Bill Text: NJ A1571 | 2010-2011 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires public school district to provide paid time off when certain volunteer emergency aid workers are called to alarm during work hours.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-12 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee [A1571 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2010-A1571-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
214th LEGISLATURE
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2010 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman FREDERICK SCALERA
District 36 (Bergen, Essex and Passaic)
Co-Sponsored by:
Assemblymen Diegnan, Conners and Bramnick
SYNOPSIS
Requires public school district to provide paid time off when certain volunteer emergency aid workers are called to alarm during work hours.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel
An Act concerning emergency aid volunteers employed by a public school district and supplementing chapter 6 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 the provisions of any other law to the contrary, the board of education of a public school district shall grant time off from work with pay to a public school employee, other than a teacher, school nurse, or school principal, who is a member of a volunteer fire company serving a municipality in which the school is located, who volunteers in a first aid or rescue squad serving a municipality in which the school is located, or who is a volunteer driver of an ambulance owned or operated by a municipality in which the school is located, when the employee is called to respond to an alarm occurring during the hours of his employment.
2. This act shall take effect on the 90th day after enactment.
STATEMENT
This bill requires the board of education of a public school district to grant time off from work with pay to a public school employee, other than a teacher, school nurse, or school principal, who is (1) a member of a volunteer fire company serving a municipality in which the school is located, (2) a volunteer with a first aid or rescue squad serving a municipality in which the school is located, or (3) a volunteer driver of an ambulance owned or operated by a municipality in which the school is located, any time the employee is called to respond to an alarm occurring during the hours of his employment.
To afford communities greater flexibility in responding to emergencies, N.J.S.A.40A:9-160.1 requires a municipality to grant paid time off to an employee who volunteers as a first responder, when the worker is called to an alarm. This bill places the same requirement on school districts.
