S3485 • 2026

Provides that children under care, custody or supervision of DCPP may not be home-schooled.

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Passed Legislature

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Sponsor: Beach, James
Last action: 2026-02-12
Official status: Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Provides that children under care, custody or supervision of DCPP may not be home-schooled.

What This Bill Does

Provides that children under care, custody or supervision of DCPP may not be home-schooled.
Topic: Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Fiscal note: This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

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Bill History

2026-02-12 New Jersey Legislature
Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee

Official Summary Text

Provides that children under care, custody or supervision of DCPP may not be home-schooled.
Topic:
Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens
Fiscal note:
This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

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S3485

SENATE, No. 3485

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 12, 2026

Sponsored by:

Senator� JAMES BEACH

District 6 (Burlington and Camden)

SYNOPSIS

���� Provides that children under care, custody or
supervision of DCPP may not be home-schooled.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

���� As introduced.

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An Act

concerning the education of certain children and
supplementing chapter 38 of Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes.

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

���� 1.��� Notwithstanding any
provision of law to the contrary, any child under the care, custody or
supervision of the Division of Child Protection and Permanency in the
Department of Children and Families, including a child placed in a resource
family home or in a kinship care home, shall not be home-schooled and shall be
enrolled in a public or nonpublic school.

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

STATEMENT

���� This bill provides that
children under the care, custody or supervision of the Division of Child
Protection and Permanency, including children placed in resource family homes
or in kinship care homes, may not be home-schooled and are required to be enrolled
in a public or nonpublic school.