HB 1166 - AS INTRODUCED
2024 SESSION
24-2121
02/10
HOUSE BILL 1166
AN ACT adding an exception from required civics competency assessments.
SPONSORS: Rep. Ladd, Graf. 5; Rep. McDonnell, Rock. 25
COMMITTEE: Education
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ANALYSIS
This bill exempts students who are members of the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps Program or Civil Air Patrol Program from the United States Citizen and Immigration Services naturalization examination.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
24-2121
02/10
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four
AN ACT adding an exception from required civics competency assessments.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Schools; Instruction in Civics Education. Amend RSA 189:11, II to read as follows:
II. As a component of instruction under this section, a locally developed competency assessment of United States government and civics that includes, but is not limited to, the nature, purpose, structure, function, and history of the United States government, the rights and responsibilities of citizens, and noteworthy government and civic leaders, shall be administered to students as part of the required high school course in history and government of the United States and New Hampshire. To be eligible for a graduation certificate, a student in a public, chartered public, non-public school, or a privately incorporated school that serves as a public school in the state, shall attain a locally sanctioned passing grade on the competency assessment, and a grade of 70 percent or better on the 128 question civics (history and government) naturalization examination developed by the 2020 United States Citizen and Immigration Services. Schools are required to provide accommodations and may modify the naturalization examination for a child with a disability in accordance with the child's individualized education program. A student who is a member of either the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) Program or the Civil Air Patrol Program shall be exempt from the naturalization examination developed by the 2020 United States Citizen and Immigration Services. By June 30 of each year, each school district, chartered public or non-public school, or a privately incorporated school that serves as a public school in the state, shall submit the results of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) test to the department of education.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.