SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE
STATEMENT TO
SENATE, No. 703
with committee amendments
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
DATED: MAY 30, 1996
The Senate Education Committee reports favorably Senate Bill No. 703 with committee amendments.
As amended by committee, this bill establishes the Miss New Jersey Educational Scholarship Program. The bill provides that any individual who has been named Miss New Jersey and who represents this State in the Miss America Pageant will be entitled to receive an initial bachelors degree or post graduate degree at any public institution of higher education of this State without payment of tuition as long as the student remains a full time student in good standing at the institution.
The committee amended the bill to permit a scholarship recipient to pursue either a post graduate degree or an initial undergraduate degree. The amendment addresses those situations in which a Miss New Jersey has already attained a bachelors degree or is close to receiving one.
With the amendments, this bill is identical to A921 (1R).