A5111 • 2026

Requires all hospitals with maternity departments to maintain Baby-Friendly and Mother-Friendly designations.

Healthcare

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: 2026-05-18
Official status: Introduced, Referred to Assembly Health Infrastructure Committee
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Requires all hospitals with maternity departments to maintain Baby-Friendly and Mother-Friendly designations.

What This Bill Does

Requires all hospitals with maternity departments to maintain Baby-Friendly and Mother-Friendly designations.
Topic: Health Infrastructure Fiscal note: This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

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Bill History

2026-05-18 New Jersey Legislature
Introduced, Referred to Assembly Health Infrastructure Committee

Official Summary Text

Requires all hospitals with maternity departments to maintain Baby-Friendly and Mother-Friendly designations.
Topic:
Health Infrastructure
Fiscal note:
This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

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A5111

ASSEMBLY, No. 5111

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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INTRODUCED MAY 18, 2026

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman� SHANIQUE SPEIGHT

District 29 (Essex and Hudson)

SYNOPSIS

���� Requires all hospitals with maternity departments to
maintain Baby-Friendly and Mother-Friendly designations.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

���� As introduced.

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An Act

concerning hospitals and supplementing P.L.1971,
c.136 (C.26:2H-1 et seq.).

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

���� 1.��� Commencing two years
after the effective date of this act, every hospital that provides inpatient
maternity services shall, as a condition of continuing to provide inpatient
maternity services, maintain both a Baby-Friendly Hospital designation issued
by Baby-Friendly USA and a Mother-Friendly Hospital designation issued by the
Improving Birth Coalition.

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

STATEMENT

���� This bill requires that,
commencing two years after the effective date of the bill, every hospital that
provides inpatient maternity services maintain both a Baby-Friendly Hospital
designation issued by Baby-Friendly USA and a Mother-Friendly Hospital
designation issued by the Improving Birth Coalition as a condition of
continuing to provide inpatient maternity services.