Bill Text: NJ A926 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides an excused absence for pupil who serves as poll worker on election day.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-09 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee [A926 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2024-A926-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
221st LEGISLATURE
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2024 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Assemblywoman VERLINA REYNOLDS-JACKSON
District 15 (Hunterdon and Mercer)
Assemblyman BENJIE E. WIMBERLY
District 35 (Bergen and Passaic)
Assemblyman WILLIAM W. SPEARMAN
District 5 (Camden and Gloucester)
SYNOPSIS
Provides an excused absence for pupil who serves as poll worker on election day.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.
An Act concerning excused absences for certain pupils and supplementing chapter 36 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. Notwithstanding any law, rule, or regulation to the contrary, any pupil of a public school, aged 16 or older, who is absent from school on an election day in the State, in order to complete paid service as a poll worker during an election held in the State, shall have the absence for those reasons recorded as an excused absence on the pupil's attendance record or on that of any group or class of which the pupil is a member. Any transcript, application, employment form, or any similar form on which information concerning a pupil's attendance record is requested shall show, with respect to absences, only absences other than excused absences authorized pursuant to this subsection or any other section of law. In making a determination on whether a pupil has a perfect attendance record for the school year, a school district shall not consider as an absence an excused absence authorized pursuant to this subsection.
b. A pupil shall provide any documentation the superintendent or administrative principal of the school district deems necessary to prove the pupil meets the requirements for the excused absence under subsection a. of this section.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill provides an excused absence for a pupil who serves as a poll worker on an election day.
Under the bill, any pupil of a public school, aged 16 or older, who is absent from school on an election day in the State, in order to complete paid service as a poll worker during an election held in the State, is to have the absence for those reasons recorded as an excused absence on the pupil's attendance record or on that of any group or class of which the pupil is a member. Any transcript, application, employment form, or any similar form on which information concerning a pupil's attendance record is requested is to show, with respect to absences, only absences other than authorized excused absences. In making a determination on whether a pupil has a perfect attendance record for the school year, a school district cannot consider as an absence an excused absence authorized pursuant to the bill.
The bill further requires that a pupil is to provide any documentation that the superintendent or administrative principal of the school district deems necessary to prove the pupil meets the requirements for the excused absence under the bill's provisions.
