Bill Text: NJ S2507 | 2020-2021 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Permits school district to use funds from capital reserve account and current expense emergency reserve account for certain expenses during state of emergency.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-06-09 - Received in the Assembly, Referred to Assembly Education Committee [S2507 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2020-S2507-Amended.html

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[First Reprint]

SENATE, No. 2507

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

219th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED JUNE 4, 2020

 

 

Sponsored by:

Senator  VIN GOPAL

District 11 (Monmouth)

Senator  LINDA R. GREENSTEIN

District 14 (Mercer and Middlesex)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Permits school district to use funds from capital reserve account and current expense emergency reserve account for certain expenses during state of emergency.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As amended by the Senate on July 30, 2020.

  

An Act concerning the use of school district capital ¹and emergency¹ reserve accounts during a state of emergency and supplementing chapter 21 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 N.J.S.18A:21-4 ¹, section 6 of P.L.2007, c.62 (C.18A:7F-41),¹ or any other section of law to the contrary, whenever a school district is required to close the schools of the district for more than three consecutive school days due to a declared public health emergency, a state of emergency, or a directive by the appropriate health agency or officer to institute a public health related closure, the school district may use the funds in the district's capital reserve account ¹and current expense emergency reserve account¹ to support the general fund expenses of the school district as follows:

      a. for current expenses related to the public health emergency, state of emergency, or directive; ¹[and]¹

      b. for expenses incurred in connection with the transition to and use of virtual or remote instruction ¹; and

     c. for any other general fund expenses incurred during the 2020-2021 school year, which expenses shall not exceed the difference between the amount of State aid that was proposed for allocation to the school district under the February 2020 State aid notice, and the amount of State aid that was allocated to the district under the July 2020 revised State aid notice¹.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately and shall be retroactive to March 18, 2020.