S 3047 New Jersey Senate · 2026-2027 Regular Session

Requires school districts to maintain and pay premiums for student accident insurance.

This bill requires New Jersey public school districts to cover all costs for student accident insurance, eliminating the previous option for districts to pass premiums to parents. It mandates that districts maintain and pay for insurance covering bodily injuries sustained by students during interscholastic sports, intramural programs, regular classes, extracurricular activities, and related student travel. The bill repeals the existing provision allowing districts to require parents to share insurance costs. This directly affects all public school districts and their students participating in covered activities. The policy change ensures districts bear full responsibility for this secondary insurance coverage, which typically supplements parents' primary health insurance.
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Introduced Jan 13, 2026 Last action Jan 13, 2026
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Jan 13, 2026
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Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Education Committee
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Benjie Wimberly
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