A 1008 New Jersey General Assembly · 2026-2027 Regular Session

Requires municipalities to provide basic life support services; establishes basic life support services as essential.

This bill requires all New Jersey municipalities to provide basic life support (BLS) ambulance services to meet community needs, designating BLS as an essential service. It specifies five ways municipalities can arrange these services: licensing private companies, contracting with public/private entities, creating mutual aid agreements with other towns, partnering with hospitals, or using existing fire/EMS departments. The law defines BLS as pre-hospital care including CPR, wound stabilization, and emergency transport. This policy change ensures consistent access to emergency medical care across the state by making BLS a mandatory municipal responsibility.

Issues: ✓ Healthcare

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2026

Committee Review

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Governor

Introduced Jan 13, 2026 Last action May 28, 2026

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Technical Review Of Prefiled Bill → Introduced · 5 edits · Jan 13, 2026

MODERATE

The bill moved from a committee-reported version to its introduced version. The substantive change is that the act's title now references Title 40 of the Revised Statutes and P.L.2015, c.70 (the hospital agreement law) in addition to the previously cited P.L.1993, c.58, broadening the statutory framework it amends. Most other changes are technical: removal of bracketed committee alternatives, spacing fixes, minor punctuation corrections, and the addition of a standard legislative statement.

SCOPE

The act's title now states it supplements Title 40 of the Revised Statutes (previously Title 26) and amends both P.L.1993, c.58 and P.L.2015, c.70 (previously only P.L.1993, c.58), explicitly incorporating the hospital basic life support agreement law into the bill's statutory references.

TECHNICAL

Assemblyman Kearney was removed as a co-sponsor; only Assemblyman Angelozzi remains.

Status changed from 'As reported by the Assembly Public Safety and Preparedness Committee with technical review' to 'Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.'

A legislative statement was added at the end summarizing the bill's purpose, which is standard for introduced bills.

Bracketed committee alternatives (e.g., [Terms], [The], [A]) were resolved to single choices, and minor spacing and punctuation throughout sections 1 and 2 was cleaned up. No policy substance changed in these sections.

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Committee

May 28, 2026

Committee

Reported and Referred to Assembly Oversight, Reform and Federal Relations Committee

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Jan 13, 2026

Introduced

Introduced, Referred to Assembly Public Safety and Preparedness Committee

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3 primary · 1 co-sponsor