SENATE, No. 625
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
213th LEGISLATURE
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2008 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Senator JOSEPH F. VITALE
District 19 (Middlesex)
Assemblywoman VALERIE VAINIERI HUTTLE
District 37 (Bergen)
Assemblywoman NILSA CRUZ-PEREZ
District 5 (Camden and Gloucester)
Assemblywoman CONNIE WAGNER
District 38 (Bergen)
Assemblyman ERIC MUNOZ
District 21 (Essex, Morris, Somerset and Union)
Co-Sponsored by:
Assemblyman Polistina and Assemblywoman Evans
SYNOPSIS
Permits smoking ban on grounds of State psychiatric hospitals and other Human Services facilities if smoking cessation program offered.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As reported by the Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee on January 24, 2008, with amendments.
An Act concerning smoking on grounds of certain State-owned facilities and supplementing P.L.2005, c.383 (C.26:3D-55 et seq.).
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. A 1[publicly-operated residential facility] State psychiatric hospital1 may prohibit smoking on its grounds, if it offers a smoking cessation program for both employees, and residents and patients, as applicable.
b. The smoking cessation program shall be developed in consultation with the Commissioners of Health and Senior Services and Personnel, and shall be initiated one year prior to prohibiting smoking on its grounds and continue to be offered as long as smoking is prohibited. 1If a smoking cessation program required pursuant to this section was initiated prior to, and is in effect on, the effective date of this act, smoking may be prohibited one year from the date of initiation of the program.1
c. 1[For purposes of this section, “publicly operated residential facility” means a county operated nursing home, State veterans’ memorial home, State-operated developmental center, and State or county operated psychiatric hospital] The Commissioner of Human Services may, by regulation, prohibit smoking on the grounds of other Human Services facilities, subject to the requirements of subsection b. of this section1.
2. Pursuant to the “Administrative Procedure Act,” P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), the 1[Commissioners] Commissioner1 of Human Services 1[and Military and Veterans’ Affairs]1 shall adopt rules and regulations to effectuate the purposes of this act.
3. This act shall take effect three months after enactment.