Bill Text: NJ A2882 | 2012-2013 | Regular Session | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Requires professional boards to provide credits toward requirements for licensure for veterans with substantially equivalent training.*

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 15-7)

Status: (Passed) 2013-05-06 - Approved P.L.2013, c.49. [A2882 Detail]

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§§1,2 -

C.45:1-15.3 &

45:1-15.4

§3 - Note

 

P.L.2013, CHAPTER 49, approved May 6, 2013

Assembly, No. 2882 (Second Reprint)

 

 

An Act concerning professional and occupational licenses and supplementing P.L.1978, c.73 (C.45:1-14 et seq.).

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    a. Notwithstanding any other act or regulation to the contrary, a professional or occupational board designated in section 2 of P.L.1978, c.73 (C.45:1-15) that issues a professional or occupational license, certificate of registration, or certification for which professional training, education, or experience is required shall ²[provide, by regulation, waivers or exemptions from requirements toward licensure or certification for any applicant who received training, education, or experience] give credit toward its requirements for licensure or certification for training, education, and experience received² while serving as a member of the Armed Forces of the United States that is substantially equivalent to the training, education, or experience required for licensure or certification.  ²[Each board shall provide for methods of evaluating the equivalence of training, education, or experience obtained in the Armed Forces of the United States to the training, education, or experience required by the board for licensure or certification, and, within ¹[180] 90¹ days after the effective date of this act, promulgate regulations on the partial or total waiver or exemption from requirements toward licensure or certification to be provided for substantially equivalent training, education, or experience obtained in the Armed Forces of the United States.]²

     b.    ²[Within ¹[180] 90¹ days after the ¹[effective date of this act,] rules and regulations have been promulgated,¹ each professional or occupational board designated in section 2 of P.L.1978, c.73 (C.45:1-15) that issues licenses or certificates for which professional training, education, or experience is required shall report to the New Jersey Department of Military and Veterans' Affairs ¹, and the Senate Military and Veterans' Affairs Committee and the General Assembly Military and Veterans' Affairs Committee, or their successors,¹ concerning that board's compliance with the requirements of subsection a. of this section]

     A professional or occupational board shall issue a license or certification to an applicant who presents evidence to the board that:

     (1)   the applicant has been honorably discharged from active military service;

     (2)   the training, education, and experience the applicant received while serving as a member of the Armed Forces of the United States, together with any training, education, and experience obtained outside of the Armed Forces, is substantially equivalent to training, education, or experience required for licensure or certification; and

     (3)   the applicant complies with all other requirements for licensure, including, without limitation, any requirement for examination.

     c.     For the purpose of determining substantial equivalence of education, a professional or occupational board shall consider education courses directly relevant to the profession or occupation for which a license or certification is sought that are part of the applicant's military training or service that meet the equivalence standards of the American Council on Education.

     d.    For the purpose of determining substantial equivalence of experience, a professional or occupational board shall consider whether the experience gained in the military is of a character equivalent to that which would have been gained in the civilian sector doing similar work.

     e.     A professional or occupational board may require an applicant to provide such documentation of the applicant's training, education, or experience as deemed necessary by the board to determine substantial equivalency.  An applicant seeking credit for military training, experience, or both shall submit to the appropriate professional or occupational board the applicant's Verification of Military Experience and Training (VMET) Document, DD Form 2586.

     f.     To the extent that an applicant's military training, education, or experience, or a portion thereof, is not deemed substantially equivalent, a professional or occupational board shall credit whatever portion of the military training, education, or experience that is substantially equivalent towards meeting the requirements for the issuance of the license or certificate².

 

     ²2.   Each professional or occupational board designated in section 2 of P.L.1978, c.73 (C.45:1-15), subject to the provisions of this act, pursuant to the provisions of the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), shall promulgate rules and regulations necessary to implement this act.²

     ²[2.] 3.² This act shall take effect ²[immediately] 12 months following enactment, but each board may take such anticipatory administrative action in advance thereof as shall be necessary for the implementation of this act².

 

 

                                

 

     Requires professional boards to provide credits toward requirements for licensure for veterans with substantially equivalent training.