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A2318 • 2026

Provides accidental disability benefits to police who contract COVID-19 under certain circumstances.

Provides accidental disability benefits to police who contract COVID-19 under certain circumstances.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Peterpaul, Luanne M., Esq.
Last action
2026-01-13
Official status
Introduced, Referred to Assembly Labor Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Provides accidental disability benefits to police who contract COVID-19 under certain circumstances.

Provides accidental disability benefits to police who contract COVID-19 under certain circumstances.

What This Bill Does

  • Provides accidental disability benefits to police who contract COVID-19 under certain circumstances.
  • Topic: Labor 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 Labor Committee

Official Summary Text

Provides accidental disability benefits to police who contract COVID-19 under certain circumstances.
Topic:
Labor
Fiscal note:
This bill has been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

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A2318

ASSEMBLY, No. 2318

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman LUANNE M. PETERPAUL

District 11 (Monmouth)

SYNOPSIS

���� Provides accidental disability benefits to police who
contract COVID-19 under certain circumstances.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

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

��

An Act
concerning certain public safety workers contracting
COVID-19 and supplementing P.L.2020, c.84 (C.34:15-31.11 et seq.).

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

���� 1.��� a. If a public safety
worker, from June 5, 2021 until January 31, 2022, contracts coronavirus disease
2019, the public safety worker shall be entitled to full accidental disability
benefits, if the public safety worker:

���� (1) contracts coronavirus
disease 2019 during a time period in which the public safety worker is working
in a place of employment other than the public safety worker's own residence;

���� (2) is a member of the police;
and

���� (3) is permanently and totally
disabled as a direct result of contracting coronavirus disease 2019.�

���� b.��� This act is intended to
affirm certain rights of public safety workers under the circumstances
specified in this act, and shall not be construed as reducing, limiting, or
curtailing any rights of any worker or employee to benefits provided by law.

���� 2.��� This act shall take
effect immediately and shall be retroactive to June 5, 2021.�

STATEMENT

���� This bill provides that
certain public safety workers who contract coronavirus disease 2019 from June 5,
2021 until January 31, 2022 as a result of contracting the disease will be
entitled to full accidental disability benefits under certain circumstances.�
Specifically, a worker will be entitled to those benefits if the worker:

���� (1) contracts coronavirus
disease 2019 during a time period in which the worker is working in a place of
employment other than the worker's own residence;

���� (2) is a member of the police;
and

���� (3) is permanently and totally
disabled as a direct result of contracting coronavirus disease 2019.