Bill Text: NJ A5175 | 2018-2019 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Makes supplemental appropriation of $25,000,000 from General Fund to DOE to support extraordinary special education costs aid.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-11 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee [A5175 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2018-A5175-Introduced.html

ASSEMBLY, No. 5175

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

218th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED MARCH 11, 2019

 


 

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman  JOANN DOWNEY

District 11 (Monmouth)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Make supplemental appropriation of $25,000,000 from General Fund to DOE to support extraordinary special education costs aid.

 

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

 


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, 2019 and regulating the disbursement thereof," approved July 01, 2018 (P.L.2018, c.53).

 

     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.2018, c.53, there is appropriated out of the General Fund the following sum for the purpose specified:

 

34 DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

30 Educational, Cultural, and Intellectual Development

31 Direct Educational Services and Assistance

 

STATE AID

07-5120 Special Education  ......................................................

$25,000,000

Total State Aid Appropriation,                                                                                                 

$25,000,000

      Direct Educational Services and Assistance  ...................

State Aid:

 

 

07      Extraordinary Special Education

               Costs Aid  .......................................

($25,000,000)

 

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill makes a supplemental appropriation of $25 million from the General Fund to the Department of Education to support extraordinary special education costs aid in FY 2019. The current appropriations act includes only $195 million for extraordinary special education costs aid, while the Department of Education has received and approved applications from school districts to reimburse more than $387.6 million for the costs of educating special education students that exceed certain thresholds. This supplemental appropriation will eliminate some of the shortfall.

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