SENATE, No. 99

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 1996 SESSION

By Senator HAINES

An Act concerning physical examinations of school employees 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. Every board of education may require any candidate for employment to undergo a physical examination and may require 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.

    Nothing in this section shall be so construed as to affect screening for tuberculosis or fitness examinations for bus drivers as required pursuant to statute, rule or regulation.

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

    2. This act shall take effect immediately.

STATEMENT

    This bill eliminates the requirement that all board of education employees have an annual physical examination. Screening for tuberculosis and bus driver fitness examinations would not be affected by the bill. While bus drivers would continue to have fitness examinations, all other physical exams could be required by a board on an individual rather than a group basis.

Eliminates annual physical examination required of all school employees.