S3325 • 2026

Requires notification to patients when State-licensed physician has credential revoked or suspended and provides access to contact information with State.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor: Turner, Shirley K.
Last action: 2026-02-05
Official status: Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Commerce Committee
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Requires notification to patients when State-licensed physician has credential revoked or suspended and provides access to contact information with State.

What This Bill Does

Requires notification to patients when State-licensed physician has credential revoked or suspended and provides access to contact information with State.
Topic: Commerce Fiscal note: This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

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Bill History

2026-02-05 New Jersey Legislature
Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Commerce Committee

Official Summary Text

Requires notification to patients when State-licensed physician has credential revoked or suspended and provides access to contact information with State.
Topic:
Commerce
Fiscal note:
This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

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S3325

SENATE, No. 3325

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 5, 2026

Sponsored by:

Senator� SHIRLEY K. TURNER

District 15 (Hunterdon and Mercer)

SYNOPSIS

���� Requires notification to patients when State-licensed
physician has credential revoked or suspended and provides access to contact
information with State.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

���� As introduced.

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An Act

concerning notice to patients of certain
information regarding physicians and supplementing Title 45 of the Revised
Statutes.

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

���� 1.��� A patient of a
State-licensed physician shall be notified, electronically or by mail, by the
practice or health care entity where the physician provides health care
services if the license of the physician to practice medicine is suspended or
revoked, whether temporarily or permanently, within ten business days of the
suspension or revocation.

���� 2.��� If requested by a
patient, a practice or health care entity shall provide the contact information
for the Division of Consumer Affairs in the Department of Law and Public Safety
and of the State Board of Medical Examiners.

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

STATEMENT

���� This bill stipulates that a
patient of a State-licensed physician is to receive, electronically or by mail,
by the practice or health care entity where the physician provides health care
services if the license of the physician to practice medicine is suspended or
revoked, whether temporarily or permanently.� Additionally, if requested by a
patient, a practice or health care entity is to provide the contact information
for the Division of Consumer Affairs in the Department of Law and Public Safety
and of the State Board of Medical Examiners.� The intention of the bill is to
improve awareness to patients if a physician is found to have committed
misconduct and to make information available to patients if they wish to allege
misconduct of a physician to the State.