Bill Text: NJ A2397 | 2010-2011 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires public bodies under Open Public Meetings Act to display U.S. flag and recite Pledge of Allegiance at beginning of meeting.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-03-04 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly State Government Committee [A2397 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2010-A2397-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 2397

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

214th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED MARCH 4, 2010

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  JACK CONNERS

District 7 (Burlington and Camden)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires public bodies under Open Public Meetings Act to display U.S. flag and recite Pledge of Allegiance at beginning of meeting.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  

An Act concerning the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance at the meetings of certain public bodies and supplementing P.L.1975, c.231 (C.10:4-6 et seq.).

 

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

 

     1.    A United States flag shall be displayed in the room in which a public body covered by the provisions of the "Senator Byron M. Baer Open Public Meetings Act," P.L.1975, c.231 (C.10:4-6 et seq.), meets.  At the commencement of every meeting of a public body, the person presiding shall lead those persons present in a recitation of the following pledge of allegiance to the flag:  "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill requires that all public bodies covered by the provisions of the Open Public Meetings Act have a United States flag displayed in the meeting room and that the person presiding lead those present in a recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance.