Bill Text: NJ A2811 | 2014-2015 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Prohibits four-year public and independent institutions of higher education from requiring students to purchase meal plans and permits the institutions to only offer meal plans in the form of a spending allowance.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-12-01 - Received in the Senate, Referred to Senate Higher Education Committee [A2811 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2014-A2811-Amended.html

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[First Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 2811

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

216th LEGISLATURE

INTRODUCED MARCH 24, 2014

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  JOSEPH CRYAN

District 20 (Union)

Assemblywoman  CELESTE M. RILEY

District 3 (Cumberland, Gloucester and Salem)

Assemblyman  VINCENT MAZZEO

District 2 (Atlantic)

Assemblywoman  NANCY J. PINKIN

District 18 (Middlesex)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblyman Garcia

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Prohibits four-year public and independent institutions of higher education from requiring students to purchase meal plans and permits the institutions to only offer meal plans in the form of a spending allowance.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As reported by the Assembly Higher Education Committee on October 23, 2014, with amendments.

 

An Act concerning meal plans at four-year institutions of higher education and supplementing chapter 3B of Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes.

 

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

 

     1.  a.  A four-year public institution of higher education or independent institution of higher education shall not require any student enrolled in the institution to purchase a meal plan.

     b.  A four-year public institution of higher education or independent institution may only offer a meal plan in the form of a spending allowance, which performs as a debit system.  Any funds remaining in the student's spending allowance at the end of a semester shall be either refunded to the student or applied to the student's spending allowance for the next semester.

     c.  This section shall not apply to any four-year independent institution of higher education with a total endowment of more than $1,000,000,000.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately but shall first apply to students in the ¹[2014-2015] 2015-2016¹ academic year.