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2024 SESSION
24-3061.0
02/05
SENATE BILL [bill number]
AN ACT relative to student eligibility for education freedom accounts.
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ANALYSIS
This bill expands the definition of "eligible student" for the education freedom account program to include students whose enrollment transfer request was denied.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
24-3061.0
02/05
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four
AN ACT relative to student eligibility for education freedom accounts.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Education Freedom Accounts; Definitions. Amend RSA 194-F:1, VI 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 whose enrollment transfer request was denied pursuant to RSA 193:3.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.