PRINTER'S NO. 1681
No. 1154 Session of 2004
INTRODUCED BY CORMAN, D. WHITE, PICCOLA, COSTA, THOMPSON,
GORDNER, KITCHEN, EARLL, WONDERLING, M. WHITE, PILEGGI AND
PIPPY, JUNE 9, 2004
REFERRED TO EDUCATION, JUNE 9, 2004
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," repealing prohibitions concerning
6 religious garb or other insignia.
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 teacher in any public school shall wear
14 in said school or while engaged in the performance of his duty
15 as such teacher any dress, mark, emblem or insignia indicating
16 the fact that such teacher is a member or adherent of any
17 religious order, sect or denomination.
18 (b) Any teacher employed in any of the public schools of
19 this Commonwealth, who violates the provisions of this section,
1 shall be suspended from employment in such school for the term
2 of one year, and in case of a second offense by the same teacher
3 he shall be permanently disqualified from teaching in said
4 school. Any public school director who after notice of any such
5 violation fails to comply with the provisions of this section
6 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction of the
7 first offense, shall be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding
8 one hundred dollars ($100), and on conviction of a second
9 offense, the offending school director shall be sentenced to pay
10 a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100) and shall be
11 deprived of his office as a public school director. A person
12 thus twice convicted shall not be eligible to appointment or
13 election as a director of any public school in this Commonwealth
14 within a period of five (5) years from the date of his second
15 conviction.]
16 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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