Revision: March 27, 2014, midnight
HB 1187 – AS INTRODUCED
2014 SESSION
04/10
HOUSE BILL 1187
AN ACT relative to an appeal of a change of school assignment decision by a superintendent.
This bill permits a pupil’s parent or legal guardian to appeal a change of school assignment decision of the superintendent to the school board.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
14-2055
04/10
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Fourteen
AN ACT relative to an appeal of a change of school assignment decision by a superintendent.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Change of School or Assignment; Appeal to School Board. Amend RSA 193:3, III(a) to read as follows:
(a) Each school board shall establish a change of school assignment policy, based on the best interest of the pupil, authorizing the superintendent to [re-assign] reassign a pupil from the public school to which he or she is currently assigned to another public school, which shall include a procedure for a pupil’s parent or legal guardian to appeal the superintendent’s reassignment decision to the school board, or to approve a request from another superintendent to accept a transfer of a pupil from a school district that is not part of the school administrative unit, provided that the following conditions are met:
2 Change of School or Assignment; Authority of School Board. Amend RSA 193:3, III(h) to read as follows:
(h) Notwithstanding RSA 21-N:11, III, for the purposes of this paragraph, the decision of the [superintendent] school board shall be final.
3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.