Bill Text: NH HB1382 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Including parents in the approval process for alternative learning plans and requiring a truant officer to obtain a warrant or permission of a parent prior to returning a child to school.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 7-0)
Status: (Failed) 2012-03-07 - House Inexpedient to Legislate: Motion Adopted Voice Vote; House Journal 21, PG.1299 [HB1382 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2012-HB1382-Introduced.html
HB 1382 – AS INTRODUCED
2012 SESSION
04/05
HOUSE BILL 1382
AN ACT including parents in the approval process for alternative learning plans and requiring a truant officer to obtain a warrant or permission of a parent prior to returning a child to school.
SPONSORS: Rep. Parison, Hills 3; Rep. Mirski, Graf 10; Rep. L. Jones, Straf 1; Rep. Sova, Graf 10; Sen. Carson, Dist 14; Sen. Forsythe, Dist 4; Sen. White, Dist 9
This bill provides that an alternative learning plan for a child 16 years of age or older may be submitted to the child’s parent for approval. The bill also requires that a truant officer obtain a warrant or permission of a parent to return a child to school who is not complying with compulsory school attendance laws.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
12-2429
04/05
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twelve
AN ACT including parents in the approval process for alternative learning plans and requiring a truant officer to obtain a warrant or permission of a parent prior to returning a child to school.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 School Attendance; Compulsory Attendance by Pupil. Amend RSA 193:1, I(h)(2) to read as follows:
(2) Alternative learning plans shall be developed, and amended if necessary, in consultation with the pupil, a school guidance counselor, the school principal and at least one parent or guardian of the pupil, and submitted to the school district superintendent or parent for approval.
2 Truant Officers; Duties. Amend RSA 189:36, I to read as follows:
I. Truant officers shall, when directed by the school board, enforce the laws and regulations relating to truants and children between the ages of 6 and 18 years not attending school, or who are not participating in an alternative learning plan under RSA 193:1, I(h); and the laws relating to the attendance at school of children between the ages of 6 and 18 years; and shall have authority [without] with a warrant or the permission from a parent to take and place in school any children found employed contrary to the laws relating to the employment of children, or violating the laws relating to the compulsory attendance at school of children under the age of 18 years, and the laws relating to child labor. No home school pupil nor any person between the ages of 6 and 18 who meets any of the requirements of RSA 193:1, I(c)-(h) shall be deemed a truant.
3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
