New Jersey Assembly Bill A5874 Comm Sub / Analysis

                    STATEMENT TO 
 
[First Reprint] 
ASSEMBLY, No. 5874 
 
with Assembly Floor Amendments 
(Proposed by Assemblywoman LAMPITT) 
 
ADOPTED: DECEMBER 21, 2023 
 
 Assembly Bill No. 5874 (1R) requires a board of education to 
directly employ certain professionals; permits a board of education to 
contract for certain personnel; and permits the use of virtual or remote 
instruction for public school students in certain circumstances. 
 These Assembly floor amendments: 
 remove provisions concerning the employment of personnel by 
approved private schools for students with disabilities; 
 require the Commissioner of Education to establish an 
application process for specified exemptions to the provision of 
the bill requiring certain personnel to be employed directly by a 
board of education on a case-by-case basis; 
 require the commissioner to establish an application process for 
a charter school or a renaissance school project to apply for an 
exemption to the provision of the bill requiring certain 
personnel to be employed directly by a board of education to 
provide school nursing services on a case-by-case basis; 
 permit a board of education to contract with faculty of a public 
institution of higher education providing instruction under a 
dual enrollment agreement; 
 permit charter schools and renaissance school projects to 
contract with a business administrator, personnel providing 
instruction during summer school sessions, and, for charter 
schools only, personnel employed by a charter management 
organization to provide specific services; 
 specify that a physical therapy assistant is not required to work 
in the presence of a certified physical therapist; 
 permit the virtual or remote instruction approved pursuant to 
the bill to be provided to an individual student or a class of 
students; 
 permit a school district that has applied to provide virtual or 
remote instruction to provide emergent virtual or remote 
instruction while the district’s application to the commissioner 
is pending; 
 require the commissioner to post determinations concerning 
virtual or remote instruction on its internet website; and 
 permit charter schools and renaissance school projects to 
provide virtual or remote instruction, either in whole or in part, 
for summer school sessions.