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Issue
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Last updated
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Bill number and title
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Analysis
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Summary of Status
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Home education law
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12/13/07
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No bills became law
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Compulsory
attendance, dropouts, expulsions
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12/13/07
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HB87
- relative to the exceptions to compulsory school attendance.
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This bill inserts clarifications to the exceptions to
the compulsory school attendance statute.
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Legislative history
Effective date:
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Sections 2-4 effective as provided in
section 5
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Remainder effective 9/15/07
Note: the Enrolled Bill amendment accidentally enacted the increase
in age of compulsory attendance 9/15/07 instead of 7/1/09
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HB126
- relative to the definition of "school."
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This bill revises the definitions of standard school,
elementary school, high school, and the number of days of school. This bill
is a request of the department of education.
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Legislative history
Effective date – 8/10/07
Also mentioned under "School improvement"
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SB18-FN
- raising the age of required attendance of
children in school.
This bill is tracked here.
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This bill raises from 16 to 18
the age for compulsory school attendance and provides a procedure for a
pupil who is at least 16 years of age to obtain an attendance waiver from
school.
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Legislative history
Effective date – 7/1/09
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SB101
- relative to payment of costs for certain students attending alternative
education programs.
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This bill permits "at risk" students to attend
an alternative education program at a regional vocational education center
and requires the department of education to pay tuition and transportation
costs for such attendance.
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Legislative history
Effective date – 8/24/07
Also mentioned under "School improvement"
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Educational
alternatives, charter schools
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12/13/07
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HB213
- relative to the availability of school nutrition program funds for
charter school and nonpublic schools.
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This bill allows charter schools, approved nonpublic
schools, and residential facilities for children to apply for reimbursement
for approved school meals.
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Legislative
history
Effective date -8/10/07
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Access to public schools
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12/13/07
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No bills became law
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Vouchers,
abatements, tax credits
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12/13/07
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No bills became law
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Special education
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12/13/07
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HB396
- establishing a commission to study autism spectrum disorders in New Hampshire.
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This bill establishes a commission to study autism
spectrum disorders in New
Hampshire.
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Legislative
history
Effective date – 6/18/07
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HB661-FN-A
- establishing an executive planning commission on special education.
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This bill establishes an executive planning commission
on special education and appropriates $50,000 from the general fund for the
fiscal year ending June 30, 2008.
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Legislative
history
Effective date – 7/1/07
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HB790
- relative to dependent coverage for health insurance.
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This bill
expands the definition of dependent young adults to those who are less than
26 years of age for purposes of insurance coverage.
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See “College Access” for bill status
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SB93-FN
- relative to insurance coverage for children's early intervention therapy
services.
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This bill requires insurance coverage for the costs of
early intervention services for children from birth to 36 months.
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Legislative history
Effective date – 9/14/07
Also mentioned in Early childhood
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SB195
- relative to unemployment benefits for persons needed to care for family
members who are disabled.
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This bill allows individuals who need to care for
disabled family members to collect unemployment compensation benefits. This
bill was requested by the department of employment security.
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Legislative
history
Effective date – 1/1/08
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Driver's education
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12/13/07
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No bills became law
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College access
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12/13/07
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HB790
- relative to dependent coverage for health insurance.
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This
bill expands the definition of dependent young adults to those who are less
than 26 years of age for purposes of insurance coverage.
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Also mentioned in “Special Education”
Legislative history
Effective date – 9/15/07
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SB168
- establishing tuition waivers for foster children.
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This bill establishes tuition waivers for foster
children at any public postsecondary institution.
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Legislative
history
Effective date – 9/15/07
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Child labor laws
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12/13/07
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HB99
- relative to the youth employment law.
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This bill prohibits youths 16 and 17 years of age from
working certain hours.
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Legislative history
Effective date – 1/1/08
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Early childhood
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12/13/07
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HB46-FN-A-L
- making an appropriation to fund kindergarten programs in the Merrimack, Hampstead, Goffstown, Fremont, and Timberlane
regional school districts.
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This
bill makes an appropriation from the education trust fund to the department
of education to fund a grant of $1,200 per pupil for resident kindergarten
pupils in the Merrimack, Hampstead,
Goffstown, Fremont,
and Timberlane regional school districts.
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Legislative history
Effective date – 7/3/07
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HB86
- establishing a committee to study educational and social services
programs that serve families with children 6 years old and younger.
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This bill establishes a committee to study educational
and social services programs that serve families with children 6 years old
and younger.
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Legislative history
Effective date – 6/18/07
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SB93-FN
- relative to insurance coverage for children's early intervention therapy
services.
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This bill requires insurance coverage for the costs of
early intervention services for children from birth to 36 months.
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Status found in “Special Education”
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School improvement
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12/13/07
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HB126
- relative to the definition of "school."
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This bill revises the definitions of standard school,
elementary school, high school, and the number of days of school. This bill
is a request of the department of education.
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Status found in
"Compulsory attendance, dropouts, expulsion"
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HB167
- relative to areas of assessment required under the statewide improvement
and assessment program.
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This bill adds civics and
economics to the required areas of assessment in the statewide improvement
and assessment program, and specifies that the assessment shall be
conducted in grades 3 through 8 and one grade in high school.
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Legislative
history
Effective date – 6/19/07
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HB446
- relative to criminal threatening
in a safe school zone.
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This bill adds
criminal threatening to the definition of an act of theft, destruction, or
violence within the safe school zones statute.
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Legislative
history
Effective date – 8/17/07
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HB556
- relative to school emergency response plans.
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This bill requires public and nonpublic schools to
develop and implement a site-specific emergency response plan which is
based on and conforms to the Incident Command System and the National
Incident Management System.
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Legislative
history
Effective date – 7/1/07
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SB78
- relative to the placement of twins or other multiples in the same
classroom.
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This bill allows a parent or guardian of twins or other
multiples to request a classroom placement for the children.
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Legislative history
Effective date – 9/11/07
Also mentioned in "Parental rights"
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SB101
- relative to payment of costs for certain students attending alternative
education programs.
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This bill permits "at risk" students to attend
an alternative education program at a regional vocational education center
and requires the department of education to pay tuition and transportation
costs for such attendance. This bill is a request of the department of
education.
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See "Compulsory attendance, dropout,
expulsion" for status
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SCR2
- urging Congress to amend the No Child Left Behind Act.
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This senate concurrent resolution urges the United
States Congress to amend the No Child Left Behind Act.
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Legislative history
Effective date – on passage
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School funding
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12/13/07
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SB47
- making a supplemental appropriation for school building aid.
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