Bill Text: NJ A4971 | 2022-2023 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires public institution of higher education to post certain information on institution's website.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-05-18 - Reported out of Asm. Comm. with Amendments, and Referred to Assembly Appropriations Committee [A4971 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2022-A4971-Amended.html

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[First Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 4971

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

220th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED DECEMBER 12, 2022

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman  MILA M. JASEY

District 27 (Essex and Morris)

Assemblywoman  PAMELA R. LAMPITT

District 6 (Burlington and Camden)

Assemblyman  REGINALD W. ATKINS

District 20 (Union)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblyman Danielsen, Assemblywoman Reynolds-Jackson and Assemblyman Benson

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires public institution of higher education to post certain information on institution's website.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As reported by the Assembly Higher Education Committee on May 18, 2023, with amendments.

  

An Act concerning public institutions of higher education and supplementing Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes.

 

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

 

     1.    a.  As used in this section, "time-to-degree completion" means the time elapsed between the student's initial enrollment in a ¹four-year¹ public institution of higher education and the degree conferral date.

     b.  A ¹four-year¹ public institution of higher education shall provide for inspection on its website the average time-to-degree completion for each ¹[associate and]¹ baccalaureate degree awarded by the institution.

     ¹c.  A county college shall provide for inspection on its website an appropriate measure of student outcomes, as determined by the Secretary of Higher Education, in consultation with the New Jersey Council of County Colleges, for each associate degree awarded by the institution.¹

 

     2.    a.  A public institution of higher education shall provide for public inspection on its website a copy of the institution's annual fiscal monitoring report submitted pursuant to section 1 of P.L.    , c.   (C.       ) (pending before the Legislature as Assembly Bill No. 4970 of 2022/2023), and a copy of the institution's annual audit submitted pursuant to section 6 of P.L.2009, c.308 (C.18A:3B-51).

     b.  An institution shall annually submit a direct website link of the information required pursuant to subsection a. of this section to the Secretary of Higher Education.

     c.   An institution shall post on its website a summary of the information required pursuant to subsection a. of this section for the public that is clear, simple, and understandable.

 

     3.    The secretary shall adopt rules and regulations pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), as necessary to carry out the provisions of this act.

 

     4. This act shall take effect immediately and shall first apply to the first full academic year following enactment.