SENATE, No. 1445

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

221st LEGISLATURE

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2024 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Senator  TROY SINGLETON

District 7 (Burlington)

Senator  KRISTIN M. CORRADO

District 40 (Bergen, Essex and Passaic)

Assemblywoman  VERLINA REYNOLDS-JACKSON

District 15 (Hunterdon and Mercer)

Assemblywoman  CLEOPATRA G. TUCKER

District 28 (Essex and Union)

Assemblyman  HERB CONAWAY, JR.

District 7 (Burlington)

Co-Sponsored by:

Senators Amato, Pou, Moriarty, Johnson, Assemblywoman McCoy, Assemblymen Barlas, Scharfenberger, Assemblywoman Flynn, Assemblyman Atkins, Assemblywoman Speight, Senator Wimberly, Assemblymen Inganamort, Miller, Karabinchak, Assemblywoman Fantasia, Assemblyman Calabrese, Assemblywoman Quijano, Assemblyman Stanley, Assemblywomen Donlon, Peterpaul, Assemblyman Sampson, Assemblywomen Pintor Marin and Drulis

SYNOPSIS

     Requires public institution of higher education to readmit student whose enrollment was interrupted due to military service.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As reported by the Senate Higher Education Committee with technical review.

An Act concerning military service members at public institutions of higher education and supplementing chapter 62 of Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes. 

Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

     1.    a.         A public institution of higher education shall readmit an undergraduate student who withdrew from the institution due to the student’s service in the uniformed services, including service in the Armed Forces, or as a member of the National Guard or Reserve, on active duty, active duty for training, or full-time National Guard duty under federal or State authority. The institution shall readmit the student with the same academic status as the student had when the student last attended the institution. 

     b.    Readmission shall be granted upon written request by the student for the next academic semester beginning after the date of the request.  An institution shall not charge an application or other fee for a readmission request made pursuant to the provisions of this section. 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately and shall first apply to the first full academic year following the date of enactment.