State legislative activity

The following bills of interest passed both houses recently:

• Nursing home closures (A.3703/S.2984)
• Emergency room practitioner drug dispensing (A.5984-B/S.7177-B)
• Maternity patient leaflet on congenital heart defect births (A.7516-A/S.9283)
• Copies of patient information (A.7860/S.7846)
• Remote ultrasound and fetal non-stress coverage (A.8168/S.7690)
• Intravenous contrast media (A.8247-C/S.8470-A)
• Establishing patient disability status (A.8560-A/S.8666-A)
• Physician assistant standards (A.8378-A/S.9038-A)
• Certificates of qualification for clinical laboratories and blood banks and work standards for cytotechnologists (A.9235-A/S.8966-A)
• Hospital-home care-physician collaboration program (A.9204/S.9049)
• Creative art therapist billing (A.9018/S.8715)
• Hospital closures (A.1633-B/S.8843-A)
• School-based health center carve out (A.8862/S.7840)

Please see our summary chart for a complete list of bills of interest that passed both houses during the 2024 legislative session.