Bill Text: NJ A1046 | 2022-2023 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Redistributes fiscal year 2023 transportation and security aid from remote school districts to in-person school districts.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-11 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee [A1046 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2022-A1046-Introduced.html

ASSEMBLY, No. 1046

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

220th LEGISLATURE

 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2022 SESSION

 


 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  JAY WEBBER

District 26 (Essex, Morris and Passaic)

Assemblyman  ERIK PETERSON

District 23 (Hunterdon, Somerset and Warren)

Assemblyman  BRIAN BERGEN

District 25 (Morris and Somerset)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblymen Simonsen, Rooney, DePhillips and Assemblywoman N.Munoz

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Redistributes fiscal year 2023 transportation and security aid from remote school districts to in-person school districts.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.

  


An Act concerning the provision of certain State school aid. 

 

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

 

     1.    a.  As used in this section:

     "In-Person school district" means a school district the superintendent of which certifies under penalty of perjury that it offered all of the students of the district in-person instruction on 75 percent or more of school days during the 2021-2022 school year.

     "Remote school district" means a school district the superintendent of which certifies under penalty of perjury that it offered all of the students of the district in-person instruction on 50 percent or less of school days during the 2021-2022 school year.

     b.    Notwithstanding the provisions of P.L.2007, c.260 (C.18A:7F-43 et al.) or any other law, rule, or regulation to the contrary, 50 percent of the amount of transportation aid and security aid allocated to remote school districts in the 2022-2023 school year shall be redistributed to in-person school districts on an equal per pupil basis. 

     c.     The Commissioner of Education shall set forth guidance for superintendents certifying the number and percentage of school days offered to all students by a school district through in-person instruction for the purposes of implementing the provisions of subsection b. of this section.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately, but shall remain inoperative until the enactment into law of the fiscal year 2023 appropriations act.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill requires that 50 percent of the amount of transportation aid and security aid allocated to "remote school districts" in the 2022-2023 school year will be redistributed to "in-person school districts" on an equal per pupil basis.  The bill defines an in-person school district as a school district whose superintendent certifies under penalty of perjury that it offered all of the students of the district in-person instruction on 75 percent or more of school days during the 2021-2022 school year.  A remote school district is defined as a school district whose superintendent certifies under penalty of perjury that it offered all of the students of the district in-person instruction on 50 percent or less of school days during the 2021-2022 school year.   

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