Bill Text: NH HB1412 | 2020 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requiring secondary schools to grant educational credit for certain courses completed.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-20 - Inexpedient to Legislate: Motion Adopted DV 198-146 02/20/2020 House Journal 5 P. 10 [HB1412 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2020-HB1412-Introduced.html
HB 1412 - AS INTRODUCED
2020 SESSION
20-2227
06/04
HOUSE BILL 1412
AN ACT requiring secondary schools to grant educational credit for certain courses completed.
SPONSORS: Rep. McGuire, Merr. 29; Rep. Cordelli, Carr. 4; Rep. Ladd, Graf. 4; Rep. Hill, Merr. 3; Sen. Watters, Dist 4
COMMITTEE: Education
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ANALYSIS
This bill requires secondary schools to grant credit for coursework or programs completed at other approved schools. This bill also requires the school to give written notice to a student, his or her parent, and the state board of education if such credit is not given.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
20-2227
06/04
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty
AN ACT requiring secondary schools to grant educational credit for certain courses completed.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Section; Adequate Public Education; Approval of Coursework. Amend RSA 193-E by inserting after section 3-e the following new section:
193-E:3-f Approval of Coursework.
I. The principal or other administrator shall grant credit toward high school graduation for courses and programs completed at other approved schools. For the purposes of this section, approved schools include all New Hampshire public schools, including chartered public schools, and public academies, and all schools in Vermont and Maine that are members of an interstate school district with schools in New Hampshire.
II. The principal or other administrator shall give written notice to the student, his or her parents or guardian, and the state board of education if less than full credit is given for a course or program under paragraph I.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
