STATE OF NEW JERSEY
217th LEGISLATURE
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2016 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Senator JEFF VAN DREW
District 1 (Atlantic, Cape May and Cumberland)
Senator CHRISTOPHER J. CONNORS
District 9 (Atlantic, Burlington and Ocean)
Co-Sponsored by:
Senator A.R.Bucco
SYNOPSIS
Requires public bodies under Open Public Meetings Act to display U.S. flag and recite Pledge of Allegiance at beginning of meeting.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.
An Act concerning the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance at the meetings of certain public bodies and supplementing P.L.1975, c.231 (C.10:4-6 et seq.).
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. A United States flag shall be displayed in the room in which a public body covered by the provisions of the “Senator Byron M. Baer Open Public Meetings Act,” P.L.1975, c.231 (C.10:4-6 et seq.), meets. At the commencement of every meeting of a public body, the person presiding shall lead those persons present in a recitation of the following pledge of allegiance to the flag: "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill requires that all public bodies covered by the provisions of the Open Public Meetings Act have a United States flag displayed in the meeting room and that the person presiding lead those present in a recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance.