New Jersey S 1330: Establishes "Comprehensive State Plan for Economic Development."

Bill Text

S1330 

SENATE, No. 1330 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Senator JOSEPH PENNACCHIO

District 26 (Morris and Passaic)

SYNOPSIS

���� Requires board of education to publicly post full 
meeting agenda 48 hours prior to meeting.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

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

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An Act concerning board of education meetings and 
amending N.J.S.18A:10-6.

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

���� 1.��� N.J.S.18A:10-6 is 
amended to read as follows:� 

���� 18A:10-6.�� All board meetings 
shall be public and each board shall hold a meeting at least once every two 
months during the period in which the schools in the district are in session.� Notwithstanding 
any law, rule, or regulation to the contrary, each board shall post on its 
Internet website in an easily accessible location the full meeting agenda for 
all board meetings 48 hours prior to the commencement of the meeting. �The full 
meeting agenda shall include a detailed description of each item on the agenda.

���� All meetings shall be called 
to commence not later than eight P.M. of the designated day but, if a quorum be 
not present at the time for which the meeting is called, the member or members 
present may recess the meeting to a time not later than nine P.M. of said day 
and, if no quorum be present at that time, the member or members present may 
adjourn the meeting to commence not later than eight P.M. of another day, not 
more than seven days following the date for which the original meeting was 
called, but no further recess or adjournment of the meeting shall be made.

���� Public announcements of time 
and day to which any meeting is so recessed or adjourned shall be made at the 
time of the recess or adjournment.

(cf: N.J.S.18A:10-6)

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

STATEMENT

���� Under current law, all board of 
education meetings must be public and each board is required to hold a meeting 
at least once every two months during the period in which the schools in the 
district are in session.� This bill amends current law to also require a board 
to post on its Internet website in an easily accessible location the full 
meeting agenda for all board meetings 48 hours prior to the commencement of the 
meeting. �The bill requires that the full meeting agenda will include a 
detailed description of each item on the agenda.

���� Under the �Senator Byron M. 
Baer Open Public Meetings Act (OPMA),� P.L.1975, c.231 (C.10:4-6 et seq.), 
public bodies, including boards of education, empowered as voting bodies to 
perform governmental functions, are required to give 48 hours of advance notice 
giving the time, date, location, and to the extent known, the agenda of their 
scheduled meetings.� This bill codifies the 48 hours of advance notice 
requirement into the section of law specifically pertaining to boards of 
education, and helps enhance transparency and bring consistency to boards of 
education by requiring each board to post on its Internet website in an easily 
accessible location the full meeting agenda for all board meetings 48 hours 
prior to the commencement of the meeting.� The full meeting agenda must include 
a detailed description of each item on the agenda.