Bill Text: NJ S1599 | 2016-2017 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires certain professional boards to report licensure exam passage rates.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-08 - Substituted by A760 [S1599 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2016-S1599-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Senator JEFF VAN DREW
District 1 (Atlantic, Cape May and Cumberland)
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.
