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A5054 • 2026

Requires State school aid reductions in any school year to be applied in following school year.

Requires State school aid reductions in any school year to be applied in following school year.

Education
Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Karabinchak, Robert J.
Last action
2026-05-14
Official status
Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Requires State school aid reductions in any school year to be applied in following school year.

Requires State school aid reductions in any school year to be applied in following school year.

What This Bill Does

  • Requires State school aid reductions in any school year to be applied in following school year.
  • Topic: Education Fiscal note: This bill has been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-05-14 New Jersey Legislature

    Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee

Official Summary Text

Requires State school aid reductions in any school year to be applied in following school year.
Topic:
Education
Fiscal note:
This bill has been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

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A5054

ASSEMBLY, No. 5054

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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INTRODUCED MAY 14, 2026

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman� ROBERT J. KARABINCHAK

District 18 (Middlesex)

SYNOPSIS

���� Requires State school aid reductions in any school
year to be applied in following school year.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

���� As introduced.

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An Act
concerning State school aid and supplementing P.L.2007,
c.260 (C.18A:7F-43 et al.).

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

���� 1.��� a.� As used in this
section, �State school aid� means the sum of the following categories of State
school aid: equalization aid, special education categorical aid, security
categorical aid, transportation aid, and vocational expansion stabilization
aid.

���� b.��� Notwithstanding the
provisions of P.L.2007, c.260 (C.18A:7F-43 et al.) or any other law, rule, or
regulation to the contrary, a school district that is subject to a reduction in
State school aid in the budget year as set forth in the State aid notices distributed
to school districts pursuant to section 5 of P.L.1996, c.138 (C.18A:7F-5) shall
receive State school aid for the budget year in an amount equal to the
district�s aid received in the prebudget year.� The amount of any reduction not
applied to the district�s allocation of State school aid in the budget year
pursuant to this section shall be deducted from the district�s State school aid
allocation in the following budget year.

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

STATEMENT

���� This bill holds harmless a
school district that, in one year school, is subject to a State school aid
reduction.� The amount of the reduction that otherwise would have occurred for
the district in that school year, however, would be applied to the district�s
allocation of State school aid provided in the following school year.