HB 319-FN - AS INTRODUCED
2025 SESSION
25-0517
02/08
HOUSE BILL319-FN
AN ACTrelative to the responsibility of local school districts to provide transportation and meals for pupils in kindergarten.
SPONSORS:Rep. Ammon, Hills. 42; Rep. Post, Hills. 42
COMMITTEE:Education Funding
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ANALYSIS
This bill removes the requirement that school districts provide transportation and meals to half-day kindergarten students.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
25-0517
02/08
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Five
AN ACTrelative to the responsibility of local school districts to provide transportation and meals for pupils in kindergarten.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Transportation of Pupils. Amend RSA 189:6 to read as follows:
189:6 Transportation of Pupils. The local school district shall furnish transportation to full-day pupils in kindergarten through grade 8 who live more than 2 miles from the school to which they are assigned. The local school district may furnish transportation to pupils in half-day kindergarten programs, full-day kindergarten through grade 8 who live 2 miles or less from the school to which they are assigned, and to pupils in grades 9 through 12, when it finds that this is appropriate, and shall furnish it when so directed by the commissioner of education.
2 Food and Nutrition Programs. Amend RSA 189:11-a, I to read as follows:
I. Each school board shall make at least one meal available during school hours to every full-day pupil under its jurisdiction. Such meals shall be served without cost or at a reduced cost to any child who meets federal income eligibility guidelines. The state board of education shall ensure compliance with this section and shall establish minimum nutritional standards for such meals as well as income guidelines set for the family size used in determining eligibility for free and reduced price meals. Nothing in this section shall prohibit the operation of both a breakfast and lunch program in the same school.
3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
LBA
25-0517
12/29/24
HB 319-FN- FISCAL NOTE
AS INTRODUCED
AN ACTrelative to the responsibility of local school districts to provide transportation and meals for pupils in kindergarten.
FISCAL IMPACT:
Estimated Political Subdivision Impact
FY 2025 FY 2026 FY 2027 FY 2028
Local Revenue $0 $0 $0 $0
Local Expenditures $0 Indeterminable
Estimated Political Subdivision Impact
FY 2025
FY 2026
FY 2027
FY 2028
Local Revenue
$0
$0
$0
$0
Local Expenditures
$0
Indeterminable
METHODOLOGY:
This bill removes the requirement that school districts provide transportation and meals to half-day kindergarten students. Any impact this bill may have on local school districts is indeterminable and would vary from district to district.
AGENCIES CONTACTED:
Department of Education