ASSEMBLY, No. 3185

 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

 

211th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED SEPTEMBER 13, 2004

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman PATRICK DIEGNAN, JR.

District 18 (Middlesex)

Assemblyman PETER J. BARNES, JR.

District 18 (Middlesex)

Assemblyman JOSEPH VAS

District 19 (Middlesex)

 

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblyman Egan, Assemblywoman Greenstein, Assemblyman Wisniewski, Assemblywoman Stender and Assemblyman Cryan

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

    Provides that children under care, custody or supervision of DYFS may not be home-schooled.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

    As introduced.

 


An Act concerning the education of certain children and supplementing chapter 38 of Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes.

 

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

 

    1. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, any child under the care, custody or supervision of the Division of Youth and Family Services, including a child placed in a resource family home or in a kinship care home, shall not be home-schooled and shall be enrolled in a public or nonpublic school.

 

    2. This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

    This bill provides that children under the care, custody or supervision of the Division of Youth and Family Services, including children placed in resource family homes or in kinship care homes, may not be home-schooled and are required to be enrolled in a public or nonpublic school.