Enters New Jersey in Women's Reproductive Health Care Compact.
This bill allows New Jersey to join the Women's Reproductive Health Care Compact, a multi-state agreement. The compact requires member states to work together to protect patients and providers who seek or provide reproductive health care across state lines. Key provisions include preventing extradition or investigations against those involved in care, blocking forced disclosure of medical records, stopping penalties against providers (like license suspensions or insurance hikes), and banning data collection about patients' travel, costs, or barriers to care. It directly affects New Jersey residents traveling for care, out-of-state providers serving New Jersey patients, and medical facilities operating across participating states. The compact does not change New Jersey's own abortion laws but focuses on interstate cooperation to safeguard access.
Bill status
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Introduction
Jan 2026
Committee Review
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Governor
Introduced Jan 13, 2026
Last action Mar 9, 2026
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This diff reflects a procedural transition of Assembly Bill 1970 from its committee-reported status (with technical review) back to introduced status pending technical review by Legislative Counsel. Assemblywoman Park was removed as a co-sponsor, and a standard legislative statement summarizing the bill's content was appended. The operative text of the bill itself is unchanged.
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Assemblywoman Park was removed from the list of co-sponsoring members.
TECHNICAL
A legislative statement section was added at the end summarizing the bill's purpose: joining the Women's Reproductive Health Care Compact, which would require member states to prevent extradition, record disclosure, licensing penalties, and data collection related to out-of-state reproductive health care services.
The bill status changed from 'As reported by the Assembly Community Development and Women's Affairs Committee with technical review' to 'Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel,' indicating a procedural stage change rather than a policy change.
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Mar 9, 2026
Committee
Reported and Referred to Assembly Appropriations Committee
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Jan 13, 2026
Introduced
Introduced, Referred to Assembly Community Development and Women's Affairs Committee
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3 primary · 4 co-sponsors
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