Bill Text: NJ A3883 | 2022-2023 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Prohibits board of education from providing instruction in family life education, sex education, sexual health, sexual orientation, or gender identity to students in preschool through grade four.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-09 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee [A3883 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2022-A3883-Introduced.html

ASSEMBLY, No. 3883

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

220th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED MAY 9, 2022

 


 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  SEAN T. KEAN

District 30 (Monmouth and Ocean)

Assemblyman  CHRISTOPHER P. DEPHILLIPS

District 40 (Bergen, Essex, Morris and Passaic)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Prohibits board of education from providing instruction in family life education, sex education, sexual health, sexual orientation, or gender identity to students in preschool through grade four.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  


An Act concerning sex education in public schools and supplementing chapter 35 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 board of education shall not provide instruction in family life education, sex education, sexual health, sexual orientation, or gender identity to students enrolled in preschool through grade four. 

     b.    Notwithstanding the provisions of section 4 of P.L.2007, c.260 (C.18A:7F-46) or any other law, rule, or regulation to the contrary, the State Board of Education shall, within 30 days of the effective date of this act, revise the New Jersey Student Learning Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education to reflect the provisions of subsection a. of this section. 

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately. 

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill prohibits a board of education from providing instruction in family life education, sex education, sexual health, sexual orientation, or gender identity to students enrolled in preschool through grade four. 

     The bill also requires that the State Board of Education, within 30 days of the bill's effective date, revise the New Jersey Student Learning Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education to reflect the bill's provisions. 

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