Revision: Dec. 14, 2011, midnight
HB 1461 – AS INTRODUCED
2012 SESSION
08/09
HOUSE BILL 1461
AN ACT requiring school officials to notify parents of a class or event involving an outside speaker and allowing parents to opt for their child not to participate in the class or event.
SPONSORS: Rep. W. Smith, Rock 18; Sen. Forsythe, Dist 4
This bill requires school officials to notify parents of a class or event involving an outside speaker and allows parents to opt for their child not to participate in the class or event.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
12-2345
08/09
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twelve
AN ACT requiring school officials to notify parents of a class or event involving an outside speaker and allowing parents to opt for their child not to participate in the class or event.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Section; Notification and Parental Option of Outside Speakers in School. Amend RSA 189 by inserting after section 10 the following new section:
189:10-a Notification and Parental Option of Outside Speakers in School.
I. The school principal or his or her designee shall notify in writing the parents of students of any school-sponsored event or class which will include a speaker from outside of the school 5 days before such event or class.
II. Upon receiving such written notification from the principal or his or her designee, the parent of a student at the school where the outside speaker is to speak may object to his or her child’s participation in the speaker’s presentation and may withdraw the student from the presentation. The child shall not be penalized for his or her absence from the speaker’s program, however, he or she may complete an alternative project agreed to by the school principal and the parent, at the parent’s expense, sufficient to enable the child, if necessary, to meet state requirements for education in the particular subject area. The name of the parent and any specific reasons disclosed to school officials for the objection to the speaker shall not be public information and shall be excluded from access under RSA 91-A.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.