Bill Text: NJ A1402 | 2014-2015 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Limits the amount of aid-in-lieu-of transportation provided to certain families of nonpublic students.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-16 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee [A1402 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2014-A1402-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
216th LEGISLATURE
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2014 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman BENJIE E. WIMBERLY
District 35 (Bergen and Passaic)
Assemblywoman SHAVONDA E. SUMTER
District 35 (Bergen and Passaic)
SYNOPSIS
Limits the amount of aid-in-lieu-of transportation provided to certain families of nonpublic students.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel
An Act concerning pupil transportation and supplementing chapter 39 of Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Notwithstanding the provisions of N.J.S.18A:39-1 or any other law to the contrary, if multiple students from the same family attend the same nonpublic school, and the parents of the students are not contracting for transportation with a licensed third party provider for transportation to that nonpublic school, the family shall be eligible for an aid-in-lieu-of transportation payment for only one student attending that nonpublic school.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill will limit that amount of aid-in-lieu-of-transportation provided to a family in which more than one student attends the same nonpublic school, if the family is not contracting for transportation with a licensed third party provider for transportation to that nonpublic school. In this case the family will receive an aid-in-lieu-of transportation payment for only one student.
