Bill Text - HB269 (2019)

Relative to grounds for denial of a chartered public school application.


Revision: Dec. 28, 2018, 9:20 a.m.

HB 269 - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2019 SESSION

19-0461

06/08

 

HOUSE BILL 269

 

AN ACT relative to grounds for denial of a chartered public school application.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Horrigan, Straf. 6

 

COMMITTEE: Education

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill deletes a provision which prohibited the state board of education from denying a chartered public school application based on lack of state funding.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

19-0461

06/08

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Nineteen

 

AN ACT relative to grounds for denial of a chartered public school application.

 

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

 

1  Chartered Public Schools; Chartered Public School Approval by State Board of Education.  Amend RSA 194-B:3-a, IV to read as follows:

IV.  The state board of education shall either approve or deny an application using reasonable discretion in the assessment of the elements set forth in RSA 194-B:3, II, (a)-(bb) and (dd).  [Lack of state funding alone shall not constitute grounds for the denial of an application.] Approval of an application constitutes the granting of charter status and the right to operate as a chartered public school.  The state board of education shall notify all applicants of its decision in writing, and shall include in any notice of denial a written statement specifying any areas deemed deficient, the reasons for the denial, and explaining that the applicant may reapply under RSA 194-B:3 or under this section in a subsequent year.

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect January 1, 2020.