New Jersey A 393: Limits State Lottery drawings to two per day per game.

Bill Text

A393 

ASSEMBLY, No. 393 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman VICTORIA A. FLYNN

District 13 (Monmouth)

Assemblyman GERRY SCHARFENBERGER

District 13 (Monmouth)

SYNOPSIS

���� Establishes Career and Technical Education Dual 
Enrollment Grant Program; appropriates $5 million.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

���� Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative 
Counsel.

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An Act establishing a grant program to expand 
opportunities for dual enrollment in career and technical education, 
supplementing chapter 61C of Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes, and making 
an appropriation.

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

���� 1.��� a.� The Secretary of 
Higher Education shall establish a �Career and Technical Education Dual 
Enrollment Grant Program.� The grant program shall provide grants to public 
institutions of higher education to expand or provide college-level career and 
technical education instruction to high school students through courses offered 
by the institution on its campus or in a high school.

���� b.� The grant recipient shall 
use the funds to expand opportunities to earn college credits in career and 
technical education coursework while in high school. The secretary shall 
determine allowable uses for grant funds prior to accepting applications to 
participate in the grant program and shall describe the allowable uses in a 
notice of grant opportunity.

���� c.� A public institution of 
higher education wishing to participate in the grant program shall submit an 
application to the secretary in a form and manner prescribed by the secretary. 
The application shall include:

���� (1) the institution�s plan for 
the establishment or expansion of dual enrollment programs in career and 
technical education;

���� (2) information on any 
existing dual enrollment programs operated by the institution;

���� (3) the institution�s capacity 
to offer career and technical education dual enrollment coursework, in addition 
to traditional academic semester course offerings;

���� (4) the number of students 
able to be supported by the grant program and the number of students expected 
to participate; and

���� (5) any other information the 
secretary deems necessary.

���� d.� The secretary shall 
establish selection criteria for awarding grant funds under the program, and 
shall award grants through a competitive process based upon review of the 
applications and subject to the availability of funds. The secretary shall give 
preference to programs that are designed to operate beyond the duration of 
available grant funding. The secretary shall establish the amount for each 
grant that is approved.

���� 2.��� The secretary shall 
submit a report to the Governor, and to the Legislature pursuant to section 2 
of P.L.1991, c.164 (C.52:14-19.1), on the Career and Technical Education Dual 
Enrollment Grant Program established pursuant to section 1 of this act following 
each year in which grants are awarded. The report shall include, but not be 
limited to, information on the number of grant applicants, the number and 
amount of the grant awards, the number of students supported by the grant 
program, information on the impact of the grant program on workforce shortages 
in the State, and any recommendations concerning the continuation or expansion 
of the grant program.

���� 3.��� a.� There is 
appropriated from the General Fund to the Office of the Secretary of Higher 
Education the sum of $5,000,000 to fund the Career and Technical Education Dual 
Enrollment Grant Program established pursuant to section 1 of this act.

���� b.� The Legislature may 
appropriate additional amounts as necessary to the Office of the Secretary of 
Higher Education to fund the Career and Technical Education Dual Enrollment 
Grant Program.

���� 4.��� This act shall take 
effect on the first day of the seventh month next following the date of 
enactment, except the Secretary of Higher Education may take any anticipatory 
administrative action in advance as necessary to implement the provisions of 
this act.

STATEMENT

���� This bill requires the 
Secretary of Higher Education to establish a Career and Technical Education 
Dual Enrollment Grant Program to expand opportunities for dual enrollment in 
career and technical education. The program is to award grants to public institutions 
of higher education to expand or provide college-level career and technical 
education instruction for high school students through courses offered by the 
institution on its campus or in a high school.

���� In order to be eligible for 
consideration of a grant award, a public institution of higher education is 
required to submit an application to the secretary in a form and manner 
prescribed by the secretary. A grant application is required to include: the institution�s 
plan for the establishment of dual