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A1081 • 2026

Provides supplemental appropriation from Property Tax Relief Fund to DOE to provide additional State aid to certain school districts.

Provides supplemental appropriation from Property Tax Relief Fund to DOE to provide additional State aid to certain school districts.

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Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Clifton, Robert D.
Last action
2026-01-13
Official status
Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Provides supplemental appropriation from Property Tax Relief Fund to DOE to provide additional State aid to certain school districts.

Provides supplemental appropriation from Property Tax Relief Fund to DOE to provide additional State aid to certain school districts.

What This Bill Does

  • Provides supplemental appropriation from Property Tax Relief Fund to DOE to provide additional State aid to certain school districts.
  • Topic: Education Fiscal note: This bill has been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-01-13 New Jersey Legislature

    Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee

Official Summary Text

Provides supplemental appropriation from Property Tax Relief Fund to DOE to provide additional State aid to certain school districts.
Topic:
Education
Fiscal note:
This bill has been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

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A1081

ASSEMBLY, No. 1081

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman ROBERT D. CLIFTON

District 12 (Burlington, Middlesex, Monmouth and Ocean)

Assemblyman ALEX SAUICKIE

District 12 (Burlington, Middlesex, Monmouth and Ocean)

SYNOPSIS

���� Provides supplemental appropriation from Property Tax
Relief Fund to DOE to provide additional State aid to certain school districts.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

���� Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative
Counsel.

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An Act
concerning State school aid to certain school
districts.�

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

���� 1.��� There are appropriated
from the Property Tax Relief Fund such amounts as necessary to ensure that
total State aid to a school district in the 2021-2022 school year is no less
than the amount of total State aid received in the 2017-2018 school year in the
following school districts:

���� a.���� Old Bridge Township
School District;

���� b.��� Freehold Regional School
District;

���� c.���� Manalapan-Englishtown
Regional School District;

���� d.��� Millstone Township
School District; and

���� e.���� a school district in
which the school district�s equalized property valuation per pupil is less than
the State average equalized property valuation per pupil or the school
district�s income per pupil is less than the State average income per pupil.

���� 2.��� This act shall take
effect immediately, but shall remain inoperative until the enactment into law
of the fiscal year 2022 appropriations act.

STATEMENT

���� The bill provides a
supplemental appropriation from the Property Tax Relief Fund to the Department
of Education to provide additional State school aid to: 1) Old Bridge Township
School District; 2) Freehold Regional School District; 3) Manalapan-Englishtown
Regional School District; 4) Millstone Township School District; and 5) a
school district in which the school district�s equalized property valuation per
pupil is less than the State average equalized property valuation per pupil or
the school district�s income per pupil is less than the State average income
per pupil.

���� There are over 100 school
districts that are estimated to qualify for additional aid under subsection e.
of the bill, including: the New Hanover Township School District, the Roosevelt
Boro School District, the Upper Freehold Regional School District, the Jackson
Township School District, and the Plumsted Township School District.� The
intent is to ensure that these school districts receive the same amount of
total State aid in the 2021-2022 school year as they received in the 2017-2018
school year.