S3191 • 2026

Requires SHBP commission to use funds from 2025 False Claims Act settlement with Horizon to lower local public employee health care contribution costs.

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Sponsor: Amato, Carmen F., Jr.
Last action: 2026-01-28
Official status: Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate State Government, Wagering, Tourism & Historic Preservation Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Requires SHBP commission to use funds from 2025 False Claims Act settlement with Horizon to lower local public employee health care contribution costs.

What This Bill Does

Requires SHBP commission to use funds from 2025 False Claims Act settlement with Horizon to lower local public employee health care contribution costs.
Topic: State Government, Wagering, Tourism & Historic Preservation Fiscal note: This bill has been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

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Bill History

2026-01-28 New Jersey Legislature
Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate State Government, Wagering, Tourism & Historic Preservation Committee

Official Summary Text

Requires SHBP commission to use funds from 2025 False Claims Act settlement with Horizon to lower local public employee health care contribution costs.
Topic:
State Government, Wagering, Tourism & Historic Preservation
Fiscal note:
This bill has been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

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S3191

SENATE, No. 3191

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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INTRODUCED JANUARY 28, 2026

Sponsored by:

Senator� CARMEN F. AMATO, JR.

District 9 (Ocean)

SYNOPSIS

���� Requires SHBP commission to use funds from 2025 False
Claims Act settlement with Horizon to lower local public employee health care
contribution costs.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

���� As introduced.

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An Act

concerning funding for public employee health
benefits and supplementing P.L.1961, c.49 (C.52:14-17.25 et seq.).

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

���� 1.� Notwithstanding any other
law, rule, or regulation to the contrary, all monies received by the Division
of Pensions and Benefits on behalf of the State Health Benefits Program from
the 2025 New Jersey False Claims Act settlement between the State and Horizon
Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey shall be used to lower the contribution
amount paid by public employees of employers other than the State for health
care benefits coverage in the State Health Benefits Program for the employee
and any dependents, except that employers other than the State shall not
include independent State authorities.

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

STATEMENT

���� This bill requires the State
Health Benefits Commission (SHBC) to use the proceeds of the 2025 New Jersey
False Claims Act settlement between the State and Horizon Blue Cross Blue
Shield of New Jersey to lower the cost of health care contributions for public
employees and dependents of employers other than the State who receive health
care coverage through the State Health Benefits Program.� Under the bill, an
employer other than the State does not include an independent State authority.

���� Under the settlement, Horizon
is required to pay a lump sum of $100 million to the State within 25 calendar
days of the effective date of the agreement.� Of that amount, $78 million will
be distributed to the Division of Pensions and Benefits in the Department of
the Treasury on behalf of the SHBC and the School Employees� Health Benefits
Commission.