Bill > A963

Introduced Session

This bill requires the Commissioner of Education, in consultation with the Director of the Division of Criminal Justice, to develop an interscholastic sports sexual assault prevention training program for high school athletic directors and coaches. Under the bill, the training program is required to provide:· instruction concerning the prevention of sexual assault and the identification of signs of sexual assault; and · information concerning the services, including treatment, counseling, legal, and medical services, available to a victim of sexual assault in accordance with the standard protocols that have been developed by the Attorney General in accordance with current law. The bill also requires the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association to require each person who coaches a public school district or nonpublic school interscholastic high school sport, and an athletic director who oversees a public school district or nonpublic school interscholastic high school sports program, to complete the training program every four years. Under the bill, each newly appointed coach or athletic director is required to initially complete the training program during his first year in that position.

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Carol Murphy (D)*,  Aura Dunn (R), 

Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee (on 01/13/2026)

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