Revision: Jan. 12, 2009, midnight
HB 143 – AS INTRODUCED
2009 SESSION
04/01
HOUSE BILL 143
AN ACT relative to procedures for requesting a change of school for a child.
This bill amends the procedure for requesting a change in school assignment.
This bill is a request of the committee to study the financial liability for placement of a child with a disability established in 2008, 276 (HB 765-FN).
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
09-0623
04/01
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Nine
AN ACT relative to procedures for requesting a change of school for a child.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 School Attendance. Amend the section heading in RSA 193:3 to read as follows:
193:3 Change of School or Assignment[; Manifest Educational Hardship or Best Interest; Excusing Attendance].
2 New Paragraph; School Attendance. Amend RSA 193:3 by inserting after paragraph III the following new paragraph:
IV.(a) Any person having custody of a child may apply to enroll that child in a public school or public academy outside the school district in which the person and child reside. If the non resident school district or public academy agrees to enroll the child it may charge tuition to the parent or resident school district.
(b) When a non resident school district or public academy agrees to enroll a pupil as a unilateral parental assignment it shall immediately notify the resident school district of the name, date of birth, address and grade assignment of the pupil. The non resident district or public academy shall provide the same notification to the resident school district at the beginning of each school year so long as the child is a pupil in the non resident district.
(c) No pupil shall be enrolled in a non resident district prior to the execution of an agreement between the resident district or public academy and the non resident district that allocates the program and financial responsibilities of both entities for the pupil in the event that the pupil is or is ever suspected of being a child with a disability or a pupil that requires a 504 accommodation. The agreement shall be consistent with existing state and federal law.
(d) The decision of a parent to enroll a child in a charter school shall not be subject to the provisions of this section.
3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.