Bill Text: NH HB136 | 2021 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requiring schools to update documents and software to include the option of identifying a student as non-binary.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-09-29 - Executive Session: 10/14/2021 09:30 am Legislative Office Building 205-207 [HB136 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2021-HB136-Introduced.html
HB 136 - AS INTRODUCED
2021 SESSION
21-0470
06/04
HOUSE BILL 136
SPONSORS: Rep. Woodcock, Carr. 2; Rep. Burroughs, Carr. 1; Rep. Mullen, Hills. 7; Rep. Tanner, Sull. 9; Rep. Ellison, Merr. 27; Rep. Wolf, Merr. 5; Rep. Rung, Hills. 21; Rep. Cannon, Straf. 18
COMMITTEE: Education
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ANALYSIS
This bill requires schools to update documents and software to include the option of identifying a student as non-binary.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
21-0470
06/04
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty One
AN ACT requiring schools to update documents and software to include the option of identifying a student as non-binary.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Paragraph; Education; Duties of the State Board of Education. Amend RSA 186:11 by inserting after paragraph XXXVII the following new paragraph:
XXXVIII. Require all public and chartered public schools to update documents and software that record an individual’s sex or gender to allow that individual to designate sex or gender that is neither exclusively male or exclusively female.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.