Bill Text - HB160 (2013)

Relative to a school district's transportation responsibility for pupils of divorced parents with joint decision making responsibility.


Revision: Dec. 31, 2013, midnight

CHAPTER 165

HB 160 – FINAL VERSION

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HOUSE BILL 160

AN ACT relative to a school district’s transportation responsibility for pupils of divorced parents with joint decision making responsibility.

SPONSORS: Rep. Coffey, Hills 25; Rep. Parison, Hills 25

COMMITTEE: Education

ANALYSIS

This bill provides that a school district shall not be responsible for transporting a pupil of divorced parents with joint decision making responsibility beyond the designated attendance area for the school to which the child is assigned.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Thirteen

AN ACT relative to a school district’s transportation responsibility for pupils of divorced parents with joint decision making responsibility.

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

165:1 School Attendance; Legal Residence Required. Amend RSA 193:12, II(a)(2)(B) to read as follows:

(B) Nothing in this subparagraph shall require a school district to provide transportation for a child to another school in the school district in which the child resides, or beyond the designated attendance area for the school to which the child is assigned, or beyond the geographical limits of the school district in which the child resides.

165:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.

Approved: Enacted in accordance with Article 44, Part II, of N.H. Constitution, without signature of the governor, June 29, 2013.

Effective Date: August 28, 2013