SENATE HIGHER EDUCATION COMMITTEE

STATEMENT TO

SENATE, No. 1519

with committee amendments

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

DATED:  FEBRUARY 10, 2025

      The Senate Higher Education Committee favorably reports Senate Bill No. 1519 with committee amendments.

      This amended bill requires institutions of higher education to collect and report certain employment data for recent graduates.

      Under the amended bill, institutions of higher education are required 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 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. 

      This bill was pre-filed for introduction in the 2024-2025 session pending technical review. As reported, the bill includes the changes required by technical review, which has been performed.

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; 

· 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; and

· make other technical corrections to the bill’s title and synopsis to reflect the bill’s changes.