2009 SESSION

09-0495

04/09

HOUSE BILL 368

AN ACT relative to annual goals in a home education program.

SPONSORS: Rep. J. Day, Rock 13

COMMITTEE: Education

ANALYSIS

This bill requires a parent who is providing a home education program to include, as part of the notification process, a written statement affirming that the home education program shall contain instruction in certain subjects as defined in law.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

09-0495

04/09

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Nine

AN ACT relative to annual goals in a home education program.

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

1 Home Education; Notification and Other Procedural Requirements. Amend RSA 193-A:5, II to read as follows:

II.(a) Notification made by the parent pursuant to paragraph I shall include a list of the names, addresses, and birth dates of all children who are participating in the home education program, and a written statement by the parent providing home education affirming that the home education program shall comply with RSA 193-A:4, I.

(b) The resident district superintendent or nonpublic school principal shall provide a parent who gives notice of home education under this section with a copy of the state statutes pertaining to home education and any other resources which the superintendent or principal determines may benefit such parent in providing home education.

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