New Hampshire HB 1490: requiring scholarship organizations to provide written notice to parents explaining the parents' requirement to provide written notice upon termination of a home education program.

Bill Text

HB 1490 - AS INTRODUCED

2026 SESSION

 26-2385

 12/07

HOUSE BILL 1490

AN ACT requiring scholarship organizations to provide written notice to parents explaining the parents' requirement to provide written notice upon termination of a home education program. 

SPONSORS: Rep. Peternel, Carr. 6; Rep. Bennett, Rock. 4; Rep. Burnham, Straf. 2; Rep. Drye, Sull. 7; Rep. Granger, Straf. 2; Rep. Layon, Rock. 13; Rep. Noble, Hills. 2; Rep. Thibault, Merr. 25

COMMITTEE: Education Policy and Administration

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ANALYSIS

 This bill requires scholarship organizations to provide a written explanation to parents of students that have been receiving a home education of the parents' requirement to provide written notice to the district superintendent or school principal upon termination of a home education program.

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 Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

 26-2385

 12/07

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty-Six

AN ACT requiring scholarship organizations to provide written notice to parents explaining the parents' requirement to provide written notice upon termination of a home education program. 

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

 1 New Paragraph; Education Freedom Accounts; Scholarship Organization Responsibilities; Notice Requirement Added. Amend RSA 194-F:4 by inserting after paragraph III the following new paragraph: 

 III-a. The scholarship organization shall ensure that parents of students who had been receiving a home education pursuant to RSA 193-A receive a written explanation of their requirement to provide written notice of termination of the home education program pursuant to RSA 193-A:5, III. 

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