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Bill Text

A2369 

ASSEMBLY, No. 2369 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman WILLIAM F. MOEN, JR.

District 5 (Camden and Gloucester)

Assemblyman CHRIS TULLY

District 38 (Bergen)

SYNOPSIS

���� Requires State agencies to enroll State employees 
into federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

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

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An Act concerning the enrollment of certain State employees 
into federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program and supplementing Title 52 
of the Revised Statutes.

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

���� 1.��� a.� Each State agency 
shall notify and enroll any qualified State employee into the federal Public 
Service Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF), established under the �College Cost 
Reduction and Access Act� (20 U.S.C. s.1087e).� 

���� b.��� (1)� Each State agency 
shall, not later than 180 days following the agreement reached between the New 
Jersey Department of Education and federal Department of Education pursuant to 
paragraph (3) of this subsection, identify and enroll into the PSFL program 
those State employees who meet the qualifications for enrollment under the 
program. 

���� (2)�� Each State agency shall 
develop standards and practices to identify and enroll individuals that meet 
the qualifications under the PSLF program at the start of the individual�s 
employment with the State agency. 

���� (3)�� The New Jersey 
Department of Education shall enter into an agreement with the United States 
Department of Education to match information in the State�s employment database 
with the federal database on qualified federal student loans.� The information 
received by the New Jersey Department of Education shall be distributed to the 
appropriate State agencies to accurately identify those individuals qualified 
for enrollment in the PSLF program.

���� c.���� When a qualified State 
employee enrolled in the PSLF program ends employment at a State Agency and 
begins employment at a different State agency, the State agency of original 
employment shall transfer any applicable PSLF program information to the employee�s 
new employer in a timely manner.� The new employer shall take the necessary 
steps to update the employee�s Public Service Loan Forgiveness form and notify 
the employee of such changes.

���� d.��� As used in this act:

���� �Public Service Loan 
Forgiveness form� means the form used by the United States Department of 
Education to certify an individual's employment at a public service 
organization and determine eligibility for the purposes of the Public Service 
Loan Forgiveness program.

���� �Qualified federal student 
loans� means the loans that are considered eligible for forgiveness under the 
federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program, established under the �College 
Cost Reduction and Access Act� (20 U.S.C. s.1087e).

���� �Qualified State employee� 
means an employee who is employed full-time by a State agency and who meets the 
criteria for enrollment into the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness 
Program.

���� �State agency� means any of 
the principal departments in the Executive Branch of the State Government, and 
any division, board, bureau, office, commission, or other instrumentality 
within or created by such department, the Legislature of the State, and any 
office, board, bureau, or commission within or created by the Legislative 
Branch, and, to the extent consistent with law, any interstate agency to which 
New Jersey is a party and any independent State authority, commission, 
instrumentality, or agency.� A county or municipality shall not be deemed an 
agency or instrumentality of the State.

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

STATEMENT

���� This bill requires State 
agencies to enroll State employees into the federal Public Service Loan 
Forgiveness Program.

���� The federal Public Service 
Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF) was established by Congress under the �College 
Cost Reduction and Access Act.�� The program forgives the remaining balance on 
a borrower�s federal Direct Loans after 120 qualifying month payments have been 
made under a qualifying repayment plan while working full-time for a qualifying 
employer, such as the New Jersey State government.� The federal government 
recently temporarily expanded the eligibility of the PSLF program to increase 
the number of borrowers who are eligible for loan relief regardless of the type 
of federal loan or repayment plan they have.

���� On average, New Jersey student 
loan borrowers carry $36,500 in student loan debt, which is among the highest 
amounts in the country.� In total, New Jersey student loan borrowers carry a 
debt load of over $40 billion.� The PSLF program is one way in which borrowers 
have found relief from the rising costs of student loans.�