New Jersey A 1699: Requires certain gas companies to use existing right-of-way when constructing new transmission lines where practicable and to seek consent of municipalities prior to initiating certain projects.

Bill Text

A1699 

ASSEMBLY, No. 1699 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman VERLINA REYNOLDS-JACKSON

District 15 (Hunterdon and Mercer)

Assemblyman WILLIAM W. SPEARMAN

District 5 (Camden and Gloucester)

SYNOPSIS

���� Provides an excused absence for pupil who serves as 
poll worker on election day.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

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

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An Act concerning excused absences for certain pupils and 
supplementing chapter 36 of Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes.� 

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

���� 1. a. Notwithstanding any law, 
rule, or regulation to the contrary, any pupil of a public school, aged 16 or 
older, who is absent from school on an election day in the State, in order to 
complete paid service as a poll worker during an election held in the State, 
shall have the absence for those reasons recorded as an excused absence on the 
pupil's attendance record or on that of any group or class of which the pupil 
is a member. Any transcript, application, employment form, or any similar form 
on which information concerning a pupil's attendance record is requested shall 
show, with respect to absences, only absences other than excused absences 
authorized pursuant to this subsection or any other section of law.� In making 
a determination on whether a pupil has a perfect attendance record for the 
school year, a school district shall not consider as an absence an excused 
absence authorized pursuant to this subsection. 

���� b.��� A pupil shall provide 
any documentation the superintendent or administrative principal of the school 
district deems necessary to prove the pupil meets the requirements for the 
excused absence under subsection a. of this section. 

���� 2. This act shall take effect 
immediately.� 

STATEMENT

���� This bill provides an excused 
absence for a pupil who serves as a poll worker on an election day.

���� Under the bill, any pupil of a 
public school, aged 16 or older, who is absent from school on an election day 
in the State, in order to complete paid service as a poll worker during an 
election held in the State, is to have the absence for those reasons recorded 
as an excused absence on the pupil's attendance record or on that of any group 
or class of which the pupil is a member. Any transcript, application, 
employment form, or any similar form on which information concerning a pupil's 
attendance record is requested is to show, with respect to absences, only 
absences other than authorized excused absences.� In making a determination on 
whether a pupil has a perfect attendance record for the school year, a school 
district cannot consider as an absence an excused absence authorized pursuant 
to the bill. 

���� The bill further requires that 
a pupil is to provide any documentation that the superintendent or 
administrative principal of the school district deems necessary to prove the 
pupil meets the requirements for the excused absence under the bill�s provisions.��