Bill > A4931

Introduced Session

This bill requires each member of a board of education to maintain principal residence in the school district and spend no less than 292 days in the residence each year. Under the bill, a member of a board of education is required to maintain a principal residence in the district, or in the constituent district of a consolidated or regional district, and spend in the aggregate no less than 292 days in the residence for each calendar year that the member holds office. The bill provides that membership on the board is to immediately cease for a member who fails to maintain the principal residence. The bill permits a member to be exempt from the requirement to maintain a principal residence in the event that that the member's principal residence is damaged or destroyed by fire, flood, storm, natural disaster, or other casualty which requires the member to occupy a temporary residence. Current law requires each member of a board of education to be a resident of the district and specifies that membership on the board is to immediately cease for a member who ceases to be a bona fide resident of the district.

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Rosaura Bagolie (D)*,  Michele Matsikoudis (R)*, 

Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee (on 10/21/2024)

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