The following Legislative Activity took place March 16, 2020:
Establishes "Restorative Justice in Education Pilot Program" in Department of Education.
Withdrawn from Consideration
A-1838
Timberlake/Zwicker/Vainieri Huttle
Prohibits online education services from using and disclosing certain information, engaging in targeted advertising, and requires deletion of certain information in certain circumstances.
Withdrawn from Consideration
A-3592
Timberlake/McKnight/Vainieri Huttle
Requires meeting between student and appropriate school personnel after multiple suspensions or proposed expulsion from public school to identify behavior or health difficulties.
Withdrawn from Consideration
Provides automatic effective rating for certain school district employees for whom annual summative evaluation is not conducted in any school year in order to protect tenure achievement timeline.
Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee
Requires instruction concerning use of 9-1-1 for public school students in preschool, kindergarten, and grades one and two.
Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee
Prohibits contributions by administrator of Type II school district to candidates for member of district's school board; restricts employment by Type II school district of contributors to election campaign of member of district's school board.
Introduced, Referred to Assembly State and Local Government Committee
Requires school districts to provide transportation to public and nonpublic school pupils living along hazardous routes.
Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee
Permits school districts to define excused absences from school to include illness based on student's mental or behavioral health and requires Commissioner of Education to develop guidelines for defining excused absence for this reason.
Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee
Requires separate entrance for certain child care services located in public school facilities and clarifies licensure requirements and DCF enforcement authority for services.
Introduced, Referred to Assembly Women and Children Committee
Authorizes board of education to establish community service credit program for high school students.
Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee
Requires school districts to inform DOE of number of students in certain out-of-State placements and number of students with individualized education programs identifying DHS or DCF for transition services.
Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee
Requires medical examination and submission of student work portfolios for home-schooled children; provides that children under supervision of DYFS may not be home-schooled.
Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee
Requires certain school security measures to be incorporated into new school construction and existing school buildings.
Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee
Establishes measures to deter steroid use among students; appropriates $45,000 to DOE for New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association testing of student-athletes for steroids and other performance enhancing substances.
Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee
Requires public school instruction in suicide prevention to be provided in grades kindergarten through 12 and include certain elements.
Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee
Requires school districts to include information on events of September 11, 2001 as part of New Jersey Student Learning Standards in Social Studies; requires public schools to hold annual assembly commemorating September 11, 2001.
Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee
Requires candidates for certain teaching certificates to pass written test on foundations of teaching reading and diagnosing reading difficulties.
Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee
Requires public schools to comply with more stringent school lunch and breakfast nutrition standards adopted by USDA in 2012.
Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee
Increases penalties for crime of false public alarm when false alarm impacts school operations; adds response costs incurred by school to total costs imposed upon responsible person under certain circumstances.
Introduced, Referred to Assembly Judiciary Committee
Establishes four-year Career and Technical Education Partnership Grant Program.
Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee
A-3839
Carter/Bramnick/Chiaravalloti
Makes supplemental appropriation of up to $20 million from General Fund to DOE to support school facility cleaning and sanitization.
Introduced, Referred to Assembly Homeland Security and State Preparedness Committee; Reported out of Assembly Committee, 2nd Reading; Emergency Resolution; Passed by the Assembly; Received in the Senate without Reference, 2nd Reading
Designates last Friday in March of every year "Social-Emotional Learning Day."
Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee
Permits municipality to enact ordinance regulating where sex offenders may reside; restricts locations of certain child care centers and school bus stops.
Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Law and Public Safety Committee
Establishes pilot program in DOE to use therapy dogs in public elementary school wellness programs.
Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Education Committee
Makes supplemental appropriation of $15,100,000 from General Fund to DOE to increase per pupil funding for nonpublic security aid from $150 to $250.
Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Education Committee
Provides that school districts spending below adequacy will not be subject to certain State school aid reductions.
Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Education Committee
Requires school district to allow graduating student to wear military sash while participating in high school graduation ceremony.
Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Education Committee
Requires school district to close schools on religious holiday included on list of holidays promulgated by Commissioner of Education if 10 percent or more of students observe holiday.
Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Education Committee
Provides an adjustment to school district tax levy cap for increases in special education costs per pupil in excess of $40,000 that exceed such prior year costs by more than 2%.
Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Education Committee
Requires school districts and DOE to post on their websites information regarding student participation in certain assessments.
Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Education Committee
Creates special education unit within the Office of Administrative Law; requires annual report.
Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee
Requires public schools, and nonpublic schools which receive federal funding, to provide students with information on rights afforded under Title IX, and provide contact information for Title IX coordinator.
Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Education Committee
Requires minimum geographic cost adjustment for school districts in all counties.
Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Education Committee
Provides that in certain cases vacancy in membership of board of education of limited purpose regional school district will be filled by majority vote of board of education of constituent district represented by former board member.
Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Education Committee
Provides certain sending school districts one nonvoting advisory representative on receiving school district board of education.
Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Education Committee
Permits certain constituent districts of limited purpose regional districts to pay tuition for their students to attend public or nonpublic schools other than school of limited purpose regional.
Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Education Committee
Excludes certain increases in school security expenditures from the tax levy cap applicable to school districts.
Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Education Committee
Establishes pilot program in DOE to support FIRST Robotics Programs in school districts.
Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Education Committee
Provides additional State school aid to school districts experiencing enrollment increases due to conversion of age-restricted housing developments to non-restricted developments.
Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Education Committee
Requires county to provide extraordinary special education aid to school districts located in county for students with costs over $55,000 and State to reimburse county.
Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Education Committee
