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Senate Commerce Committee Statement to Senate, No. 3939 (State of New Jersey, December 4, 2023)

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This is the Senate Commerce Committee statement to Senate, No. 3939 with committee amendments, State of New Jersey, dated December 4, 2023. The committee reports Senate Bill No. 3939 favorably and with committee amendments. As amended, the bill requires the boards created under Title 45 in current law to collect, from each state in the country, the time required to approve an application for an initial credential, and to use the calculated national average as the time the New Jersey board has to approve an application. The boards have six months after the effective date of the bill to complete the initial collection of data and calculate the national average time. As amended and reported, the bill is identical to Assembly Bill No. 5283.

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“Senate Commerce Committee Statement to Senate, No. 3939 (State of New Jersey, December 4, 2023).” Archived at Pandemic Darlings, https://pandemicdarlings.com/source-documents/2023-12-04-scm-s3939-s1-04e8f45620/, SHA-256 f844df7cad12ad56db047cc07856ee6dfa5608cd7cd3b2016e8f8c900698309e.

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     SENATE COMMERCE COMMITTEE

                    STATEMENT TO

                  SENATE, No. 3939
                   with committee amendments



 STATE OF NEW JERSEY
                   DATED: DECEMBER 4, 2023

    The Senate Commerce Committee reports favorably and with
committee amendments Senate Bill No. 3939.
    As amended, the bill requires the boards created under Title 45 in
current law to collect, from each state in the country, the amount of
time, or the average amount of time, required or necessary to approve
an application for an initial credential for each profession or
occupation in which the New Jersey board also issues a credential.
A board may contact a national or regional association to obtain data
regarding average approval times in other states. Based on the data
collected, a national average of the time required or necessary for
application approval is to be calculated for each profession and
occupation and used by the corresponding board in New Jersey as the
amount of time it has to approve an application for an initial
credential. The Director of the Division of Consumer Affairs, or a
designee, is to review and approve the calculated national averages
of times prior to their use by the boards.
    After one year of using the calculated national average of times
by the boards, the division is to review if the boards are meeting the
requisite calculated average times for approval of applications for
initial credentials. If the review demonstrates a board is not meeting
the calculated time, licensing fees collected by the board are to be
used to contract with a third-party, with expertise in the professions
or occupations regulated by the specific board, to determine best
practices that the board is to implement to meet the calculated
average time for application approval. Upon completion of the
review by the third-party, the board is to implement the best practices
immediately. The division is to review the data on the approval of
applications for initial credentials by the board six months after the
implementation of best practices to ensure the calculated national
average time is met.
    The boards have six months after the effective date of the bill to
complete the initial collection of data and calculate the national
average time. Additionally, an annual review of the calculated
national average time is to be performed by each board, in
collaboration with the director or a designee, to determine the
accuracy of the calculations.
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    The bill stipulates that each board is entitled to retain all funds
collected as a result of fees paid for an initial credential and for the
renewal, reactivation, and reinstatement of a credential in order to
administer the provisions of this bill, until the board is meeting or
surpassing its calculated national average time for application
approval.
   As amended and reported, Senate Bill No. 3939 is identical to
Assembly Bill No. 5283.

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT:
  The committee amended the bill to make technical updates.

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