Bill Text: NH SB444 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relative to the public posting of board of education agenda items and meeting materials.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-01-18 - Refer to Interim Study, Motion Adopted, Voice Vote; 01/18/2024; Senate Journal 2 [SB444 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2024-SB444-Introduced.html

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SB 444  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2024 SESSION

24-3074

02/08

 

SENATE BILL 444

 

AN ACT relative to the public posting of board of education agenda items and meeting materials.

 

SPONSORS: Sen. Prentiss, Dist 5; Sen. Fenton, Dist 10; Sen. Watters, Dist 4; Sen. Altschiller, Dist 24; Sen. Soucy, Dist 18; Sen. Perkins Kwoka, Dist 21; Sen. Whitley, Dist 15; Sen. D'Allesandro, Dist 20; Rep. Brennan, Merr. 9; Rep. Cormen, Graf. 15; Rep. Ebel, Merr. 7; Rep. Luneau, Merr. 9; Rep. Myler, Merr. 9

 

COMMITTEE: Education

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill requires the board of education to post agenda items and meeting materials on its website at least 48 hours before each noticed meeting.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

24-3074

02/08

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four

 

AN ACT relative to the public posting of board of education agenda items and meeting materials.

 

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

 

1  New Paragraph; State Board of Education.  Amend RSA 21-N:10 by inserting after paragraph V the following new paragraph:

VI.  The board shall post publicly on its Internet website the agenda items and any relevant meeting materials associated with those items no less than 48 hours prior to the beginning of any noticed meeting.  Any relevant meeting materials posted shall comply with the provisions of RSA 91-A and state or federal privacy laws.

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