SENATE, No. 1445

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

221st LEGISLATURE

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2024 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Senator  TROY SINGLETON

District 7 (Burlington)

Senator  KRISTIN M. CORRADO

District 40 (Bergen, Essex and Passaic)

SYNOPSIS

     Requires public institution of higher education to readmit student whose enrollment was interrupted due to military service.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.

An Act concerning military service members at 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. A public institution of higher education shall readmit an undergraduate student who withdrew from the institution due to the student’s service in the uniformed services, including service in the Armed Forces, or as a member of the National Guard or Reserve, on active duty, active duty for training, or full-time National Guard duty under federal or State authority. The institution shall readmit the student with the same academic status as the student had when the student last attended the institution. 

     b. Readmission shall be granted upon written request by the student for the next academic semester beginning after the date of the request.  An institution shall not charge an application or other fee for a readmission request made pursuant to the provisions of this section. 

     2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall first apply to the first full academic year following the date of enactment. 

STATEMENT

     This bill requires a public institution of higher education to readmit an undergraduate student who withdrew from the institution due to the student’s service in the uniformed services, including service in the Armed Forces, or as a member of the National Guard or Reserve, on active duty, active duty for training, or full-time National Guard duty under federal or State authority. Under the bill, the institution is required to readmit the student with the same academic status as the student had when the student last attended the institution. 

     The bill also provides that readmission is to be granted upon written request by the student for the next academic semester beginning after the date of the request.  Finally, the bill provides that an institution cannot charge an application or other fee for a readmission request made pursuant to the bill’s provisions.