New Jersey Statutes 45:1-32.1. Health care professional licensing boards, use of National Practitioner Data Bank
Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 45:1-32.1
- person: includes corporations, companies, associations, societies, firms, partnerships and joint stock companies as well as individuals, unless restricted by the context to an individual as distinguished from a corporate entity or specifically restricted to one or some of the above enumerated synonyms and, when used to designate the owner of property which may be the subject of an offense, includes this State, the United States, any other State of the United States as defined infra and any foreign country or government lawfully owning or possessing property within this State. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
(1) not issue an initial license or other authorization to practice a health care profession that is regulated by that board to any applicant therefor unless the board first determines that no information exists on file in the National Practitioner Data Bank which may disqualify the applicant from being licensed or otherwise authorized to practice as a health care professional; and
(2) utilize the continuous query function of the National Practitioner Data Bank for each person issued a license or authorization to practice as a health care professional.
b. A board shall not issue or renew or, if renewed, shall revoke or suspend a license or other authorization to practice a health care profession that is regulated by that board of any applicant therefor or person issued a license or authorization to practice a health care profession if, consistent with section 8 of P.L.1978, c.73 (C. 45:1-21), the board determines there is cause to refuse to issue or suspend or revoke any license or authorization of a health care professional as the result of information obtained through use of the National Practitioner Data Bank consistent with the provisions of this act.
c. As used in this section, “National Practitioner Data Bank” means the database established pursuant to 45 C.F.R. 60.1, and maintained by the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
L. 2021, c.335.