A2746 • 2026

Provides seniority service credit to educational support professionals for military service.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor: Katz, Andrea
Last action: 2026-06-30
Official status: Substituted by S2962
Effective date: Not listed

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Provides seniority service credit to educational support professionals for military service.

What This Bill Does

Provides seniority service credit to educational support professionals for military service.
Topic: Substituted by another Bill Fiscal note: This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

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Bill History

2026-06-30 New Jersey Legislature
Substituted by S2962
2026-06-15 New Jersey Legislature
Reported out of Assembly Committee, 2nd Reading
2026-05-07 New Jersey Legislature
Reported and Referred to Assembly Education Committee
2026-01-13 New Jersey Legislature
Introduced, Referred to Assembly Military and Veterans' Affairs Committee

Official Summary Text

Provides seniority service credit to educational support professionals for military service.
Topic:
Substituted by another Bill
Fiscal note:
This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

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A2746 TR

ASSEMBLY, No. 2746

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman ANDREA KATZ

District 8 (Atlantic and Burlington)

Assemblywoman CAROL A. MURPHY

District 7 (Burlington)

Assemblywoman TENNILLE R. MCCOY

District 14 (Mercer and Middlesex)

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblyman Sampson, Assemblywomen Dunn, Tucker,
Assemblymen Singh, Peterson, Rumpf, Assemblywoman Reynolds-Jackson, Assemblymen
Scharfenberger, Myhre, Sauickie, Assemblywomen Kane, Fantasia, Assemblyman
Karabinchak, Assemblywoman Flynn, Assemblymen Simonsen, Inganamort and
Assemblywoman Morales

SYNOPSIS

���� Provides seniority service credit to educational
support professionals for military service.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

���� As reported by the Assembly Military and Veterans'
Affairs Committee with technical review.

��

An Act
concerning seniority of educational support
professionals and supplementing chapter 28 of Title 18A of the New Jersey
Statutes.�

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

���� 1. �a.� As used in this
section, �educational support professional� means a school district employee
other than a teaching staff member.�

���� b.� In computing length of
service for seniority purposes, every educational support professional who has
served in the active military of the United States and is declared by the
United States Department of Veterans Affairs to be eligible for federal
veterans' benefits shall be entitled to receive equivalent years of employment
or seniority credit, up to four years, for that service as if the professional
had been employed for the same period of time at the school district.�� Any
military service shall be credited towards this employment or seniority credit,
including service that occurred prior to the professional�s employment as an
educational support professional.�

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