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S4350 • 2026

Waives certain professional and occupational licensing fees for veterans and spouses of veterans.

Waives certain professional and occupational licensing fees for veterans and spouses of veterans.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Amato, Carmen F., Jr.
Last action
2026-05-28
Official status
Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Military and Veterans' Affairs Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Waives certain professional and occupational licensing fees for veterans and spouses of veterans.

Waives certain professional and occupational licensing fees for veterans and spouses of veterans.

What This Bill Does

  • Waives certain professional and occupational licensing fees for veterans and spouses of veterans.
  • Topic: Military and Veterans' Affairs Fiscal note: This bill has been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-05-28 New Jersey Legislature

    Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Military and Veterans' Affairs Committee

Official Summary Text

Waives certain professional and occupational licensing fees for veterans and spouses of veterans.
Topic:
Military and Veterans' Affairs
Fiscal note:
This bill has been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

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S4350

SENATE, No. 4350

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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INTRODUCED MAY 28, 2026

Sponsored by:

Senator� CARMEN F. AMATO, JR.

District 9 (Ocean)

Senator� RAJ MUKHERJI

District 32 (Hudson)

Co-Sponsored by:

Senator Corrado

SYNOPSIS

���� Waives certain professional and occupational
licensing fees for veterans and spouses of veterans.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

���� As introduced.

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An Act

concerning certain exemptions from payment of license fees for professional and
occupational licenses for veterans and their spouses and supplementing
P.L.1978, c.73 (C.45:1-14 et seq.).

����
Be It Enacted

by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

����� 1.�� As
used in this act:

����� �Board�
means a professional or occupational board designated in section 2 of P.L.1978,
c.73 (C.45:1-15) that issues a professional or occupational license,
certificate of registration, or certification.

����� �Veteran�
means a person who received an honorable discharge at

any time from a
branch of the active or reserve component of the Armed Forces of the United
States or the National Guard of any state.

����� 2.�� Notwithstanding
the provision of any law, rule, or regulation to the contrary, a board shall
not charge a fee for the initial application and issuance of a professional or
occupational license, certificate of registration, or certificate to an
applicant who is a veteran or the spouse, domestic partner, or civil union
partner of a veteran if that applicant resides in this State and holds a
current license to practice the profession or occupation in another
jurisdiction that the board determines has licensure requirements to practice
the profession or occupation that are equivalent, or substantially equivalent,
as the case may be, to those adopted by the board.

���� 3.��� This act shall take
effect on the first day of the third month following enactment.

STATEMENT

���� This bill provides that the
professional and occupational licensing boards in the Division of Consumer
Affairs in the Department of Law and Public Safety will not charge a fee for an
initial application and issuance of a license, certificate of registration, or
certificate to a veteran or the veteran�s spouse, domestic partner, or civil
union partner if that individual resides in New Jersey and is seeking issuance
of a credential on the basis of reciprocity.� In each such instance, the board
has determined that the veteran, spouse, or partner holds a current license to
practice the profession or occupation in another jurisdiction with licensure
requirements that are equivalent, or substantially equivalent, to those adopted
by the board.

���� The bill defines �veteran� as
a person who received an honorable discharge at any time from a branch of the
active or reserve component of the Armed Forces of the United States or the
National Guard of any state.