S3965 • 2026

Repeals law that revises coverage for certain immunizations and reference to Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.

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Sponsor: Amato, Carmen F., Jr.
Last action: 2026-03-19
Official status: Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Repeals law that revises coverage for certain immunizations and reference to Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.

What This Bill Does

Repeals law that revises coverage for certain immunizations and reference to Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.
Topic: Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Fiscal note: This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

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Bill History

2026-03-19 New Jersey Legislature
Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee

Official Summary Text

Repeals law that revises coverage for certain immunizations and reference to Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.
Topic:
Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens
Fiscal note:
This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

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S3965

SENATE, No. 3965

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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INTRODUCED MARCH 19, 2026

Sponsored by:

Senator� CARMEN F. AMATO, JR.

District 9 (Ocean)

SYNOPSIS

���� Repeals law that revises coverage for certain
immunizations and references to Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

���� As introduced.

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An Act
concerning immunizations and repealing P.L.2025, c.283.

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

���� 1.�
P.L.2025, c.283 is repealed.

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

STATEMENT

���� This bill repeals
P.L.2025, c.283, which
requires health insurers
(health, hospital and medical service corporations, commercial individual and
group health insurers, health maintenance organizations; health benefits plans
issued pursuant to the New Jersey Individual Health Coverage and Small Employer
Health Benefits Programs, the State Health Benefits Program, and the School
Employees� Health Benefits Program) and the State Medicaid Program to provide
coverage, without requiring any cost sharing, for expenses incurred in the
provision of immunizations that have in effect a recommendation from the New
Jersey Department of Health.
P.L.2025, c.283

requires the department, in making its recommendations, to consider the
recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the federal Department of Health
and Human Services and, as appropriate, the recommendations of the American
Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American
College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and the American College of
Physicians.

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P.L.2025,
c.283
revised certain references to Advisory Committee on Immunization
Practices in statutory and regulatory law.� Specifically, the law replaced
references to Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommendations
concerning vaccinations and immunizations with references to the
recommendations of the Department of Health.