Bill Text: NJ A2639 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits public institutions of higher education from increasing resident undergraduate and graduate tuition and fees by more than 4% over the prior academic year.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-09 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Higher Education Committee [A2639 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2024-A2639-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 2639

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

221st LEGISLATURE

 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2024 SESSION

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  JAY WEBBER

District 26 (Morris and Passaic)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblymen Danielsen and Clifton

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Prohibits public institutions of higher education from increasing resident undergraduate and graduate tuition and fees by more than 4% over the prior academic year.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.

   

An Act concerning tuition and fees at public institutions of higher education and supplementing chapter 62 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 any law, rule, or regulation to the contrary, a public institution of higher education shall not increase the institution's resident undergraduate and graduate tuition and fees for any academic year by more than 4% over the institution's resident undergraduate and graduate tuition and fees for the prior academic year.

     Graduate tuition and fees shall include tuition and fees for students enrolled in a graduate degree program or a professional studies program including, but not limited to law, medicine, business, dentistry, nursing, and pharmacy.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately and shall first apply to the tuition and fees at public institutions of higher education for the 2017-2018 academic year.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill prohibits a public institution of higher education from increasing the institution's resident undergraduate and graduate tuition and fees for any academic year by more than 4% over the institution's resident undergraduate and graduate tuition and fees for the prior academic year.  Graduate tuition and fees will include tuition and fees for students enrolled in a graduate degree program or a professional studies program, such as law, medicine, business, dentistry, nursing, or pharmacy.