Sponsored by:
Senator THOMAS H. KEAN, JR.
District 21 (Morris, Somerset and Union)
Senator JOSEPH F. VITALE
District 19 (Middlesex)
Co-Sponsored by:
Senator Ruiz
SYNOPSIS
Requires DOH to provide information about crib safety on its Internet website.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning crib safety and supplementing Title 26 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. The Department of Health shall prepare and make available on the department's Internet website informational literature on crib safety, including, but not limited to, information about the ban on traditional drop-side cribs from the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission and the dangers of using traditional drop-side cribs that may still be in existence.
b. The SIDS Center of New Jersey and the New Jersey branch of Keeping Babies Safe shall also post the informational literature made available by the department pursuant to subsection a. of this section on their Internet websites.
2. The Commissioner of Health, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), shall adopt rules and regulations to effectuate the purposes of this act.
3. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill requires the Department of Health to make available on the department's Internet website informational literature on crib safety, including, but not limited to, information about the ban on traditional drop-side cribs from the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission and the dangers of using traditional drop-side cribs that may still be in existence.
The bill also requires the SIDS Center of New Jersey and the New Jersey branch of Keeping Babies Safe to post the informational literature on their Internet websites.