SENATE BUDGET AND APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE
STATEMENT TO
SENATE, No. 3769
with committee amendments
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
DATED: JUNE 26, 2025
The Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee reports favorably and with committee amendments Senate Bill No. 3769.
As amended and reported, this bill revises current State law requiring certain student identification cards to contain the telephone number for a suicide prevention hotline.
Under the bill, a public school that includes grades seven through 12 or an institution of higher education that issues student identification cards is required to print the telephone number for mental health and suicide crisis resources, as determined by the Commissioner of Human Services, in consultation with the Commissioner of Education or Secretary of Higher Education, as applicable, on the back of each student identification card.
Under current law, a public school that includes grades seven through 12 or an institution of higher education that issues student identification cards is required to print the telephone number for the New Jersey Suicide Prevention Hopeline (NJ Hopeline) and contact information for a crisis text line on the back of each student identification card.
As amended and reported by the committee, Senate Bill No. 3769 is identical to Assembly Bill No. 4897 (1R), which was reported by the committee on this date.
COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS:
The committee amended the bill to:
(1) stipulate that the telephone number for mental health and suicide crisis resources printed on a student identification card is to be determined by the Commissioner of Human Services, in consultation with the Commissioner of Education or Secretary of Higher Education, as applicable; and
(2) specify that the provisions of the bill apply to new student and replacement student identification cards issued in the first full school year or academic year, as applicable, next following the date of enactment.
FISCAL IMPACT:
This bill is not certified as requiring a fiscal note.