Bill Text: NH SB460 | 2016 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relative to a school board's duty to ensure the teaching of health and physical education as it relates to abused children.
Sponsorship: 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-Introduced.html
SB 460 - AS INTRODUCED
2016 SESSION
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04/05
SENATE BILL 460
AN ACT authorizing the state board of education to adopt rules relative to child sexual abuse and healthy relationships.
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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ANALYSIS
This bill authorizes the state board of education to adopt rules relating to preventing child sexual abuse and promoting healthy relationships.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
16-2725
04/05
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Sixteen
AN ACT authorizing the state board of education to adopt rules relative to child sexual abuse and healthy relationships.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
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, including child sexual abuse and prevention of the same, healthy relationships, 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.
