Bill Text: NJ S1753 | 2016-2017 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs institutions of higher education and proprietary degree-granting institutions to provide Higher Education Student Assistance Authority with graduation and transfer rates of State tuition aid grant recipients.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-27 - Substituted by A2563 [S1753 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2016-S1753-Introduced.html

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SENATE, No. 1753

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

217th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED MARCH 7, 2016

 

 

Sponsored by:

Senator  SHIRLEY K. TURNER

District 15 (Hunterdon and Mercer)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Directs institutions of higher education and proprietary degree-granting institutions to provide Higher Education Student Assistance Authority with graduation and transfer rates of State tuition aid grant recipients.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  

An Act concerning State tuition aid grant recipients and supplementing chapter 71B of Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes.

 

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

 

     1.    An institution of higher education and a proprietary degree-granting institution shall annually provide the Higher Education Student Assistance Authority with detailed information on the graduation rates of State tuition aid grant recipients.  In the case of a county college, the college shall also provide the authority with the transfer rates of the State tuition aid grant recipients.  An institution shall provide the information in such form as determined by the authority.

     The authority shall post the information provided by each institution for public inspection on its website.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill requires an institution of higher education and a proprietary degree-granting institution to annually provide the Higher Education Student Assistance Authority (HESAA) with detailed information on the graduation rates of State tuition aid grant recipients. In the case of a county college, the college must also provide HESAA with the transfer rates of the State tuition aid grant recipients.  Under the bill, HESAA is required to post the information for public inspection on its website.

     HESAA regulations at N.J.A.C. 9A:9-2.1(b)5. require institutions, as a condition of participating in State financial aid programs, to provide HESAA with detailed information on the graduation and transfer rates of State tuition aid grant recipients. This bill will codify those regulations.