Bill Text: NJ A861 | 2014-2015 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires school district hiring preference for veterans for school security positions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-16 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Military and Veterans' Affairs Committee [A861 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2014-A861-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 861

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

216th LEGISLATURE

 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2014 SESSION

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman  SHAVONDA E. SUMTER

District 35 (Bergen and Passaic)

Assemblywoman  CLEOPATRA G. TUCKER

District 28 (Essex)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires school district hiring preference for veterans for school security positions.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel

  

An Act concerning a hiring preference for veterans for school security positions and supplementing chapter 28 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 provide a hiring preference to veterans, as defined in N.J.S.11A:5-1, for school security positions, provided that in all measurable criteria, the veteran and nonveteran are equally qualified.

     b.    In the case of any school district that has adopted Title 11A, Civil Service, of the New Jersey Statutes, the provisions of chapter 5 of Title 11A shall supersede the provisions of this section for those persons in the classified service of the civil service.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill would require a school district to provide a hiring preference to veterans for school security positions.  In order to be eligible for the preference, the bill provides that when applying for employment with a school district, a veteran must be equally qualified in all measurable criteria with all other candidates for the position.  The bill specifies that in the case of a school district that has adopted Title 11A, Civil Service, of the New Jersey Statutes (approximately ten school districts), the veteran preference provisions of that chapter for those persons in the classified service of the civil service will supersede the bill's provision.