Bill Text: NJ S2950 | 2016-2017 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires sending district to allow student to transfer to recovery high school alternative education program, provided placement is considered clinically appropriate by alcohol and drug counselor.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-02-15 - Received in the Assembly, Referred to Assembly Education Committee [S2950 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2016-S2950-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Senator RAYMOND J. LESNIAK
District 20 (Union)
Senator M. TERESA RUIZ
District 29 (Essex)
SYNOPSIS
Requires sending district to allow student to transfer to recovery high school alternative education program, provided placement is considered clinically appropriate by alcohol and drug counselor.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning recovery high school alternative education programs and amending P.L.2015, c.254.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Section 4 of P.L.2015, c.254 (C.18A:35-32) is amended to read as follows:
4. A sending district [may] shall enter into an agreement with a school district which has established a recovery high school alternative education program for the provision of services to a student who is currently enrolled in the sending district and who seeks admission to the program, provided that the placement is considered clinically appropriate by a certified alcohol and drug counselor or a licensed clinical alcohol and drug counselor using the criteria for substance use disorder or dependency as defined by the most recent Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. If the student is admitted to the recovery high school alternative education program, the sending district shall pay tuition to that district calculated in accordance with the provisions of N.J.S.18A:38-19.
(cf: P.L.2015, c.254, s.4)
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
Under current law a sending district may enter into an agreement with a school district which has established a recovery high school alternative education program for the provision of services to a student who is enrolled in the sending district. This bill would require the sending district to enter into an agreement with the school district that has established the recovery high school if a student from the sending district seeks admittance into the recovery high school and the placement is considered clinically appropriate by a certified alcohol and drug counselor or a licensed clinical alcohol and drug counselor. In determining whether or not the placement is clinically appropriate, the alcohol and drug counselor is required to use the criteria for substance use disorder or dependency as defined by the most recent Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
