Bill Text - SB46 (2017)

Relative to participation in public school cocurricular programs offered in another school district.


Revision: Jan. 24, 2017, 10:30 a.m.

SB 46  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2017 SESSION

17-0869

04/01

 

SENATE BILL 46

 

AN ACT relative to participation in public school cocurricular programs offered in another school district.

 

SPONSORS: Sen. French, Dist 7; Rep. Testerman, Merr. 2; Rep. Hill, Merr. 3

 

COMMITTEE: Education

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill requires the school district in which the pupil resides to grant a pupil's request to participate in a cocurricular program in another school district if such program is not offered in the school district in which the pupil resides.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

17-0869

04/01

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seventeen

 

AN ACT relative to participation in public school cocurricular programs offered in another school district.

 

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

 

1  New Section; Pupils; Participation in a Cocurricular Program in Another School District.  Amend RSA 193 by inserting after section 1-c the following new section:

193:1-d  Participation in a Cocurricular Program Offered in Another School District.  The school district in which the pupil resides shall grant the request of a pupil or a pupil's parent or legal guardian to participate in a cocurricular program offered in another school district, regardless of application deadlines, provided such program is not offered in, and there is no cost to, the school district in which the pupil resides.  In this section, "cocurricular" shall have the same meaning as in RSA 193:1-c.

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