Bill Text: NJ S1537 | 2020-2021 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides that children under care, custody or supervision of DCPP may not be home-schooled.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-13 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee [S1537 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2020-S1537-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Senator JAMES BEACH
District 6 (Burlington and Camden)
SYNOPSIS
Provides that children under care, custody or supervision of DCPP may not be home-schooled.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning the education of certain children and supplementing chapter 38 of Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, any child under the care, custody or supervision of the Division of Child Protection and Permanency in the Department of Children and Families, including a child placed in a resource family home or in a kinship care home, shall not be home-schooled and shall be enrolled in a public or nonpublic school.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill provides that children under the care, custody or supervision of the Division of Child Protection and Permanency, including children placed in resource family homes or in kinship care homes, may not be home-schooled and are required to be enrolled in a public or nonpublic school.
