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This bill mandates that long-term care facilities, which include nursing homes, assisted living residences, comprehensive personal care homes, residential health care facilities, and dementia care homes licensed under a specific New Jersey law (P.L.1971, c.136), must report data about their residents with disabilities. Initially, within 60 days of the bill's effective date, these facilities must report the total number of residents with disabilities, how many fall into each disability category (with categories to be defined by the Department of Health in collaboration with the Department of Human Services), and the age ranges for residents within each disability category. Subsequently, facilities must notify the Department of Health whenever these numbers or age ranges change. The Department of Health will then categorize this information by disability type and publicly share it quarterly on its website, providing a breakdown of the total number of residents with disabilities, the number in each category, and their respective age ranges for each facility. The Commissioner of Health is tasked with creating the necessary rules and regulations to implement these requirements.

Health and Social Services

https://www.njleg.state.nj.us/bill-search/2026/A401