SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE

STATEMENT TO

SENATE, No. 1069

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

DATED: JUNE 3, 1996

      The Senate Education Committee reports favorably Senate Bill No. 1069.

      This bill provides that payments from local school boards, whether deducted from a district's State aid or paid directly to the State by the district, which are appropriated to State facilities for the education of juveniles must be used for the educational purposes for which they were intended, and prohibits the payments from being used for noneducational purposes within a departmental budget or a State budget, such as to offset departmental or State budget deficits. The bill also prohibits the transferring or carrying forward of funds to other accounts without the approval of the Joint Budget Oversight Committee unless the transfers are used to return funds to a school district.