Bill Text: NJ A4676 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Introduced


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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-28 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee [A4676 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2024-A4676-Introduced.html

ASSEMBLY, No. 4676

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

221st LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED JUNE 28, 2024

 


 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  BENJIE E. WIMBERLY

District 35 (Bergen and Passaic)

Assemblywoman  VERLINA REYNOLDS-JACKSON

District 15 (Hunterdon and Mercer)

Assemblywoman  SHANIQUE SPEIGHT

District 29 (Essex and Hudson)

 

 

 

 

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.

     The purpose of this bill is to address the concern raised by the parents of students in some school districts that not all of the students in a particular class are being issued a textbook.  This lack of a textbook puts students at a disadvantage in completing homework assignments and preparing for tests.

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