P.L. 2023, c. 296 (Chapter 296)
This law updates the requirements and standards for authorization and prior authorization of health care services.
Date Approved: December 21, 2023
Effective Date: January 1, 2025
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P.L. 2023, c. 199 (Chapter 199)
This law extends the end date from December 31, 2023, to December 31, 2024, for which State health benefits plans are to provide coverage and payment for health care services delivered to a covered person through telemedicine or telehealth.
Date Approved: December 21, 2023
Effective Date: January 1, 2024
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P.L. 2023, c. 195 (Chapter 195)
This new law permits the State Health Benefits Program (SHBP) and the School Employees’ Health Benefits Program (SEHBP) to award contracts for more claims administrators for each program and requires claims data and trend reports.
Date Approved: December 21, 2023
Effective Date: December 21, 2023
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P.L. 2023, c. 151 (Chapter 151)
This law allows a municipality to determine if a newly appointed individual serving as municipal fire department chaplain will hold rank and receive salary and benefits.
Date Approved: September 1, 2023
Effective Date: September 1, 2023
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P.L. 2023, c. 121 (Chapter 121)
This law permits teachers, and professional staff members who provide special services, who retired from the Teachers’ Pension and Annuity Fund (TPAF) to return to employment for up to two years without reenrollment in the TPAF if employment commences during the 2023-2024 school year.
Date Approved: July 20, 2023
Effective Date: July 20, 2023
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P.L. 2023, c. 107 (Chapter 107)
This law establishes new transparency standards for pharmacy benefits manager business practices.
Date Approved: July 10, 2023
Effective Date: January 1, 2025
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P.L. 2023, c. 106 (Chapter 106)
This law establishes certain data reporting requirements for prescription drug supply chain; establishes Drug Affordability Council; appropriates $1,500,000.
Date Approved: July 10, 2023
Effective Date: July 10, 2023
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P.L. 2023, c. 105 (Chapter 105)
This law requires health insurance carriers to provide coverage for epinephrine auto-injector devices and asthma inhalers; limits cost sharing for health insurance coverage of insulin.
Date Approved: July 10, 2023
Effective Date: March 1, 2024
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P.L. 2023, c. 92 (Chapter 92)
This law extends until May 1, 2026, the application deadline under P. L. 2021, c. 52, which provides a retirement allowance after 20 years of service regardless of age for certain members of the Police and Firemen’s Retirement System (PFRS).
Date Approved: July 3, 2023
Effective Date: July 3, 2023
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P.L. 2023, c. 31 (Chapter 31)
This law permits a judge who was collecting an annuity from a State-administered retirement system while serving as a judge and deferred retirement to become County Prosecutor or Administrative Director of the Courts between November 1, 2020 and April 3, 2023, to continue to collect that annuity while serving in that position. The law is effective immediately and retroactive to November 1, 2020.
Date Approved: April 3, 2023
Effective Date: April 3, 2023 (and retroactive to November 1, 2020)
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P.L. 2023, c. 8 (Chapter 8)
This law requires health insurance coverage of colorectal cancer screenings recommended by the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) and eliminates cost-sharing requirements for colonoscopies performed following a positive result on a non-colonoscopy, colorectal cancer screening test.
Date Approved: February 2, 2023
Effective Date: June 1, 2023
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