SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE

STATEMENT TO

SENATE, No. 1792

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

DATED: FEBRUARY 10, 1997

      The Senate Education Committee reports favorably Senate Bill No. 1792.

      This bill extends the prohibition of certain organizations from public high schools to all public schools. The organizations to be prohibited, as specified in N.J.S.18A:42-5, are those organizations composed of public school pupils, which seek to organize and perpetuate themselves by taking in members from among other pupils on the basis of a decision of the membership of the organization, rather than from the free choice of pupils who are otherwise qualified to fill the special aims of the organization.