Bill Text: NJ S261 | 2010-2011 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires that newly built schools be constructed to serve as emergency shelters.
Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-12 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Education Committee [S261 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2010-S261-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
214th LEGISLATURE
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2010 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Senator JEFF VAN DREW
District 1 (Cape May, Atlantic and Cumberland)
Senator CHRISTOPHER J. CONNORS
District 9 (Atlantic, Burlington and Ocean)
SYNOPSIS
Requires that newly built schools be constructed to serve as emergency shelters.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel
An Act concerning emergency shelters and supplementing chapter 9 of Appendix A.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Following the effective date of this act, all elementary and secondary school buildings shall be constructed in a manner so that they may serve as adequate locations for emergency shelters during a declared emergency or local disaster emergency as defined in section 3 of P.L.1953, c. 438 (C.App.A:9-33.1).
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill requires that all elementary and secondary schools, built after the bill's effective date, be constructed in a manner so that they may serve as adequate locations for emergency shelters during a declared emergency.
This bill would implement Recommendation 6 of the Final Report of the Assembly Coastal New Jersey Evacuation Task Force which was submitted to the Speaker on May 23, 2008.
