New Jersey Medical Aid in Dying Act
New Jersey's Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act permits a qualified terminally ill adult resident to request medication the patient may self-administer to end the patient's life, subject to statutory safeguards.
New Jersey · Effective · Effective Aug 1, 2019
What it is
- What changed
- P.L.2019, c.59 created New Jersey's Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act. NJDOH summarizes that the law became effective August 1, 2019 and allows an adult New Jersey resident with capacity, determined by attending and consulting physicians to be terminally ill, to obtain medication the patient may self-administer.
- Why it matters
- MAID is a high-risk end-of-life legal topic. The corpus needs the statute and official DOH summary as anchors before any caregiver-facing explanation of eligibility, safeguards, forms, or facility participation.
- Who it touches
- Family caregivers, Care providers and plans, People receiving careterminally ill adults, family caregivers, attending physicians, consulting physicians, health care facilities
- Identifiers
- P.L.2019, c.59
Sources
Last reviewed Jul 4, 2026. This is information, not legal advice; check the source for the current text.