Bill Text: NJ A2417 | 2012-2013 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that public schools will not be in session on Veterans' Day of each year.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-06 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee [A2417 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2012-A2417-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 2417

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

215th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 6, 2012

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  PATRICK J. DIEGNAN, JR.

District 18 (Middlesex)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Provides that public schools will not be in session on Veterans' Day of each year.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  

An Act concerning the public 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.    The school calendar adopted by a board of education of a public school district shall provide that school is not in session on Veterans' Day, November 11th, of each year in recognition of the service and sacrifices of veterans of this State and country.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill directs that the board of education of a public school district must adopt a calendar that provides that school will not be in session on Veterans' Day, November 11th, of each year.  School sessions will not be held on this date in recognition of the service and sacrifices of veterans of this State and country.