ASSEMBLY HEALTH COMMITTEE

STATEMENT TO

ASSEMBLY, No. 4252

with committee amendments

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

DATED:  JUNE 23, 2020

      The Assembly Health Committee reports favorably and with committee amendments Assembly Bill No. 4252.

      As amended, this bill requires the availability of certain laboratory testing for coronavirus disease 2019.  The bill provides that, subject to the availability of coronavirus disease 2019 tests, a clinical laboratory is to offer in-person specimen collection for diagnostic testing and serologic testing for the coronavirus disease 2019 to patients who have been authorized by a health care professional to receive a test for the coronavirus disease 2019. 

COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS:

      The committee amendments:

      1) remove the provision of the bill offering nasal and saliva testing;

      2) remove the provision of the bill requiring testing to be offered within the patient care sites of the clinical laboratory;

      3) extend the bill’s effective date by 30 days; and

      4) provide that a clinical laboratory is to offer in-person specimen collection for diagnostic testing and serologic testing for the coronavirus disease 2019 to patients.