New Jersey AED Laws and Legislation
Find out more about New Jersey AED laws and pending New Jersey AED legislation. Learn what legislators in New Jersey are doing to mandate state requirements for the placement of AEDs, including laws to protect organizations that purchase an AED.
An AED Law can empower individuals to train and be prepared to use an automated external defibrillator to save lives. Good Samaritan laws can protect those who use an AED to help a victim. State AED laws that mandate AED installation in proportion to the population of a public facility could increase survival rates.
Research shows that the availability of an automated external defibrillator (AED) in schools, hotels, recreation and sports facilities, assisted living communities, public buildings, high rises, businesses, and communities, dramatically increases the survival rate for a victim of sudden cardiac arrest.
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AED laws in this state. This information is updated continuously.
| Bill No. | Effective Date | Sponsor | Summary | Public Law Number |
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| AB 2395 | Assemblyman Patrick J. Diegnan | Requires the placement of defibrillators in public use airports. This bill requires each public use airport to supply and maintain an automated external defibrillator on-Site in each airport building open to the public. The airport is required to maintain the defibrillator in an accessible location within the building and ensure its availability during the normal operating hours of the airport, or at any other time when the airport facilities may be open to the general public. The airport must ensure that the defibrillator is tested and maintained, and is required to provide notification to the appropriate first aid, ambulance or rescue squad or other appropriate emergency medical... | ||
| AR 60 | Assemblywoman Joan M. Quigley | Urges Port Authority of NY and NJ and Delaware River Port Authority to expeditiously provide defibrillators on every rapid transit train set. This Assembly resolution urges the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and the Delaware River Port Authority to expeditiously provide defibrillators on every rapid transit train set and to provide the appropriate employee training on the proper use of a defibrillator to protect the riding public with this safety measure. | ||
| AB 458 | Assemblyman Joseph R. Malone | Requires the placement of defibrillators in a public school complex. This bill requires each public school district to provide and maintain on-Site at each school complex an automated external defibrillator. Under the bill's provisions, the board of education of the district would determine what constitutes a school complex which could be a single public school building or a group of public school buildings. The district would make its determination based upon the grade levels of the district, distance between buildings, and the type of communication system in place in the district. The bill also provides that the school district shall arrange for training in cardio-Pulmonary... | ||
| SB 1236 | Senator Robert W. Singer | "Janet's Law"; requires public and nonpublic schools, recreational fields and youth camps to have defibrillators for youth athletic events, and public school to train pupils in use thereof and in cardio-pulmonary resuscitation. *. This bill, which is designated "Janet's Law," is in memory of Janet Zilinski, an 11-Year old who died of sudden cardiac arrest following a cheerleading squad practice. The provisions of this bill apply to athletic events and activities that take place through public schools, recreational departments, youth serving organizations and youth camps. Specifically, the bill requires public school districts that include any of the grades kindergarten through 12 to... | ||
| AB 2643 | Assemblywoman Pamela Rosen Lampitt | Requires acquisition of defibrillators for use in public and nonpublic high schools and training of certain personnel in usage; appropriates $900,000. This bill requires each school district in the State to acquire for each high school in the district, and each nonpublic high school to acquire, at least one automated external defibrillator. The high school would maintain the defibrillator in a central location within the building and ensure its availability during the normal school day and for those athletic events in which the high school is the home team and for any team practice or intramural athletic event that occurs at the school. The school district and nonpublic school must... | ||
| AB 640 | Assemblywoman Pamela Rosen Lampitt | Requires schools and youth baseball leagues to have defibrillators on site during baseball games and practices. The purpose of this bill is to protect the health and safety of young athletes, as well as the spectators, from the risk of sudden cardiac arrest at youth baseball games. This bill would require all public and nonpublic schools to have available on site an automated external defibrillator, as defined in N.J.S.A.2A:62A-24, at each baseball game played during physical education class and at each practice and intramural and interscholastic game played on the school's home field. The bill similarly requires all municipal or county recreation departments and all nonprofit... | ||
| AB 238 | Assemblyman Jon M. Bramnick | "Janet's Law"; requires public schools, recreational fields and youth camps to have automated external defibrillators for youth athletic events, and public schools to include pupil training in use thereof and in cardio-pulmonary resuscitation. This bill, which is designated "Janet's Law," is in memory of Janet Zilinski, an 11-Year old who died of sudden cardiac arrest following a cheerleading squad practice. The provisions of this bill apply to athletic events and activities that take place through public schools, recreational departments, youth serving organizations and youth camps. Specifically, the bill requires public school districts that include any of the grades kindergarten... | ||
| AB 1043 | Assemblyman Peter J. Biondi | Creates defibrillator grant program in DHSS for municipalities; appropriates $1.7 million. This bill establishes a grant program in the Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) for the purpose of providing a portable defibrillator to every municipal police force. Grants are to be made available to municipalities that apply to assist in the purchase of portable defibrillators or to reimburse municipalities for public funds other than State funds that have been expended for the purchase of portable defibrillators. Reimbursement or grants made under the bill would be limited to the cost of one portable defibrillator per municipality. The appropriate State agency is to contract with a... | ||
| AB 2443 | Assemblywoman Linda R. Greenstein | Requires the placement of defibrillators in public school buildings. This bill requires each public school district to supply and maintain an automated external defibrillator on-Site in each school building. The district is required to maintain the defibrillator in an accessible location within the building and ensure its availability during the normal school day and for extracurricular activities, such as athletics and social or academic clubs, that occur at the school. The district must ensure that the defibrillator is tested and maintained and is required to provide notification to the appropriate first aid, ambulance or rescue squad or other appropriate emergency medical services... | ||
| AB 2709 | Assemblywoman Joan M. Quigley | Requires that automated external defibrillators be located on every floor of State House and State House Annex; requires training for State Police. This bill requires that an automated external defibrillator be placed on every floor of the State House and State House Annex. Under the provisions of the bill, employees of the State House or State House Annex who assist in the facilitation of fire drills in the State House Complex are to be encouraged to receive training in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the use of a defibrillator. The bill provides that a person who knowingly tampers with, damages, or misuses a defibrillator would be guilty of a petty disorderly person's offense, and... | ||
| AB 1979 | Assemblyman Eric Munoz | Provides immunity from civil liability to anyone who in good faith uses an automated external defibrillator in an emergency. This bill amends P.L.1999, c.34 (C.2A:62A-23 et seq.) to strengthen the immunity provisions of that law with regard to the use of an automated external defibrillator (AED). Specifically, the bill provides that any person who has access to an AED and in good faith uses or attempts to use the AED to provide emergency care or treatment - regardless of whether the person has received training in the use of an AED as set forth in the law - is immune from civil liability for any personal injury as a result of using or attempting to use the AED, or as a result of any acts... | ||
| AB 543 | Assemblyman Ronald S. Dancer | Establishes defibrillator grant program in DHSS for placement of defibrillators in senior citizen centers. This bill would establish in the Division of Aging and Community Services in the Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) a defibrillator grant program for the purpose of providing a municipality or county in the State with financial assistance for the purchase of an automated external defibrillator for placement of an automated external defibrillator in a senior citizen center within its jurisdiction. The bill also would allow financial assistance to reimburse a municipality or county for public funds, other than State funds, that have been expended for the purchase of an... | ||
| AB 209 | Assemblyman Gordon M. Johnson | Creates defibrillator grant program in DHSS for municipalities; appropriates $1.5 million. This bill establishes a grant program in the Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) for the purpose of providing a portable defibrillator to every municipal police force. Grants are to be made available to municipalities that apply to assist in the purchase of portable defibrillators or to reimburse municipalities for public funds other than State funds that have been expended for the purchase of portable defibrillators. Reimbursement or grants made under the bill would be limited to the cost of one portable defibrillator per municipality. The appropriate State agency is to contract with a... | ||
| AB 2105 | Assemblywoman Marcia A. Karrow | Allows corporation business tax credit for full cost of purchasing portable defibrillators. This bill provides a credit against the corporation business tax for a taxpayer's expense of purchasing an automated external defibrillator made in compliance with provisions of P.L.1999, c.34 (C.2A:62A-23 et seq.). That 1999 law established State standards for the purchase, training and use of these life saving portable devices to encourage greater acquisition, deployment and use of automated external defibrillators by trained personnel throughout this State. Recent medical studies have reported that many people who suffer cardiac arrest and would otherwise die can be saved if ordinary people are... | ||
| SB 1044 | Senator Barbara Buono | Establishes defibrillator grant program in DHSS for placement of defibrillators in senior citizen centers. This bill would establish in the Division of Aging and Community Services in the Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) a defibrillator grant program for the purpose of providing a municipality or county in the State with financial assistance for the purchase of an automated external defibrillator for placement of an automated external defibrillator in a senior citizen center within its jurisdiction. The bill also would allow financial assistance to reimburse a municipality or county for public funds, other than State funds, that have been expended for the purchase of an... | ||
| AB 2309 | Assemblyman Patrick J. Diegnan | Requires assisted living facilities to have defibrillator on site and employees trained to use defibrillator. This bill would require assisted living facilities to comply with the same requirements concerning defibrillators as those that apply to nursing homes under N.J.S.A.26:2H-12.26. Specifically, the bill requires an assisted living facility, no later than one year after the effective date of the bill, to: C acquire at least one defibrillator as defined in N.J.S.A.2A:62A-24, which is to be maintained in a central location within the facility that is made known and available to the employees of the facility; C ensure that the defibrillator is tested and maintained, and provide... | ||
| SB 1134 | Senator Barbara Buono | Requires acquisition of defibrillators for use in public and nonpublic high schools and training of certain personnel in usage; appropriates $900,000. This bill requires each school district in the State to acquire for each high school in the district, and each nonpublic high school to acquire, at least one automated external defibrillator. The high school would maintain the defibrillator in a central location within the building and ensure its availability during the normal school day and for those athletic events in which the high school is the home team and for any team practice or intramural athletic event that occurs at the school. The school district and nonpublic school must... | ||
| SB 1508 | Senator Shirley K. Turner | Requires municipal police forces to have cardiac defibrillators; establishes minimum number of units for each municipality. This bill would require municipalities to provide cardiac defibrillator units to their police forces. Each municipality is required to provide its police force with a minimum number of defibrillators based upon the municipality's population. Under the provisions of the bill, municipalities with populations of (1) less than 10,000 must provide at least one defibrillator; (2) 10,000 or more, but less than 25,000, must provide at least two defibrillators; (3) 25,000 or more, but less than 40,000, must provide at least four defibrillators; (4) 40,000 or more, but less... | ||
| SB 2083 | Senator Bill Baroni | Requires the placement of defibrillators in public school buildings. This bill requires each public school district to supply and maintain an automated external defibrillator on-Site in each school building. The district is required to maintain the defibrillator in an accessible location within the building and ensure its availability during the normal school day and for extracurricular activities, such as athletics and social or academic clubs, that occur at the school. The district must ensure that the defibrillator is tested and maintained and is required to provide notification to the appropriate first aid, ambulance or rescue squad or other appropriate emergency medical services... | ||
| SB 2242 | Senator Frederick H. Madden | Allows corporation business tax credit for full cost of purchasing portable defibrillators. This bill provides a credit against the corporation business tax for a taxpayer's expense of purchasing an automated external defibrillator made in compliance with provisions of P.L.1999, c.34 (C.2A:62A-23 et seq.). That 1999 law established State standards for the purchase, training and use of these life saving portable devices to encourage greater acquisition, deployment and use of automated external defibrillators by trained personnel throughout this State. Recent medical studies have reported that many people who suffer cardiac arrest and would otherwise die can be saved if ordinary people are... | ||
| SB 2488 | Senator Jennifer Beck | Provides immunity from civil liability to anyone who in good faith uses an automated external defibrillator in an emergency. This bill amends P.L.1999, c.34 (C.2A:62A-23 et seq.) to strengthen the immunity provisions of that law with regard to the use of an automated external defibrillator (AED). Specifically, the bill provides that any person who has access to an AED and in good faith uses or attempts to use the AED to provide emergency care or treatment - regardless of whether the person has received training in the use of an AED as set forth in the law - is immune from civil liability for any personal injury as a result of using or attempting to use the AED, or as a result of any acts... | ||
| SB 2803 | Senator Bill Baroni | Requires the placement of defibrillators on certain trains. This bill would require the New Jersey Transit Corporation, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates the PATH trains, and the Delaware River Port Authority, which operates the PATCO speedline, to supply and maintain an automated external defibrillator on every railroad train set or rapid transit train set used by these entities within two years of the effective date of this bill. This bill defines a train set as a means a locomotive and any accompany railroad car, passenger car, or other car in the train or a string of connected railroad cars and a rapid transit train set as a string of connected passenger... | ||
| AR 84 | Assemblyman Patrick J. Diegnan | Urges boards of education to improve staff and student preparedness for responding to incidents of sudden cardiac arrest. This Assembly Resolution urges all boards of education in the State to take precautionary measures to protect students and staff from sudden cardiac death through such actions as: the installation of an automated external defibrillator at each of its schools; the provision of training to staff on the appropriate use of these devices, in combination with training on cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR); the development of an emergency action response plan for each school that addresses the appropriate use of school staff in responding to cardiac arrests and similar... | ||
| SB 2567 | Vitale | Requires health clubs to have defibrillator on site and employees trained to use defibrillator. | 346 | |
| SR 75 | Senator Jim Whelan | Urges boards of education to improve staff and student preparedness for responding to incidents of sudden cardiac arrest. This Senate resolution urges all boards of education in the State to take precautionary measures to protect students and staff from sudden cardiac death through such actions as: the installation of an automated external defibrillator at each of its schools; the provision of training to staff on the appropriate use of these devices, in combination with training on cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR); the development of an emergency action response plan for each school that addresses the appropriate use of school staff in responding to cardiac arrests and similar health... | ||
| AB 1608 | 09/19/2012 | Assemblyman Jon M. Bramnick | "Janet's Law"; requires public and nonpublic schools to have automated external defibrillators and to establish emergency action plans for responding to sudden cardiac events.*. An Act concerning sudden cardiac events and schools and supplementing Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes. | 51 |
| SB 852 | 05/02/2012 | Senator Joseph F. Vitale | Provides immunity from civil liability to certain individuals who acquire or use an automated external defibrillator. This bill broadens certain immunity provisions with regard to the acquisition and use of an automated external defibrillator (AED), which can save the lives of cardiac arrest victims when administered within the first few minutes after cardiac arrest. In the past, individuals required training to operate an AED, but newer AEDs prompt users through the defibrillation process. Although it would be ideal to have fully-Trained individuals who know all aspects of the chain of survival required to save cardiac arrest victims, and are immediately available to administer... | 6 |
| SB 2146 | 04/23/2009 | Senator Christopher Bateman | Requires assisted living facilities to have defibrillator on site and employees trained to use defibrillator. An Act concerning defibrillators in assisted living facilities and amending P.L.2004, c.93. | 46 |
| AB 908 | 07/09/2004 | The Honorable Patrick Diegnan | Requires nursing homes to have defibrillator on site and employees trained to use defibrillator. | 93 |
