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A4297 • 2026

Revises out-of-State reciprocity for elevator, escalator, and moving walkway mechanic's licenses.

Revises out-of-State reciprocity for elevator, escalator, and moving walkway mechanic's licenses.

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Speight, Shanique
Last action
2026-02-19
Official status
Introduced, Referred to Assembly Regulated Professions Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Revises out-of-State reciprocity for elevator, escalator, and moving walkway mechanic's licenses.

Revises out-of-State reciprocity for elevator, escalator, and moving walkway mechanic's licenses.

What This Bill Does

  • Revises out-of-State reciprocity for elevator, escalator, and moving walkway mechanic's licenses.
  • Topic: Regulated Professions Fiscal note: This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-02-19 New Jersey Legislature

    Introduced, Referred to Assembly Regulated Professions Committee

Official Summary Text

Revises out-of-State reciprocity for elevator, escalator, and moving walkway mechanic's licenses.
Topic:
Regulated Professions
Fiscal note:
This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

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A4297

ASSEMBLY, No. 4297

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

�

INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 19, 2026

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman� SHANIQUE SPEIGHT

District 29 (Essex and Hudson)

SYNOPSIS

���� Revises out-of-State reciprocity for elevator,
escalator, and moving walkway mechanic's licenses.�

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

���� As introduced.

��

An Act
concerning reciprocity for elevator, escalator, and
moving walkway mechanic's licenses and amending P.L.2012, c.71.

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

���� 1.��� Section 8 of P.L.2012,
c.71 (C.45:14H-8) is amended to read as follows:

���� 8.��� The board may in its
discretion grant licenses without examination to applicants so licensed by
other states; provided that
[
equal
reciprocity is provided for New Jersey licensed mechanics by the law of the
applicant's domiciliary state and provided further that
]
the
domiciliary state's standards are equal to or comparable to those of this
State.

(cf: P.L.2012, c.71, s.8)

���� 2.��� This act shall take
effect immediately.

STATEMENT

���� This bill revises the rules
concerning out-of-State reciprocity for elevator, escalator, and moving walkway
mechanic's licenses.

���� Current law provides that the Elevator,
Escalator, and Moving Walkway Mechanics Licensing Board may in its discretion
grant licenses without examination to applicants so licensed by other states;
provided that equal reciprocity is provided for New Jersey licensed mechanics
by the law of the applicant's domiciliary state and that the domiciliary state's
standards are equal to or comparable to those of this State.

���� This bill removes the
requirement of equal reciprocity, thereby allowing the board to grant licenses
without examination to applicants with comparable licenses in other states,
provided that the domiciliary state's standards are equal to or comparable to
those of this State, even if the domiciliary state does not provide reciprocity
to New Jersey licensees.