Bill Text: NH HB1665 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relative to student eligibility for education freedom accounts and the scholarship organization's costs of administering the program, extending phase-out grants for education freedom accounts, and revising the definitions of average daily membership in attendance and average daily membership in residence.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 9-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2024-06-13 - Conference Committee Report 2024-2307c: Failed, Regular Calendar 168-185 06/13/2024 House Journal 16 [HB1665 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2024-HB1665-Introduced.html
HB 1665-FN - AS INTRODUCED
2024 SESSION
24-2646
02/10
HOUSE BILL 1665-FN
AN ACT relative to student eligibility for the education freedom accounts program.
SPONSORS: Rep. Cordelli, Carr. 7; Rep. Ladd, Graf. 5; Rep. Pitre, Straf. 1; Rep. Noble, Hills. 2; Rep. Soti, Rock. 35; Rep. Verville, Rock. 2; Rep. Brouillard, Rock. 1; Rep. A. Lekas, Hills. 38; Sen. Murphy, Dist 16
COMMITTEE: Education
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ANALYSIS
This bill changes the annual household income limit to qualify for the education freedom account program.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
24-2646
02/10
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four
AN ACT relative to student eligibility for the education freedom accounts program.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Education Freedom Account; Definitions. Amend RSA 194-F:1, VI to read as follows:
VI. "Eligible student" means a resident of this state who is eligible to enroll in a public elementary or secondary school and whose annual household income at the time the student applies for the program is less than or equal to [350] 500 percent of the federal poverty guidelines as updated annually in the Federal Register by the United States Department of Health and Human Services under 42 U.S.C. section 9902(2). No income threshold need be met in subsequent years, provided the student otherwise qualifies. Students in the special school district within the department of corrections established in RSA 194:60 shall not be eligible students.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
24-2646
12/11/23
HB 1665-FN- FISCAL NOTE
AS INTRODUCED
AN ACT relative to student eligibility for the education freedom accounts program.
FISCAL IMPACT:
The Office of Legislative Budget Assistant is unable to complete a fiscal note for this bill, as introduced, as it is awaiting information from the Department of Education. The Department of Education was initially contacted on 10/24/23 for a fiscal note worksheet, with follow-up contact made on 11/30/23. When completed, the fiscal note will be forwarded to the House Clerk's Office.
AGENCIES CONTACTED:
Department of Education
