Bill Text: NJ A4419 | 2022-2023 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires school districts to close schools on days of general and primary elections.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-06-29 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly State and Local Government Committee [A4419 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2022-A4419-Introduced.html

ASSEMBLY, No. 4419

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

220th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED JUNE 29, 2022

 


 

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman  VERLINA REYNOLDS-JACKSON

District 15 (Hunterdon and Mercer)

Assemblyman  BENJIE E. WIMBERLY

District 35 (Bergen and Passaic)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires school districts to close schools on days of general and primary elections.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  


An Act concerning the school calendar and supplementing chapter 36 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 board of education shall close the schools of the district on the day of a general election or on the day of a primary election for the general election.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     Current law provides each board of education with the discretion to annually determine the dates on which the schools of the district will be in session, in accordance with law.  This bill requires a board of education to close the schools of the district on the day of a general election or on the day of a primary election for the general election.

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