Bill Text: NJ A478 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides supplemental appropriation from Property Tax Relief Fund to DOE to provide additional State aid to certain school districts.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-09 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee [A478 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2024-A478-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
221st LEGISLATURE
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2024 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman ROBERT D. CLIFTON
District 12 (Burlington, Middlesex, Monmouth and Ocean)
Assemblyman ALEX SAUICKIE
District 12 (Burlington, Middlesex, Monmouth and Ocean)
SYNOPSIS
Provides supplemental appropriation from Property Tax Relief Fund to DOE to provide additional State aid to certain school districts.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.
An Act concerning State school aid to certain school districts.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. There are appropriated from the Property Tax Relief Fund such amounts as necessary to ensure that total State aid to a school district in the 2021-2022 school year is no less than the amount of total State aid received in the 2017-2018 school year in the following school districts:
a. Old Bridge Township School District;
b. Freehold Regional School District;
c. Manalapan-Englishtown Regional School District;
d. Millstone Township School District; and
e. a school district in which the school district's equalized property valuation per pupil is less than the State average equalized property valuation per pupil or the school district's income per pupil is less than the State average income per pupil.
2. This act shall take effect immediately, but shall remain inoperative until the enactment into law of the fiscal year 2022 appropriations act.
STATEMENT
The bill provides a supplemental appropriation from the Property Tax Relief Fund to the Department of Education to provide additional State school aid to: 1) Old Bridge Township School District; 2) Freehold Regional School District; 3) Manalapan-Englishtown Regional School District; 4) Millstone Township School District; and 5) a school district in which the school district's equalized property valuation per pupil is less than the State average equalized property valuation per pupil or the school district's income per pupil is less than the State average income per pupil.
There are over 100 school districts that are estimated to qualify for additional aid under subsection e. of the bill, including: the New Hanover Township School District, the Roosevelt Boro School District, the Upper Freehold Regional School District, the Jackson Township School District, and the Plumsted Township School District. The intent is to ensure that these school districts receive the same amount of total State aid in the 2021-2022 school year as they received in the 2017-2018 school year.
