HB 1646 - AS INTRODUCED
2022 SESSION
22-2841
10/11
HOUSE BILL 1646
AN ACT relative to representation on a cooperative school district board.
SPONSORS: Rep. Litchfield, Rock. 11
COMMITTEE: Education
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ANALYSIS
This bill requires cooperative school district boards to have an elected member from each pre-existing district.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
22-2841
10/11
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Two
AN ACT relative to representation on a cooperative school district board.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Cooperative School District Boards; Membership. Amend RSA 195:19-a to read as follows:
195:19-a Composition of Cooperative School Boards. The [number, composition,] method of selection[,] and terms of members of cooperative school boards shall be as provided in the bylaws or articles of agreement of the cooperative school district, as the case may be; provided, however, that such bylaws and articles of agreement shall be limited [to the alternatives contained herein where applicable; and provided further that no cooperative school district in existence on August 22, 1971 shall be required to conform hereto unless it is so voted pursuant to RSA 671:9.] by the following requirements:
I. [ All members of the cooperative school board shall be elected at large; or
II. The cooperative school district shall be divided into single board member districts according to population with as nearly equal population in each district as possible; or
III. The cooperative school district shall be divided into multiboard member districts or a combination of single member or multimember districts so that proportional representation will be most nearly achieved; or
IV.] The members of the cooperative school board shall each be domiciled in and represent a pre-existing district with each pre-existing district having [at least] one such resident representative [but] and all members of the cooperative school board shall be elected [at large] within their own district; or
[V. Such other method of selection of cooperative school board members compatible with proportional representation, one-man one-vote principle as may be approved by the state board of education.]
[VI.] II. The terms of the members of the cooperative school board shall be as provided in the bylaws or articles of agreement provided that in no case shall such terms exceed 3 years.
[VII.] III. Whenever the bylaws or articles of agreement provide for the election of cooperative school board members pursuant to this chapter, said election shall be with the use of the non-partisan ballot system under RSA 669.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.