Bill Text: NH HB1238 | 2014 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Relative to access to assessment materials.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)
Status: (Passed) 2014-07-18 - Signed by the Governor on 7/14/2014; Chapter 0219; Effective Date 9/12/2014. [HB1238 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2014-HB1238-Chaptered.html
CHAPTER 219
HB 1238 – FINAL VERSION
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2014 SESSION
04/05
HOUSE BILL 1238
AN ACT relative to access to assessment materials.
SPONSORS: Rep. Cordelli, Carr 4; Rep. Boehm, Hills 20; Rep. Harris, Rock 9; Rep. Hoell, Merr 23; Rep. Murotake, Hills 32; Rep. Marston, Hills 19
This bill requires the department of education to make available portions of a pupil’s assessment on the department’s website as soon as possible after the statewide assessment results are released.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
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14-2228
04/05
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Fourteen
AN ACT relative to access to assessment materials.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
219:1 Statewide Educational Improvement and Assessment Program; Accessibility of Assessment Materials. Amend RSA 193-C:10 to read as follows:
193-C:10 Accessibility of Assessment Materials. After the assessment results are released by the department, a pupil’s parent or legal guardian shall have the right to inspect and review [the pupil’s assessment booklet, answer or response sheets, surveys, instructions or directions to the pupil, and any other supplemental materials utilized to administer the assessment] the pupil’s assessment, including the questions asked, the pupil’s answers, instructions or directions to the pupil, and other supplementary materials related or used to administer the pupil’s assessment. A parent or legal guardian shall direct a request for inspection or review to the pupil’s school, and the school shall comply with such request within 45 days of its receipt. The department of education shall make available released assessment items on the department’s website as soon as possible after the statewide assessment results are released. The commissioner shall adopt rules, pursuant to RSA 541-A, to implement procedures for the review and inspection of assessment materials. These rules shall provide parents and legal guardians with no fewer rights accorded to them under the Family Educational and Privacy Rights Act, 20 U.S.C. 1232g.
219:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
Approved: July 14, 2014
Effective Date: September 12, 2014
