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Sponsored bySterley S. Stanley+6 co-sponsors
Last updated Oct 29, 2026 · NJ · Source: LegiScan ↗
This bill establishes temporary alternative quorum standards for professional licensing boards in New Jersey. It allows a majority of members present (including a two-person meeting if one is the chair) to constitute a quorum solely to process routine licensure applications that have no adverse criminal background check information, if the board has been unable to achieve a quorum under its normal statutory rules for 90 days. The measure lasts one year; afterward, any board still unable to meet its statutory quorum must recommend a merger with another entity.
[First Reprint] ASSEMBLY, No. 3389 STATE OF NEW JERSEY 222nd LEGISLATURE Sponsored by: Assemblyman STERLEY S. STANLEY District 18 (Middlesex) Assemblywoman SHANIQUE SPEIGHT District 29 (Essex and Hudson) Assemblywoman ALIXON COLLAZOS-GILL District 27 (Essex and Passaic) Co-Sponsored by: Assemblywoman Lopez and Assemblyman Bailey SYNOPSIS Establishes quorum standards for professional licensing entities under certain circumstances. CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT As reported by the Assembly Regulated Professions Committee on May 4, 2026, with amendments. An Act concerning the membership of certain State entities and supplementing Title 45 of the Revised Statutes. Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: 1. Notwithstanding any other law, rule, or regulation to the contrary, the majority of the members present at a meeting of a professional board, committee or other entity designated in section 1 of P.L.1971, c.60 (C.45:1-2.1), including at a meeting with two members in attendance if one of the members in 1 [ attendence ] attendance 1 is the chair of the entity, shall constitute a quorum for the sole purpose of processing applications for licensure that do not require legal review due to adverse information in any statutorily-required criminal history record background check if, after a 90-day period, the entity is 1 [ : (1) ] 1 unable to achieve a quorum 1 [ due to vacancies in the membership of the entity; or (2) only able to achieve a quorum if every current member of the entity is present for each meeting ] in accordance with the statutory requirements governing that entity 1 . 1 2. If, upon expiration of this act, a board, committee, or entity does not have the requisite number of members required to sustain a quorum pursuant to the individual statute governing the board, committee, or entity, the board, committee, or entity shall submit a written report to the Legislature with a recommendation for another board, committee, or entity with which it should be merged. The report shall be submitted within 30 days of the expiration of section 1 of this act. 1 1 [ 2. ] 3. 1 This act shall take effect immediately. 1 Section 1 of this act shall expire one year after the effective date. Section 2 of this act shall expire on the 31st day after the expiration of section 1. 1
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