Bill Text: NJ A5193 | 2016-2017 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association to allow public high schools in same school district to merge varsity football teams if schools are unable to field varsity teams individually.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-11-30 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee [A5193 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2016-A5193-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 5193

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

217th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED NOVEMBER 30, 2017

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  DANIEL R. BENSON

District 14 (Mercer and Middlesex)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association to allow public high schools in same school district to merge varsity football teams if schools are unable to field varsity teams individually.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  

An Act concerning certain Statewide interscholastic sports programs and supplementing chapter 11 of Title 18A of the  New Jersey Statutes.

 

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

 

     1.    The New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association shall allow public high schools in the same school district to enter into a cooperative sports football program at the varsity level, regardless of the member schools' Group classification, if either of the schools demonstrates an inability to field a football team at the varsity level due to a decline in interest or participation in the sport at one of the schools that impacts the ability of that school to safely field a team.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill requires the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) to allow public high schools in the same school district to enter into a cooperative sports football program at the varsity level if either of the schools demonstrates an inability to field a football team at the varsity level due to a decline in interest or participation in the sport at one of the schools that impacts the ability of that school to safely field a team.

     Under the current rules of the NJSIAA, schools are prohibited from entering into a cooperative sports program for football if one of the schools is classified as a Group III school. This bill requires the NJSIAA to allow the schools to merge their varsity football teams regardless of the member schools' Group classification.