Revision: Jan. 18, 2023, 5:18 p.m.
SB 77 - AS INTRODUCED
2023 SESSION
23-0975
09/10
SENATE BILL 77
AN ACT relative to changes in school placement for students.
SPONSORS: Sen. Avard, Dist 12; Sen. Innis, Dist 7; Rep. Ladd, Graf. 5; Rep. Hill, Merr. 2
COMMITTEE: Education
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ANALYSIS
This bill requires state board of education rules on manifest educational hardship to allow for a school board's assignment of a pupil to an approved private school.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
23-0975
09/10
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Three
AN ACT relative to changes in school placement for students.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Change of School or Assignment; Best Interest of Student. Amend RSA 193:3, III-a, (e) to read as follows:
(e) The state board of education shall adopt rules, pursuant to RSA 541-A, relative to manifest educational hardship. Each school board shall establish a policy, consistent with the state board's rules, which shall allow a school board, with the recommendation of the superintendent, to take appropriate action including assignment to another public school, [or] public academy, or approved private school within the district or to a public school, [or] public academy, or approved private school in another district.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.