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Committee advances bill to create annual fellowship stipends for direct‑support professional career program; some members abstain over open‑ended funding
Summary
The committee advanced Assembly Bill 5185 on March 17, 2025, creating fellowship stipends to support current direct‑support professionals pursuing postsecondary credentials, while two members abstained over open‑ended funding language.
Assembly Bill 5185, posted and advanced by the committee on March 17, 2025, would provide annual fellowship stipends for participants in a direct‑support professional (DSP) career development program administered through a community college consortium.
Valerie Sellers of the New Jersey Association of Community Providers, which administers the DSP career development program, told the committee that Rowan College of South Jersey and Bergen Community College have graduated cohorts and that the intent was always to provide…
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