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Statement to Senate No. 4316 — Senate Commerce Committee, State of New Jersey (May 22, 2025)

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Statement to Senate No. 4316, dated May 22, 2025, from the Senate Commerce Committee of the State of New Jersey. The committee reports favorably on Senate Bill No. 4316, which establishes professional licensure and certification for the practice of certain tobacco and nicotine treatment counseling. The statement says the bill establishes licensed clinical tobacco treatment specialists and certified clinical tobacco treatment specialists, regulated by the Alcohol and Drug Counselor Committee in the State Board of Marriage and Family Therapy Examiners. It says certified applicants are to furnish evidence of completing the Rutgers Tobacco Dependence Program of 42 hours.

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     SENATE COMMERCE COMMITTEE

                     STATEMENT TO

                   SENATE, No. 4316

 STATE OF NEW JERSEY
                       DATED: MAY 22, 2025

    The Senate Commerce Committee reports favorably Senate Bill
No. 4316.
    This bill establishes professional licensure and certification for the
practice of certain tobacco and nicotine treatment counseling.
    The bill establishes two new regulated professions: licensed
clinical tobacco treatment specialists and certified clinical tobacco
treatment specialists. The bill provides that both professions are to be
regulated by the Alcohol and Drug Counselor Committee in the State
Board of Marriage and Family Therapy Examiners. The bill prohibits
the practice of tobacco treatment counseling as a licensed clinical
tobacco treatment specialist or certified clinical tobacco treatment
specialist unless a person is licensed or certified pursuant to the bill.
    The bill establishes an application process for licensed or certified
clinical tobacco treatment counselors. The bill provides that the board
is to issue a tobacco treatment specialist license to any health care
provider in this State who, within the scope of that provider's practice,
diagnoses and treats tobacco or nicotine related disorders and
demonstrates to the board that the person has:
    (1) received, at a minimum, a master's degree from an accredited
institution of higher education with a minimum of 18 graduate
semester hours in counseling or counseling related subjects;
    (2) successfully completed all the requirements to be a certified
tobacco treatment specialist; and
    (3) successfully completed a written examination.
    For certified tobacco treatment specialists, each applicant is to
furnish evidence satisfactory to the committee that the applicant has
completed the Rutgers Tobacco Dependence Program of 42 hours.
Applicants are to also complete varying amounts of full-time
counseling or health care experience, and supervised practice training,
depending on their educational background.
    The bill also provides that a tobacco treatment specialist may not
disclose any confidential information that the specialist, or an
employee of a specialist may have acquired while performing tobacco
counseling services for a patient unless in accordance with the federal
regulations regarding the confidentiality of tobacco treatment patient
records.
    The bill provides that no person is not to engage in the practice of
tobacco treatment counseling as a licensed clinical tobacco treatment
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specialist or a certified clinical tobacco treatment specialist unless the
person is practicing under the direct supervision of a physician
licensed to practice in this State.
     The bill provides it does not prevent a person from doing tobacco
counseling work, or advertising that service, if acting within the scope
of the person's profession or occupation and doing work consistent
with the person's training, including physicians, clinical social
workers, psychologists, nurses, or any other profession or occupation
licensed by the State, or students within accredited programs of these
professions, if the person does not hold himself or herself out to the
public as possessing a license or certification issued pursuant to the
bill.

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