---
type: "Bill"
title: "Provides relief to students receiving State financial aid to address special circumstances due to 2020 public health state of emergency."
description: "Provides relief to students receiving State financial aid to address special circumstances due to 2020 public health state of emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nj"
legislature: "New Jersey Legislature"
session: "219"
identifier: "S 2356"
citation: "New Jersey S 2356 (219)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EDUC FINANCE", "EMERG MGMT", "HIGHER ED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Caputo, Ralph R.", "Cunningham, Sandra B.", "Dunn, Aura K.", "Jasey, Mila M.", "Kean, Thomas H."]
version_count: 1
action_count: 8
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2020-04-09T04:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2020-05-15T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/72cdc8d9-99f5-4f4b-8df0-0f6834b6296d"
source_url: "http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/downloads.asp"
source_hash: "5330e442220d55ca7bce9827e67bd4735bfcc8751d2e1a49202dd819eb9ecd8f"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-nj"]
---

# New Jersey S 2356 (219) — Provides relief to students receiving State financial aid to address special circumstances due to 2020 public health state of emergency.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2020/Bills/S2500/2356_I1.HTM)

## Votes

- Reported favorably out of committee — **10–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Caputo, Ralph R. — primary (person)
- Cunningham, Sandra B. — primary (person)
- Dunn, Aura K. — primary (person)
- Jasey, Mila M. — primary (person)
- Kean, Thomas H. — primary (person)
- Benson, Daniel R. — cosponsor (person)
- Brown, Chris A. — cosponsor (person)
- Cardinale, Gerald — cosponsor (person)
- Chiaravalloti, Nicholas — cosponsor (person)
- DeAngelo, Wayne P. — cosponsor (person)
- Jimenez, Angelica M. — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson, Gordon M. — cosponsor (person)
- Kennedy, James J. — cosponsor (person)
- McKnight, Angela V. — cosponsor (person)
- Moen, William F. — cosponsor (person)
- Murphy, Carol A. — cosponsor (person)
- Pennacchio, Joseph — cosponsor (person)
- Quijano, Annette — cosponsor (person)
- Sacco, Nicholas J. — cosponsor (person)
- Singer, Robert W. — cosponsor (person)
- Spearman, William W. — cosponsor (person)
- Speight, Shanique — cosponsor (person)
- Tucker, Cleopatra G. — cosponsor (person)
- Turner, Shirley K. — cosponsor (person)
- Vainieri Huttle, Valerie — cosponsor (person)
- Zwicker, Andrew — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2020-04-09T04:00:00+00:00** Introduced, 1st Reading without Reference, 2nd Reading `introduction`
- **2020-04-13T04:00:00+00:00** Passed Senate (38-0) `passage`
- **2020-04-13T04:00:00+00:00** Received in the Assembly, Referred to Assembly Higher Education Committee `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-01T04:00:00+00:00** Transferred to Assembly Appropriations Committee `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-04T04:00:00+00:00** Reported out of Assembly Committee, 2nd Reading `committee-passage`
- **2020-05-14T04:00:00+00:00** Substituted for A3946
- **2020-05-14T04:00:00+00:00** Passed Assembly (Passed Both Houses) (80-0-0) `passage`
- **2020-05-15T04:00:00+00:00** Approved P.L.2020, c.31. `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/72cdc8d9-99f5-4f4b-8df0-0f6834b6296d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Jersey legislature records).