ASSEMBLY, No. 2714

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 3, 1997

By Assemblymen DORIA and IMPREVEDUTO

An Act concerning certificate of need and supplementing P.L.1971, c.136 (C.26:2H-1 et seq.).

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

    1. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 7 of P.L.1971, c.136 (C.26:2H-7) to the contrary, a hospital designated as a specialty acute care children's hospital pursuant to section 2 of P.L.1985, c.306 (C.26:2H-18a), section 3 of P.L.1987, c.299 (C.26:2H-18c), section 1 of P.L.1992, c.181 (C.26:2H-18d) or section 1 of P.L.1993, c.374 (C.26:2H-18e) shall be exempt from the certificate of need requirement for any construction or expansion of a health care facility or initiation of a health care service that is directly associated with or part of the designated children's hospital.

    2. This act shall take effect immediately.

STATEMENT

    This bill exempts the four hospitals designated as specialty acute care children's hospitals from the certificate of need law.

    Specifically, the bill exempts Children's Hospital of New Jersey, a unit of United Hospitals Medical Center, Cooper Hospital/University Medical Center, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital/St. Peter's Medical Center and St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center from the requirement of obtaining a certificate of need for any construction or expansion of a health care facility or initiation of a health care service that is directly associated with or part of the designated children's hospital.

Exempts designated children's hospitals from certificate of need law.