ASSEMBLY, No. 4957
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
219th LEGISLATURE
INTRODUCED NOVEMBER 12, 2020
Sponsored by:
Assemblywoman SHANIQUE SPEIGHT
District 29 (Essex)
Assemblywoman ANGELA V. MCKNIGHT
District 31 (Hudson)
Assemblywoman VALERIE VAINIERI HUTTLE
District 37 (Bergen)
Co-Sponsored by:
Assemblymen Conaway, Tully and Assemblywoman Swain
SYNOPSIS
Requires long-term care facilities to annually review residents’ proxy directives.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As reported by the Assembly Aging and Senior Services Committee on January 13, 2021, with amendments.
An Act concerning long-term care facilities and supplementing Title 26 of the Revised Statues.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. As used in this section:
"Long-term care facility" means a nursing home, assisted living residence, comprehensive personal care home, residential health care facility, or dementia care home licensed pursuant to P.L.1971, c.136 (C.26:2H-1 et seq.).
"Proxy directive" means a 1[writing] written document, executed in accordance with applicable law,1 which designates an adult with decision1-1making capacity to act as the declarant’s representative in the event that the declarant 1[subsequently lacks] is determined by a court or authorized practitioner to lack1 decision1-1making capacity following the execution of the 1[writing] written document1.
b. A long-term care facility shall meet with each resident at least once annually to determine 1[if] whether1 the resident’s proxy directive 1, if any,1 is accurate and current.
1c. Nothing in this section shall be deemed to require a long-term care facility resident to execute or maintain a proxy directive.1
2. This act shall take effect immediately.