Requires hospitals to adopt and develop environmental sustainability plan.

This bill requires all New Jersey acute care hospitals to create and submit environmental sustainability plans every four years, with newly licensed hospitals needing to submit one within six months. The plans must set goals for reducing waste, conserving water and energy, using renewable power, adopting sustainable purchasing, and lowering carbon emissions. Hospitals must also file annual progress reports detailing implementation, which will be published online. The law aims to reduce healthcare's environmental impact while highlighting potential cost savings from sustainability efforts, as noted in the bill's findings.