Senate Commerce Committee Statement to Senate, No. 196 (November 17, 2025)

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Senate Commerce Committee statement to Senate, No. 196 with committee amendments, State of New Jersey, dated November 17, 2025. The committee reports favorably and with committee amendments Senate Bill No. 196, which requires the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners to allow preceptorships, a clinical program under the direct supervision of a New Jersey-licensed chiropractor, for students in the final year or final two semesters of a chiropractic medicine program. A student seeking a preceptorship applies to the board for a limited license, and a criminal background check is part of the application. The statement says the bill is identical to Assembly Bill No. 3099.

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     SENATE COMMERCE COMMITTEE

                     STATEMENT TO

                   SENATE, No. 196
                    with committee amendments



 STATE OF NEW JERSEY
                   DATED: NOVEMBER 17, 2025

    The Senate Commerce Committee reports favorably and with
committee amendments Senate Bill No. 196.
    As amended, this bill requires the State Board of Chiropractic
Examiners (the “board”) to allow for preceptorships for students in the
final year or final two semesters of a program in chiropractic medicine.
“Preceptorship” is defined in the bill to mean a clinical program in
which a student participates in the practice of chiropractic medicine
under the direct supervision of a New Jersey-licensed chiropractor.
The board is to approve the State-licensed chiropractors who can act as
preceptors for students. Additionally, the school, institution, or
college of chiropractic in which the student is enrolled is to be
approved by the board pursuant to current law.
    Under the bill, a student seeking to participate in a preceptorship is
to apply to the board for a limited license. A criminal background
check is required as part of the application process. The limited
license is not to be renewed upon graduation or withdrawal from the
chiropractic program in which the limited licensee is enrolled. The bill
authorizes the board to promulgate rules and regulations addressing:
(1) training and experience requirements for preceptors; (2) direct
supervision; (3) the scope of practice for students holding a limited
license; and (4) what provisions of current law regulating chiropractors
applies to students in preceptorships.
    The bill aims to retain graduates of programs of chiropractic
medicine based in New Jersey to work as licensed chiropractors in the
State.
    As amended and reported by the committee, Senate Bill No. 196 is
identical to Assembly Bill No. 3099, which was also amended and
reported by the committee on this date.

COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS:
    The committee amended the bill to:
    (1) clarify that direct supervision, as defined, requires a State-
licensed chiropractor to be on-premises;
    (2) delineate items the board is to address in rules and regulations;
    (3)    require a criminal background check as part of the
preceptorship application process; and
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    (4) stipulate that a limited license to be a preceptor expires upon
graduation or withdrawal from the chiropractic program in which the
student is enrolled.


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