Bill Text: NJ S2398 | 2016-2017 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Requires school district to adopt policy allowing students in grades 9 through 12 who participate in certain interscholastic extracurricular activities to earn varsity letter.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 7-3)
Status: (Passed) 2017-05-08 - Approved P.L.2017, c.62. [S2398 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2016-S2398-Amended.html
Sponsored by:
Senator CHRISTOPHER "KIP" BATEMAN
District 16 (Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex and Somerset)
Senator DIANE B. ALLEN
District 7 (Burlington)
Co-Sponsored by:
Senator Oroho
SYNOPSIS
Requires school district to adopt policy allowing students in grades 9 through 12 who participate in certain interscholastic extracurricular activities to earn varsity letter.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As reported by the Senate Education Committee on January 23, 2017, with amendments.
An Act concerning student participation in certain public school extracurricular activities and supplementing chapter 42 of Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. 1a.1 A school district that includes any of the grades 9 through 12 shall adopt a policy to provide that a student enrolled in those grades who participates in any school-sponsored, interscholastic extracurricular activity that includes competitions in which the student competes against students enrolled in schools outside of the district may be eligible to earn a varsity letter awarded by the district.
1b. Nothing in this act shall be construed to require a school district to award a varsity letter or to establish any school-sponsored, interscholastic extracurricular activity.1
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
