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Introduced Session

This bill establishes the "Reasonable Pediatric Questions Act," and eliminates the requirement for clinical laboratories to ask certain children questions about gender identity and sexual orientation. N.J.S.A.45:9-42.46 requires clinical laboratories to electronically record the race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and gender identity of each patient who presents with a non-electronic order for testing at a clinical laboratory patient service center. The bill amends N.J.S.A.45:9-42.46 to provide that, as a condition of the licensure of a clinical laboratory, individuals employed by a clinical laboratory are not to be required to: (1) present questions to a child, who is 16 years of age or younger, that concern his or her gender identity or sexual orientation; and (2) collect or record data that concerns the gender identity or sexual orientation of a child who is 16 years of age or younger.

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Paul Kanitra (R)*, 

Introduced, Referred to Assembly Health Committee (on 01/13/2026)

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