New Jersey Statutes Title 45. Professions and Occupations 45 § 9-42.46

b. Any healthcare-related data that is required under State law to be reported by a clinical laboratory to a local or State governmental entity shall include any corresponding gender identity, sexual orientation, and racial and ethnic data recorded pursuant to this section, and shall be incorporated into the corresponding disease surveillance reporting system of the local or State governmental entity. The Commissioner of Health shall issue guidance concerning the healthcare-related data that is subject to the requirements of this subsection.

c. A non-electronic specimen collection and analysis requisition form distributed by a clinical laboratory shall contain a section for the manual entry of the patient's racial, ethnic, sexual orientation, and gender identity information on the form.

d. Race and ethnicity, sexual orientation, and gender identity information that is required to be recorded or reported pursuant to this section shall be recorded or reported using a program that is compatible with the State's disease surveillance reporting system using such data fields as may be available or necessary in the version of Health Level Seven International recording and reporting standards or equivalent standards adopted by the laboratory.

e. The Commissioner of Health may modify, by regulation, the race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and gender identity selections provided in subsection a. of this section as appropriate or pursuant to federal requirements.