Bill Text: NJ A2583 | 2014-2015 | Regular Session | Amended

---

Bill Title: Requires development of fact sheet about bedbugs to be posted on the Department of Education's website.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2016-01-19 - Pocket Veto - Bills not Acted on by Governor-end of Session [A2583 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2014-A2583-Amended.html

---

[First Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 2583

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

216th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 20, 2014

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  WAYNE P. DEANGELO

District 14 (Mercer and Middlesex)

Assemblywoman  ELIANA PINTOR MARIN

District 29 (Essex)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires development of fact sheet about bedbugs to be posted on the Department of Education's website.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As reported by the Senate Community and Urban Affairs Committee on December 10, 2015, with amendments.

  

An Act concerning the health of students and supplementing chapter 40 of Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes.

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

      1.   a.  The Commissioner of Education, in consultation with the Commissioner of Health ¹[and Senior Services]¹ and the National Pest Management Association, shall develop a fact sheet that provides information about bedbugs.  The fact sheet shall include, but not be limited to, an explanation of the following:

     (1)   the dangers of bedbugs;

     (2)   the ways in which bedbugs spread;

     (3)   the means of detecting a bedbug infestation;

     (4)   the warning signs of a bedbug infestation and symptoms of bedbug bites;

     (5)   the ways to prevent and eliminate an infestation of bedbugs; and

     (6)   methods of treating bedbug bites.

     b.    The commissioner shall post the fact sheet on the Department of Education's website for school districts and students and parents to access, and shall update the fact sheet as necessary.  The department shall notify school districts of the availability of the fact sheet on its website.

     c.     In the ¹[2014-2015] 2016-2017¹ school year and in each school year thereafter, each school district may distribute the fact sheet to students and their parents or guardians.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.