Bill Text: NJ A4661 | 2014-2015 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires certain professional boards to report licensure exam passage rates.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-06-29 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Regulated Professions Committee [A4661 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2014-A4661-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 4661

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

216th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED JUNE 29, 2015

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  PAUL D. MORIARTY

District 4 (Camden and Gloucester)

Assemblyman  PATRICK J. DIEGNAN, JR.

District 18 (Middlesex)

Assemblywoman  ANGELICA M. JIMENEZ

District 32 (Bergen and Hudson)

Assemblyman  JACK M. CIATTARELLI

District 16 (Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex and Somerset)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires certain professional boards to report licensure exam passage rates.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  

An Act concerning professional licensure exam passage rates and supplementing chapter 1 of Title 45 of the Revised Statutes.

 

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

 

     1.    Any professional or occupational board, agency, or committee located in the Division of Consumer Affairs in the Department of Law and Public Safety or in the Department of Environmental Protection that administers examinations that determine, or that are otherwise related to, licensure in that profession or occupation shall report annually to the Legislature the passage and failure rates, as well as any additional information relevant to interpreting examination results, for each examination the board, agency, or committee administers. 

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill requires any professional or occupational board, agency, or committee located in the Division of Consumer Affairs in the Department of Law and Public Safety or in the Department of Environmental Protection that administers examinations that determine, or that are otherwise related to, licensure in that profession or occupation to report annually to the Legislature the passage and failure rates, as well as any additional information relevant to interpreting examination results, for each examination the board, agency, or committee administers.