Senate Commerce Committee Statement to Senate, No. 196 — State of New Jersey (November 17, 2025)

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A Senate Commerce Committee statement to the Senate on Senate Bill No. 196 with committee amendments, State of New Jersey, dated November 17, 2025, reporting the bill favorably. As amended, the bill requires the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners to allow preceptorships for students in the final year or final two semesters of a program in chiropractic medicine, under the direct supervision of a New Jersey-licensed chiropractor approved by the board. Students apply for a limited license, with a criminal background check, which is not renewed upon graduation or withdrawal. The statement says the bill aims to retain graduates of New Jersey chiropractic programs and 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

(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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