{"id":"NJ-008","kind":"order","level":"state","jurisdiction":"New Jersey","state":"NJ","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Governor Philip D. Murphy","authority":"N.J.S.A. App. A:9-33 et seq., -45, -47; N.J.S.A. 26:13-1 et seq.","instrument":"Executive Order No. 112 (2020)","title":"Removal of licensing barriers for health care professionals joining the COVID-19 response; civil immunity for front-line health care responders","dateIssued":"2020-04-01","effective":"2020-04-01 (immediately)","end":"Listed in P.L. 2021, c. 103, sec. 1(3) to remain in effect until January 1, 2022; civil and criminal immunity under EO 112 and P.L. 2020, c. 18 expired September 1, 2021 (c. 103, sec. 2)","startDate":"2020-04-01","endDate":"2022-01-01","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["HC","OTHER"],"addressees":["Division of Consumer Affairs and its licensing boards","health care professionals (retired, out-of-State, foreign-licensed)","health care facilities"],"clause":"Para. 1: \u0022The DCA is authorized to reactivate, on a temporary basis for the duration of the State of Emergency or Public Health Emergency, whichever is longer, the license of any healthcare professional previously licensed to practice in New Jersey who retired from active practice within the last five years\u0022... Para. 2: \u0022The DCA is authorized to issue a license to practice medicine and/or surgery, on a temporary basis for the duration of the State of Emergency or Public Health Emergency, whichever is longer, to any physician... \u0022 [licensed in another jurisdiction or country].","enforcement":"Licensure; statutory suspensions and waivers of N.J.S.A. 45:1-7.4, 45:9-19.17 and 45:9-27.13a","functions":["HR credentialing and licensure","IC/HC staffing of hospitals and facilities"],"notes":"Health care workforce instrument continued by statute into Q3 2021; the immunity it conferred ended September 1, 2021 by c. 103, sec. 2.","sourceUrl":"https://nj.gov/infobank/eo/056murphy/pdf/EO-112.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":521107,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"NJ","url":"/library/NJ-008","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/NJ-008","citation":"Governor Philip D. Murphy, Executive Order No. 112 (2020) (Apr. 1, 2020) (Ex. NJ-008)","stateName":"New Jersey","related":["DUT-NJ-007","NJ-006","NJ-009","NJ-010","NJ-007","NJ-012","NJ-011","NJ-004","NJ-005","NJ-013","NJ-003","NJ-002"]}