Bill > S594

Introduced Session

This bill requires each school district that includes grades nine through 12, or any combination thereof, to incorporate instruction on the potential risks of compulsive gambling into the curriculum for students as part of the district's implementation of the New Jersey Student Learning Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education. Instruction will include information on the dangers of gambling addiction; taking risks with personal finances or personal assets; and probability versus predictability, as it relates to gambling. The Commissioner of Education will provide school districts with resources designed to address the potential risks of compulsive gambling. The Commissioner of Education is also required to develop a training module on compulsive gambling for high school teachers to help local school districts in fulfilling the requirements of integrating the risks of compulsive gambling as part of the required gambling instruction. The bill postpones the application of these requirements until the school year following the Commissioner's development of the required training module and the required review and update of the New Jersey Student Learning Standards performed by the State Board of Education.

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Jim Beach (D)*,  Shirley Turner (D)*,  Patrick Diegnan (D),  John McKeon (D), 

Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate State Government, Wagering, Tourism & Historic Preservation Committee (on 01/13/2026)

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