis C testing.
  • Topic: Public Safety and Preparedness Fiscal note: This bill has been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Limits and Unknowns

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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 State and county correctional facilities to offer inmates hepatitis B and hepatitis C testing.
Topic:
Public Safety and Preparedness
Fiscal note:
This bill has been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

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A1755

ASSEMBLY, No. 1755

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman ANTHONY S. VERRELLI

District 15 (Hunterdon and Mercer)

Assemblyman LOUIS D. GREENWALD

District 6 (Burlington and Camden)

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblywomen Lopez, Reynolds-Jackson and Assemblyman
Sampson

SYNOPSIS

���� Requires State and county correctional facilities to
offer inmates hepatitis B and hepatitis C testing.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

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

��

An Act
concerning the testing of inmates for hepatitis B and
hepatitis C and supplementing Title 30 of the Revised Statutes.

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

���� 1.��� The Commissioner of
Corrections shall, upon commencement of the period of confinement, offer blood
testing for hepatitis B and hepatitis C to every inmate who is sentenced to a
term of incarceration at a State correctional facility.� An inmate shall not be
required to submit to the testing.

���� 2.��� The chief executive
officer, warden, or keeper of any county correctional facility shall, upon
commencement of the period of confinement, offer blood testing for hepatitis B
and hepatitis C to each person incarcerated in the facility.� An inmate shall
not be required to submit to the testing.

���� 3.��� The Commissioner of
Corrections 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 sections 1 and 2 of P.L.����� , c.���� (C.����� ) (pending before the
Legislature as this bill).

���� 4.��� This act shall take
effect on the first day of the sixth month after enactment.

STATEMENT

���� This bill requires State and
county correctional facilities to offer inmates hepatitis B and hepatitis C
testing.�

���� Under the bill, the
Commissioner of Corrections and the chief executive officer, warden, or keeper
of any county correctional facility are required to offer blood testing for
hepatitis B and hepatitis C to every inmate who is sentenced to a term of incarceration
at a State or county correctional facility.�

���� The testing at State and
county correctional facilities would be offered upon commencement of an
inmate�s period of confinement; however, an inmate is not to be required to
submit to the testing.�