Revision: Jan. 15, 2013, midnight
HB 161 – AS INTRODUCED
2013 SESSION
04/05
HOUSE BILL 161
AN ACT relative to school district policies on health and sex education.
SPONSORS: Rep. Boehm, Hills 20; Rep. Pitre, Straf 2
This bill requires a school district to adopt a policy allowing an exception to a particular unit of health or sex education whenever a parent or legal guardian requests the exception.
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Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
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13-0567
04/05
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Thirteen
AN ACT relative to school district policies on health and sex education.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 State Board of Education; Duties. Amend RSA 186:11, IX-b to read as follows:
IX-b. Health and Sex Education. Require school districts to adopt a policy allowing an exception to a particular unit of health or sex education instruction [based on religious objections] whenever a parent or legal guardian requests the exception. Such policy shall include a provision for alternative learning sufficient to enable the child to meet state requirements for health education.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.