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S3296 • 2026

Requires public institution of higher education to provide alternative scholarship to student-athlete who loses athletic scholarship due to injury.

Requires public institution of higher education to provide alternative scholarship to student-athlete who loses athletic scholarship due to injury.

Education
Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Corrado, Kristin M.
Last action
2026-02-02
Official status
Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Higher Education Committee
Effective date
Not listed

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Requires public institution of higher education to provide alternative scholarship to student-athlete who loses athletic scholarship due to injury.

Requires public institution of higher education to provide alternative scholarship to student-athlete who loses athletic scholarship due to injury.

What This Bill Does

  • Requires public institution of higher education to provide alternative scholarship to student-athlete who loses athletic scholarship due to injury.
  • Topic: Higher Education Fiscal note: This bill has been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

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Bill History

  1. 2026-02-02 New Jersey Legislature

    Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Higher Education Committee

Official Summary Text

Requires public institution of higher education to provide alternative scholarship to student-athlete who loses athletic scholarship due to injury.
Topic:
Higher Education
Fiscal note:
This bill has been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

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S3296

SENATE, No. 3296

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 2, 2026

Sponsored by:

Senator� KRISTIN M. CORRADO

District 40 (Bergen, Essex and Passaic)

Co-Sponsored by:

Senator Diegnan

SYNOPSIS

���� Requires public institution of higher education to
provide alternative scholarship to student-athlete who loses athletic
scholarship due to injury.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

���� As introduced.

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An Act
concerning scholarships for student-athletes enrolled
in public institutions of higher education and supplementing chapter 62 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.� If a public
institution of higher education rescinds or does not renew an athletic
scholarship previously awarded by the institution to a student-athlete due to
an incapacitating injury or illness, the institution shall provide the
student-athlete with a scholarship equal in value to the athletic scholarship
for the remainder of the student�s enrollment in an undergraduate degree
program at the institution, or for a maximum of five academic years, inclusive
of the duration of the athletic scholarship, whichever is shorter.��

���� b.� As used in this section:

���� �Incapacitating injury or
illness� means an injury or illness directly related to the student-athlete�s
participation in intercollegiate athletics at a public institution of higher
education that has been determined by the institution�s medical staff to make
the student-athlete medically ineligible to continue participation in
intercollegiate athletics.

���� �Student-athlete� means an
undergraduate student who participates in intercollegiate athletics at a public
institution of higher education.�

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

STATEMENT

���� This
bill requires a public institution of higher education to provide an
alternative scholarship to a student-athlete who loses an athletic scholarship
due to an injury.

���� If a public institution of
higher education rescinds or does not renew an athletic scholarship previously
awarded by the institution to a student-athlete due to an incapacitating injury
or illness, the bill requires the institution to provide the student-athlete
with a scholarship equal in value to the athletic scholarship for the remainder
of the student�s enrollment in an undergraduate degree program at the
institution, or for a maximum of five academic years, inclusive of the duration
of the athletic scholarship, whichever is shorter.��

���� The bill defines
�incapacitating injury or illness� to mean an injury or illness directly
related to the student-athlete�s participation in an intercollegiate athletic
program at a public institution of higher education that has been determined by
the institution�s medical staff to make the student-athlete medically
ineligible to continue participation in intercollegiate athletics.