LEGISLATIVE FISCAL ESTIMATE
[First Reprint]
SENATE, No. 4387
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
221st LEGISLATURE
DATED: DECEMBER 4, 2025
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Synopsis: |
Requires establishment of tracking system in Division of Consumer Affairs to determine compliance with continuing education requirements. |
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Type of Impact: |
Annual State expenditure increase. |
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Agencies Affected: |
Department of Law and Public Safety. |
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Office of Legislative Services Estimate |
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Annual Fiscal Impact |
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State Expenditure Increase |
Indeterminate |
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· The Office of Legislative Services (OLS) finds that the bill will cause an indeterminate one-time State expenditure increase to the Division of Consumer Affairs in the Department of Law and Public Safety to develop, or contract with a third-party vendor to develop, an automated system to track the continuing education credits or hours completed by licensees under its purview. An indeterminate amount of costs will periodically accrue thereafter to the division for the maintenance of the system.
· The OLS, however, has no information on whether the division would rely on existing staff to develop and maintain the system, hire additional staff, or contract with a third-party vendor to arrive at a cost estimate for the required automated system.
BILL DESCRIPTION
This bill directs the Division of Consumer Affairs to develop, or enter into a contract with a third-party vendor to develop, an automated system that allows its boards, committees, or other regulatory entities to track each licensee’s continuing education credits or hours required for license renewal. The system is anticipated to be designed to determine whether each licensee has met the continuing education requirement for the particular profession or occupation before the license is renewed, notwithstanding whether the relevant board, committee, or regulatory entity determined that the licensee experienced hardship.
FISCAL ANALYSIS
EXECUTIVE BRANCH
None received.
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE SERVICES
The OLS finds that the bill will cause an indeterminate one-time State expenditure increase to the Division of Consumer Affairs in the Department of Law and Public Safety to develop, or contract with a third-party vendor to develop, the automated system to track the continuing education credits or hours completed by licensees under its purview. Indeterminate expenditures will periodically accrue thereafter to the division for the maintenance of the system. The OLS, however, has no information on whether the division would rely on existing staff to develop and maintain the system, hire additional staff, or contract with a third-party vendor to arrive at a cost estimate for the automated system.
Division of Consumer Affairs Background: The Division of Consumer Affairs oversees the Office of Consumer Protection, Bureau of Securities, Charities Registration and Investigation, Office of Weights and Measures, and Legalized Games of Chance Commission, as well as 51 professional and occupational boards that oversee over 720,000 licensed professionals, and its Regulated Businesses Section that oversees approximately 60,000 registered businesses, according to a 2025 press release by the Office of the Attorney General.
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Section: |
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Analyst: |
Lead Fiscal Analyst |
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Approved: |
Thomas Koenig Legislative Budget and Finance Officer |
This legislative fiscal estimate has been produced by the Office of Legislative Services due to the failure of the Executive Branch to respond to our request for a fiscal note.
This fiscal estimate has been prepared pursuant to P.L.1980, c.67 (C.52:13B-6 et seq.).