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2024 SESSION
24-2696.0
02/10
HOUSE BILL [bill number]
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ANALYSIS
This bill extends eligibility for the education freedom account program to students who participated in the program in the preceeding year, students whose enrollment transfer requests were denied, and to students in school districts which performed at 49 percent or below in statewide assessments.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
24-2696.0
02/10
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Short Title. This act shall be known as the Every Student Loves Education Achievement and Reforming Negligent Schools (LEARNS) Act.
2 Definitions; Eligible Student. RSA 194-F:1, VI is repealed and reenacted to read as follows:
VI. "Eligible student" means a resident of this state who is eligible to enroll in a public elementary or secondary school and who meets any of the following criteria:
(a) A student whose annual household income at the time the student applies for the program is less than or equal to 350 percent of the federal poverty guidelines as updated annually in the Federal Register by the United States Department of Health and Human Services under 42 U.S.C. section 9902(2). No income threshold need be met in subsequent years, provided the student otherwise qualifies. Students in the special school district within the department of corrections established in RSA 194:60 shall not be eligible students;
(b) A student who lives within the geographic boundaries of a public school or district, excluding chartered public schools authorized by the state board of education pursuant to RSA 194-B:3-a, which has an aggregate performance of less than 49 percent proficiency in the mathematics, reading and language arts, or science statewide assessment administered pursuant to RSA 193-C in the first or second preceding year;
(c) A student whose enrollment transfer request was denied pursuant to RSA 193:3; or
(d) A student who participated in the EFA program in the preceeding school year.