New Jersey A 3576: Requires criminal background check for name change and prohibits persons convicted of certain crimes from changing their name.

Bill Text

A3576 

ASSEMBLY, No. 3576 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman LOUIS D. GREENWALD

District 6 (Burlington and Camden)

Assemblyman STERLEY S. STANLEY

District 18 (Middlesex)

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblyman Sauickie, Assemblywoman Reynolds-Jackson, 
Assemblyman Freiman, Assemblywomen Drulis, Speight, Assemblyman Calabrese, 
Assemblywomen McCoy and Bagolie

SYNOPSIS

���� Codifies and extends authorization for certain 
out-of-State health care practitioners and recent graduates of health care 
training programs to practice in New Jersey.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

���� Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative 
Counsel.

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An Act concerning the licensure of health care 
professionals and amending various parts of the statutory law.

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

����� 1.�� Section 
1 of P.L.2017, c.117 (C.45:1-61) is amended to read as follows:

����� 1.�� As 
used in P.L.2017, c.117 (C.45:1-61 et al.):

����� "Asynchronous 
store-and-forward" means the acquisition and transmission of images, 
diagnostics, data, and medical information either to, or from, an originating 
site or to, or from, the health care provider at a distant site, which allows 
for the patient to be evaluated without being physically present.

����� "Cross-coverage 
service provider" means a health care provider, acting within the scope of 
a valid license or certification issued pursuant to Title 45 of the Revised 
Statutes, who engages in a remote medical evaluation of a patient, without in-person 
contact, at the request of another health care provider who has established a 
proper provider-patient relationship with the patient.

����� "Distant 
site" means a site at which a health care provider, acting within the 
scope of a valid license or certification issued pursuant to Title 45 of the 
Revised Statutes, is located while providing health care services by means of 
telemedicine or telehealth.

����� "Health 
care provider" means an individual who provides a health care service to a 
patient, and includes, but is not limited to, a licensed physician, nurse, 
nurse practitioner, psychologist, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, clinical social 
worker, physician assistant, professional counselor, respiratory therapist, 
speech pathologist, audiologist, optometrist, or any other health care 
professional acting within the scope of a valid license or certification issued 
pursuant to Title 45 of the Revised Statutes.� �Health care provider� 
includes a health care provider practicing under a temporary graduate license, 
a health care practitioner practicing under a provisional authorization to 
practice and an alcohol and drug counselor-intern practicing under the 
authority of subsection c. of section 10 of P.L.1997, c.331 (C.45:2D-10).

����� "On-call 
provider" means a licensed or certified health care provider who is 
available, where necessary, to physically attend to the urgent and follow-up 
needs of a patient for whom the provider has temporarily assumed 
responsibility, as designated by the patient's primary care provider or other 
health care provider of record.

����� "Originating 
site" means a site at which a patient is located at the time that health 
care services are provided to the patient by means of telemedicine or 
telehealth.

����� �Provisional 
authorization to practice� means an authorization to practice issued to an 
out-of-State health care professional in one of the following professions 
pending a final determination on an application for licensure or certification 
to practice in New Jersey:� a licensed alcohol and drug counselor, pursuant to 
subsection b. of section 10 of P.L.1997, c.331 (C.45:2D-10); a marriage and 
family therapist, pursuant to subsection b. of section 21 of P.L.1968, c.401 
(C.45:8B-21); a professional counselor, pursuant to subsection b. of section 13 
of P.L.1993, c.340 (C.45:8B-46); medicine or surgery, pursuant to subsection b. 
of R.S.45:9-13; a homemaker-home health aide, pursuant to subsection b. of 
section 1 of P.L.1990, c.125 (C.45:11-24.2); a professional nurse, pursuant to 
paragraph (1) of subsection f. of section 4 of P.L.1947, c.262 (C.45:11-26); a 
practical nurse, pursuant to paragraph (1) of subsection e. of section 5 of 
P.L.1947, c.262 (C.45:11-27); an advanced practice nurse, pursuant to subsection 
d. of section 8 of P.L.1991, c.377 (C.45:11-47); a psychologist, pursuant to 
subsection b. of section 20 of P.L.1966, c.282 (C.45:14B-20); a psychoanalyst, 
pursuant to subsection b. of section 10 of P.L.2000, c.57 (C.45:14BB-10); a 
respiratory care practitioner, pursuant to subsection b. of section 13 of 
P.L.1991, c.31 (C.45:14E-13); or a social worker, pursuant to subsection b. of 
section 7 of P.L.1991, c.134 (C.45:15BB-7).

����� "Telehealth" 
means the use of information and communications technologies, including 
teleph