Sponsored by:
Senator NELLIE POU
District 35 (Bergen and Passaic)
Senator RICHARD J. CODEY
District 27 (Essex and Morris)
Co-Sponsored by:
Senator O'Scanlon
SYNOPSIS
Permits school nurse who is retired from TPAF to return to employment during public health emergency and state of emergency for COVID-19 pandemic, for up to two years without reenrollment in TPAF.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As reported by the Senate State Government, Wagering, Tourism & Historic Preservation Committee on December 14, 2020, with amendments.
An Act concerning a return to employment by a school nurse during the public health emergency and state of emergency for the COVID-19 pandemic after retirement from the Teachers’ Pension and Annuity Fund.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Notwithstanding the provisions of N.J.S.18A:66-53.2 to the contrary, the cancellation, reenrollment, and additional retirement allowance provisions of subsection a. of N.J.S.18A:66-53.2 shall not apply to a former member of the Teachers’ Pension and Annuity Fund who is a certified school nurse and who, after having been granted a retirement allowance, becomes employed by a board of education as a certified school nurse on a contractual basis for a term of not more than one year; except that the cancellation, reenrollment, and additional retirement allowance provisions shall apply if the former member becomes employed as a certified school nurse within 60 days of retirement with the employer from which the member retired. Nothing herein shall preclude a former member so reemployed with a board of education from renewing a contract for one additional year; provided that the total period of employment with any individual board of education does not exceed a two-year period, unless so approved by the Commissioner of Education as being in the best interests of the school district; and provided that no such renewal shall provide the former member an election regarding whether or not to be reenrolled. 1The former member’s retirement shall have been a bona fide retirement and any employment or reemployment under this section shall not be prearranged before retirement.1
This section shall apply only with regard to a certified school nurse whose reemployment with any board of education commences during the public health emergency and state of emergency declared by the Governor in Executive Order No. 103 for the COVID-19 pandemic and during any extensions of that public health emergency and state of emergency.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.