Bill Text - HB1247 (2014)

Requiring the department of education to share costs of implementing statewide online assessment technology requirements.


Revision: March 27, 2014, midnight

HB 1247 – AS INTRODUCED

2014 SESSION

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HOUSE BILL 1247

AN ACT requiring the department of education to share costs of implementing statewide online assessment technology requirements.

SPONSORS: Rep. S. White, Carr 2

COMMITTEE: Education

ANALYSIS

This bill requires the department of education to reimburse school districts for technology costs necessary to implement a statewide assessment program.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.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

AN ACT requiring the department of education to share costs of implementing statewide online assessment technology requirements.

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

1 Department of Education; Costs of Online Assessment Technology Requirements. The commissioner of the department of education shall reimburse school districts, from existing budgetary appropriations for the biennium ending June 30, 2015, not less than 50 percent of the costs of technology upgrades and improvements necessary for the district to implement any statewide online assessment program.

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