Bill Text: NJ A912 | 2014-2015 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Increases the types of matters eligible to be voted upon by a sending district representative on a receiving district board of education.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-16 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee [A912 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2014-A912-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
216th LEGISLATURE
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2014 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman CHRIS A. BROWN
District 2 (Atlantic)
SYNOPSIS
Increases the types of matters eligible to be voted upon by a sending district representative on a receiving district board of education.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel
An Act concerning school districts involved in sending-receiving relationships and amending P.L.1995, c.8.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Section 1 of P.L.1995, c.8 (C.18A:38-8.1) is amended to read as follows:
1. In addition to the members of the board of education of a Type I and Type II school district provided by law, in a school district which is receiving pupils from another district or districts pursuant to N.J.S.18A:38-8, there shall be an additional member as provided pursuant to section 2 of this act to represent the board of education of each sending district. Any additional member shall be a member of the board of education of a sending district designated annually by the board of that district and shall be eligible to vote on the following matters before the receiving district board of education:
a. Tuition to be charged the sending district by the receiving district and the bill lists or contracts for the purchase, operation or maintenance of facilities, equipment and instructional materials to be used in the education of the pupils of the sending district;
b. New capital construction to be utilized by sending district pupils;
c. Appointment, transfer or removal of teaching staff members providing services to pupils of the sending district, including any teaching staff member who is a member of the receiving district's central administrative staff, and of any other person providing administrative, business and business support services to the receiving district, including the school district solicitor or the school board attorney; [and]
d. Addition or deletion of curricular and extracurricular programs involving pupils of the sending district; and
e. Any other item that may be supported by tuition paid by the sending district.
(cf: P.L.1996, c.103, s.1)
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill expands the list of matters upon which representatives of a sending school district who sit on a receiving board of education are required to be permitted to vote. Currently, the law provides that these representatives are required to be permitted to vote on:
--Tuition to be charged the sending district by the receiving district and the bill lists or contracts for the purchase, operation or
maintenance of facilities, equipment and instructional materials to be used in the education of the pupils of the sending district;
--New capital construction to be utilized by sending district pupils;
--Appointment, transfer or removal of teaching staff members providing services to pupils of the sending district, including any teaching staff member who is a member of the receiving district's central administrative staff; and
--Addition or deletion of curricular and extracurricular programs involving pupils of the sending district.
In addition to voting on the appointment, transfer and removal of the personnel currently specified in the law, this bill would require that the representatives be permitted to vote on the appointment, transfer and removal of any other person providing administrative, business and business support services to the receiving district, including the school district solicitor or the school board attorney.
The bill also requires that the representative be allowed to vote on any other item that may be supported by tuition paid to the receiving district by the sending district. The items that may be included in the calculation of tuition are set forth in N.J.A.C.6A:23-3.1. Some of these items are currently included in the list of matters upon which sending district representatives are currently required to be permitted to vote.
