Bill Text: NH HB505 | 2023 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relative to comprehensive mental health education in schools.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-09-20 - Full Committee Work Session: 10/12/2023 01:00 pm Legislative Office Building 205-207 House Calendar 38 [HB505 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2023-HB505-Introduced.html

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HB 505-FN - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2023 SESSION

23-0654

09/08

 

HOUSE BILL 505-FN

 

AN ACT relative to comprehensive mental health education in schools.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Newell, Ches. 4; Rep. Germana, Ches. 1; Rep. Read, Rock. 10; Rep. Wheeler, Hills. 33; Rep. Vogt, Rock. 21; Rep. Seibert, Hills. 21; Rep. Darby, Hills. 11

 

COMMITTEE: Education

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill adds comprehensive mental health education to the public school health education curriculum.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

23-0654

09/08

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Three

 

AN ACT relative to comprehensive mental health education in schools.

 

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

 

1  School Boards, Transportation and Instruction of Pupils; Studies.  Amend RSA 189:10, II to read as follows:

II.  The school board shall ensure that health education, physical education to include the importance of exercise, and wellness are taught to pupils as part of the curriculum, specifically to include physiology, hygiene, health and interpersonal relationships, comprehensive mental health education, physical education, and wellness, as they relate to the effects of alcohol and other drugs, prevention of sexual violence, child abuse as established in the definition of "abused child" under RSA 169-C:3, II, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), and sexually transmitted diseases on the human system.

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

 

LBA

23-0654

1/4/23

 

HB 505-FN- FISCAL NOTE

AS INTRODUCED

 

AN ACT relative to comprehensive mental health education in schools.

 

FISCAL IMPACT:      [    ] State              [    ] County               [ X ] Local              [    ] None

	Estimated Increase / (Decrease)
LOCAL:	FY 2023	FY 2024	FY 2025	FY 2026
Revenue	$0	$0	$0	$0
Expenditures	$0	Indeterminable	Indeterminable	Indeterminable

 

METHODOLOGY:

This bill adds “comprehensive mental health education” to the required curriculum of health education and physical education. The Department of Education states local school districts may experience new costs in purchasing curriculum to meet the requirements of this bill. Any costs are indeterminable and would likely vary across districts.

 

AGENCIES CONTACTED:

Department of Education