A 1424 New Jersey General Assembly · 2026-2027 Regular Session

"Lyme Screening Act."

This bill requires pediatric healthcare providers in New Jersey to screen children for Lyme disease during well-child visits and symptom-related visits (for fever, rash, fatigue, joint pain, or headache) between April 1 and October 31 each year. It mandates using a standardized checklist developed by the Department of Health to assess tick exposure and symptoms, with providers documenting results and ordering tests or referrals if risks are identified. Additionally, the bill requires physicians to complete one mandatory continuing medical education credit on Lyme prevention, diagnosis, and treatment as part of their license renewal. The law aims to improve early detection of Lyme in children through standardized screening and provider education.

Issues: ✓ Healthcare

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2026

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Jan 13, 2026 Last action Mar 9, 2026

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Technical Review Of Prefiled Bill → Introduced · 3 edits · Jan 13, 2026

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The bill moved from its prefiled technical review stage to formal introduction. The substantive policy text is unchanged; the differences are administrative (status line updated, bill number format cleaned up) and technical (removal of encoding artifacts before numbered list items). A summary statement section was added at the end describing the bill's provisions in plain language.

TECHNICAL

Bill designation changed from 'A1424 TR' to 'A1424' and status line updated from 'As reported by the Assembly Health Committee with technical review' to 'Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.'

Removed garbled non-ASCII characters (encoding artifacts) that appeared before numbered list items throughout the bill text.

Added a STATEMENT section at the end of the bill providing a plain-language summary of its provisions, including the Lyme screening requirements for pediatric well-child visits, the standardized checklist, and the mandatory continuing medical education credit on Lyme disease.

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Committee

Mar 9, 2026

Committee

Reported and Referred to Assembly Appropriations Committee

lower

Jan 13, 2026

Introduced

Introduced, Referred to Assembly Health Committee

lower

2 primary · 0 co-sponsors