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A1613 • 2026

Permits public and nonpublic schools to utilize security categorical aid to hire school security personnel.

Permits public and nonpublic schools to utilize security categorical aid to hire school security personnel.

Education
Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Kean, Sean T.
Last action
2026-01-13
Official status
Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Permits public and nonpublic schools to utilize security categorical aid to hire school security personnel.

Permits public and nonpublic schools to utilize security categorical aid to hire school security personnel.

What This Bill Does

  • Permits public and nonpublic schools to utilize security categorical aid to hire school security personnel.
  • Topic: Education Fiscal note: This bill has not 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

Permits public and nonpublic schools to utilize security categorical aid to hire school security personnel.
Topic:
Education
Fiscal note:
This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

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A1613

ASSEMBLY, No. 1613

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman SEAN T. KEAN

District 30 (Monmouth and Ocean)

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblyman Scharfenberger and Assemblywoman Fantasia

SYNOPSIS

���� Permits public and nonpublic schools to utilize
security categorical aid to hire school security personnel.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

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

��

An Act
concerning security categorical aid, amending P.L.2016,
c.49, and supplementing chapter 41 of Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes.

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

���� 1.��� Section 3 of P.L.2016,
c.49 (C.18A:58-37.10) is amended to read as follows:

���� 3.��� A board of education of
a school district in which a nonpublic school is located shall within the limit
of funds appropriated or otherwise made available, adopt policies and
procedures to provide the students who are enrolled full-time in the nonpublic
school with security services, equipment, or technology to help ensure a safe
and secure school environment.�
School security services may include the
hiring of school security personnel.

(cf: P.L.2016, c.49, s.3)

���� 2.��� (New section) A board of
education may utilize security categorical aid received pursuant to section 14
of P.L.2007, c.260 (C.18A:7F-56) to hire school security personnel.

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

STATEMENT

���� This bill would permit a board
of education to utilize security categorical aid to hire school security
personnel.� Under the bill, school security services that are provided to a
nonpublic school under the provisions of the �Secure Schools for All Children
Act� would include the hiring of school security personnel.

���� Under the �School Funding
Reform Act of 2008,� school districts throughout the State receive a category
of funding identified as security categorical aid.� This bill would permit a
board of education to utilize security categorical aid to hire school security
personnel.

���� Under the �Secure Schools for
All Children Act,� a board of education is required to adopt policies and
procedures to provide students enrolled full-time in a nonpublic school within
the district with security services, equipment, or technology to help ensure a
safe and secure school environment.� Current Department of Education Guidance
concerning the �Secure Schools for All Children Act� includes the hiring of
security guards as acceptable security service expenditures.� This bill amends
the �Secure Schools for all Children Act� to specify that school security
services may include hiring of school security personnel.