[First Reprint]
ASSEMBLY, No. 905
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 1996 SESSION
By Assemblyman ROCCO, Assemblywoman CRECCO,
Assemblymen Dalton and Felice
An Act concerning the use of unclaimed State Lottery prize money for certain education programs and amending P.L.1970, c.13.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Section 17 of P.L.1970, c.13 (C.5:9-17) is amended to read as follows:
17. a. Unclaimed prize money for the prize on a winning ticket or share shall be retained by the director for the person entitled thereto for [1] one year after the drawing in which the prize was won. If no claim is made for [said] the prize money within such year, the prize money shall be allocated to State institutions and State aid for education in the same manner as lottery revenues are allocated for such purposes under this act; except that the first $3,000,000 of unclaimed prize money which becomes available during the remainder of the fiscal year in which P.L. , c. (C. ) (now pending before the Legislature as this bill) takes effect and in each fiscal year thereafter shall be allocated to the Department of Education pursuant to subsections b. and c. of this section.
b. $2,000,000 of unclaimed prize money shall annually be appropriated to the Department of Education to be used by the department to award grants to public school districts to establish and implement Reading Recovery Programs 1or other remedial reading programs1 . The programs shall assist 1[first grade]1 students 1in grades one to four1 who are diagnosed as being at risk of reading failure. A school district may use the grant to fund the salaries of teacher leaders, to provide teacher leader training support, to support the salaries of Reading Recovery teachers, and to provide site support, evaluation, and other administrative and training support. The department shall not use more than three percent of the amounts it receives under this subsection to pay the costs it incurs in administering the 1[Reading Recovery]1 grant program. Funds distributed under this subsection shall not be used to reduce expenditures from funds received by school districts and the department for Reading Recovery Programs 1or other remedial reading programs1 from any other sources.
1The grants shall be awarded in accordance with the requirements of the Department of Education's grants management process.1
The Department of Education shall annually report to the Governor and the Legislature on progress in establishing and implementing Reading Recovery Programs 1and other remedial reading programs1. The annual report shall include an evaluation of the effectiveness of the Reading Recovery Programs 1and other remedial reading programs1 in bringing 1[first grade]1 students 1in grades one to four1 up to reading grade level.
c. $1,000,000 of unclaimed prize money shall annually be appropriated to the Department of Education to be used by the department to award grants to public school districts to establish gifted and talented programs within the district. The department shall not use more than three percent of the amounts it receives under this subsection to pay the costs it incurs in administering the gifted and talented grant program. Funds distributed under this subsection shall not be used to reduce expenditures from funds received by school districts and the department for gifted and talented programs from any other source.
1The grants shall be awarded in accordance with the requirements of the Department of Education's grants management process.1
The Department of Education shall annually report to the Governor and the Legislature on progress in establishing and implementing gifted and talented programs in public school districts.
(cf: P.L.1970, c.13, s.17)
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
Provides that $3 million of unclaimed State Lottery prize money be used annually for the establishment of Reading Recovery Programs and gifted and talented programs in public school districts.