New Jersey A 2492: Prohibits telecommunications, utility or cable television companies from charging certain customers prior to actual billing due date.

Bill Text

A2492 

ASSEMBLY, No. 2492 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman TENNILLE R. MCCOY

District 14 (Mercer and Middlesex)

SYNOPSIS

���� Expands number of health care professions profiled 
under "New Jersey Health Care Consumer Information Act."

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

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

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An Act 
concerning health care professionals, and amending P.L.2003, c.96 (C.45:9-22.21 
et seq.).

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

���� 1.��� Section 2 of P.L.2003, 
c.96 (C.45:9-22.22) is amended to read:

���� 2.��� a.� The Division of 
Consumer Affairs in the Department of Law and Public Safety, in consultation 
with the [State 
Board of Medical Examiners and the New Jersey State Board of Optometrists] State boards 
that regulate health care professions, shall collect and maintain 
information concerning all [physicians, 
podiatrists and optometrists, 
respectively] 
health care professionals, as defined pursuant to P.L.2002, c.104 
(C.45:1-28), licensed in the State for the purpose of creating a profile of 
each [physician, 
podiatrist and optometrist] 
health care professional pursuant to this act. The profiles shall be 
made available to the public through electronic and other appropriate means, at 
no charge to the public. The division shall establish a toll-free telephone 
number for members of the public to contact the division to obtain a paper copy 
of a [physician, 
podiatrist or optometrist] 
health care professional�s profile and to make other inquiries about the 
profiles.

���� b.��� A [physician, 
podiatrist or optometrist] 
health care professional shall be required to provide the appropriate 
board or division or its designated agent with any information necessary to 
complete the profile as provided in section 3 of this act, and the director 
and the appropriate board may amend any application for licensure or 
certification to the extent necessary to request from health care professionals 
information required pursuant to section 3 of P.L.2003, c.96 (C.45:9-22.23).

���� c.���� [Either] A 
board may [request] require a 
health care professional to submit any additional information it deems 
necessary to complete the profiles on the [biennial] license 
renewal form submitted by [physicians, 
podiatrists and optometrists] 
health care professionals, as applicable.

���� d.��� The appropriate board 
shall provide to the division or its designated agent any information required 
pursuant to this act that is available to the board concerning a [physician, 
podiatrist or optometrist] 
health care professional, for the purpose of creating the [physician, 
podiatrist and optometrist] 
health care professional�s [profiles] profile.

���� e.���� The Division of 
Consumer Affairs shall provide on the web-based License Verification System 
maintained by the division a notice that the License Verification System 
contains information intended to convey only the license status of a 
health care professional, and advising the public that more extensive 
background information on New Jersey-licensed health care professionals is 
available on the public website maintained by the division under the 
requirements of the �New Jersey Health Care Consumer Information Act,� 
P.L.2003, c.96 (C.45:9-22.21 et seq.).

(cf: P.L.2004, c.115, s.5)

���� 2.��� Section 3 of P.L.2003, 
c.96 (C.45:9-22.23) is amended to read:

���� 3.��� a.�� The following 
information shall be included for each profile of a [physician, podiatrist or 
optometrist] health care 
professional, as applicable:

���� (1)�� Name of all [medical or 
optometry] 
schools, programs, or any other course of study attended for the 
purpose of obtaining the education required by the board regulating the health 
care profession in which the health care professional is licensed and dates 
of graduation;

���� (2)�� Graduate [medical or 
optometry] 
education, if applicable, including all internships, residencies and 
fellowships;

���� (3)�� Year first licensed;

���� (4)�� Year first licensed in 
New Jersey;

���� (5)�� Location of the [physician's, 
podiatrist's or optometrist's office practice] 
site or sites, as applicable, where the health care professional performs 
the services the individual is licensed to perform;

���� (6)�� A description of any 
criminal convictions for crimes of the first, second, third or fourth degree 
within the most recent 10 years.� For the purposes of this paragraph, a person 
shall be deemed to be convicted of a crime if the individual pleaded guilty or 
was found or adjudged guilty by a court of competent jurisdiction.� The 
description of criminal convictions shall not include any convictions that have 
been expunged. The following statement shall be included with the information 
about criminal convictions: "Information provided in this section