Bill Text: NJ A3739 | 2016-2017 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires public institutions of higher education to allow students, faculty, and other staff to identify sexual orientation and gender identity on any forms used to collect certain demographic data.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Passed) 2018-01-08 - Approved P.L.2017, c.268. [A3739 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2016-A3739-Amended.html

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[First Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 3739

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

217th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED MAY 19, 2016

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman  MILA M. JASEY

District 27 (Essex and Morris)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires public institutions of higher education to allow students, faculty, and other staff to identify sexual orientation and gender identity on any forms used to collect certain demographic data.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As reported by the Assembly Higher Education Committee on May 11, 2017, with amendments.

 

An Act concerning the collection of certain demographic data at public institutions of higher education and supplementing chapter 62 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.  A public institution of higher education shall allow a student or a faculty or other staff member to identify his sexual orientation and gender identity on any form used by the institution to collect demographic information on gender, race, or ethnicity.

     b.    The provisions of subsection a. of this section shall apply to all forms that are created or updated by the institution on or after the effective date of this section; except that an institution shall not be required to update any existing forms solely for the purpose of complying with subsection a. of this section.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately and shall first apply to the ¹[2017-2018] first full¹ academic year ¹following the date of enactment¹.