Establishes Grow Your Own Teacher Loan Redemption Program in Higher Education Student Assistance Authority.
This bill creates the Grow Your Own Teacher Loan Redemption Program to help teachers in New Jersey pay off student loans. It targets individuals who graduated from high school in a district with a teacher shortage or lived in such a district for over five years, and who become certified teachers there. Participants earn up to $10,000 annually toward loan repayment (principal and interest) for each year of full-time teaching in a shortage district, with a maximum total of $50,000 over five years. The program is funded at a maximum of $500,000 per state fiscal year.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2024
Committee Review
Floor Vote
Governor
Introduced Jan 9, 2024
Last action Jan 25, 2024
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3
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Committee
2
Jan 25, 2024
Committee
Referred to Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee
upper
Jan 25, 2024
Upper · Passed
Reported out of Senate Committee, 2nd Reading
upper
Jan 9, 2024
Introduced
Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Education Committee
upper
2 primary · 1 co-sponsor
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Teresa Ruiz
DDemocratic
P
Vin Gopal
DDemocratic
Co
Shirley Turner
DDemocratic
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