Bill Text: NJ A4227 | 2010-2011 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Specifies that doctoral students seeking eligibility for licensure as practicing psychologists shall not be required to physically attend classes.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-11-10 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Regulated Professions Committee [A4227 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2010-A4227-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblywoman PAMELA R. LAMPITT
District 6 (Camden)
SYNOPSIS
Specifies that doctoral students seeking eligibility for licensure as practicing psychologists shall not be required to physically attend classes.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning licensure of psychologists and supplementing P.L.1966, c.282 (C.45:14B-1 et seq.).
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. An applicant for licensure as a practicing psychologist shall not be required to physically attend any classes on a campus to meet the requirements of subsection (a) of section 17 of P.L.1966, c.282 (C.45:14B-17).
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill specifies that an applicant for licensure as a practicing psychologist shall not be required to physically attend any classes on a campus to meet the requirements of earning a doctoral degree in order to be eligible for that licensure, as provided in subsection (a) of section 17 of P.L.1966, c.282 (C.45:14B-17).
As presently provided by regulation, an applicant for licensure as a practicing psychologist, while pursuing a doctoral degree in order to be eligible for such licensure, is required to personally attend classes at a degree-granting institution (N.J.A.C.13:42-2.1). The State Board of Psychological Examiners is currently proposing a regulation that would require full-time students to physically attend classes on campus for at least one continuous academic year and require part-time students to physically attend classes on campus for at least two continuous academic years.
