PRINTER'S NO. 3880
No. 2878 Session of 1992
INTRODUCED BY BUTKOVITZ, SALOOM, KOSINSKI, LINTON, HARPER,
JOSEPHS, TIGUE, ARMSTRONG, ARGALL, SAURMAN, KING AND THOMAS,
JUNE 24, 1992
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION, JUNE 24, 1992
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), entitled "An
2 act relating to the public school system, including certain
3 provisions applicable as well to private and parochial
4 schools; amending, revising, consolidating and changing the
5 laws relating thereto," further providing for religious
6 symbols.
7 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
8 hereby enacts as follows:
9 Section 1. Section 1112 of the act of March 10, 1949
10 (P.L.30, No.14), known as the Public School Code of 1949, is
11 amended to read:
12 Section 1112. Religious Garb, Insignia, etc.[, Prohibited;
13 Penalty.--(a) That no]--No teacher or other professional
14 employe in any public school [shall wear] may be prohibited from
15 wearing any religious dress, mark, emblem or insignia in said
16 school or while engaged in the performance of [his duty as such
17 teacher any] professional duties unless the dress, mark, emblem
18 or insignia [indicating the fact that such teacher is a member
19 or adherent of any religious order, sect or denomination] is
1 disruptive of the educational process.
2 [(b) Any teacher employed in any of the public schools of
3 this Commonwealth, who violates the provisions of this section,
4 shall be suspended from employment in such school for the term
5 of one year, and in case of a second offense by the same teacher
6 he shall be permanently disqualified from teaching in said
7 school. Any public school director who after notice of any such
8 violation fails to comply with the provisions of this section
9 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction of the
10 first offense, shall be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding
11 one hundred dollars ($100), and on conviction of a second
12 offense, the offending school director shall be sentenced to pay
13 a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100) and shall be
14 deprived of his office as a public school director. A person
15 thus twice convicted shall not be eligible to appointment or
16 election as a director of any public school in this Commonwealth
17 within a period of five (5) years from the date of his second
18 conviction.]
19 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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