Bill Text: NJ S3625 | 2018-2019 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides school district will receive no less than amount of State aid received in 2017-2018 school year.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-21 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Education Committee [S3625 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2018-S3625-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Senator BOB ANDRZEJCZAK
District 1 (Atlantic, Cape May and Cumberland)
SYNOPSIS
Provides school district will receive no less than amount of State aid received in 2017-2018 school year.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning State school aid and supplementing P.L.2018, c.67 (C.18A:7F-67 et al.).
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Notwithstanding any provision of P.L.2018, c.67 (C.18A:7F-67 et al.) or any other section of law to the contrary, in the 2019-2020 school year and in each school year thereafter, a school district shall receive the greater of the amount of State aid calculated pursuant to the provisions of P.L.2018, c.67 (C.18A:7F-67 et al.) or the amount of State aid the district received in the 2017-2018 school year.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
P.L.2018, c.67 (C.18A:7F-67 et al.) established a mechanism for allocating State school aid from the 2019-2020 through 2024-2025 school years. Under that law, a State aid differential is calculated for each school district. In the case of a school district in which the State aid differential is negative, the district will receive an increase in State aid. In the case of a school district in which the State aid differential is positive, the district will receive a reduction in State aid.
This bill addresses the situation of school districts that will receive a reduction in State aid under P.L.2018, c.67 (C.18A:7F-67 et al.) by providing that such districts will receive in the 2019-2020 school year and in each subsequent school year, the greater of the amount of State aid calculated pursuant to the provisions of that act or the amount of State aid that the district received in the 2017-2018 school year.
