Bill Text: NJ S3288 | 2018-2019 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires DOE to define expenditures for behavior modification at approved private schools for students with disabilities as allowable instructional cost for purposes of tuition rate setting.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-06-10 - Reported out of Assembly Committee, 2nd Reading [S3288 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2018-S3288-Amended.html

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[First Reprint]

SENATE, No. 3288

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

218th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED DECEMBER 17, 2018

 

 

Sponsored by:

Senator  TROY SINGLETON

District 7 (Burlington)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires DOE to define expenditures for behavior modification at approved private schools for students with disabilities as allowable instructional cost for purposes of tuition rate setting.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As reported by the Senate Education Committee on March 4, 2019, with amendments.

 

An Act concerning approved private schools for students with disabilities and supplementing chapter 46 of Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes.

 

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

 

     1.    The Department of Education shall define expenditures for behavior modification that are deemed necessary by an approved private school for students with disabilities as an allowable instructional cost in the chart of accounts for the purposes of tuition rate setting.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately ¹[and shall be retroactive to July 1, 2017]¹.