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S3041 Senate2R Statement[Second 3/25/21 STATEMENT TO   [First Reprint] SENATE, No.

3041  STATE withOF SenateNEW FloorJERSEY Amendments219th (ProposedLEGISLATURE by  SenatorINTRODUCED VITALE)OCTOBER 19, 2020   ADOPTED:  Sponsored by:

MARCHSenator  25,JOSEPH  F.       These Senate amendments revise the bill to require the Department of Health to continuously report, in addition to the number of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) deaths occurring in long-term care facilities, the number of COVID-19 cases occurring in long-term care facilities.

VITALE District 19 (Middlesex) Senator  VIN GOPAL District 11 (Monmouth)   Co-Sponsored by:

Senators Pou, Lagana and O'Scanlon         SYNOPSIS      Requires DOH to publish total number of COVID-19 deaths and cases in long-term care facilities.

  CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT      As amended by the Senate on March 25, 2021.

   An Act concerning coronavirus disease 2019 deaths in long-term care facilities and veterans' homes.

       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.).

      1["Veterans' home" means the New Jersey Veterans' Memorial Home - Menlo Park, the New Jersey Veterans' Memorial Home - Vineland, and the New Jersey Veterans' Memorial Home - Paramus.]1       b.   Notwithstanding the provision of any executive order or law to the contrary, the Internet website of the Department of Health shall display, at all times 1[:

      (1)] ,1 the total number of 1[COVID-19 deaths of] confirmed deaths caused by coronavirus disease (COVID-19) 2and confirmed COVID-19 cases2 among1 employees 1[and] , volunteers, and other persons providing services at long-term care facilities in this State, as well as among1 residents of long-term care facilities 1[and veterans' homes]1 in this State 1[since the beginning] , which reported data shall be regularly updated by the department to ensure it includes the total number of reported COVID-19 deaths 2and cases2 for the period commencing from the date of the first reported case1 of 1[the]1 COVID-19 1[pandemic;

and      (2)   the total number of new daily COVID-19 deaths of employees and residents of long-term care facilities and veterans' homes in this State] in New Jersey through the most recent date for which the data are available.  The reported data shall include both Statewide numbers and numbers specific to each long-term care facility, to the extent facility-specific numbers can be reported without violating State or federal health information privacy rules1 .

       2.    This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire 365 days following the end of both the state of emergency and the public health emergency declared in response to the coronavirus disease 2019.