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A2025 • 2026

Requires certain ambulances to carry epinephrine.

Requires certain ambulances to carry epinephrine.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Haider, Shama A.
Last action
2026-01-13
Official status
Introduced, Referred to Assembly Health Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Requires certain ambulances to carry epinephrine.

Requires certain ambulances to carry epinephrine.

What This Bill Does

  • Requires certain ambulances to carry epinephrine.
  • Topic: Health Fiscal note: This bill has not 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 Health Committee

Official Summary Text

Requires certain ambulances to carry epinephrine.
Topic:
Health
Fiscal note:
This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

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A2025

ASSEMBLY, No. 2025

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman SHAMA A. HAIDER

District 37 (Bergen)

SYNOPSIS

���� Requires certain ambulances to carry epinephrine.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

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

��

An Act

concerning epinephrine and supplementing Title
26 of the Revised Statutes.

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

����� 1.�� a.���� As
used in this section:

����� �Basic
life support� means a basic level of pre-hospital care which includes patient
stabilization, airway clearance, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, hemorrhage
control, initial wound care and fracture stabilization and other techniques and
procedures authorized by the Department of Health.

����� �Emergency
medical technician� means a person trained in basic life support services as
defined in section 1 of P.L.1985, c.351 (C.26:2K-21) and who is certified by
the Department of Health to perform these services.�

����� �Volunteer
first aid, rescue and ambulance squad� shall have the same meaning as provided
in section 3 of P.L.1987, c.284 (C.27:5F-20).�

����� b.�� Each
basic life support ambulance and each volunteer first aid, rescue and ambulance
squad vehicle shall be equipped with a supply of epinephrine auto-injector
devices, and shall be staffed by at least one emergency medical technician
certified to administer an epinephrine auto-injector device.� The provisions of
this subsection shall neither supersede nor affect the application or
interpretation of any federal or State guidance, law, rule, regulation, or
order to the contrary regarding ambulance staffing levels.

���� 2.��� The Commissioner of
Health may promulgate rules and regulations, in accordance with the
�Administrative Procedure Act,� P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), as are
necessary to effectuate the provisions of this act.

���� 3.��� This act shall take
effect 180 days after the date of enactment.

STATEMENT

���� This bill requires certain
ambulances to carry epinephrine.� Under the bill, each basic life support
ambulance and each volunteer first aid, rescue and ambulance squad vehicle is
to be equipped with a supply of epinephrine auto-injector devices, and is to be
staffed by at least one emergency medical technician certified to administer an
epinephrine auto-injector device.�

���� The bill defines �basic life
support� to mean a basic level of pre-hospital care which includes patient
stabilization, airway clearance, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, hemorrhage
control, initial wound care and fracture stabilization and other techniques and
procedures authorized by the Department of Health.� �Emergency medical
technician� means a person trained in basic life support services as defined in
section 1 of P.L.1985, c.351 (C.26:2K-21) and who is certified by the
Department of Health to perform these services.�

����� The bill provides that the provisions of the bill are
neither to supersede nor affect the application or interpretation of any
federal or State guidance, law, rule, regulation, or order to the contrary
regarding ambulance staffing levels.