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S4261 • 2026

Establishes quorum standards for professional licensing entities under certain circumstances.

Establishes quorum standards for professional licensing entities under certain circumstances.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Lagana, Joseph A.
Last action
2026-05-14
Official status
Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Commerce Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Establishes quorum standards for professional licensing entities under certain circumstances.

Establishes quorum standards for professional licensing entities under certain circumstances.

What This Bill Does

  • Establishes quorum standards for professional licensing entities under certain circumstances.
  • Topic: Commerce Fiscal note: This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

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Bill History

  1. 2026-05-14 New Jersey Legislature

    Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Commerce Committee

Official Summary Text

Establishes quorum standards for professional licensing entities under certain circumstances.
Topic:
Commerce
Fiscal note:
This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

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S4261

SENATE, No. 4261

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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INTRODUCED MAY 14, 2026

Sponsored by:

Senator� JOSEPH A. LAGANA

District 38 (Bergen)

SYNOPSIS

���� Establishes quorum standards for professional
licensing entities under certain circumstances.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

���� As introduced.

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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 attendance 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 unable to achieve a quorum in
accordance with the statutory requirements governing that entity.

���� 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.

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

STATEMENT

����� This bill updates current law by temporarily
establishing, for one year, that a quorum exists for the sole purpose of
processing applications for licensure with a majority of the members present at
a meeting of a professional board, committee or other entity, overseen by the
Division of Consumer Affairs in the Department of Law and Public Safety or
other State agency.� This includes a meeting with two members in attendance if
one of those members is the chair of the entity.� This quorum standard is applicable
to applications that do not require legal review due to adverse information in
any statutorily-required criminal history record background check.� The quorum
standard becomes applicable only if, after a 90-day period, the entity is
unable to achieve a quorum in accordance with statutory requirements governing
that entity.

����� After one year, if 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 is to submit a written report to the Legislature with a
recommendation for another board, committee, or entity with which it should be
merged.� The report is to be submitted within 30 days of the expiration of the
bill.