ASSEMBLY CONSUMER AFFAIRS AND REGULATED PROFESSIONS COMMITTEE

STATEMENT TO

ASSEMBLY, No. 1981

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

DATED: SEPTEMBER 19, 1996

      The Assembly Consumer Affairs and Regulated Professions Committee reports favorably Assembly Bill No. 1981.

      This bill modifies the membership of the Nursing Home Administrator's Licensing Board by replacing the member who is a physician-administrator with a member who is an administrator of a proprietary nursing home. The bill continues to require that a physician be on the board as one of the other members who is representative of the professions and institutions concerned with the care and treatment of chronically ill or infirm elderly patients, other than nursing home administrators or persons associated with nursing homes.