NJ Legislature
*Danger
(As of 6/6/26)
WHAT’S HAPPENING:
Bills S2260 and A2218 are being rapidly processed by the NJ Legislature. We need your immediate help to stop these bills from becoming law. (see “What YOU Can Do NOW”, below) These bills are intentionally confusing to read and definitions are vague. But they are intended to scare the public into silence on the issues of abortion or gender transitioning. Speak out, and the State will charge you with a criminal offense punishable by fines of $10,000 to $150,000 and from 18 months to 10 years in jail !
If that’s not enough, these bills would also create CIVIL offenses, where a court could issue injunctions, could require compensatory damages of $1,000 per violation, could also impose punitive damages, attorney’s fees, litigation costs and ANY OTHER relief the Court chooses!
These bills:
* Declare that Comments posted on social media could be this “new crime” if the State judges that the comments “intimidate, threaten, coerce or attempt to intimidate, threaten or coerce ANY person or entity” (the terms are not clearly defined)
* Declare any action deemed to “intimidate” a person from becoming or remaining a patient (of an abortion or gender-transition surgical/chemical clinic to be a CRIME. In other words, if someone alleges your comments ‘intimidated’ them, “interfered”, or a clergy member discouraged them from having an abortion and thus caused “economic harm” to the abortionist or trans-surgeon – you can be charged with a CRIME or CIVIL OFFENSE.
* These bills prohibit any NJ law enforcement agency from cooperating with federal or “other state” law enforcement agencies! The bills allege this is to protect persons coming into the state from criminal prosecution for acts committed elsewhere if related to abortion or transition. This could protect sex traffickers from prosecution if they bring their victims to New Jersey!
* Under the label of privacy, these bills prohibit statistical tracking of harm or death caused by chemical or surgical abortion or transition operations
* These bills prohibit extradition – the process of returning a criminal to the state where the crime occurred – if that crime can remotely fall under the unclear definitions of “reproductive health care activity”.
STATUS / URGENT: The New Jersey Senate passed S2260 on 5/28/26 with little debate, 23-12 along party lines; with 5 Senators not voting (Sen. Owen Henry was in the hospital). Assembly bill A2218 is nearly identical. Both bills are to be heard by the Assembly Appropriations Committee on Monday, June 8, 2026 at 11AM in Committee Room 11, 4th Floor, of the State House Annex, 145 West State St., Trenton (entry via security center between State House and Annex).
PDF: NJ Assembly Appropriations Committee members
All indications are that the NJ Assembly will vote on these bills on Thursday, June 11, 2026, so that the bills can be sent to Gov. Mikie Sherrill to sign into law immediately. These bills are coming before the “Appropriations” Committee because the State has said it cannot predict the costs which might accrue or the number of people who will be charged with this new crime, if enacted.
WHAT YOU CAN DO NOW:
1. Phone, then Email every member of the Assembly Appropriations Committee before they meet on these bills Monday, June 8 at 11 AM. Tell them the language in these bills is so unclear that many people, children and parents could be charged just for voicing objections to the flagrant abortion industry in New Jersey, or to the permanent harm caused to underage children being forced into transition treatment. Here’s the link to a 1-page “pdf” listing committee members, phone #’s, email addresses
2. Plan to travel to Trenton to sit in on the Assembly Appropriations Committee hearing (see red details above).
RESOURCES:
[*Link to the Summary Statement for S2260] (latest 5/21/26 revision)
[Link to S2260 – pdf] (latest 5/21/26 revision)
[Link to the “Fiscal Estimate” pdf for S2260 dated 6/1/26]
[Link to A2218 – pdf] (latest 5/14/26 revision)
[*Link to Talking Points on S2260 Substitute 5/14/26]
[Link to the full status and text of S2260] – click on the links in the page
[Link to the full status and text of A2218] – click on the links in the page
1) CREATE THE CRIME OF “INTERFERENCE WITH REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CARE SERVICES”
The NJ Senate Health Committee Substitute for bill S2260 would create within New Jersey most aspects of the suspended federal FACE Act.
2) CREATE A NEW CIVIL ACTION OF “INTERFERENCE WITH REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CARE SERVICES”. As at left, this would enable individuals or the Attorney General to seek injunctive relief, compensatory and punitive damages, recovery of attorney’s fees and other compensation. [Click for details]
3) “APPLICABILITY OF LAWS OF OTHER STATES WITHIN NEW JERSEY” – This provision would prohibit any law of another state which would allow prosecution or civil actions against persons in New Jersey to be prohibited from being applied. [Click for details]
4) PROTECTION OF PATIENT INFORMATION – This provision of the the NJ Senate Health Committee Substitute for bill S2260 would relate to reproductive health care activity, care, medical services and procedures – for abortion, for gender affirming care, for trans procedures, etc. [Click for details]
5) EXTRADITION – This provision of the substitute for S2260 / A2218 would expand New Jersey’s present prohibitions against extradition as it relates to “reproductive health care activity.” [Click for details]
6) PROTECTIONS FOR PERSONS WHO PROVIDE REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CARE SERVICES – This would block law enforcement agencies, courts, attorneys, private detectives, etc., from access to information about any person in New Jersey in relation to “reproductive health care services”. [Click for details]
What YOU Can Do NOW:
- Resolve to “engage.” These issues affect you and those close to you. Learn what’s going on, and resolve to take a step to exert your personal influence, seeking to have “public” policy achieve what YOU would want, rather than only what others want.
- Even as these bills are pending, you can Phone or Email your legislators to speak to them about your concerns, so that when they are called upon to vote, they have some feedback on how constituents feel. (search for your town in the top-right search box)
- Return to this website often, so you can learn of updates and new actions – Check out our Names/Phone#’s/Emails page here