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A1980
ASSEMBLY, No. 1980
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
222nd LEGISLATURE
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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Assemblywoman ANNETTE QUIJANO
District 20 (Union)
SYNOPSIS
���� Provides same military service credit for
compensation purposes to noncertificated employees of school districts that is
provided to certificated employees under current law.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
���� Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative
Counsel.
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An Act
concerning school district employee compensation and
supplementing chapter 29 of Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes.
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Be It
Enacted
by the Senate and General Assembly of
the State of New Jersey:
���� 1.��� A school district
employee, other than a teaching staff member, who is hired on or after the
effective date of this act and who, after July 1, 1940, has served or hereafter
shall serve, in the active military or naval service of the United States or of
this State, including active service in the women's army corps, the women's
reserve of the naval reserve, or any similar organization authorized by the
United States to serve with the army or navy, in time of war or an emergency,
or for or during any period of training, or pursuant to or in connection with
the operation of any system of selective service, shall be entitled to receive
equivalent years of employment credit for such service as if he had been
employed for the same period of time in the school district, except that the
period of such service shall not be credited toward more than four employment
or adjustment increments.
���� Nothing contained in this
section shall be construed to reduce the number of employment or adjustment
increments to which an employee may be entitled under the terms of any law, or
regulation, or action of any employing board or officer, of this State, relating
to leaves of absence.
���� 2.��� This act shall take
effect immediately.
STATEMENT
���� N.J.S.18A:29-11 provides that
teaching staff members are entitled to military service credit for compensation
purposes, provided that the period of the service cannot be credited toward
more than four employment or adjustment increments.� This bill will provide the
same military service credit to employees of school districts who are not
teaching staff members and will apply to those employees who are hired on or
after the effective date of the bill.
���� A �teaching staff member� is
defined at N.J.S.18A:1-1 as a �member of the professional staff of any district
or regional board of education, or any board of education of a county
vocational school, holding office, position or employment of such character
that the qualifications, for such office, position or employment, require him
to hold a valid and effective standard, provisional or emergency certificate,
appropriate to his office, position or employment, issued by the State Board of
Examiners and includes a school nurse and a school athletic trainer.�