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A4984 • 2026

Specifies that adjustments made to school budget calendar due to delay in State aid notification date will be commensurate with length of delay.

Specifies that adjustments made to school budget calendar due to delay in State aid notification date will be commensurate with length of delay.

Budget Education
Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Sauickie, Alex
Last action
2026-05-07
Official status
Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Specifies that adjustments made to school budget calendar due to delay in State aid notification date will be commensurate with length of delay.

Specifies that adjustments made to school budget calendar due to delay in State aid notification date will be commensurate with length of delay.

What This Bill Does

  • Specifies that adjustments made to school budget calendar due to delay in State aid notification date will be commensurate with length of delay.
  • Topic: Education Fiscal note: This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

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Bill History

  1. 2026-05-07 New Jersey Legislature

    Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee

Official Summary Text

Specifies that adjustments made to school budget calendar due to delay in State aid notification date will be commensurate with length of delay.
Topic:
Education
Fiscal note:
This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

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A4984

ASSEMBLY, No. 4984

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

�

INTRODUCED MAY 7, 2026

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman� ALEX SAUICKIE

District 12 (Burlington, Middlesex, Monmouth and Ocean)

SYNOPSIS

���� Specifies that adjustments made to school budget
calendar due to delay in State aid notification date will be commensurate with
length of delay.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

���� As introduced.

��

An Act
concerning the school budget calendar and amending
P.L.2003, c.275.

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

���� 1.� Section 3 of P.L.2003,
c.275 (C.18A:7F-5c) is amended to read as follows:

���� 3.��� Notwithstanding any
other law to the contrary, the Commissioner of Education
[
is authorized
to
]

shall

make any adjustments to the school budget calendar and to the date for the
notification of nontenured personnel pursuant to section 1 of P.L.1971, c.436
(C.18A:27-10) that are necessary
[
to
conform with
]

when there is any delay in
the State aid notification date.�
All
adjustments made to the school budget calendar and to the date of notification
of nontenured personnel pursuant to this section shall be commensurate with the
length of the delay in the State aid notification date.

(cf: P.L.2003, c.275, s.3)

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

STATEMENT

���� This bill specifies that
adjustments made by the Commissioner of Education to the school budget calendar
due to a delay in the State aid notification date will be commensurate with the
length of that delay.

���� Current law provides that the
Governor's Budget Message must be delivered to the Legislature on or before the
fourth Tuesday in February each year. �However, it has become customary for the
Legislature to provide an extension of up to two weeks for a newly inaugurated
governor, as was provided in 2026. �This results in a delay of the State
education aid notification date. �Without adjustments to the school budget
calendar commensurate with the length of that delay, significant difficulties
will be imposed upon local boards of education and school staff in preparing
the school district budget. �This bill is intended by the sponsor to eliminate
the possibility of such an imposition in the case of any delay of the state aid
notification date.