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Senate Commerce Committee Statement to Senate, No. 3051 (State of New Jersey, October 10, 2024)

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Senate Commerce Committee statement to Senate, No. 3051, with committee amendments, State of New Jersey, dated October 10, 2024. The committee reports favorably and with committee amendments Senate Bill No. 3051, which as amended requires the Division of Consumer Affairs in the Department of Law and Public Safety to hire additional staff to alleviate the professional license application backlog. The statement says the bill appropriates $10,000,000 in each of the cited three fiscal years to allow for the immediate hiring of additional staff and ongoing funding. It says the bill also requires the division to provide an annual report on the spending authorized by the bill, and that the committee amended the bill to update the fiscal years to receive the appropriation.

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     SENATE COMMERCE COMMITTEE

                    STATEMENT TO

                  SENATE, No. 3051
                  with committee amendments



 STATE OF NEW JERSEY
                   DATED: OCTOBER 10, 2024

    The Senate Commerce Committee reports favorably and with
committee amendments Senate Bill No. 3051.
    As amended, this bill requires the Division of Consumer Affairs
in the Department of Law and Public Safety to hire additional staff
to alleviate the professional license application backlog. The bill
appropriates $10,000,000 in fiscal years 2026, 2027, and 2028 for
the hiring of additional staff.
   The various state professional boards are responsible for both the
processing of initial license requests and the periodic licensure
renewals as required by statute. There is currently a significant
backlog of these license requests in several of the regulated
professions within the Division of Consumer Affairs.
   Starting in fiscal year 2016, language has been included in the
annual appropriations act allowing the transfer of funds from the
professional boards to other organizations within the Department of
Law and Public Safety. These transfers may have taken away
flexibility the boards would have to hire additional staff to address
backlogs. This bill appropriates $10,000,000 in each of the cited
three fiscal years to allow for both the immediate hiring of
additional staff to alleviate the current backlog as well as to ensure
ongoing funding to maintain proper levels of service for license
processing across the regulated professions.
    The bill also requires the division to provide an annual report
that provides details on the spending authorized by the bill, and the
effect of the spending on division staffing and the processing of
license applications and renewals.

COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS:
    The committee amended the bill to update the fiscal years to
receive the appropriation.

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