Bill Text: NJ S2120 | 2020-2021 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires school district to allow graduating student to wear military sash while participating in high school graduation ceremony.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-03-16 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Education Committee [S2120 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2020-S2120-Introduced.html

SENATE, No. 2120

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

219th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED MARCH 16, 2020

 


 

Sponsored by:

Senator  MICHAEL J. DOHERTY

District 23 (Hunterdon, Somerset and Warren)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires school district to allow graduating student to wear military sash while participating in high school graduation ceremony.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  


An Act concerning high school graduation ceremonies and amending P.L.2017, c.84.

 

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

 

     1.    Section 1 of P.L.2017, c.84 (C.18A:7C-5.3) is amended to read as follows:

     1.    A school district shall allow a student to wear a dress uniform, or a military sash or stole, issued to the student by a branch of the United States Armed Forces while participating in the student's high school graduation ceremony, if the following requirements are met:

     a.     the student has fulfilled all of the State and local requirements for receiving a high school diploma, and is otherwise eligible to participate in the high school graduation ceremony; and

     b.    in the case of a student wearing a dress uniform, the student has completed basic training for, and is an active member of, a branch of the United States Armed Forces.

(cf: P.L.2017, c.84, s.1)

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     Under current law, school districts are required to allow a student to wear a military dress uniform issued by a branch of the United States Armed Forces while participating in the student's high school graduation ceremony if the student has:

1.      fulfilled all of the State and local requirements for receiving a high school diploma, and is otherwise eligible to participate in the high school graduation ceremony; and

2.      completed basic training for, and is an active member of, a branch of the United States Armed Forces.

     This bill amends the law to also require school districts to allow graduating students to wear a military sash or stole issued to the student by a branch of the United States Armed Forces while participating in their high school graduation ceremony if they have fulfilled all of the State and local requirements for receiving a high school diploma, and are otherwise eligible to participate in the high school graduation ceremony.

     A military sash or stole is worn atop a graduation robe and is issued by a recruiter of the graduate's service branch upon enlistment.

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