NJEA Position Statements

Listed below are the formal written position statements of NJEA on several significant pieces of legislation affecting NJEA members. You may want to use key points from the position statements in contacting your area legislators in support of our association's position.

• ACR-94  View Bill
  Requests and encourages institutions of higher education to become members of the SOC.
• ACR-127/SCR-102   View Bill
  “Race to the Top”
• ACR-115/SCR-1    View Bill
  Amends State Constitution to require annual contributions by the State and its political subdivisions to State-administered retirement system.
• A-444   View Bill
  Disqualifies board of education members for convictions of certain crimes and requires criminal background checks.
• A-458 View Bill
  Permits a child who moves out of a school district due to a family crisis to remain enrolled in that district until the end of the school year.
• A-561  View Bill
  Requires reporting of public high school, district and Statewide drop-out and graduation rates.
• A-1019   View Bill
  Requires criminal history record check of school district volunteers.
• A-1550 View Bill
  Prohibits State Board of Education from limiting number of certain two-year college credits that may be applied towards meeting teacher certification requirements.
• A-2200  View Bill
  Permits children of military families to remain enrolled in their current school district.
• A-2260   View Bill
  Establishes Uniform School Bus Life of 15 years.
• A-2405 AcaAa   View Bill
  Disaster preparedness plan for higher education.
• A-2459/S-4   View Bill
  Makes various changes concerning payments to public employees for unused sick leave, sick leave injury in state service, and eliminates TPAF and PERS disability retirement. Signed into law by the Governor on 3/22/10 as P.L.2010, c.3
• A-2460/S-3  View Bill
  Makes various changes to the State Health Benefits Program (SHBP) and the School Employees’ Health Benefits Program (SEHBP). Signed into law by the Governor on 3/22/10 as P.L.2010, c.2
• A-2461/S-2  View Bill
  Makes various pension system changes concerning eligibility, retirement allowance formula, compensation definition, eligibility for service credit, repeals non-forfeitable rights, adds an option to waive enrollment and requires employer contributions of 1/7^th the actuarial required amount beginning in 2011, increasing by 1/7^th each year. See this chart for information on pension funding. Signed into law by the Governor on 3/22/10 as P.L.2010, c.1
• A-2722   View Bill
  Modifies process for contested case hearings by OAL
• A-3000/S-3000   View Bill
  Appropriates $28,364,422,000 in State funds and $13,204,231,842 in federal funds for the State budget for fiscal year 2010-2011.
• S-10/A-10   View Bill
  Increase NJ gross income tax rate on income exceeding $1,000,000 for taxable year 2010.
• S-29/A-3065   View Bill
  Reduces tax cap from 4% to 2.9%.  
• S-375  View Bill
  Requires Public Advocate intervention, additional public participation, and health impact study as conditions of conversion of health service corporation to domestic stock insurer.
• S-435   View Bill
  Limits amount of time vacant teaching position can be filled by substitute teacher.
• S-439   View Bill
  Requires the consent of a spouse to the election of certain retirement allowance options by a member of the Teachers’ Pension and Annuity Fund, the Judicial Retirement System or the Public Employees’ Retirement System.
• S-613   View Bill
  Prohibits school employees and county college employees to search or handle explosive devices.
• S-834  View Bill
   Establishes measures to deter steroid use among students.
• S-937  View Bill
  Permits a person covered by certain managed care health insurance plans to receive covered services from network providers without obtaining a written referral from their primary care provider.  
• S-1040 View Bill
  Establishes Uniform School Bus Life of 15 Years.
• S-1473  View Bill
  Establishes pilot program in DOE with respect to educational technology.
• S-1730  View Bill
  Requires all public employees to reside in New Jersey.
• S-1835   View Bill
  Expands type of school bus driver required to undergo criminal record check.
• S-1872 View Bill
  Opportunity Scholarship Act”/Tuition Tax Credit/Vouchers
• S-1940   View Bill
  Wage and benefits concessions to offset reductions in force
• S-2071   View Bill
  Limits amount of time a vacant teaching position can be filled by certain teachers employed in a temporary capacity.
• S-2094/A-3008  View Bill
  Limits the State’s employer contributions to an employee’s Alternate Benefit Program retirement account.

   
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