New Jersey legislation · 2026-2027 Regular Session
New Jersey S2260: Legally protected health care activities-secure protections, patient & provider
Status: Signed into law, August 20, 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. 1[Entrance means a door to a health care services facility that directly abuts the public sidewalk; provided, however, that if the door does not directly abut the publi.
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. 1[Entrance means a door to a health care services facility that directly abuts the public sidewalk; provided, however, that if the door does not directly abut the public sidewalk, the entrance shall be the point at which the public sidewalk intersects with a pathway leading to the door. Gathering means two or more individuals.]1 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. 1[Impede means to obstruct, block, detain, or render passage impossible, unsafe, or unreasonably difficult.]1 Intimidate means to place a person in reasonable apprehension of bodily harm to themselves or to another. 1[Physical obstruction] [ADDED: Physically obstruct] 1 means rendering ingress to or egress from a health care services facility impassable to another person, or …