HB1125 (2022) Detail

Relative to school emergency plans.


CHAPTER 187

HB 1125 - FINAL VERSION

 

16Feb2022... 0141h

04/21/2022   1511s

2022 SESSION

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10/08

 

HOUSE BILL 1125

 

AN ACT relative to school emergency plans.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Cordelli, Carr. 4; Rep. Cornell, Hills. 18; Rep. Porter, Hills. 1

 

COMMITTEE: Education

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill provides for the submission of school emergency response plans to the director of homeland security and emergency management of the department of safety, rather than to the department of education.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

16Feb2022... 0141h

04/21/2022   1511s 22-2715

10/08

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Two

 

AN ACT relative to school emergency plans.

 

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

 

187:1  Schools; Emergency Operations Plans.  Amend the subdivision heading preceding RSA 189:64 to read as follows:

Emergency [Response] Operations Plans

187:2  Schools; Emergency Operations Plans.  RSA 189:64 is repealed and reenacted to read as follows:

189:64  Emergency Operations Plans.

I.  Every public, chartered public, and nonpublic school shall develop a site-specific school emergency operations plan which is based on and conforms to the Incident Command System and the National Incident Management System and submit such plan to the director of homeland security and emergency management, department of safety by October 15 of each year.  Access to all plans shall be provided to the department of education.

II.(a)  The plan shall address hazards including but not limited to acts of violence, biological incidents, civil unrest, cyber incidents, drought, earthquakes, extreme temperatures, floods, hurricane/severe storm, internal and external hazardous materials releases, medical emergencies, structural fire, threats, tornadoes, wildfire, winter storm, or any other hazard deemed necessary by school officials and local emergency authorities.

(b)  Schools that are located within the emergency planning zone shall address radiological emergencies within the emergency operations plan, as required by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in NUREG 0654.

III.  The plan shall provide that at least 4 of the currently required number of fire evacuation drills shall be emergency, all-hazard response drills of which at least one shall test emergency response to an armed assailant.  The armed assailant drill may be discussion based.  The types of all-hazard drills and exercises and the manner and time in which these activities take place shall be determined by the school in collaboration with local public safety, emergency management, and public health officials.  The school may include students and first responders in all-hazard response drills or activities, as appropriate.  The first emergency operations plan drill shall be conducted within one year of the completion of the plan.

IV.  If the school has a building schematic floor plan diagram, the school may, with the approval of the local school board, submit the diagram to the division of homeland security and emergency management, department of safety, in a commonly used digital format.  Submission of the diagram will enable the state to better prepare, respond, and mitigate potentially dangerous conditions should the need arise.

V.  Each school shall provide the plan to, and coordinate the plan with, local emergency authorities and with the emergency operations plan in the municipality in which the school is located.  Each school shall review its plan at least annually and update the plan, as necessary, and shall submit the updated plan to the director of homeland security and emergency management, department of safety by October 15.  If after review, the plan is unchanged, the school shall notify the department of safety by October 15 that the plan is unchanged.

VI.(a)  The director of homeland security and emergency management, department of safety shall assist schools in conducting training for and providing support to schools districts in the development, implementation, and review of an emergency operations plan, upon request.

(b)  For just cause, the director of homeland security and emergency management, department of safety may grant a school district, city, chartered public school, public academy, or nonpublic school up to a 30-day extension to the reporting deadline.  The director may further extend the deadline when unusual or unforeseen circumstances prevent a school district, city, chartered public school, public academy, or nonpublic school from submitting the required reports under paragraph V before the expiration of such extension.

(c)  If a school district, city, chartered public school, public academy, or nonpublic school fails to submit its emergency operations plan by the established deadline for 2 consecutive years the director of homeland security and emergency management, department of safety shall notify the department of education.

187:3  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect upon its passage.

 

Approved: June 17, 2022

Effective Date: June 17, 2022

Links


Date Body Type
Jan. 20, 2022 House Hearing
Jan. 25, 2022 House Exec Session
House Floor Vote
April 5, 2022 Senate Hearing
April 21, 2022 Senate Floor Vote

Bill Text Revisions

HB1125 Revision: 36684 Date: June 21, 2022, 3:45 p.m.
HB1125 Revision: 36292 Date: May 12, 2022, 11:33 a.m.
HB1125 Revision: 35755 Date: April 21, 2022, 10:27 a.m.
HB1125 Revision: 35626 Date: April 13, 2022, 5:03 p.m.
HB1125 Revision: 35010 Date: Feb. 17, 2022, 3:41 p.m.
HB1125 Revision: 34772 Date: Feb. 3, 2022, 8:40 a.m.
HB1125 Revision: 33097 Date: Nov. 17, 2021, 8:13 a.m.

Docket


June 22, 2022: Signed by Governor Sununu 06/17/2022; Chapter 187; 06/17/2022 HJ 14


June 9, 2022: Enrolled (in recess of) 05/26/2022


June 9, 2022: Enrolled Adopted, VV, (In recess 05/26/2022); SJ 13


May 13, 2022: House Concurs with Senate Amendment (Rep. Ladd): MA VV 05/12/2022


April 21, 2022: Ought to Pass with Amendment 2022-1511s, MA, VV; OT3rdg; 04/21/2022; SJ 9


April 21, 2022: Committee Amendment # 2022-1511s, AA, VV; 04/21/2022; SJ 9


April 14, 2022: Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2022-1511s, 04/21/2022; Vote 5-0; CC; SC 16


March 30, 2022: Hearing: 04/05/2022, Room 101, LOB, 09:00 am; SC 14


March 1, 2022: Introduced 02/24/2022 and Referred to Education; SJ 5


Feb. 23, 2022: Amendment # 2022-0141h: AA VV 02/16/2022 HJ 3


Feb. 16, 2022: Ought to Pass with Amendment 2022-0141h: MA VV 02/16/2022 HJ 3


Feb. 3, 2022: Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2022-0141h (Vote 19-0; CC)


Jan. 25, 2022: Executive Session: 01/25/2022 08:00 am LOB 205-207


Jan. 9, 2022: Public Hearing: 01/20/2022 10:45 am LOB 205-207


Nov. 17, 2021: Introduced 01/05/2022 and referred to Education


: To Be Introduced and referred to Education