Bill Text - HB1558 (2020)

(Second New Title) relative to discipline of students, addressing students' behavioral needs, and making an appropriation therefor; kindergarten funding; violence in schools; policies for students with head injuries; child sexual abuse prevention education and training; authorizing the issuance of bonds or notes by a municipality; adding the chancellor of the university system of New Hampshire to the department of business and economic affairs council of partner agencies; change of school or assignment due to manifest educational hardship; school board expenditure of year-end fund balances; a children's system of care; student wellness; and criminal background checks for bus drivers.

Revision: Dec. 3, 2019, 11:31 a.m.

HB 1558-FN - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2020 SESSION

20-2596

06/05

 

HOUSE BILL 1558-FN

 

AN ACT relative to the provision of special education services for older students.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Murphy, Hills. 21; Rep. Mullen, Hills. 7; Rep. Le, Rock. 31; Rep. Petrigno, Hills. 23; Rep. Guthrie, Rock. 13; Rep. Abbas, Rock. 8; Rep. Meuse, Rock. 29; Rep. Hinch, Hills. 21; Rep. Salloway, Straf. 5; Rep. A. Lekas, Hills. 37; Sen. Watters, Dist 4

 

COMMITTEE: Education

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill modifies the definition of "child with a disability" to include persons 21 years of age.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

20-2596

06/05

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty

 

AN ACT relative to the provision of special education services for older students.

 

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

 

1  Special Education; Definition; Child with a Disability.  Amend RSA 186-C:2, I to read as follows:

I.  "Child with a disability" means any person [3 years of age or older but less than 21 years of age] between the ages of 3 and 21, inclusive, who has been identified and evaluated by a school district according to rules adopted by the state board of education and determined to have an intellectual disability, a hearing impairment including deafness, a speech or language impairment, a visual impairment including blindness, an emotional disturbance, an orthopedic impairment, autism, traumatic brain injury, acquired brain injury, another health impairment, a specific learning disability, deaf-blindness, multiple disabilities, or a child at least 3 years of age but less than 10 years of age, experiencing developmental delays, who because of such impairment, needs special education or special education and related services.  "Child with a disability" shall include a [child] person between the ages of 18 [to] and 21 inclusive, who was identified as a child with a disability and received services in accordance with an individualized education program but who left school prior to his or her incarceration, or was identified as a child with a disability but did not have an individualized education program in his or her last educational institution.

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

 

LBAO

20-2596

11/19/19

 

HB 1558-FN- FISCAL NOTE

AS INTRODUCED

 

AN ACT relative to the provision of special education services for older students.

 

FISCAL IMPACT:      [ X ] State              [    ] County               [ X ] Local              [    ] None

 

 

 

Estimated Increase / (Decrease)

STATE:

FY 2020

FY 2021

FY 2022

FY 2023

   Appropriation

$0

$0

$0

$0

   Revenue

$0

$0

$0

$0

   Expenditures

$0

Indeterminable Increase

Indeterminable Increase

Indeterminable Increase

Funding Source:

  [    ] General            [ X ] Education            [    ] Highway           [    ] Other

 

 

 

 

 

LOCAL:

 

 

 

 

   Revenue

$0

Indeterminable Increase

Indeterminable Increase

Indeterminable Increase

   Expenditures

$0

Indeterminable Increase

Indeterminable Increase

Indeterminable Increase

 

METHODOLOGY:

This bill expands the current definition of “child with a disability”, for the purposes of special education, to include those 21 years of age.  Ultimately, the fiscal impact of this bill (state expenditures and local revenue relative to special education aid, and local expenditures for actual service costs) is indeterminable as the number of students receiving special education and the specifics of services needed is unknown.  However, the Department of Education has provided the following information relative special education services received by 21-year-olds during the 2018-2019 school year:

 

  • There were 43 individualized education programs (IEPs) written to extend beyond a student’s 21st birthday.
    • Twenty-six students exited special education services after their 21st birthday, however did not remain in the school for the rest of the year.
    • Fourteen students exited before their IEP end date and their 21st birthday.
    • Two students received IEPs after their 21st birthday, however did not finish the school year.
    • One student who had an IEP prior to their 21st birthday remained in school for the rest of the year.

 

It is assumed this bill will not take effect until FY 2021.

 

AGENCIES CONTACTED:

Department of Education