Bill Text - HB1454 (2020)

(New Title) relative to alternative learning credit rules of the state board of education.


Revision: June 30, 2020, 11:45 a.m.

HB 1454 - VERSION ADOPTED BY BOTH BODIES

 

06/16/2020   1445s

2020 SESSION

20-2399

06/05

 

HOUSE BILL 1454

 

AN ACT relative to alternative learning credit rules of the state board of education.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Tanner, Sull. 9; Rep. Van Houten, Hills. 45; Rep. J. Schmidt, Hills. 28; Rep. Woodcock, Carr. 2; Rep. Mullen, Hills. 7; Rep. Porter, Hills. 1; Rep. Cannon, Straf. 18; Rep. Doherty, Merr. 20; Rep. Ford, Graf. 3; Rep. Ellison, Merr. 27; Sen. Kahn, Dist 10

 

COMMITTEE: Education

 

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AMENDED ANALYSIS

 

This bill requires the state board of education to adopt rules establishing a process for the approval of vendors offering alternative, extended learning, and work-based programs which may be accepted for credit by a local 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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

06/16/2020   1445s 20-2399

06/05

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty

 

AN ACT relative to alternative learning credit rules of the state board of education.

 

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

 

1  Substantive Content of an Adequate Education.  Amend RSA 193-E:2-a, V(b) to read as follows:

(b)  The state board of education shall adopt rules, pursuant to RSA 541-A, [relative to the approval of alternative programs for granting credit leading to graduation] that establish a process for the application, vetting, and approval of vendors offering alternative, extended learning, and work-based programs which may be accepted by the local school board for credit leading to graduation in any school district in this state.  Nothing in this subparagraph shall prevent a local school district from approving vendors offering credit for alternative, extended learning, or work-based programs which do not appear on the preapproved list maintained by the board.

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