Bill Text: NJ S2138 | 2016-2017 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires board of education to provide an individual textbook for each student enrolled in a class.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-03-16 - Received in the Assembly, Referred to Assembly Education Committee [S2138 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2016-S2138-Introduced.html

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SENATE, No. 2138

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

217th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED MAY 2, 2016

 

 

Sponsored by:

Senator  RONALD L. RICE

District 28 (Essex)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires board of education to provide an individual textbook for each student enrolled in a class.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  

An Act concerning public school textbooks and supplementing chapter 34 of Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes.

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    a.  As used in this section, "textbook" means books, workbooks or manuals, whether bound or in looseleaf form, or electronic textbooks, intended as the principal source of study material for a given class.

     b.    The board of education of a school district shall provide an individual textbook for each student enrolled in each class in the district which uses a textbook.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill requires that the board of education of a school district provide an individual textbook for each student enrolled in each class in the district which uses a textbook. The bill defines a textbook as any book, workbook or manual, or electronic textbook intended as the principal source of study for a given class.