Bill Text: NJ A777 | 2016-2017 | Regular Session | Amended

New Jersey Assembly Bill 777 (Prior Session Legislation)

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

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 6-3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-01-19 - Reported out of Assembly Comm. with Amendments, 2nd Reading [A777 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2016-A777-Amended.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 777

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

217th LEGISLATURE

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2016 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman BOB ANDRZEJCZAK

District 1 (Atlantic, Cape May and Cumberland)

Assemblyman VINCENT MAZZEO

District 2 (Atlantic)

Assemblyman JAY WEBBER

District 26 (Essex, Morris and Passaic)

Assemblyman R. BRUCE LAND

District 1 (Atlantic, Cape May and Cumberland)

Assemblyman PARKER SPACE

District 24 (Morris, Sussex and Warren)

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblyman Rumpf, Assemblywomen Gove and Handlin

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 reported by the Assembly State and Local Government Committee on January 19, 2017, with amendments.

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 ¹, or a person designated by the person presiding,¹ 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.