New Jersey A 2425: "State Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of Rights."

Bill Text

A2425 

ASSEMBLY, No. 2425 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman TENNILLE R. MCCOY

District 14 (Mercer and Middlesex)

SYNOPSIS

���� Establishes educational service agencies for 
procuring custodial and food services in schools and ensures certain employee 
rights for affected employees.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

���� Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative 
Counsel.

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An Act concerning custodial and food services in public 
schools and supplementing chapter 18A of Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes.� 

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

���� 1.��� As used in this act: 

 �Agency� means 
an educational service agency. 

���� �Board of directors� means the 
governing body of an educational service agency established pursuant to section 
4 of this act. 

���� �Cooperative pricing system� 
means a purchasing system in which the educational service agency advertises 
for bids or proposals, and awards a master contract that includes estimated 
quantities and the prices to be extended to school districts within its zone 
and participating nonpublic schools along with other specifications. School 
districts and participating nonpublic schools may engage in subordinate 
contracts with the vendor, subject to the specifications in the master 
contract. The master contract shall be controlling with respect to 
specifications and prices, even though quantities are contracted through 
subordinate contracts. 

���� �Covered service� means 
custodial and food services. 

���� �Educational service agency� 
means an agency, serving as a cooperative of school districts and their 
respective boards of education, established to contract for custodial and food 
services on behalf of school districts within its zone. 

���� �Predecessor employer� means a 
school district or a contractor which provided food or custodial services for a 
school district or an educational service agency and which ceases to provide 
these services. 

���� �Recall rights� means the 
right of any employee dismissed as the result of the adhesion to an educational 
service agency master contract to be placed and remain upon a preferred 
eligibility list, in the order of years of service, for reemployment whenever 
vacancies occur and to be reemployed in such order, and upon reemployment be 
given full recognition for previous years of service in their respective 
positions and employments. 

���� �Representative assembly� 
means a body established pursuant to section 3 of this act composed of 
representatives from each member school district. 

���� �Service employee� means an 
employee employed on or around school district premises and central kitchens to 
provide food or custodial services, except for managerial, executive, 
confidential employees, and employees who work less than four hours per week. 

���� �Successor contractor� means a 
contractor that has been awarded a food or custodial services contract to 
provide services that, in whole or in part, are substantially similar to those 
food or custodial services provided by a predecessor employer within the 
preceding 90 days. 

���� 2.��� a. �There 
shall be established an educational service agency in each county. The zones of 
each respective agency shall be coterminous with the county in which it is 
located. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, membership in an 
agency shall be automatic for each school district in that zone that has chosen 
to use a private contractor with respect to a covered service, except that in 
cases in which the contractor has chosen to contract for only one type of 
covered service their membership shall be automatic only for that specific 
covered service. 

���� b.��� Notwithstanding the 
provisions of any other law to the contrary, a school district seeking to 
contract for a service included in subsection a. of this section, shall acquire 
the service only through the master contract awarded by the educational service 
agency, beginning in the first� school year following the establishment of the 
educational service agency in the respective county.�� An educational service 
agency may petition for an extension by a majority vote of the board of 
directors, which the commissioner may grant upon a determination that the educational 
service agency is not yet prepared to enter into a master contract for the 
provision of the covered services. �If an extension is granted, member school 
districts seeking to contract for a covered service shall acquire the service 
only through a master contract awarded by the educational services agency, 
beginning in the second school year following the establishment of the 
educational service agency.� Any school district bid document or contract for a 
service that is included in subsection a. of this section which is not part of 
the master contract shall be