Legislative Action
Pending Bills
Shaping the Future of Nursing, One Bill at a Time
We track and analyze legislation affecting nurses in New Jersey, advocating for policies that:
Strengthen nurse workforce development
Improve working conditions
Enhance patient care and safety
Current high priority bills (as of 01/2026)
S3022/A1974 - Patient Protection and Safe Staffing Act
- Establishes minimum registered professional nurse staffing standards for hospitals and ambulatory surgery facilities and certain DHS facilities.
S2858/A2207 - Medication aides in nursing homes
- Authorizes medication aides in nursing homes.
S2635/A2289 - Health Care Professionals Behavioral Health Care Protections
- Establishes certain protections for health care professionals who receive behavioral health care and apply for State licensure.
S4088/A4733 - Prohibits generative AI to practice as a profession
- Prohibits advertising generative artificial intelligence as able to practice regulated profession or occupation.
A2474 - Protection of the title "Nurse"
- Establishes protection of title provisions for the use of the title “Nurse.”
A4731- Promulgate rules for licensee use of generative artificial intelligence
- Directs professional and occupational boards to promulgate rules for licensee use of generative artificial intelligence.
A4052- New Jersey Collaborating Center for Nursing Bill
- Establishes requirements for the New Jersey Collaborating Center for Nursing (NJCCN) to develop new graduate transition-to-practice programs.
- Revises the membership of the NJCCN’s governing board.
- Increases State funding for the NJCCN.
- Requires the New Jersey Nursing Emotional Well-Being Institute (NJ-NEW) to establish a program of services and a peer support helpline to promote the mental health and emotional well-being of nurses and their families.
- Establishes annual survey requirements for nurses and homemaker-home health aides.
S4001- Moves CNAs under the BON
- Transfers oversight to certified nurse aides from DOH to Board of Nursing.
S4034- Nurse Preceptor Tax Credit
- Establishes a nurse preceptor tax credit program with a $10 million appropriation.
S4028- Nursing School Expansion Grant Program to increase faculty
- Establishes the Nursing School Expansion Grant Program and appropriates $25 million.