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A1253 • 2026

Prohibits student who commits certain sexual offenses from attending same school building or using same school bus as victim of offense.

Prohibits student who commits certain sexual offenses from attending same school building or using same school bus as victim of offense.

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Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Inganamort, Michael
Last action
2026-01-13
Official status
Introduced, Referred to Assembly Public Safety and Preparedness Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Prohibits student who commits certain sexual offenses from attending same school building or using same school bus as victim of offense.

Prohibits student who commits certain sexual offenses from attending same school building or using same school bus as victim of offense.

What This Bill Does

  • Prohibits student who commits certain sexual offenses from attending same school building or using same school bus as victim of offense.
  • Topic: Public Safety and Preparedness Fiscal note: This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

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Bill History

  1. 2026-01-13 New Jersey Legislature

    Introduced, Referred to Assembly Public Safety and Preparedness Committee

Official Summary Text

Prohibits student who commits certain sexual offenses from attending same school building or using same school bus as victim of offense.
Topic:
Public Safety and Preparedness
Fiscal note:
This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

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A1253

ASSEMBLY, No. 1253

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman MICHAEL INGANAMORT

District 24 (Morris, Sussex and Warren)

SYNOPSIS

���� Prohibits student who commits certain sexual offenses
from attending same school building or using same school bus as victim of
offense.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

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

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An Act
concerning students who commit certain sexual offenses and
supplementing chapter 43 of Title 2C of the New Jersey Statutes.

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

���� 1.��� a.� A student who is
enrolled in a public school that includes any of the grades kindergarten
through 12 and who is convicted of, or adjudicated delinquent for an act which
if committed by an adult would constitute, a violation of N.J.S.2C:14-2 or
N.J.S.2C:14-3,

or an attempt to commit any of these offenses, shall be
prohibited from the following:

���� (1)�� attending the same
school building that is attended by the victim of the violation; and

���� (2)�� utilizing the same
school bus that is used by the victim of the violation for transportation to
and from school.

���� b.��� A court shall order the
prohibitions required by subsection a. of this section as part of the court�s imposition
of sentence, disposition of delinquency, probation order, or other� disposition
made pursuant to law.

���� 2.��� This act shall take
effect on the first day of the third month next following the date of
enactment.

STATEMENT

���� This bill prohibits a student
enrolled in a public school who is convicted of, or adjudicated delinquent for,
committing aggravated sexual assault or sexual assault under N.J.S.2C:14-2 or
aggravated criminal sexual contact or criminal sexual contact under
N.J.S.2C:14-3, or an attempt to commit any of these offenses, from: (1)
attending the same school building that is attended by the victim of the
violation, and (2) utilizing the same school bus that is used by the victim for
transportation to and from school.� The court will order these prohibitions as
part of the sentence, disposition of delinquency, probation order, or other
disposition for the offense.

���� This bill is similar to a bill
recently introduced in the state of Michigan in order to ensure that a juvenile
who sexually assaulted several students could be prohibited from returning to
the same school building and same bus route as his victims.