CHAPTER 84
SB 14 - FINAL VERSION
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04/01
SENATE BILL 14
AN ACT relative to the definition of "school" for the purpose of the universal service fund for schools and libraries and ratifying the school board meetings and elections for Mascoma Valley Regional and Bartlett school districts.
This bill inserts a definition of "school" into state law for the purpose of the universal service fund for schools and libraries. This bill also ratifies the school board meetings and elections for Mascoma Valley Regional school district and the Bartlett school district.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
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01-0614
04/01
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand One
AN ACT relative to the definition of "school" for the purpose of the universal service fund for schools and libraries and ratifying the school board meetings and elections for Mascoma Valley Regional and Bartlett school districts.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
84:1 New Section; School Boards; Teachers; School Boards, Transportation, and Instruction of Pupils; Definition of School for Universal Service Fund. Amend RSA 189 by inserting after section 25 the following new section:
189:25-a Universal Service Fund; Definition of "School." For the purpose of obtaining discounts pursuant to the universal service fund, otherwise known as "E-rate" discounts, as established by section 254 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, "school" means any public or private elementary or secondary school, and any regional vocational educational school designated under RSA 188-E, including educational programs offered at such vocational educational schools for pre-kindergarten, adult education programs, and juvenile justice programs.
84:2 Ratification of the Mascoma Valley Regional School District Election and Annual Meeting. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, all actions taken by the Mascoma Valley Regional school district at its deliberative session and official ballot voting session on February 10, 2001 and March 13, 2001, respectively, shall not be invalidated due to lack of compliance with the budgetary requirements of RSA 32.
84:3 Ratification of the Bartlett School District Election and Meetings. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, all actions taken by the Bartlett School District in electing its officers on March 13, 2001, at the deliberative session held on March 20, 2001, and at the recessed deliberative session held on April 5, 2001, shall not be invalidated due to lack of compliance with the warning and posting provisions of RSA 197:1-g, RSA 197:5, and RSA 197:7.
84:4 Effective Date.
I. Section 1 of this act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
II. The remainder of this act shall take effect upon its passage.
(Approved: June 19, 2001)
(Effective Date: I. Section 1 shall take effect August 18, 2001
II. Remainder of act shall take effect June 19, 2001)