Bill Text: NJ A1844 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires 60 day notice concerning tuition rate changes by licensed child care centers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-06-28 - Passed by the Assembly (76-0-0) [A1844 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2024-A1844-Amended.html

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[First Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 1844

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

221st LEGISLATURE

 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2024 SESSION

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  HERB CONAWAY, JR.

District 7 (Burlington)

Assemblywoman  VERLINA REYNOLDS-JACKSON

District 15 (Hunterdon and Mercer)

Assemblywoman  SHAMA A. HAIDER

District 37 (Bergen)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblyman Venezia

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires 60 day notice concerning tuition rate changes by licensed child care centers.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As reported by the Assembly Children, Families and Food Security Committee on March 4, 2024, with amendments.

  

An Act concerning licensed child care centers and supplementing P.L.1983, c.492 (C.30:5B-1).

 

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

 

     1.  Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, a child care center licensed pursuant to the provisions of P.L.1983, c.492 (C.30:5B-1 et seq.) shall prepare and make available a notice of ¹[any] a¹ change in the tuition rate charged by the center¹[, 60 days prior to the change,]¹ to every parent or legal guardian of a child attending the center ¹, if the center proposes to increase or decrease the tuition rate by four percent¹.  The notice shall be sent ¹[by certified mail, return receipt requested or] , 60 days prior to the tuition rate change,¹ by receipted first class mail addressed to the parent or legal guardian at the last known address identified in the child care center's records, or shall be delivered in person to the parent or legal guardian by a staff member of the center.  The notice shall be posted on the child care center's internet website or by other electronic means, and shall be displayed in a prominent location within the center.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to any changes in the tuition rate charged by a licensed child care center occurring on or after the first day of the third month next following the date of enactment.