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A2365 • 2026

Permits spouses and dependents of military service members to qualify for in-State tuition in event that service member is transferred to another state.

Permits spouses and dependents of military service members to qualify for in-State tuition in event that service member is transferred to another state.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Moen, William F., Jr.
Last action
2026-01-13
Official status
Introduced, Referred to Assembly Military and Veterans' Affairs Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Permits spouses and dependents of military service members to qualify for in-State tuition in event that service member is transferred to another state.

Permits spouses and dependents of military service members to qualify for in-State tuition in event that service member is transferred to another state.

What This Bill Does

  • Permits spouses and dependents of military service members to qualify for in-State tuition in event that service member is transferred to another state.
  • Topic: Military and Veterans' Affairs Fiscal note: This bill has been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2026-01-13 New Jersey Legislature

    Introduced, Referred to Assembly Military and Veterans' Affairs Committee

Official Summary Text

Permits spouses and dependents of military service members to qualify for in-State tuition in event that service member is transferred to another state.
Topic:
Military and Veterans' Affairs
Fiscal note:
This bill has been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

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A2365

ASSEMBLY, No. 2365

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman WILLIAM F. MOEN, JR.

District 5 (Camden and Gloucester)

Assemblyman ROBERT J. KARABINCHAK

District 18 (Middlesex)

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblyman Webber, Assemblywomen Park, Murphy, Assemblyman
Sauickie, Assemblywoman Swain, Assemblyman Stanley, Assemblywoman Lopez,
Assemblymen Barlas, Inganamort, G.Rodriguez, Assemblywomen Speight and Dunn

SYNOPSIS

���� Permits spouses and dependents of military service
members to qualify for in-State tuition in event that service member is
transferred to another state.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

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

��

An Act

concerning in-State tuition rates for certain
students attending public institutions of higher education and amending P.L.1985,
c.231.

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

���� 1.� Section 1 of P.L.1985,
c.231 (C.18A:62-4.1) is amended to read as follows:�

���� 1.� a. United States military
personnel and their
spouses and
dependents who are living in New Jersey
and are attending public institutions of higher education in New Jersey shall
be regarded as residents of the State for the purpose of determining tuition.

����
In the event that a United
States military service member is relocated out of the State due to the service
member�s continued military service, the service member�s spouse or dependent
shall continue to be regarded as residents of the State for the purpose of
determining tuition provided that: (1) the spouse or dependent was enrolled in
a public institution of higher education in New Jersey prior to the service
member�s relocation; and (2) the spouse or dependent� maintains continuous
enrollment at the public institution of higher education.

���� b.��� A dependent child of
United States military personnel who attended high school in New Jersey for a
minimum of three years shall be regarded by a public institution of higher
education in New Jersey as a resident of the State for the purpose of
determining tuition, regardless of where the dependent child resides upon
enrollment in the institution.

(cf: P.L.2021, c.49, s.1)

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

STATEMENT

����� Under current law, United States military personnel
and their dependents who are living in New Jersey and are attending public
institutions of higher education in New Jersey are regarded as residents of the
State for the purpose of determining tuition.� This bill amends that law to
provide that:

����� the in-State tuition classification also applies to
the military service member�s spouse; and

����� in the event that the military service member is
relocated out of the State due to the service member�s continued military
service, the service member�s spouse or dependent will not lose their in-State
tuition classification provided that: (1) the spouse or dependent was enrolled
in a public institution of higher education in New Jersey prior to the service
member�s relocation; and (2) the spouse or dependent maintains continuous
enrollment at the public institution of higher education.