Bill Text: NJ A434 | 2022-2023 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires public and nonpublic school to provide student with more information about NJ STARS Program and improve notification of potenial eligibilty.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-11 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee [A434 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2022-A434-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 434

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

220th LEGISLATURE

 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2022 SESSION

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  EDWARD H. THOMSON

District 30 (Monmouth and Ocean)

Assemblyman  SEAN T. KEAN

District 30 (Monmouth and Ocean)

Assemblywoman  AURA K. DUNN

District 25 (Morris and Somerset)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires public and nonpublic school to provide student with more information about NJ STARS Program and improve notification of potential eligibility.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.

  

An Act concerning information on eligibility for the New Jersey Student Tuition Assistance Reward Scholarship (NJ STARS) Program and amending P.L.2009, c.280.

 

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

 

     1.    Section 1 of P.L.2009, c.280 (C.18A:71B-85.5) is amended to read as follows:

     1.    a.     In September of each school year, the board of education of a school district or the chief school administrator of a nonpublic school shall provide each student in the 8^th and 9th grade with general information on the New Jersey Student Tuition Assistance Reward Scholarship (NJ STARS) Program created pursuant to P.L.2004, c.59 (C.18A:71B-81 et seq.).

     b.    In September of each school year, the board of education of a school district or the chief school administrator of a nonpublic school shall notify each student in the 10^th, 11th [grade] , and 12^th grades who is ranked in the top 25.0% of the class of his potential to qualify for the NJ STARS Program if the student's class rank at the completion of the 11th grade or 12th grade is within the top 15.0% of the class.

     The notification shall include information about the rigorous course of study required to qualify for the program.

     A student in the 12th grade shall be notified of conditional eligibility for the NJ STARS Program by the Higher Education Student Assistance Authority in accordance with the provisions of section 2 of P.L.2008, c.124 (C.18A:71B-85.1).

     c.     The notification by the board of education or chief school administrator required pursuant to subsections a. and b. of this section shall be communicated via regular or electronic mail or sent home with the student and include a brief description of the NJ STARS Program and the requirements for eligibility for the program.

(cf: P.L.2014, c.55, s.2)

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately and shall first apply to the 2018-2019 school year. 

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     Under current law, a student receives general information about the New Jersey Student Tuition Assistance Reward Scholarship (NJ STARS) program and the program's requirements for eligibility in the 9^th grade. In September of each school year, the board of education of a school district or the chief school administrator of a nonpublic school is required to notify each student in the 11th grade who is ranked in the top 25.0% of the class of his potential to qualify for the NJ STARS Program if the student's class rank at the completion of the 11th grade or 12th grade is within the top 15.0% of the class.  This bill requires the board of education of a school district or the chief school administrator of a nonpublic school to also provide general information about the NJ STARS program in the 8^th grade. The bill also requires the notice of potential eligibility to be distributed in the 10^th and 12^th grades to students who are ranked in the top 25% of the class.