Bill Text: NJ A943 | 2010-2011 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that public schools will not be in session on general election days when Office of President of the United States is on ballot.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-12 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee [A943 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2010-A943-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 943

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

214th LEGISLATURE

 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2010 SESSION

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman  VALERIE VAINIERI HUTTLE

District 37 (Bergen)

Assemblyman  DAVID C. RUSSO

District 40 (Bergen, Essex and Passaic)

Assemblywoman  JOAN M. VOSS

District 38 (Bergen)

Assemblywoman  CONNIE WAGNER

District 38 (Bergen)

Assemblyman  PETER J. BARNES, III

District 18 (Middlesex)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Provides that public schools will not be in session on general election days when Office of President of the United States is on ballot.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel

  

An Act concerning the public school calendar for certain election days and supplementing chapter 11 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 the day of a general election when the Office of President of the United States is on the ballot.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill requires a board of education of a public school district to adopt a school calendar providing that school is not in session on the day of a general election when the Office of the President of the United States is on the ballot.

     Many New Jersey public schools serve as polling sites during elections and the high voter turnout generated by presidential elections strains the ability of the school district and municipal authorities to provide crowd control and security. Even routine security procedures are difficult to enforce when large numbers of voters turnout in schools occupied by children.