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NJ S2874

Bill

Status

Introduced

3/4/2024

Primary Sponsor

Patrick Diegnan

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Origin

Senate

2024-2025 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Expands the definition of "dispensing and fitting hearing aids" to include prescribing and ordering hearing aids, in addition to the existing activities of evaluation, selection, adaptation, and sale

  • Authorizes licensed audiologists to select, prescribe, and order hearing aids, adding these functions to their existing authority to dispense and fit hearing aids

  • Requires audiologists who wish to dispense and fit hearing aids to complete coursework and clinical training that now includes selection, prescribing, and ordering of hearing aids from an accredited institution

  • Amends the Hearing Aid Dispensers Examining Committee statutes to explicitly include prescribing and ordering as part of the practice of dispensing and fitting hearing aids

  • Takes effect 60 days following enactment

Legislative Description

Expands services that can be provided by audiologists and hearing aid dispensers.

Substituted by another Bill

Last Action

Substituted by A4091 (1R)

1/14/2025

Committee Referrals

Commerce3/4/2024

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