S3910 • 2026

Requires parent or guardian to annually notify school district in writing of intention to home-school child; requires school district to compile and post on district website number of home-schooled children.

Children Education Parental Rights

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor: McKnight, Angela V.
Last action: 2026-03-12
Official status: Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Education Committee
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Requires parent or guardian to annually notify school district in writing of intention to home-school child; requires school district to compile and post on district website number of home-schooled children.

What This Bill Does

Requires parent or guardian to annually notify school district in writing of intention to home-school child; requires school district to compile and post on district website number of home-schooled children.
Topic: Education Fiscal note: This bill has been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

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Bill History

2026-03-12 New Jersey Legislature
Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Education Committee

Official Summary Text

Requires parent or guardian to annually notify school district in writing of intention to home-school child; requires school district to compile and post on district website number of home-schooled children.
Topic:
Education
Fiscal note:
This bill has been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

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S3910

SENATE, No. 3910

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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INTRODUCED MARCH 12, 2026

Sponsored by:

Senator� ANGELA V. MCKNIGHT

District 31 (Hudson)

SYNOPSIS

���� Requires parent or guardian to annually notify school
district in writing of intention to home-school child; requires school district
to compile and post on district website number of home-schooled children.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

���� As introduced.

��

An Act

concerning home-schooled children and
supplementing chapter 38 of Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes.

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

���� 1.��� a.� A parent or guardian
of a home-schooled child shall submit to the superintendent of the resident
school district no later than August 1 of each school year a letter informing
the superintendent of the decision to home-school the child for that school
year. The letter shall include the name, date of birth, and grade level of the
child, and the name of the person who will provide instruction to the child.

���� b.��� A school district shall annually
compile and make available for public inspection on its website information
concerning the number of children who reside in the district who are being home-schooled
and the grade levels of those children.

���� 2.��� This act shall take
effect in the first full school year following the date of enactment.

STATEMENT

���� This bill requires the parent or
guardian of a home-schooled child to submit to the superintendent of the
resident school district by August 1 of each school year a letter informing the
superintendent of the decision to home-school the child for that school year. �The
letter must include the name, date of birth, and grade level of the child, and
the name of the person who will provide instruction to the child.

���� The bill also requires a
school district to annually compile and make available for public inspection on
its website information concerning the number of children who reside in the
district who are being home-schooled and the grade levels of those children.