Bill > A3363

Introduced Session

This bill requires the Department of Labor and Workforce Development (DOLWD), in consultation with the Department of Education (DOE), to establish a database of novice teachers to assist school districts in filling staffing vacancies and requires the DOLWD, in consultation with the DOE, to hold three job fairs per year. Under the bill, the DOLWD, in consultation with the DOE, is required, within 180 days of the effective date of the bill, to establish and maintain a database of novice teachers that is to be available to school districts and novice teachers to assist in filling staffing vacancies. The Commissioner of Education is required to provide certain information for each novice teacher to the DOLWD to be included in the database. The bill requires the Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development to develop a mechanism by which a novice teacher may opt out of inclusion in the database and permits a novice teacher to request to be excluded from the database at any time. Under the bill, a novice teacher is permitted to request the contact information included in the database be limited to that of a preferred method of contact. The Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development is required to comply with this request. The bill also requires the DOLWD, in consultation with the DOE, to hold three job fairs per year, with one held in each of the northern, central, and southern regions of the State. The Commissioner of Education is required to invite school districts to participate in the job fairs, and the Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development is required to notify each novice teacher included in the database established under the provisions of the bill of the date, time, and location of each job fair. Novice teachers, individuals enrolled in an educator preparation program, and any other individual appropriately certified to work in a public school in the State are permitted to attend the job fair. The bill permits the Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development to charge employer participants a reasonable, nominal fee to participate in the job fair, but limits use of any fees collected to covering costs associated with identifying and securing a location for the job fair, hospitality services, and any other administrative costs as determined by the commissioner. The bill defines "novice teacher" as a teacher eligible to work under a valid certificate of eligibility or certificate of eligibility with advanced standing who has not yet been issued a provisional certificate. The bill defines "school district" as a school district, charter school, renaissance school project, county special services school district, or county vocational school district.

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Sterley Stanley (D)*,  Annette Quijano (D), 

Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee (on 01/13/2026)

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