Bill Text: NH HB768 | 2025 | Regular Session | Introduced

New Hampshire House Bill 768

Introduced

Bill Title: Allowing public schools to contract with any approved private school.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-23 - Introduced (in recess of) 01/09/2025 and referred to Education Policy and Administration House Journal 3 [HB768 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2025-HB768-Introduced.html

HB 768 - AS INTRODUCED

2025 SESSION

25-0848

02/06

HOUSE BILL 768

AN ACT allowing public schools to contract with any approved private school.

SPONSORS: Rep. Noble, Hills. 2; Rep. Drye, Sull. 7; Rep. Verville, Rock. 2; Rep. Terry, Belk. 7; Rep. McDonnell, Rock. 25; Sen. Sullivan, Dist 18

COMMITTEE: Education Policy and Administration

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ANALYSIS

This bill allows public schools to enter into contracts with any approved private school, including religious schools.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

25-0848

02/06

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Five

AN ACT allowing public schools to contract with any approved private school.

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

1 Duty to Provide Education. Amend RSA 189:1-a, IV to read as follows:

IV. Pursuant to RSA 193:3, VI, a school board may execute a contract with any approved [nonsectarian] private school approved by the school board as a school tuition program as defined in RSA 193:3, VII to provide for the education of a child who resides in the school district, and may raise and appropriate money for the purposes of the contract, if the school district does not have a public school at the pupil's grade level and the school board decides it is in the best interest of the pupil.

2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect upon its passage.