New Jersey legislation · 2026-2027 Regular Session
New Jersey A2218: Legally protected health care activities-secure protections, patient & provider
Status: In committee, June 30, 2026
Secures protections for patients and providers accessing and providing reproductive health care services; establishes right of residents to reproductive health care activity that is restricted in other states.*
What the bill says
An Act concerning reproductive rights and amending and supplementing various parts of the statutory law. 1. (New section) As used in P.L. , c. (C. ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill): Assisted reproductive technology shall mean the same as defined in section 3 of P.L.2018, c.18 (C.9:17-62). Driveway means an entry from a public street to a public or private parking area used by a health care services facility. Health care services facility includes a hospital, clinic, office, or other site that provides or seeks to provide health care services and includes the building or str.
From the amended text, June 11, 2026:
An Act concerning reproductive rights and amending and supplementing various parts of the statutory law. 1. (New section) As used in P.L. , c. (C. ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill): Assisted reproductive technology shall mean the same as defined in section 3 of P.L.2018, c.18 (C.9:17-62). Driveway means an entry from a public street to a public or private parking area used by a health care services facility. Health care services facility includes a hospital, clinic, office, or other site that provides or seeks to provide health care services and includes the building or structure in which the facility is located and the driveway of such building or structure. Intimidate means to place a person in reasonable apprehension of bodily harm to themselves or to another. Physically obstruct means rendering ingress to or egress from a health care services facility impassable to another person, or rendering passage to or from a health care services facility unreasonably difficult or hazardous to another person. Reproductive health care activity means any conduct related to providing, seeking, receiving, advising, aiding, facilitating, encouraging, referring for, assisting with, providing material support for, or inquiring about reproductive health care services that are lawful in this State. Reproductive health care activity shall not include any conduct that could form the basis of a civil, criminal, …