Bill Text: NJ A1969 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires Secretary of Higher Education to create and maintain database of Educational Opportunity Fund student admissions.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-09 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Higher Education Committee [A1969 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2024-A1969-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
221st LEGISLATURE
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2024 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Assemblywoman SHANIQUE SPEIGHT
District 29 (Essex and Hudson)
Assemblywoman VERLINA REYNOLDS-JACKSON
District 15 (Hunterdon and Mercer)
SYNOPSIS
Requires Secretary of Higher Education to create and maintain database of Educational Opportunity Fund student admissions.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.
An Act concerning the admission of students into Educational Opportunity Fund programs and supplementing P.L.1968, c.142 (C.18A:71-28 et seq.).
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. The Secretary of Higher Education shall create and maintain a database of Educational Opportunity Fund student admissions. The database shall detail the number of student openings in the Educational Opportunity Fund programs of each participating institution which are available for an eligible student. The database shall be made available to campus Educational Opportunity Fund directors in order to improve communication about potential placements between campus directors and eligible students.
b. Each participating institution shall notify the Office of the Secretary of Higher Education when a student opening in an Educational Opportunity Fund program is filled. The office shall update the database within one business day of receiving the notification.
c. In the event that an eligible student has not secured a placement in an Education Opportunity Fund program of a participating institution, the campus Educational Opportunity Fund director shall provide that student with information about student openings in the Educational Opportunity Fund programs of other participating institutions.
2. This act shall take effect on the 90th day next following the date of enactment.
STATEMENT
This bill requires the
Secretary of Higher Education to create and maintain a database of Educational
Opportunity Fund (EOF) student admissions. The database will detail the number
of student openings in the EOF programs of each participating institution which
are available for an eligible student. The database must be made available to
campus EOF directors in order to improve communication about potential
placements between campus directors and eligible students. The bill provides
that in the event that an eligible student has not secured a placement in an
EOF program of a participating institution, the campus EOF director must
provide that student with information about student openings in the EOF
programs of other participating institutions.
Under the bill, each participating institution must notify the Office of the Secretary of Higher Education when a student opening in an EOF program is filled. The office must update the database within one business day of receiving the notification.
