ASSEMBLY HIGHER EDUCATION COMMITTEE

STATEMENT TO

ASSEMBLY, No. 5925

with committee amendments

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

DATED:  DECEMBER 11, 2025

      The Assembly Higher Education Committee reports favorably and with committee amendments Assembly Bill No. 5925.

      As amended, this bill required institutions of higher education to include within the information provided pursuant to the “New Jersey College Student and Parent Consumer Information Act,” P.L.2009, c.197, certain employment data for recent graduates.  Specifically, institutions of higher education are required to provide information on the employment outcomes and earnings data available through the New Jersey Statewide Data System for the graduates of the three most recent academic years for which data is available in the institution’s consumer information report.

COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS:

      The committee amended the bill to:

· make a technical amendment to sections 1 and 2 of the bill to reflect changes made to the sections of law therein pursuant to P.L.2021, c.349;

· modify the bill’s requirement for institutions of higher education to provide information on the employment outcomes and earnings data of its recent graduates by requiring each institution to include certain data on the institution’s former students available through the New Jersey Statewide Data System in the institution’s consumer information report;

· remove a provision in the bill that would have required a private vocational school to collect and report employment data for students who graduated from or completed a program of the school in the prior year;

· revise the effective date of the bill; and

· revise the bill’s title and synopsis to reflect the committee amendments.