ASSEMBLY, No. 3362

 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

 

211th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED OCTOBER 18, 2004

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman LOUIS D. GREENWALD

District 6 (Camden)

Assemblyman JOSEPH CRYAN

District 20 (Union)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblyman Diegnan and Assemblywoman Voss

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

    Appropriates $18.3 million in FY 2005 to the Department of Education to fully fund extraordinary special education costs.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

    As introduced.

 

(Sponsorship Updated As Of: 12/14/2004)


A Supplement to "An Act making appropriations for the support of the State Government and the several public purposes for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2005 and regulating the disbursement thereof," approved June 30, 2004 (P.L.2004, c.71).

 

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

 

    1. In addition to the amounts appropriated under P.L.2004, c.71, there is appropriated out of the General Fund the following sum for the purpose specified:

34 DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

30 Educational, Cultural and Intellectual Development

31 Direct Educational Services and Assistance

STATE AID

07-5120 Special Education ......................................................................

    $18,300,000

          Total State Aid Appropriation,

                  Special Education.............................................................

$18,300,000

State Aid:

 

 

07 Extraordinary Special Education Costs ..................

($18,300,000)

 

The amount appropriated hereinabove for Extraordinary Special Education Costs shall be used to achieve property tax relief in the 2004 or 2005 local tax year.

 

2. This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

      This bill makes a supplemental appropriation of $18.3 million from the General Fund to the Department of Education to fully fund extraordinary special education costs under section 19 of the "Comprehensive Educational Improvement and Financing Act of 1996," P.L.1996, c.138 (C.18A:7F-19). The appropriation of $52 million for fiscal year 2005, while the same amount as appropriated in fiscal year 2004, will not fully reimburse school districts in the State for the extraordinary special education costs they incurred.

      Any amount received by a school district as a result of the supplemental appropriation is to be used by the district to achieve property tax relief in the 2004 or 2005 local tax year.