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NJ S2211
Bill
Status
1/9/2024
Primary Sponsor
Teresa Ruiz
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AI Summary
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Directs the New Jersey Department of Health to encourage health care facilities, pediatricians, family practice physicians, and other licensed health care professionals to implement a "Reach Out and Read Program" promoting early literacy during well-child visits for children ages six months to five years.
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Program goals include encouraging shared-reading activities between parents and children, developing language and social-emotional skills, enhancing parent-child relationships, and providing tools for monitoring child development.
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DOH must prepare and distribute information about the national Reach Out and Read Program both in print and on its website, and post a prominent link to the online application for becoming a program site.
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Takes effect on the first day of the third month following enactment.
Legislative Description
Requires campus diversity actions at public institutions of higher education and directs Secretary of Higher Education and Division on Civil Rights to develop guidance regarding diversity in faculty search and selection process.
Higher Education
Last Action
Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Higher Education Committee
1/9/2024