SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE

STATEMENT TO

SENATE, No. 1763

with committee amendments

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

DATED:  DECEMBER 4, 2025

      The Senate Education Committee reports favorably and with committee amendments Senate Bill No. 1763.

      As amended, this bill allows an advanced practice nurse and a physician assistant to provide the required written determination documenting a student’s need for confinement at the student’s residence or other treatment setting in order for a school district to provide home instruction due to the student’s temporary or chronic health condition or need for treatment. Under State Board of Education regulations, this documentation may only be provided by the student’s physician. The bill’s provisions are in addition to any other State Board of Education requirements in regard to a student’s receipt of home instruction from the school district.

      This bill was prefiled 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.

      As amended and reported by the committee, Senate Bill No. 1763 is identical to Assembly Bill No. 3340 (1R), which was also amended and reported by the committee on this date.

COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS:

      The committee amended the bill to:

· specify that written determination from a physician assistant be accepted as documentation of a student’s need for home instruction; and

· reduce the minimum number of cumulative school days, for which a written determination for the need for home instruction is required, from 20 days to 17 days.