Bill Text - HB484 (2025)

Relative to reallocation or repurposing of career and technical education classroom space by local school districts.


Revision: Jan. 13, 2025, 3:41 p.m.

HB 484  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2025 SESSION

25-0731

02/05

 

HOUSE BILL 484

 

AN ACT relative to reallocation or repurposing of career and technical education classroom space by local school districts.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Daniels, Hills. 43

 

COMMITTEE: Education Funding

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill authorizes a school district to repurpose CTE space after 20 years of exclusive use at no cost.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

25-0731

02/05

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Five

 

AN ACT relative to reallocation or repurposing of career and technical education classroom space by local school districts.

 

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

 

1  Construction or Renovation of Regional Career and Technical Education Centers.  Amend RSA 188-E:3, II to read as follows:

II. Upon completion, the constructed or renovated facility shall become the property of the school district or public academy, for use by the career and technical education center exclusively, provided that if space within the facility has been used by the career and technical education center exclusively for at least 20 years such space may be repurposed by the district at no cost if the space is being vacated to enable expansion of the career and technical education program that occupies the space. Provision of the site, parking, and other related areas shall be the responsibility of the local community. Site work, including but not limited to cut and fill work, compaction, demolition, relocation of utilities, relocation of roadways and sidewalks, and similar work within an area extending to one foot beyond the outside edge of the exterior walls of the building, shall be eligible for grants under paragraph I. Nothing shall prohibit the inclusion of the site and related facilities which are not funded as part of construction cost by the state under this chapter from being included in a regular building aid grant application of the district as provided in RSA 198:15-b. However, no school district which receives any funding under this chapter shall be eligible to receive school building aid grants under RSA 198:15-b for the same project. Maintenance, repair, and upkeep of the constructed or renovated facility, including all classroom and laboratory spaces, shall be the responsibility of the school district or public academy, as the case may be.

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2025.