Bill Text: NH HB718 | 2025 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Requiring the state board of education to report the unfunded financial impact to school districts for rules adopted by the board which exceed state or federal minimum standards.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-22 - Introduced (in recess of) 01/09/2025 and referred to Education Funding House Journal 3 [HB718 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2025-HB718-Introduced.html

HB 718  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2025 SESSION

25-0653

02/06

 

HOUSE BILL 718

 

AN ACT requiring the state board of education to report the unfunded financial impact to school districts for rules adopted by the board which exceed state or federal minimum standards.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Ladd, Graf. 5

 

COMMITTEE: Education Funding

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill requires the state board of education to report the out-of-pocket costs that local districts must incur to comply with rules that exceed state or federal special education standards.

 

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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

25-0653

02/06

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Five

 

AN ACT requiring the state board of education to report the unfunded financial impact to school districts for rules adopted by the board which exceed state or federal minimum standards.

 

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 

1  Special Education; Rules Exceeding State or Federal Minimum Requirements.  Amend RSA 186-C:16-c, I(a) to read as follows:

(a) For each rule or proposed rule contained in the report, the state board shall include the rule number, the nature of the rule, any state minimum requirement exceeded, any federal minimum requirement exceeded, the unfunded financial impact on local school districts for rules exceeding state or federal minimum requirements, and the reasons for exceeding those minimum requirements.

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 30 days after its passage.

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