CHAPTER 164

SB 136 - FINAL VERSION

03/09/2023   0678s

2023 SESSION

23-0915

10/05

SENATE BILL 136

AN ACT prohibiting the employment or volunteering of a revoked or suspended educator.

SPONSORS: Sen. Ward, Dist 8

COMMITTEE: Education

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ANALYSIS

This bill prohibits the hiring or service of a person by a school administrative unit, school district, chartered public school, or nonpublic school who is listed on the department of education’s list of revoked and suspended educators.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

03/09/2023   0678s 23-0915

10/05

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Three

AN ACT prohibiting the employment or volunteering of a revoked or suspended educator.

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

164:1  New Subparagraph; School Employee Records Checks; Revoked and Suspended Educators.  Amend RSA 189:13-a, I by inserting after subparagraph (b) the following new subparagraph:

(c)  A school administrative unit, school district, chartered public school, or nonpublic school shall not hire any individual whose credential issued by the department of education is currently suspended or revoked, except:

(1) Currently suspended educators may be hired for prospective employment that would begin after the educator’s credential is no longer suspended; and

(2) Educators whose credential was suspended or revoked in a particular endorsement area, but who maintains an active endorsement in another area, may be employed solely in the endorsement area which is not suspended or revoked.

164:2  New Paragraph; Records Checks; School Designated Volunteers.  Amend RSA 189:13-a by inserting after paragraph VII the following new paragraph:

VII-a.  A school administrative unit, school district, chartered public school, or nonpublic school shall not allow any individual whose credential issued by the department of education is currently suspended or revoked to serve as a volunteer except:

(a) Currently suspended or revoked educators shall maintain the rights afforded all members of the public to enter onto school grounds and attend school events in accordance with the law and school district policy; and

(b) Currently suspended or revoked educators who are parents and guardians of students shall maintain all the rights afforded all parents and guardians under law and school district policy.

164:3  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.

Approved: July 28, 2023

Effective Date: September 26, 2023