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ACR125 • 2026

Proposes amendment to Constitution establishing a right to comprehensive, affordable, and accessible health care.

Proposes amendment to Constitution establishing a right to comprehensive, affordable, and accessible health care.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Greenwald, Louis D.
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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Proposes amendment to Constitution establishing a right to comprehensive, affordable, and accessible health care.

Proposes amendment to Constitution establishing a right to comprehensive, affordable, and accessible health care.

What This Bill Does

  • Proposes amendment to Constitution establishing a right to comprehensive, affordable, and accessible health care.
  • Topic: Health Infrastructure Fiscal note: This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

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Bill History

  1. 2026-02-19 New Jersey Legislature

    Introduced, Referred to Assembly Health Infrastructure Committee

Official Summary Text

Proposes amendment to Constitution establishing a right to comprehensive, affordable, and accessible health care.
Topic:
Health Infrastructure
Fiscal note:
This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

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ACR125

ASSEMBLY CONCURRENT RESOLUTION No. 125

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

�

INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 19, 2026

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman� LOUIS D. GREENWALD

District 6 (Burlington and Camden)

SYNOPSIS

���� Proposes amendment to Constitution establishing right
to comprehensive, affordable, and accessible health care.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

���� As introduced.

��

A
Concurrent Resolution

proposing to
amend Article I of the Constitution of the State of New Jersey by adding a new
paragraph 24.

����
Be It
Resolved
by the General Assembly of the State
of New Jersey (the Senate concurring):

���� 1.��� The following proposed
amendment to the Constitution of the State of New Jersey is agreed to:

PROPOSED
AMENDMENT

���� Amend Article I by adding a
new paragraph 24 to read as follows:

���� 24.� Every person shall have
the right to comprehensive, affordable, and accessible health care.� The
Legislature shall enact such laws as may be necessary and appropriate to secure
this right for each person, regardless of the person�s age, sex, race, pre-existing
health condition, income, economic status, or ability to pay.

���� 2.��� When this proposed
amendment to the Constitution is finally agreed to pursuant to Article IX,
paragraph 1 of the Constitution, it shall be submitted to the people at the
next general election occurring more than three months after the final
agreement and shall be published at least once in at least one newspaper of
each county designated by the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the
General Assembly and the Secretary of State, not less than three months prior
to the general election.

���� 3.��� This proposed amendment
to the Constitution shall be submitted to the people at that election in the
following manner and form:

���� There shall be printed on each
official ballot to be used at the general election, the following:

���� a.���� In every municipality
in which voting machines are not used, a legend which shall immediately precede
the question as follows:

���� If you favor the proposition
printed below make a cross (X), plus (+), or check (
a
) in the square opposite the word "Yes." If you are
opposed thereto make a cross (X), plus (+) or check (
a
) in the square opposite the
word "No."

���� b.��� In
every municipality the following question:

�� YES

CONSTITUTIONAL
AMENDMENT TO ESTABLISH A RIGHT TO HEALTH CARE FOR NEW JERSEY RESIDENTS

���� Do you approve amending the
State Constitution to provide that every person has the right to health
care?�

���� This right will apply to all
residents of New Jersey.� This right will include access to comprehensive
health care that is affordable and accessible.

INTERPRETIVE
STATEMENT

NO

���� This amendment establishes a
right to health care for all residents of New Jersey.� This right would
include the right to full and complete health care that is affordable and
accessible.� This right to health care will apply regardless of a person�s
age, sex, race, pre-existing health condition, income, economic status, or
ability to pay.� The Legislature will be required to enact any laws that are
needed to secure this right to health care.

STATEMENT

���� This amendment to the State
Constitution would provide that each person has the right to comprehensive,
affordable, and accessible health care.� The Legislature will be required to
enact any laws that are necessary and appropriate to secure this right to
health care for each person, regardless of the person�s age, sex, race,
pre-existing health condition, income, economic status, or ability to pay.