Bill Text: NH HB439 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relative to the duty to provide an education and contracts with private schools.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-01-04 - Lay HB439 on Table (Rep. Myler): Motion Adopted Voice Vote 01/03/2024 House Journal 1 P. 103 [HB439 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2024-HB439-Introduced.html
HB 439-FN - AS INTRODUCED
2023 SESSION
23-0717
04/05
HOUSE BILL 439-FN
AN ACT relative to the duty to provide an education and contracts with private schools.
SPONSORS: Rep. Cordelli, Carr. 7
COMMITTEE: Education
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ANALYSIS
This bill repeals the authority of a school board to execute a contract with a nonsectarian private school to provide education. The bill also provides that a school board has a duty to provide an education to a pupil until the pupil reaches 22 years of age.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
23-0717
04/05
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Three
AN ACT relative to the duty to provide an education and contracts with private schools.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 School Boards; Duty to Provide Education. Amend RSA 189:1-a, I to read as follows:
I. It shall be the duty of the school board to provide, at district expense, elementary and secondary education to all pupils who reside in the district until such time as the pupil has acquired a high school diploma or has reached age 21 inclusive, whichever occurs first; provided, that the board may exclude specific pupils for gross misconduct or for neglect or refusal to conform to the reasonable rules of the school, and further provided that this section shall not apply to pupils who have been exempted from school attendance in accordance with RSA 193:5.
2 Repeal. RSA 189:1-a, IV, relative to school board contracts with nonsectarian private schools to provide education, is repealed.
3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
23-0717
Revised 4/18/23
HB 439-FN- FISCAL NOTE
AS INTRODUCED
AN ACT relative to the duty to provide an education and contracts with private schools.
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 was initially contacted on 12/27/22 for a fiscal note worksheet. When completed, the fiscal note will be forwarded to the Clerk's Office.
AGENCIES CONTACTED:
Department of Education
