HB 201 – AS INTRODUCED

2013 SESSION

13-0811

04/05

HOUSE BILL 201

AN ACT relative to school district policies on health and sex education.

SPONSORS: Rep. Ladd, Graf 4; Rep. Boehm, Hills 20

COMMITTEE: Education

ANALYSIS

This bill requires school district policies regarding exceptions to health and sex education to include a provision allowing an exception for moral beliefs.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

13-0811

04/05

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Thirteen

AN ACT relative to school district policies on health and sex education.

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

1 School Boards; Health and Sex Education. Amend RSA 186:11, IX-b to read as follows:

IX-b. Health and Sex Education. Require school districts to adopt a policy allowing an exception to a particular unit of health or sex education instruction based on religious objections or moral beliefs. Such policy shall include a provision for alternative learning sufficient to enable the child to meet state requirements for health education.

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