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S3539 • 2026

Provides secondary classroom experience credit towards meeting requirements of classroom training portion of registered apprenticeship.

Provides secondary classroom experience credit towards meeting requirements of classroom training portion of registered apprenticeship.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Greenstein, Linda R.
Last action
2026-02-19
Official status
Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Labor Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Provides secondary classroom experience credit towards meeting requirements of classroom training portion of registered apprenticeship.

Provides secondary classroom experience credit towards meeting requirements of classroom training portion of registered apprenticeship.

What This Bill Does

  • Provides secondary classroom experience credit towards meeting requirements of classroom training portion of registered apprenticeship.
  • Topic: Labor Fiscal note: This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-02-19 New Jersey Legislature

    Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Labor Committee

Official Summary Text

Provides secondary classroom experience credit towards meeting requirements of classroom training portion of registered apprenticeship.
Topic:
Labor
Fiscal note:
This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

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S3539

SENATE, No. 3539

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 19, 2026

Sponsored by:

Senator� LINDA R. GREENSTEIN

District 14 (Mercer and Middlesex)

Co-Sponsored by:

Senator Diegnan

SYNOPSIS

���� Provides secondary classroom experience credit
towards meeting requirements of classroom training portion of registered
apprenticeship.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

���� As introduced.

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An Act

concerning apprenticeship training and
supplementing P.L.1993, c.268 (C.34:15E-1 et seq.).

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

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1.��� a. For each school-to-apprenticeship linkage program
established pursuant to section 6 of P.L.1993, c.268 (C.34:15E-6), the partners
participating in the consortium shall consult and gain approval from the United
States Department of Labor before making agreements which provide that secondary
classroom experience may count as credit toward meeting the requirements of the
classroom training portion of a registered apprenticeship.

���� b.��� Except as prohibited by
State or federal law, for each apprenticeship program established pursuant to
section 5 of P.L.1993, c.268 (C.34:15E-5), the partners participating in the
consortium shall consult and gain approval from the United States Department of
Labor before making agreements which provide that secondary classroom
experience may count as credit toward meeting the requirements of the classroom
training portion of a registered apprenticeship.

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

STATEMENT

����� Under current law, a
registered apprenticeship model consists of a combination of both classroom-related
technical instruction and on-the-job training.�
This bill provides that partners participating in the
consortium are required to consult and gain approval from the United States
Department of Labor before making agreements which provide that secondary
classroom experience may count as credit toward meeting the requirements of the
classroom training portion of a registered apprenticeship in an already established
school-to-apprenticeship linkage program.�������

����� The bill provides that partners participating in the
consortium are required to consult and gain approval from the United States
Department of Labor before making agreements which provide that secondary
classroom experience may count as credit toward meeting the requirements of the
classroom training portion of a registered apprenticeship, except as prohibited
by State or federal law, for each apprenticeship program.