Bill Text: NJ S2205 | 2016-2017 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Requires professional boards to provide for online processing of application for licensure or renewal.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-7)
Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2018-01-08 - Passed Assembly (Passed Both Houses) (69-0-0) [S2205 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2016-S2205-Amended.html
Sponsored by:
Senator JEFF VAN DREW
District 1 (Atlantic, Cape May and Cumberland)
Senator PATRICK J. DIEGNAN, JR.
District 18 (Middlesex)
SYNOPSIS
Requires professional boards to provide for online processing of application for licensure or renewal.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As reported by the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee on December 14, 2017, with amendments.
An Act concerning professional and occupational licenses and supplementing P.L.1978, c.73 (C.45:1-14 et seq.).
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Each professional or occupational board designated in section 2 of P.L.1978, c.73 (C.45:1-15), shall provide on its Internet website a secure process to allow applicants to complete online any application documents, including any fee payments, required to obtain an initial license, certificate of registration, or certification, or renewal of an existing license, certificate of registration, or certification, as the case may be, and to submit electronically all necessary documentation for review and approval of that board.
2. Each professional or occupational board designated in section 2 of P.L.1978, c.73 (C.45:1-15), pursuant to the provisions of the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), shall promulgate rules and regulations necessary to implement this act.
3. This act shall take effect on the first day of the 1[12th] 36th1 month next following enactment, but each board may take such anticipatory administrative action in advance thereof as shall be necessary for the implementation of this act.
