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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Requires telecommunications, cable television, and Internet service providers to allow for service contracts to be paused or canceled following service recipients's admission to long-term care facility.*"
+description: "Requires telecommunications, cable television, and Internet service providers to allow for service contracts to be paused or canceled following service recipients's admission to long-term care facility.*"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/nj"
+legislature: "New Jersey Legislature"
+session: "221"
+identifier: "S 684"
+citation: "New Jersey S 684 (221)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["COMMUNICATIO", "HEALTH", "HEALTH FAC", "INTERNET", "TELEVISION"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Diegnan, Patrick J.", "Sampson, William B.", "Singer, Robert W.", "Swain, Lisa", "Tully, Chris"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 10
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2024-01-09T05:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2025-01-30T05:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7d57b1d6-a6f4-46fc-bbca-479669b0ddf1"
+source_url: "https://pub.njleg.state.nj.us/leg-databases/"
+source_hash: "2c17733bc715979d54d875a195ba3b2079541d9796faacc62aca3c6a4dbfe9fd"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-nj"]
+---
+
+# New Jersey S 684 (221) — Requires telecommunications, cable television, and Internet service providers to allow for service contracts to be paused or canceled following service recipients's admission to long-term care facility.*
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://pub.njleg.state.nj.us/Bills/2024/S1000/684_I1.HTM)
+2. **Reprint ACO 10/24/24 1R** (committee substitute) — [source](https://pub.njleg.state.nj.us/Bills/2024/S1000/684_R1.HTM)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reported favorably out of committee — **5–0** (pass) · upper
+- 3RDG FINAL PASSAGE — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported out of Assembly committee with amendments — **5–0** (pass) · lower
+- 3RDG FINAL PASSAGE — **70–0** (pass) · lower
+- CONCUR ASMB AMEND — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Diegnan, Patrick J. — primary (person)
+- Sampson, William B. — primary (person)
+- Singer, Robert W. — primary (person)
+- Swain, Lisa — primary (person)
+- Tully, Chris — primary (person)
+- Atkins, Reginald W. — cosponsor (person)
+- Calabrese, Clinton — cosponsor (person)
+- Carter, Linda S. — cosponsor (person)
+- Conaway, Herb — cosponsor (person)
+- Danielsen, Joe — cosponsor (person)
+- DeAngelo, Wayne P. — cosponsor (person)
+- Donlon, Margie — cosponsor (person)
+- Drulis, Mitchelle — cosponsor (person)
+- Flynn, Victoria A. — cosponsor (person)
+- Freiman, Roy — cosponsor (person)
+- Haider, Shama A. — cosponsor (person)
+- Holzapfel, James W. — cosponsor (person)
+- Karabinchak, Robert J. — cosponsor (person)
+- Lampitt, Pamela R. — cosponsor (person)
+- Lopez, Yvonne — cosponsor (person)
+- Morales, Carmen Theresa — cosponsor (person)
+- Moriarty, Paul D. — cosponsor (person)
+- Murphy, Carol A. — cosponsor (person)
+- Park, Ellen J. — cosponsor (person)
+- Peterpaul, Luanne M. — cosponsor (person)
+- Pou, Nellie — cosponsor (person)
+- Sauickie, Alex — cosponsor (person)
+- Scharfenberger, Gerry — cosponsor (person)
+- Stanley, Sterley S. — cosponsor (person)
+- Wimberly, Benjie E. — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-01-09T05:00:00+00:00** Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Commerce Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-05T05:00:00+00:00** Reported out of Senate Committee, 2nd Reading `committee-passage`
+- **2024-02-12T05:00:00+00:00** Passed Senate (37-0) `passage`
+- **2024-02-12T05:00:00+00:00** Received in the Assembly, Referred to Assembly Consumer Affairs Committee `referral-committee`
+- **2024-10-24T04:00:00+00:00** Reported out of Assembly Committee with Amendments, 2nd Reading `committee-passage`
+- **2024-12-19T05:00:00+00:00** Substituted for A2334 (1R)
+- **2024-12-19T05:00:00+00:00** Passed Assembly (70-0-1) `passage`
+- **2024-12-19T05:00:00+00:00** Received in the Senate, 2nd Reading on Concurrence
+- **2024-12-19T05:00:00+00:00** Passed Senate (Passed Both Houses) (37-0) `passage`
+- **2025-01-30T05:00:00+00:00** Approved P.L.2025, c.3. `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7d57b1d6-a6f4-46fc-bbca-479669b0ddf1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Jersey legislature records).
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