LEGISLATIVE FISCAL ESTIMATE

[First Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 5043

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

221st LEGISLATURE

 

DATED: JANUARY 14, 2025

 

 

SUMMARY

 

Synopsis:

Requires DOH to create and disseminate materials and resources related to cardiomyopathy.

Type of Impact:

Annual State expenditures increases, potential annual revenue increases for the State and school districts.

Agencies Affected:

Department of Health, Department of Education, school districts.

 

 

Office of Legislative Services Estimate

Fiscal Impact

One-time 

Annual

 

State Expenditure Increase

Up to $100,000

Indeterminate

 

Potential State Revenue Increase

Indeterminate

Indeterminate

 

Potential Local Revenue Increase

Indeterminate

Indeterminate

 

 

 

 

 

·         The Office of Legislative Services (OLS) estimates that the Department of Health would incur up to $100,000 in one-time costs: 1) to develop and disseminate public education materials and resources; and 2) to develop and make available a cardiomyopathy risk assessment.  If the public education materials and cardiomyopathy risk assessment are developed more quickly than the 18 months required by the bill, costs will be lower.

·         If the department initiates a grant program for school districts to implement programs to promote student access to automated external defibrillators and cardiopulmonary resuscitation, State expenditures and school district revenues would increase by an indeterminate amount.  Depending on how the grant program is structured, these may be one-time or recurring expenditures and revenues.

·         The department may experience an indeterminate revenue increase to the extent that federal grants pursued by the department, as required under the bill, are awarded. 

 

BILL DESCRIPTION

 

      This bill requires the Department of Health, in consultation with the Department of Education, to develop, and disseminate to State educational agencies and healthcare professionals, public education materials and resources on the signs, symptoms, and risk factors associated with high-risk cardiac conditions and genetic heart rhythm abnormalities.  The Department of Health is also required to post this information on its website.

      The Department of Health is directed to submit a report to the Governor and the Legislature every five years detailing: (1) the natural history of an individual with cardiomyopathy; (2) the estimated number of cardiomyopathy-related emergency department visits and hospitalizations; (3) the ongoing cardiomyopathy-focused research efforts of the department; and (4) a research agenda regarding cardiomyopathy. 

     This bill requires the department to: 1) develop and make publicly available a cardiomyopathy risk assessment and 2) apply to any available federal grants to expand and coordinate research and research-related activities associated with cardiomyopathy. 

     The bill permits the department to award grants to school districts to develop and implement a comprehensive program to promote student access to automated external defibrillators and cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

 

 

FISCAL ANALYSIS

 

EXECUTIVE BRANCH

 

      None received.

 

OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE SERVICES

 

      The OLS estimates that the Department of Health would incur up to $100,000 in one-time costs: 1) to develop and disseminate public education materials and resources to school districts and health care providers; and 2) to develop and make available to the public a cardiomyopathy risk assessment.  This estimate assumes that staff time comparable to 0.5 full-time equivalent employees would be required to complete the tasks enumerated in the bill.  The cost primarily reflects the average salary of a Department of Health employee, which is about $75,000, plus benefits.  The guidelines are to be developed within 18 months of the bill’s effective date so no additional costs are anticipated beyond that time unless the department implements the grant program permitted in the bill.  If the public education materials and cardiomyopathy risk assessment are develop more quickly than the 18 months required by the bill, costs will be lower.

      Department of Health expenditures will increase by an indeterminate amount if it initiates a grant program for school districts to implement programs to promote student access to automated external defibrillators and cardiopulmonary resuscitation.  School district grant recipients would also see their revenues increase under the grant program.  Depending on how the grant program is structured, these may be one-time or recurring expenditures and revenues.

      The department may experience indeterminate revenue increases to the extent that federal grants pursued by the department, as required under the bill, are awarded.

Section:

Human Services

Analyst:

Sarah Schmidt

Lead Research Analyst

Approved:

Thomas Koenig

Legislative Budget and Finance Officer

 

This legislative fiscal estimate has been produced by the Office of Legislative Services due to the failure of the Executive Branch to respond to our request for a fiscal note.

 

This fiscal estimate has been prepared pursuant to P.L.1980, c.67 (C.52:13B-6 et seq.).