Bill Text: NH SB460 | 2016 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Relative to a school board's duty to ensure the teaching of health and physical education as it relates to abused children.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-4)
Status: (Passed) 2016-05-10 - Signed by the Governor on 05/05/2016; Chapter 0056; Effective 07/04/2016 [SB460 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2016-SB460-Chaptered.html
CHAPTER 56
SB 460 - FINAL VERSION
4Apr2016... 1196h
4Apr2016... 1241h
2016 SESSION
16-2725
04/05
SENATE BILL 460
AN ACT relative to a school board's duty to ensure the teaching of health and physical education as it relates to abused children.
SPONSORS: Sen. Watters, Dist 4; Sen. Bradley, Dist 3; Sen. Carson, Dist 14; Sen. D'Allesandro, Dist 20; Sen. Feltes, Dist 15; Sen. Fuller Clark, Dist 21; Sen. Lasky, Dist 13; Sen. Pierce, Dist 5; Sen. Reagan, Dist 17; Sen. Soucy, Dist 18; Rep. Gile, Merr. 27; Rep. Takesian, Hills. 37
COMMITTEE: Education
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AMENDED ANALYSIS
This bill requires a school board to ensure that health and physical education as it relates to abused children is taught in schools.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
4Apr2016... 1196h
4Apr2016... 1241h 16-2725
04/05
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Sixteen
AN ACT relative to a school board's duty to ensure the teaching of health and physical education as it relates to abused children.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
56:1 School Boards; Studies. Amend RSA 189:10 to read as follows:
189:10 Studies. The school board shall ensure that health education and physical education are taught to pupils as part of the basic curriculum. The school board shall ensure that all studies prescribed by the state board of education are thoroughly taught, especially physiology, hygiene, and health and physical education as they relate to the effects of alcohol and other drugs, 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.
56:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
Approved: May 5, 2016
Effective Date: July 4, 2016
