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A5085 AED Statement 6/15/26
ASSEMBLY EDUCATION COMMITTEE
STATEMENT TO
ASSEMBLY,
No. 5085
STATE
OF NEW JERSEY
DATED:
�JUNE
15, 2026
����� The Assembly Education Committee reports favorably
Assembly Bill No. 5085.
����� This bill requires the establishment of a three-year
nonpublic school nursing services pilot program in an eligible county
permitting the establishment or utilization of a county consortium for the
provision of nursing services to nonpublic schools that are part of the county
consortium.� Under the bill, an eligible county is defined as a county of the
first class with a population greater than 950,000 according to the latest
federal decennial census.� The bill requires a board of education to disburse to
the county consortium an amount equal to the nonpublic nursing services aid
that is paid to the school district.
����� The bill requires the Commissioner of Education to
publish on the Department of Education�s website notification of the existence
of the pilot program.� The notification would provide information to nonpublic
schools related to the consortium�s responsibility under the pilot program to
provide nursing services, which are otherwise required to be provided by boards
of education under current law, to the pupils attending a nonpublic school that
participates in the pilot program.
����� The bill requires a nonpublic school to notify the
commissioner, the governing body of the county consortium, and any school
districts in which the nonpublic school is located, of the nonpublic school�s
intention to participate in the consortium no later than June 1 of the
preceding school year.
����� Under the bill, in order to participate in the pilot
program, the consortium is required to provide to the commissioner, at the
commissioner�s request, the necessary assurances that the consortium is capable
of complying with the consortium's nursing services responsibilities under the
pilot program.
����� The bill requires the consortium to annually enter
into a contract with an independent entity to audit the implementation of the
pilot program.� The audit for the prior school year would be submitted to the
commissioner no later than October 1 of each year and the consortium is
required to transmit a copy of the audit to the Governor and to the
Legislature.
����� The bill provides that two years following the establishment of the pilot
program, the commissioner is required to provide the Governor and the
Legislature a recommendation on the advisability of continuing the program and
expanding the program Statewide.