S2962 • 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: Mukherji, Raj
Last action: 2026-06-30
Official status: Passed Assembly (Passed Both Houses) (79-0-0)
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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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: Passed both Houses 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 for A2746
2026-06-30 New Jersey Legislature
Passed Assembly (Passed Both Houses) (79-0-0)
2026-06-15 New Jersey Legislature
Reported out of Assembly Committee, 2nd Reading
2026-05-28 New Jersey Legislature
Passed by the Senate (36-0)
2026-05-28 New Jersey Legislature
Received in the Assembly, Referred to Assembly Education Committee
2026-05-11 New Jersey Legislature
Reported from Senate Committee, 2nd Reading
2026-02-12 New Jersey Legislature
Reported from Senate Committee, 2nd Reading
2026-02-12 New Jersey Legislature
Referred to Senate Education Committee
2026-01-13 New Jersey Legislature
Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Higher Education Committee

Official Summary Text

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

Current Bill Text

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S2962 TR

SENATE, No. 2962

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Senator RAJ MUKHERJI

District 32 (Hudson)

Senator CARMEN F. AMATO, JR.

District 9 (Ocean)

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:

Senators Singleton, Singer, McKnight, Corrado, Diegnan,
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 Senate Higher Education Committee
with technical review.

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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:

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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.�