Revision: Dec. 11, 2023, 12:58 p.m.
SB 341 - AS INTRODUCED
2024 SESSION
24-2832
02/05
SENATE BILL 341
AN ACT relative to mandatory disclosure by school district employees to parents.
SPONSORS: Sen. Lang, Dist 2; Sen. Gray, Dist 6; Sen. Innis, Dist 7; Sen. Gannon, Dist 23; Sen. Avard, Dist 12; Sen. Pearl, Dist 17; Sen. Gendreau, Dist 1; Sen. Murphy, Dist 16; Sen. Ward, Dist 8; Sen. Birdsell, Dist 19; Sen. Carson, Dist 14; Sen. Abbas, Dist 22; Rep. Ladd, Graf. 5; Rep. Moffett, Merr. 4; Rep. Osborne, Rock. 2; Rep. Packard, Rock. 16
COMMITTEE: Education
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ANALYSIS
This bill requires all school employees to respond honestly and completely to written requests by parents regarding information relating to their children.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
24-2832
02/05
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four
AN ACT relative to mandatory disclosure by school district employees to parents.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Short Title. This act shall be known as the Honesty and Transparency in Education Act.
2 New Section; Communications Between Teachers and Parents. Amend RSA 189 by inserting after section 13-c the following new section:
189:13-d Communications Between Teachers and Parents.
I. Written requests by parents regarding information relating to their child submitted to any employee of the school district in which the child is enrolled shall be answered completely and honestly to the extent permitted by law. Such response to written requests shall be submitted within 10 days of the employee's receipt of the request. If, in the good faith determination of the employee, such complete and honest response to a request would put the student at risk or endangerment of physical harm, abuse, or neglect, such employee shall file a report with the department of health and human services within 48 hours of such determination in accordance with RSA 169-C:30.
II. Any violation of paragraph I by a school district employee shall be referred to the school board for disciplinary action to include termination.
III. Any parent of a child in the school district aggrieved under this section shall have the right to appeal a school board's disciplinary action decision to the state board of education, whose decision shall be final.
IV. The board of education shall adopt rules, pursuant to RSA 541-A, relative to administering this section.
3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2025.