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A4594 • 2026

Permits youth-serving patriotic societies to speak with public school students during regular school hours.

Permits youth-serving patriotic societies to speak with public school students during regular school hours.

Education
Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Murphy, Carol A.
Last action
2026-03-10
Official status
Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Permits youth-serving patriotic societies to speak with public school students during regular school hours.

Permits youth-serving patriotic societies to speak with public school students during regular school hours.

What This Bill Does

  • Permits youth-serving patriotic societies to speak with public school students during regular school hours.
  • 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. 2026-03-10 New Jersey Legislature

    Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee

Official Summary Text

Permits youth-serving patriotic societies to speak with public school students during regular school hours.
Topic:
Education
Fiscal note:
This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

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A4594

ASSEMBLY, No. 4594

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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INTRODUCED MARCH 10, 2026

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman� CAROL A. MURPHY

District 7 (Burlington)

SYNOPSIS

���� Permits youth-serving patriotic societies to speak
with public school students during regular school hours.�

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

���� As introduced.

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An Act
concerning the civic engagement of public school
students and supplementing chapter 36 of Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes.�

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

���� 1.��� a.���� The principal of
a public school shall permit a representative of a patriotic society that is
intended to serve young people under the age of 21 to speak to students during
regular school hours in the first quarter of the school year.� The patriotic
society shall provide the school principal with verbal or written notice of the
society�s intent to speak to the students to inform the students about the
civic involvement of the society, and to explain how students may participate
in or join the patriotic society.� The patriotic society shall not solicit
personal information from students during the visit.� A school principal shall
have discretion over the time, place, and manner of the representative�s visit.

���� b.��� As used in this section,
�patriotic society� means an organization listed in Title 36 of the United
States Code.��

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

STATEMENT

���� This bill requires the
principal of a public school to permit a representative of a patriotic society
that is intended to serve young people under the age of 21 to speak to students
during regular school hours in the first quarter of the school year.� A patriotic
society interested in speaking with students must provide the school principal
with verbal or written notice of the society�s intent to speak to the students
to inform the students about the civic involvement of the society, and to
explain how students may participate in or join the patriotic society.� The
bill provides that a patriotic society cannot solicit personal information from
students during the visit.� Under the bill, a school principal has discretion
over the time, place, and manner of the representative�s visit.� As used in
this bill, �patriotic society� means an organization listed in Title 36 of the
United States Code.