[First Reprint]

SENATE, No. 99

 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

 

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 [shall] may require [all of its employees, and may require] 1its employees and shall require1 any candidate for employment[,] 1who has received a conditional offer of employment1 to undergo a physical examination[, the scope whereof shall be determined under rules of the state board, at least once in every year] 1[and] . The board1 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.

    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.

 

 

 

Eliminates annual physical examination required of all school employees.