Bill Text: NJ A3857 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Allows social worker to acquire four hours of continuing education credit for volunteering as poll worker.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-03 - Reported out of Asm. Comm. with Amendments, and Referred to Assembly State and Local Government Committee [A3857 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2024-A3857-Introduced.html
ASSEMBLY REGULATED PROFESSIONS COMMITTEE
STATEMENT TO
ASSEMBLY, No. 3857
with committee amendments
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
DATED: JUNE 3, 2024
The Assembly Regulated Professions Committee reports favorably and with committee amendments Assembly Bill No. 3857.
As amended, this bill allows each person licensed or certified by the State Board of Social Work Examiners to earn up to four credits of continuing education by volunteering as a poll worker on the day of a State primary and general election. Under the bill, a person may volunteer for either a primary or a general election, or both, and is to receive two credits for each time the person served as a volunteer, as appropriate. A person licensed or certified by the board cannot earn more than four credits per renewal period for volunteering as a poll worker. For purposes of recordkeeping, a person is to maintain proof of the time as a poll worker by obtaining an assignment letter issued by the respective county or in another manner and form as determined by the board. The provisions of the bill are not to be construed as requiring a person to volunteer as a poll worker. The credits are an option for a person to fulfill continuing education requirements that are required pursuant to current law.
COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS
The committee amended the bill to allow proof of time as a poll worker to be demonstrated through submission of an assignment letter and clarify that this document is issued by a county.
