Establishes three-year nonpublic school pupil transportation pilot program in Ocean County to provide funding to county consortium of nonpublic schools that will assume responsibility for mandated nonpublic school busing.

S 500 establishes a three-year pilot program in Ocean County to transfer responsibility for transporting nonpublic school students from local school districts to a county consortium. The program funds the consortium directly with $1,000 per eligible student (the current "aid in-lieu-of transportation" amount) to cover mandated busing for students attending nonpublic schools that require district transportation under state law. The consortium assumes all transportation duties for participating schools, while school districts can no longer provide "courtesy busing" to these students. Any unused funds must be returned to the state, and the program applies only to Ocean County, which meets the criteria of having school districts serving over 5,000 nonpublic school students requiring transportation.