Bill Text: NJ S997 | 2016-2017 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Makes supplemental appropriation of $103,000,000 from Property Tax Relief Fund to DOE to provide preschool expansion aid to certain school districts.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-07 - Referred to Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee [S997 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2016-S997-Amended.html
Sponsored by:
Senator M. TERESA RUIZ
District 29 (Essex)
SYNOPSIS
Makes supplemental appropriation of $103,000,000 from Property Tax Relief Fund to DOE to provide preschool expansion aid to certain school districts.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As reported by the Senate Education Committee on March 7, 2015, with amendments.
A Supplement to "An Act making appropriations for the support of the State Government and the several public purposes for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2017 and regulating the disbursement thereof," approved June , 2016 (P.L.2016, c. ).
Be It Enacted by the Senate and the General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. In addition to the amounts appropriated under P.L.2016, c. , there is appropriated out of the Property Tax Relief Fund the following sum for the purpose specified:
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34 DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 30 Educational, Cultural, and Intellectual Development 31 Direct Educational Services and Assistance STATE AID |
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01-5120 General Formula Aid.......................................................... |
$103,000,000 |
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Total State Aid Appropriation, |
$103,000,000 |
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Direct Educational Services and Assistance .................... |
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State Aid: |
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01 Preschool Education Aid.......................... |
($103,000,000) |
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From the amount hereinabove appropriated for Preschool Education Aid, the Commissioner of Education shall provide State aid to no more than 17 qualified districts for the purpose of providing free access to full-day preschool for all three- and four-year old children residing in the school district in accordance with the preschool quality standards adopted by the commissioner. The commissioner shall determine which qualified districts shall receive Preschool Education Aid based on a district's demonstration of its readiness to operate a preschool program consistent with the preschool quality standards, and shall give priority to qualified districts having the highest concentration of at-risk pupils, as defined pursuant to section 3 of P.L.2007, c.260 (C.18A:7F-45), among all qualified districts. The commissioner shall calculate the aid pursuant to the provisions of subsection a. of section 12 of P.L.2007, c.260 (C.18A:7F-54) based on the projected preschool enrollment. For the purposes of this provision, "qualified district" means a school district that: (1) pursuant to the provisions of section 12 of P.L.2007, c.260 (C.18A:7F-54), is to provide free access to full-day preschool to all three- and four-year old children who reside in the district; (2) does not receive any other State funding to provide such access to full-day preschool 1to all three- and four-year old children1; (3) does not receive funds from a subgrant from the federal Preschool Development Grants program; and (4) has at least 75 resident four-year old children who reside in households in which the household income is no greater than 185 percent of the federal poverty guidelines.
2. This act shall take effect June 1, 2016, or upon the enactment of P.L.2016, c. , the annual appropriations act for fiscal year 2016-2017, whichever occurs later.
