Bill Text: NJ S3298 | 2022-2023 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Permits youth-serving patriotic societies to speak with public school students during regular school hours.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-11-03 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Education Committee [S3298 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2022-S3298-Introduced.html

SENATE, No. 3298

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

220th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED NOVEMBER 3, 2022

 


 

Sponsored by:

Senator  VIN GOPAL

District 11 (Monmouth)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Permits youth-serving patriotic societies to speak with public school students during regular school hours.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  


An Act concerning the civic engagement of public school students 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.     The principal of a public school shall permit a representative of a patriotic society that is intended to serve young people under the age of 21 to speak to students during regular school hours in the first quarter of the school year.  The patriotic society shall provide the school principal with verbal or written notice of the society's intent to speak to the students to inform the students about the civic involvement of the society, and to explain how students may participate in or join the patriotic society.  The patriotic society shall not solicit personal information from students during the visit.  A school principal shall have discretion over the time, place, and manner of the representative's visit.

     b.    As used in this section, "patriotic society" means an organization listed in Title 36 of the United States Code.  

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill requires the principal of a public school to permit a representative of a patriotic society that is intended to serve young people under the age of 21 to speak to students during regular school hours in the first quarter of the school year.  A patriotic society interested in speaking with students must provide the school principal with verbal or written notice of the society's intent to speak to the students to inform the students about the civic involvement of the society, and to explain how students may participate in or join the patriotic society.  The bill provides that a patriotic society cannot solicit personal information from students during the visit.  Under the bill, a school principal has discretion over the time, place, and manner of the representative's visit.  As used in this bill, "patriotic society" means an organization listed in Title 36 of the United States Code.

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