Bill Text: NH HB1376 | 2022 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Relative to participation in the education freedom accounts program by students with disabilities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-03-21 - Lay HB1376 on Table (Rep. Ladd): Motion Adopted Regular Calendar 179-153 03/16/2022 House Journal 7 [HB1376 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2022-HB1376-Introduced.html

HB 1376  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2022 SESSION

22-2519

10/11

 

HOUSE BILL 1376

 

AN ACT relative to participation in the education freedom accounts program by students with disabilities.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Cornell, Hills. 18; Rep. Cushing, Rock. 21; Rep. Heath, Hills. 14; Rep. Mullen, Hills. 7; Rep. Ellison, Merr. 27; Rep. Porter, Hills. 1

 

COMMITTEE: Education

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill clarifies the responsibility of a scholarship organization under the education freedom accounts program for explaining rights under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

22-2519

10/11

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Two

 

AN ACT relative to participation in the education freedom accounts program by students with disabilities.

 

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

 

1  Education Freedom Accounts; Responsibilities of the Scholarship Organization; Parents of Students with Disabilities.  Amend RSA 194-B:4, III to read as follows:

III.  The scholarship organization shall ensure that parents of students with disabilities receive notice that participation in the EFA program is a parental placement under 20 U.S.C. section [1412] 1412(a)(10)(A), Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), along with an explanation of the rights that parentally placed students possess and waive under IDEA and any applicable state laws.

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

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