New Jersey Advances Bill to Penalize Health Care Providers Who Spread ‘Misinformation’

The bill advanced out of the Assembly Health Committee with Democrats voting in favor and Republicans voting against.

A patient at a clinic talks with a doctor using a telemedicine machine in Orange, Calif., on June 21, 2021. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times

A New Jersey bill that would impose penalties on health care professionals for providing patients with “misinformation or disinformation” advanced in a vote this week in the Assembly Health Committee.

At the end of a hearing on Sept. 23, the New Jersey Assembly Health Committee approved the bill in a partisan vote, with five Democrats voting in favor, three Republicans voting no, and three other lawmakers abstaining.