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A4201 • 2026

Directs DOLWD to establish advertising campaign to attract candidates to health care professions; appropriates $1 million.

Directs DOLWD to establish advertising campaign to attract candidates to health care professions; appropriates $1 million.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Murphy, Carol A.
Last action
2026-02-19
Official status
Introduced, Referred to Assembly Health Infrastructure Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Directs DOLWD to establish advertising campaign to attract candidates to health care professions; appropriates $1 million.

Directs DOLWD to establish advertising campaign to attract candidates to health care professions; appropriates $1 million.

What This Bill Does

  • Directs DOLWD to establish advertising campaign to attract candidates to health care professions; appropriates $1 million.
  • Topic: Health Infrastructure Fiscal note: This bill has been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-02-19 New Jersey Legislature

    Introduced, Referred to Assembly Health Infrastructure Committee

Official Summary Text

Directs DOLWD to establish advertising campaign to attract candidates to health care professions; appropriates $1 million.
Topic:
Health Infrastructure
Fiscal note:
This bill has been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

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A4201

ASSEMBLY, No. 4201

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

�

INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 19, 2026

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman� CAROL A. MURPHY

District 7 (Burlington)

SYNOPSIS

���� Directs DOLWD to establish advertising campaign to
attract candidates to health care professions; appropriates $1 million.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

���� As introduced.

��

An Act

establishing an advertising campaign to attract
candidates to health care professions, supplementing P.L.1992, c.43 (C.34:15D-1
et seq.), and making an appropriation.

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

���� 1.��� a.� The Department of
Labor and Workforce Development, in consultation with the Department of Health
and Department of Human Services, shall establish a multimedia advertising
campaign to attract candidates to health care professions.� The campaign shall:

���� (1)�� promote health care
professions as presenting engaging, dynamic, and rewarding career
opportunities;

���� (2)�� promote available
scholarships, student loan redemption programs, and other available financial
support opportunities for those seeking careers in health care professions; and

���� (3)�� use a combination of
digital outlets, television, radio, print, and other media for its purposes.�

���� b.��� The department, in
developing and administering the general advertising campaign, shall also
create targeted advertising to increase the recruitment of health care
professionals:

���� (1)�� from underrepresented
racial groups; and

���� (2)�� into high-demand fields,
as identified by the Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development in
consultation with the Department of Health and Department of Human Services.

���� 2.��� To effectuate the
provisions of this act, there is appropriated to the Department of Labor and
Workforce Development the sum of $1 million which shall be, to the extent
permitted by federal law, paid for from monies received by the State under the
federal �American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act,� Pub.L.117-2.�

���� 3.��� This act shall take
effect immediately.�

STATEMENT

���� This bill directs the
Department of Labor and Workforce Development, in consultation with the
Department of Health and the Department of Human Services, to establish a
multimedia advertising campaign to attract candidates to health care
professions.� The health care field experienced shortages due to working
conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic.� The campaign will promote health care
professions as presenting engaging, dynamic, and rewarding career
opportunities.� The campaign shall use a combination of digital outlets,
television, radio, print, and other media for its purposes.�

���� The department, in developing
and administering the general advertising campaign, is also required to create
targeted advertising to increase the recruitment of health care professionals:

���� (1)�� from underrepresented
racial groups; and

���� (2)�� into high-demand fields,
as identified by the Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development in
consultation with the Department of Health and Department of Human Services.�

���� The bill appropriates to the
Department of Labor and Workforce Development the sum of $1 million from the
funds received by the State under the federal �American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act,�
Pub.L.117-2 to effectuate the provisions of the bill.