2001 SESSION

01-1054

04/01

HOUSE BILL 749-FN-A-LOCAL

COMMITTEE: Finance

ANALYSIS

This bill provides that the cost of transportation used in calculating the statewide cost of an adequate education shall be 70 percent of the cost of transporting pupils in grades 1 through 8 who live more than 2 miles from school.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

01-1054

04/01

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand One

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

1 School Boards, Teachers; Transportation of Pupils Amended. Amend RSA 189:6 to read as follows:

189:6 Transportation of Pupils.

I. The local school district shall furnish transportation to all pupils in grade 1 through grade 8 who live more than 2 miles from the school to which they are assigned.

II. The local school board may furnish transportation to kindergarten pupils, pupils in grades above the eighth or to any pupils residing less than 2 miles from the school to which they are assigned, when it finds that this is appropriate, and shall furnish it when so directed by the commissioner of education.

2 School Money; Determination of Per Pupil Adequate Education Grant; Definition; Transportation Costs. Amend RSA 198:38, XI to read as follows:

XI. "Transportation costs" means [the costs] 70 percent of the cost of [transporting pupils to and from school and other school activities reported by school districts on the MS-25 form] providing transportation to pupils as required in RSA 189:6, I.

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

LBAO

01-1054

2/15/01

HB 749-FN-A-LOCAL - FISCAL NOTE

FISCAL IMPACT: