Bill Text: NJ A483 | 2018-2019 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides additional State school aid to county vocational school districts in which enrollment increases by more than 10%.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-09 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee [A483 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2018-A483-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
218th LEGISLATURE
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2018 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman VINCENT PRIETO
District 32 (Bergen and Hudson)
Assemblywoman MILA M. JASEY
District 27 (Essex and Morris)
Assemblyman GORDON M. JOHNSON
District 37 (Bergen)
Assemblywoman MARLENE CARIDE
District 36 (Bergen and Passaic)
Assemblywoman GABRIELA M. MOSQUERA
District 4 (Camden and Gloucester)
Co-Sponsored by:
Assemblymen Caputo, McKeon, Assemblywoman Lampitt, Assemblymen Eustace, Coughlin and Assemblywoman McKnight
SYNOPSIS
Provides additional State school aid to county vocational school districts in which enrollment increases by more than 10%.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.
An Act concerning State school aid to certain county vocational school districts and supplementing P.L.2007, c.260 (C.18A:7F-43 et al.).
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. Vocational education expansion aid shall be available when a county vocational school district anticipates that the district's resident enrollment in the budget year will increase by more than 10% relative to the prebudget year. The commissioner shall develop an application process by which a county vocational school district may demonstrate its plans to increase its student population.
b. Vocational education expansion aid shall be calculated as follows in the first school year after the approval of an application by the commissioner:
VEEA = (PHENR - HENR) x SAPP
where
PHENR is the projected resident enrollment for grades 9-12 in the county vocational school district for the budget year, as approved by the commissioner;
HENR is the resident enrollment for grades 9-12 in the county vocational school district for the prebudget year; and
SAPP is the sum of equalization aid, special education categorical aid, security categorical aid, transportation aid, and adjustment aid received by the county vocational school district in the 2013-2014 school year divided by the district's projected resident enrollment for the 2013-2014 school year.
In each subsequent school year, the county vocational school district shall receive vocational education expansion aid in an amount equal to the amount of vocational education expansion aid received in the prebudget year, less any increase in equalization aid, special education categorical aid, security categorical aid, transportation aid, and adjustment aid between the prebudget year and the budget year, except that the commissioner may withhold the payment of vocational education expansion aid if the actual resident enrollment in the county vocational school district is significantly less than the projected resident enrollment in the district's application.
2. This act shall take
effect immediately and shall first be applicable to the first full school year
beginning after the date of enactment.
STATEMENT
This bill provides that a county vocational school district may apply to the Commissioner of Education for vocational education expansion aid if the district plans to increase its resident enrollment by more than 10 percent over the prior school year. In the first school year after successfully applying to the commissioner to receive the aid, a county vocational school district's aid would be calculated by multiplying the projected increase in the district's resident enrollment by the per pupil amount of State aid received by the school district in the 2013-2014 school year.
In subsequent school years, the district would receive vocational education expansion aid in an amount equal to the amount received in the prior school year, less any increase in equalization aid, special education categorical aid, security categorical aid, transportation aid, and adjustment aid. However, the commissioner may withhold payment of this aid if the district's actual resident enrollment is significantly less than the amount projected in the district's application.
