Bill Text: NH HB1109 | 2024 | Regular Session | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Relative to requiring student identification cards to include the helpline for the National Alliance for Eating Disorders and the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-2)

Status: (Passed) 2024-06-20 - Signed by Governor Sununu 06/14/2024; Chapter 61; eff. 8/13/2024 House Journal 16 [HB1109 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2024-HB1109-Enrolled.html

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HB 1109 - VERSION ADOPTED BY BOTH BODIES

 

7Mar2024... 0403h

2024 SESSION

24-2069

05/02

 

HOUSE BILL 1109

 

AN ACT relative to requiring student identification cards to include the helpline for the National Alliance for Eating Disorders and the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Rung, Hills. 12; Rep. H. Howard, Straf. 4; Rep. N. Murphy, Hills. 12; Rep. B. Boyd, Hills. 12; Rep. Damon, Sull. 8; Rep. Tanner, Sull. 5; Rep. McDonnell, Rock. 25; Sen. Chandley, Dist 11

 

COMMITTEE: Education

 

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AMENDED ANALYSIS

 

This bill requires student identification cards for students in grades 6-12 to include the helpline for the National Alliance for Eating Disorders.  This bill also replaces the reference to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline on student identification cards with the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

7Mar2024... 0403h 24-2069

05/02

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four

 

AN ACT relative to requiring student identification cards to include the helpline for the National Alliance for Eating Disorders and the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.

 

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

 

1  Short Title.  This act shall be known as the Matthew Brown Act.

2  New Chapter; Eating Disorder Education.  Amend RSA by inserting after chapter 193-J the following new chapter:

CHAPTER 193-K

EATING DISORDER EDUCATION

193-K:1  Public School Identification Cards.

I.  Each school district and chartered public school that serves any students in grades 6 through 12 that issues student identification cards shall include on either side of the cards the telephone number for the National Alliance for Eating Disorders Helpline.

II.  The requirement in paragraph I shall apply to any student identification card issued for the first time after the effective date of this section, or for replacement cards issued for damaged or lost student identification cards after the effective date of this section.

III.  Public schools and charter schools issuing student identification cards pursuant to this section shall annually and prior to the start of each school year certify to their respective governing bodies that the contact information being included on student identification cards for the National Alliance for Eating Disorders Helpline is accurate and up to date.

IV.  The National Alliance for Eating Disorders Helpline shall be labeled on student identification cards and include the current National Alliance for Eating Disorders Helpline phone number at the time of the card's production.

3  Public School Identification Cards; 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.  Amend RSA 193-J:2-a to read as follows:

193-J:2-a  Public School Identification Cards.

I.  Each school district and chartered public school that serves any students in grades 6 through 12 that issues student identification cards shall include on either side of the cards the telephone number for the [National Suicide Prevention] 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.

II.  The requirement in paragraph I shall apply to any student identification card issued for the first time or for replacement cards issued for damaged or lost student identification cards after the effective date of this section.

III.  Public schools and charter schools issuing student identification cards pursuant to this section shall annually and prior to the start of each school year certify to their respective governing bodies that the contact information being included on student identification cards for the [National Suicide Prevention] 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline is accurate and up to date.

IV.  The [National Suicide Prevention] 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline shall be labeled on student identification cards [and include the telephone number: National Suicide Prevention Lifeline 1-800-273-8255 or 988] to read: Suicide and Crisis Lifeline: Call 988.

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