New Jersey A 3726: Requires large food waste generators to separate and recycle food waste and amends definition of "Class I renewable energy."

Status: Received in the Senate, 2nd Reading - Concur. w/Gov's Recommendations (as of 2020-01-06)

State: New Jersey · Session: 218 · Bill: A 3726

Subjects: FOOD, PUBLIC UTIL, SOLID WASTE

Sponsors: Bateman, Christopher, Calabrese, Clinton, Gusciora, Reed, Kennedy, James J., Reynolds-Jackson, Verlina, Smith, Bob, Conaway, Herb, Lopez, Yvonne, Pinkin, Nancy J., Timberlake, Britnee N.

Bill Text

A3726 

ASSEMBLY, No. 3726 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman ALIXON COLLAZOS-GILL

District 27 (Essex and Passaic)

SYNOPSIS

���� Ensures no school district receives State school aid 
reduction greater than five percent.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

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

�� 

An Act concerning State school aid and supplementing P.L.2007, 
c.260 (C.18A:7F-43 et al.). 

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

���� 1.� a.� Notwithstanding the 
provisions of any law to the contrary, in the 2024-2025 school year and each 
school year thereafter, a school district shall receive stabilized reduction 
aid in such amount as to ensure that the district receives the greater of the 
amount of State school aid calculated for the district pursuant to the 
provisions of P.L.2007, c.260 (C.18A:7F-43 et al.) or the amount of State 
school aid received by the district for the prior school year, reduced by no 
more than five percent.� 

���� b.� A county vocational school 
district shall receive the greater of the amount of State school aid calculated 
pursuant to the provisions of this section or the amount of State school aid 
calculated pursuant to the provisions of section 5 of P.L.2018, c.67 
(C.18A:7F-69).� 

���� c.� For the purposes of this 
section, �State school aid� means equalization aid, special education 
categorical aid, security categorical aid, transportation aid, and adjustment 
aid as calculated in accordance with the provisions of sections 11, 13, 14, 15, 
and 16 of P.L.2007, c.260 (C.18A:7F-53, C.18A:7F-55, C.18A:7F-56, C.18A:7F-57, 
and C.18A:7F-58), respectively.

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

STATEMENT

���� This bill establishes a new 
category of State school aid entitled �stabilized reduction aid.�� Under the 
bill, stabilized reduction aid is to be used to ensure that, in the 2024-2025 
school year and each school year thereafter, a school district receives no 
greater than a five percent reduction in State school aid compared to the prior 
school year.� The bill specifies that a county vocational school district would 
receive the greater of the amount of State school aid calculated pursuant to 
the provisions of the bill or the amount of State school aid calculated with 
the inclusion of vocational expansion stabilization aid.� Under current law, 
vocational expansion stabilization aid ensures that a county vocational school 
district receives no less than the sum of the district�s State school aid 
received in the 2017-2018 school year.

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