ASSEMBLY, No. 1640

 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

 

INTRODUCED MARCH 4, 1996

 

 

By Assemblyman BUCCO, Assemblywoman MURPHY, Assemblymen T. Smith, Bodine, Garrett, Gregg, DeSopo, Zecker, Geist, Carroll, Corodemus, Assemblywoman Heck, Assemblymen Blee, LeFevre, Holzapfel, Kramer, O'Toole, DeCroce, Bateman, Roma, Kavanaugh and Kelly

 

 

An Act concerning drug testing by boards of education and amending N.J.S.18A:16-2.

 

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

 

    1. N.J.S.18A:16-2 is amended to read as follows:

    18A:16-2. a. Every board of education shall require all of its employees, and may require any candidate for employment, to undergo a physical examination, the scope whereof shall be determined under rules of the state board, at least once in every year and may require additional individual psychiatric or physical examinations of any employee, whenever, in the judgment of the board, an employee shows evidence of deviation from normal, physical or mental health.

    Any such examination may, if the board so requires, include laboratory tests or fluoroscopic or X-ray procedures for the obtaining of additional diagnostic data.

    b. A board of education may include testing for usage of controlled dangerous substances as they are defined in N.J.S.2C:35-2 as part of any physical examination which is required of a candidate for employment who has received a conditional offer of employment. Any costs associated with the testing which is conducted by a physician or institution designated by the board of education shall be paid by the board.

    The Department of Education, in consultation with the Department of Health, shall develop guidelines for school boards which elect to require the testing.

(cf: N.J.S.18A:16-2)

 

    2. This act shall take effect immediately.


STATEMENT

 

    This bill permits a board of education to include testing for usage of controlled dangerous substances as part of any physical examination which is required of a candidate for employment who has received a conditional offer of employment. Any costs associated with the testing which is conducted by a physician or institution designated by the board of education would be paid by the board. If the candidate selected the physician or institution, the costs would be paid by the candidate. The Department of Education, in consultation with the Department of Health, is directed to develop guidelines for school boards which elect to require the testing.

 

 

                             

Permits board of education to include drug testing in physical examination of candidates for employment.