[Second Reprint]

SENATE, No. 1569

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

218th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 5, 2018

 

 

Sponsored by:

Senator  LORETTA WEINBERG

District 37 (Bergen)

Senator  M. TERESA RUIZ

District 29 (Essex)

Assemblyman  REED GUSCIORA

District 15 (Hunterdon and Mercer)

Assemblyman  TIM EUSTACE

District 38 (Bergen and Passaic)

Assemblywoman  VALERIE VAINIERI HUTTLE

District 37 (Bergen)

Assemblywoman  MILA M. JASEY

District 27 (Essex and Morris)

Assemblywoman  JOANN DOWNEY

District 11 (Monmouth)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblywomen Lampitt, Murphy, Pinkin, Reynolds-Jackson and McKnight

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires boards of education to include instruction, and adopt instructional materials, that accurately portray political, economic, and social contributions of persons with disabilities and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As reported by the Assembly Education Committee on December 6, 2018, with amendments.

  


An Act concerning instruction and instructional materials in public schools and supplementing chapter 35 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 board of education shall include instruction on the political, economic, and social contributions of persons with disabilities and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, in an appropriate place in the curriculum of middle school and high school students as part of the district’s implementation of the 1[Core Curriculum Content Standards] New Jersey Student Learning Standards1  2[in Social Studies]2.

 

     2.    2A board of education shall have policies and procedures in place pertaining to the selection of instructional materials to implement the requirements of section 1 of this act.2 When adopting instructional materials for use in the schools of the district, a board of education shall 2[only]2 adopt 2inclusive2 instructional materials 2[which, in its determination, accurately] that2 portray the cultural and economic diversity of society including the political, economic, and social contributions of persons with disabilities and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people 2, where appropriate2.

 

     3.    This act shall take effect immediately and shall first apply to the 2[2018-2019] 2020-20212 school year.