Bill Text - HB667 (2025)

(Second New Title) relative to health education and requiring the viewing of certain videos demonstrating gestational development.


Revision: May 8, 2025, 9:16 a.m.

HB 667-FN - AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE

 

13Mar2025... 0615h

05/01/2025   1737s

 

2025 SESSION

25-0407

02/05

 

HOUSE BILL 667-FN

 

AN ACT relative to health education and requiring the viewing of certain videos demonstrating gestational development.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Sellers, Graf. 18; Rep. Panek, Hills. 1; Rep. Seidel, Hills. 29; Rep. Aures, Merr. 13; Rep. Ulery, Hills. 13; Rep. Perez, Rock. 16

 

COMMITTEE: Education Policy and Administration

 

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AMENDED ANALYSIS

 

This bill specifies required instruction under the public school health curriculum and requires public school students to watch a simulated or ultrasound video demonstrating gestational development.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

13Mar2025... 0615h

05/01/2025   1737s 25-0407

02/05

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Five

 

AN ACT relative to health education and requiring the viewing of certain videos demonstrating gestational development.

 

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

 

1  New Paragraph; Studies; Health Curriculum.  Amend RSA 189:10 by inserting after paragraph II the following new paragraph:

II-a.  The health curriculum shall include age appropriate and medically accurate sexuality education including the presentation of a high quality computer generated animation or ultrasound video that shows the development of the heart, brain, and other vital organs in early fetal development.

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

 

LBA

25-0407

5/5/25

 

HB 667-FN- FISCAL NOTE

AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE (AMENDMENT #2025-1737s)

 

AN ACT relative to health education and requiring the viewing of certain videos demonstrating gestational development from embryo to fetus through birth by public school students.

 

FISCAL IMPACT:      

 

Estimated Political Subdivision Impact

 

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Local Revenue

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Local Expenditures

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Indeterminable

 

METHODOLOGY:

This bill, assumed to be effective for the 2025-2026 school year, requires health curriculum to include age appropriate and medically accurate sexuality education including the presentation of a high quality computer generated animation or ultrasound video that shows the development of the heart, brain, and other vital organs in early fetal development.  Costs for school districts to comply with this bill, if any, are indeterminable and would vary from district to district.

 

AGENCIES CONTACTED:

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