April 17, 2019 – On April 12, 2019, Governor Murphy signed New Jersey’s Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act into law. New Jersey is the 8th state to permit terminally ill, mentally capable adult patients, the right to request life-ending medication.
March 18, 2019 – On March 18, 2019, Governor Murphy signed S746/A3045 into law. Initiated by longtime PGA client, the New Jersey Speech-Language Hearing Association (NJSHA), this legislation allows audiologists to dispense hearing aids by virtue of their audiology license without having to obtain a separate license to perform that function.
