Bill Text - HB1195 (2024)

Relative to allowing school districts to approve different apportionment methods for school administrative unit costs.


Revision: Aug. 6, 2024, 9:03 a.m.

CHAPTER 329

HB 1195 - FINAL VERSION

 

28Mar2024... 1125h

05/22/2024   1949s

13Jun2024... 2236CofC

 

2024 SESSION

24-2426

10/05

 

HOUSE BILL 1195

 

AN ACT relative to allowing school districts to approve different apportionment methods for school administrative unit costs.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Meuse, Rock. 37

 

COMMITTEE: Education

 

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AMENDED ANALYSIS

 

This bill allows the constituent school districts in a school administrative unit (SAU) by a majority vote to approve a different method for apportioning the SAU.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

28Mar2024... 1125h

05/22/2024   1949s

13Jun2024... 2236CofC 24-2426

10/05

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four

 

AN ACT relative to allowing school districts to approve different apportionment methods for school administrative unit costs.

 

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

 

329:1  New Paragraph; School Administrative Units; Apportionment of Budget; Methods.  Amend RSA 194-C:9 by inserting after paragraph III the following new paragraph:

IV.  In addition to the method of apportionment set forth in paragraph I, the school administrative unit board may consider other methods.  Any method of apportionment to be used shall have been approved by the constituent school districts pursuant to RSA 194-C:9 or RSA 194-C:9-a, except that the proposed method of apportionment shall be adopted only if there is a majority affirmative vote in each school district within the school administrative unit.

329:2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.

 

Approved: August 02, 2024

Effective Date: October 01, 2024