Bill Text - HB231 (2025)

Prohibiting school district personnel from transporting students to medical procedures without parental consent.


Revision: Jan. 6, 2025, 9:53 p.m.

HB 231  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2025 SESSION

25-0283

11/09

 

HOUSE BILL 231

 

AN ACT prohibiting school district personnel from transporting students to medical procedures without parental consent.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Perez, Rock. 16; Rep. Andrus, Merr. 5; Rep. Dunn, Rock. 16; Rep. Kuttab, Rock. 17; Rep. Love, Rock. 13; Rep. Noble, Hills. 2; Rep. Sellers, Graf. 18; Sen. Innis, Dist 7

 

COMMITTEE: Education Policy and Administration

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill requires school districts to create a policy prohibiting school district personnel from transporting any student who is a minor for any medical or health-related procedures or appointments without knowledge and approval of a parent or guardian unless he or she is following a published school district emergency health or medical protocol or policy.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

25-0283

11/09

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Five

 

AN ACT prohibiting school district personnel from transporting students to medical procedures without parental consent.

 

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

 

1  New Paragraph; Policy; Transport for Medical and Health-Related Appointments.  Amend RSA 186:11 by inserting after paragraph IX-e the following new paragraph:

IX-f.  Require School Districts to Adopt a Policy Prohibiting Transportation for Medical and Health-Related Appointments.  A school district shall adopt a policy prohibiting any school district personnel from transporting a minor who is not an immediate family member or accompanying such minor during transport, except emergency transport by ambulance, for a medical or health-related appointment or visit without the knowledge and approval of the minor's parent or guardian, unless he or she is following a published school district emergency health or medical emergency protocol or policy.

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