Bill Text: NJ A5483 | 2020-2021 | 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) 2021-03-17 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee [A5483 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2020-A5483-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman JAY WEBBER
District 26 (Essex, Morris and Passaic)
SYNOPSIS
Redistributes fiscal year 2023 transportation and security aid from remote school districts to in-person school districts.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
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.
