ASSEMBLY, No. 918

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 1996 SESSION

By Assemblyman ROCCO

An Act concerning fraudulent academic degrees and supplementing P.L.1986, c.87 (C.18A:3-15.1 et seq.)

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

    1. The Division of Consumer Affairs in the Department of Law and Public Safety shall enforce the provisions of P.L.1986, c.87 (C.18A:3-15.1 through 18A:3-15.5).

    2. This act shall take effect immediately.

STATEMENT

    This bill provides that the Division of Consumer Affairs in the Department of Law and Public Safety will enforce the provisions of P.L.1986, c.87 (C.18A:3-15.1 through 15.5) concerning fraudulent academic degrees. P.L.1986, c.87, which took effect in August of 1986, prohibits a person from falsely representing himself as having received an academic degree or credential, or of buying, selling, or altering with intent to deceive any diploma or other document which purports to confer a degree or credential. The law also established standards concerning the offering of academic degree programs by in-State institutions when some of the course work for those degrees is offered at out-of-State institutions.

Establishes Division of Consumer Affairs as enforcement authority over fraudulent academic degrees.