Bill Text: NJ S3145 | 2020-2021 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Concerns names required on applications for professional and occupational licensure.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Passed) 2021-05-11 - Approved P.L.2021, c.88. [S3145 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2020-S3145-Amended.html

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[First Reprint]

SENATE, No. 3145

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

219th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED NOVEMBER 5, 2020

 

 

Sponsored by:

Senator  LINDA R. GREENSTEIN

District 14 (Mercer and Middlesex)

Senator  NELLIE POU

District 35 (Bergen and Passaic)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Concerns names required on applications for professional and occupational licensure.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As reported by the Senate Commerce Committee on January 21, 2021, with amendments.

  

An Act concerning the names required on applications for professional and occupational licensure and supplementing P.L.1978, c.73 (C.45:1-21 et seq.).

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    a. An application to be completed for a professional or occupational license, certificate of registration, or certification, or renewal, reactivation, or reinstatement of a professional or occupational license, certificate of registration,  or certification, shall include:

     (1)   a line for the applicant to list a professional name;

     (2)   a line for the individual to list a legal name, if different from the professional name; and

     (3)   the ability for the applicant to choose which of the names is to appear on the license, certificate of registration or certification.

     b.    Notwithstanding any law, rule, or regulation to the contrary, ¹[this section] the provisions of this section¹ shall apply to every applicant for or holder of a professional or occupational license, certificate of registration, or certification issued, renewed, reactivated, or reinstated by a board specified in section 2 of P.L.2013, c. 253 (C.45:1-15)¹, or by any principal department of the Executive Branch of State government or any entity within any department or any other entity hereafter created to license or otherwise regulate a profession or occupation¹.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect on the first day of the sixth month next following enactment, except that anticipatory administrative action in advance may be taken as necessary for the implementation of this act.