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A4249 • 2026

Requires long-term care facilities to annually review residents' proxy directives.

Requires long-term care facilities to annually review residents' proxy directives.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Speight, Shanique
Last action
2026-02-19
Official status
Introduced, Referred to Assembly Aging and Human Services Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Requires long-term care facilities to annually review residents' proxy directives.

Requires long-term care facilities to annually review residents' proxy directives.

What This Bill Does

  • Requires long-term care facilities to annually review residents' proxy directives.
  • Topic: Aging and Human Services Fiscal note: This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-02-19 New Jersey Legislature

    Introduced, Referred to Assembly Aging and Human Services Committee

Official Summary Text

Requires long-term care facilities to annually review residents' proxy directives.
Topic:
Aging and Human Services
Fiscal note:
This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

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A4249

ASSEMBLY, No. 4249

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 19, 2026

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman� SHANIQUE SPEIGHT

District 29 (Essex and Hudson)

SYNOPSIS

���� Requires long-term care facilities to annually review
residents� proxy directives.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

���� As introduced.

��

An Act
concerning long-term care facilities and supplementing
Title 26 of the Revised Statues.

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

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

���� "Long-term care
facility" means a nursing home, assisted living residence, comprehensive
personal care home, residential health care facility, or dementia care home
licensed pursuant to P.L.1971, c.136 (C.26:2H-1 et seq.).

���� "Proxy directive"
means a written document, executed in accordance with applicable law, which
designates an adult with decision-making capacity to act as the declarant�s
representative in the event that the declarant is determined by a court or
authorized practitioner to lack decision-making capacity following the
execution of the written document.

���� b.��� A long-term care
facility shall meet with each resident at least once annually to determine
whether the resident�s proxy directive, if any, is accurate and current.�

���� c.���� Nothing in this section
shall be deemed to require a long-term care facility resident to execute or
maintain a proxy directive.

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

STATEMENT

���� This bill requires long-term
care facilities to annually review residents� proxy directives. �A "proxy
directive" is defined to mean a written document, executed in accordance
with applicable law, that designates an adult with decision-making capacity to
act as the declarant�s representative in the event that the declarant is
determined by a court or authorized practitioner to lack decision-making
capacity following the execution of the document.

���� Under the bill, a long-term
care facility will be required to meet with each resident at least once
annually to determine whether the resident�s proxy directive, if any, is
accurate and current.� Nothing in the bill�s provisions would be deemed to
require a resident to have a proxy directive.