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A1276 • 2026

Requires Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery-Armed Forces Qualifying Test to be offered as alternative assessment for high school graduation proficiency test requirement.

Requires Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery-Armed Forces Qualifying Test to be offered as alternative assessment for high school graduation proficiency test requirement.

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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
Inganamort, Michael
Last action
2026-01-13
Official status
Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Requires Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery-Armed Forces Qualifying Test to be offered as alternative assessment for high school graduation proficiency test requirement.

Requires Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery-Armed Forces Qualifying Test to be offered as alternative assessment for high school graduation proficiency test requirement.

What This Bill Does

  • Requires Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery-Armed Forces Qualifying Test to be offered as alternative assessment for high school graduation proficiency test requirement.
  • Topic: Education Fiscal note: This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

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Bill History

  1. 2026-01-13 New Jersey Legislature

    Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee

Official Summary Text

Requires Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery-Armed Forces Qualifying Test to be offered as alternative assessment for high school graduation proficiency test requirement.
Topic:
Education
Fiscal note:
This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

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A1276

ASSEMBLY, No. 1276

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

�

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman MICHAEL INGANAMORT

District 24 (Morris, Sussex and Warren)

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman Fantasia

SYNOPSIS

���� Requires Armed Services Vocational Aptitude
Battery-Armed Forces Qualifying Test to be offered as alternative assessment
for high school graduation proficiency test requirement.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

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

��

An Act

concerning public high school graduation
requirements and supplementing P.L.1979, c.241 (C.18A:7C-1 et seq.).

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

���� 1.� The State Board of
Education shall recognize the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery-Armed
Forces Qualifying Test

(ASVAB-AFQT) as an alternative
assessment for the high school graduation proficiency test requirement.

���� 2.� This act shall take effect
immediately.

STATEMENT

���� This
bill requires the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery- Armed Forces
Qualifying Test
to be offered as alternative
assessment for
the high school graduation proficiency test requirement.

���� Current law requires public
high school students to pass the State graduation proficiency test to
demonstrate mastery of the State graduation proficiency standards.� State Board
of Education regulations establish graduation pathways, which provide that a
student may demonstrate proficiency by: 1) achieving a passing score on the State
graduation proficiency test; 2) achieving a passing score on a corresponding
substitute competency test; or 3) demonstrating proficiency through the
portfolio appeals process.�

���� The regulations define �substitute
competency test� to mean, for students in the classes of 2018 through 2022, an
alternative set of third-party assessments approved by the Commissioner,
including, but not limited to, the SAT, PSAT, ACT, ACT-Aspire, Armed Services
Vocational Aptitude Battery-Armed Forces Qualifying Test, or Accuplacer, that
can be used to demonstrate competency in

the New Jersey Student
Learning Standards for students who have not demonstrated proficiency on the
State graduation proficiency test.

���� In May 2023, the State Board
of Education approved the graduation test requirements for the 2024 and 2025
classes, as well as the list of substitute competency tests, but removed the
Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery-Armed Forces Qualifying Test.� It is
the intent of this bill to reinstate the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude
Battery-Armed Forces Qualifying Test as an alternative assessment by adding it
back to the list of substitute competency tests.