ASSEMBLY, No. 2840

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

INTRODUCED MARCH 24, 1997

By Assemblymen WEINGARTEN and O'TOOLE

An Act concerning methadone maintenance programs 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 person or entity operating a private business which provides outpatient methadone maintenance services and which is licensed by the Department of Health and Senior Services as an ambulatory care facility/outpatient drug program shall be required, as a condition of each relicensure, but at least annually, to furnish documentation to the Commissioner of Health and Senior Services that the governing body of the municipality in which the facility is located has formally approved the location of the facility.

    2. This act shall take effect immediately.

STATEMENT

    This bill requires that a person or entity operating a private business which provides outpatient methadone maintenance services and which is licensed by the Department of Health and Senior Services as an ambulatory care facility/outpatient drug program shall be required, as a condition of each relicensure, but at least annually, to furnish documentation to the Commissioner of Health and Senior Services that the governing body of the municipality in which the facility is located has formally approved the location of the facility.

Requires ambulatory care facility which provides outpatient methadone maintenance services to be approved by the governing body of the municipality in which the facility is located.