SENATE COMMERCE COMMITTEE

STATEMENT TO

SENATE, No. 1288

with committee amendments

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

DATED: MAY 8, 1997

      The Senate Commerce Committee reports favorably and with committee amendments Senate Bill No. 1288.

      This bill, as amended by the committee, permits any person who has graduated from an accredited and legally incorporated school of chiropractic, having attended at least 3,600 classroom hours of lectures, who holds a current valid, unrevoked license in good standing to practice chiropractic in another state obtained by passing a written and clinical examination given by an official agency of that state and covering the subjects of anatomy, microbiology, sanitation, hygiene, chemistry, diagnosis, pathology, physiology, x-ray and chiropractic principles, who successfully completed two years of higher education prior to attending a chiropractic school, and who is at least 21 years of age and of good moral character, to take the examination for a chiropractic license given by the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners and, upon passing the examination, and paying the appropriate application, examination and licensing fees, to receive that license.

      The committee amended the bill to require that the school of chiropractic be accredited, and that the license held in the other state be current, valid, unrevoked and in good standing.