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EDUCATION

CHAPTER 194-F
EDUCATION FREEDOM ACCOUNTS

Section 194-F:1

    194-F:1 Definitions. –
In this chapter:
I. "Adequate education grant" means the grant calculated under RSA 198:41.
II. "Curriculum" means the lessons and academic content taught in a specific course, program, or grade level.
III. "Department" means the department of education.
IV. "Education freedom account" or "EFA" means the account to which funds are allocated by the scholarship organization to the parent of an EFA student in order to pay for qualifying education expenses to educate the EFA student under this chapter.
V. "Education service provider" means a person or organization that receives payments from education freedom accounts to provide educational goods and services to EFA students.
VI. "Eligible student" means a resident of this state who is eligible to enroll in a public elementary or secondary school. Students in the special school district within the department of corrections established in RSA 194:60 shall not be eligible students.
VII. "EFA student" means an eligible student who is participating in the EFA program.
VIII. "Full-time" means more than 50 percent of instructional time.
IX. "Remote or hybrid" shall mean any public school that is not providing instruction in-person where the student or the educator are both not physically present in the traditional classroom due to full-time or part-time classroom closure.
X. "Parent" means a biological or adoptive parent, legal guardian, custodian, or other person with legal authority to act on behalf of an EFA student.
XI. "Program" means the education freedom account program established in this chapter.
XII. "Scholarship organization", means a scholarship organization approved under RSA 77:G, that administers and implements the EFA Act.

[Paragraph XIII repealed by 2025, 75:6, I, effective contingent pursuant to 75:7.]


XIII. "Priority guidelines" means the ordered list:
(a) A student currently enrolled in the EFA program;
(b) A sibling of a student currently enrolled in the EFA program;
(c) A child with disabilities as defined by RSA 186-C:2;
(d) A student whose family income is less than or equal to 350 percent of the federal poverty guidelines as updated annually by the United States Department of Health and Human Services under 42 U.S.C. section 9902(2).

[Paragraph XIV repealed by 2025, 75:6, I, effective contingent pursuant to 75:7.]


XIV. "Enrollment cap" means the total number of students that may be enrolled in the EFA program in a given school year before further enrollment is closed to all but students meeting priority guidelines, for whom enrollment is always open.

Source. 2021, 91:431, eff. Aug. 24, 2021. 2023, 110:1, eff. Aug. 26, 2023. 2025, 75:1, 2, eff. June 10, 2025; 75:6, I, eff. contingent.