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A1699 • 2026

Provides an excused absence for pupil who serves as poll worker on election day.

Provides an excused absence for pupil who serves as poll worker on election day.

Education Elections Labor
Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Reynolds-Jackson, Verlina
Last action
2026-01-13
Official status
Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Provides an excused absence for pupil who serves as poll worker on election day.

Provides an excused absence for pupil who serves as poll worker on election day.

What This Bill Does

  • Provides an excused absence for pupil who serves as poll worker on election day.
  • Topic: Education Fiscal note: This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-01-13 New Jersey Legislature

    Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee

Official Summary Text

Provides an excused absence for pupil who serves as poll worker on election day.
Topic:
Education
Fiscal note:
This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

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A1699

ASSEMBLY, No. 1699

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman VERLINA REYNOLDS-JACKSON

District 15 (Hunterdon and Mercer)

Assemblyman WILLIAM W. SPEARMAN

District 5 (Camden and Gloucester)

SYNOPSIS

���� Provides an excused absence for pupil who serves as
poll worker on election day.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

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

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An Act
concerning excused absences for certain pupils and
supplementing chapter 36 of Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes.�

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

���� 1. a. Notwithstanding any law,
rule, or regulation to the contrary, any pupil of a public school, aged 16 or
older, who is absent from school on an election day in the State, in order to
complete paid service as a poll worker during an election held in the State,
shall have the absence for those reasons recorded as an excused absence on the
pupil's attendance record or on that of any group or class of which the pupil
is a member. Any transcript, application, employment form, or any similar form
on which information concerning a pupil's attendance record is requested shall
show, with respect to absences, only absences other than excused absences
authorized pursuant to this subsection or any other section of law.� In making
a determination on whether a pupil has a perfect attendance record for the
school year, a school district shall not consider as an absence an excused
absence authorized pursuant to this subsection.

���� b.��� A pupil shall provide
any documentation the superintendent or administrative principal of the school
district deems necessary to prove the pupil meets the requirements for the
excused absence under subsection a. of this section.

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

STATEMENT

���� This bill provides an excused
absence for a pupil who serves as a poll worker on an election day.

���� Under the bill, any pupil of a
public school, aged 16 or older, who is absent from school on an election day
in the State, in order to complete paid service as a poll worker during an
election held in the State, is to have the absence for those reasons recorded
as an excused absence on the pupil's attendance record or on that of any group
or class of which the pupil is a member. Any transcript, application,
employment form, or any similar form on which information concerning a pupil's
attendance record is requested is to show, with respect to absences, only
absences other than authorized excused absences.� In making a determination on
whether a pupil has a perfect attendance record for the school year, a school
district cannot consider as an absence an excused absence authorized pursuant
to the bill.

���� The bill further requires that
a pupil is to provide any documentation that the superintendent or
administrative principal of the school district deems necessary to prove the
pupil meets the requirements for the excused absence under the bill�s provisions.��