HB 532 - AS INTRODUCED
2025 SESSION
25-0858
02/06
HOUSE BILL532
AN ACTrelative to alternative dispute resolution and individualized education plan team meeting facilitation.
SPONSORS:Rep. Ball, Rock. 25
COMMITTEE:Education Policy and Administration
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ANALYSIS
This bill allows IEP team meeting facilitation to be included as an option to assist parents and school districts in resolving disputes without including such facilitation in the list of alternative dispute resolution options.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
25-0858
02/06
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Five
AN ACTrelative to alternative dispute resolution and individualized education plan team meeting facilitation.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Alternative Dispute Resolution. Amend RSA 186-C:23, I to read as follows:
I. In order to encourage informal resolution of differences of opinion regarding the provision of special education, the following methods of alternative dispute resolution shall be available to parents and school districts:
(a) Neutral conference.
(b) Mediation.
[(c) IEP facilitation.]
2 New Section; IEP Team Meeting Facilitation. Amend RSA 186-C by inserting after section 24 the following new section:
186-C:24-a IEP Team Meeting Facilitation.
I. The department shall make IEP team meeting facilitation available to parents and school districts as an option to resolve disputes under this chapter.
II. The department of education shall adopt rules, pursuant to RSA 541-A, regarding procedures for IEP team meeting facilitation.
3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.