Bill > S67

Introduced Session

The State of New Jersey cares about employee wellness because an employee's health and wellbeing impact morale, safety, productivity, absenteeism, recruitment, and retention, as well as health care costs. Wellness programs use health risk appraisals, biometric screenings, email notifications, text messages, Internet sites, educational lunches, special speakers, and many other forms of communication to create wellness awareness. The NJWELL wellness program rewards actively employed members of the State Health Benefits Program and their covered spouses for completing an online health assessment, a biometric health screening, and other wellness activities. The program promotes and provides the skills that public employees need to have healthy behaviors. To encourage the participation, the NJWELL program should be more widely advertised to reach all public employees, and streamlined so that it is more user-friendly. A well-advertised and easy to use website will encourage more people to take advantage of the program, and to participate on an annual basis. In addition, this bill requires the State Health Benefits Commission to conduct an annual review of the NJWELL program. The report of the annual review, at a minimum, will include the number of persons utilizing the program, ease of use and access to the website, and ease of reporting completion of the program's required tasks. The report will be submitted to the Governor and the Legislature.

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Bob Singer (R)*, 

Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Hearing (19:00 3/23/2020 Due to the public health emergency, members of the public will n) (on 03/23/2020)