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SB199: requiring teachers to have training in suicide and bullying awareness and prevention.

Citation
2019 SB199
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Bill details

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Senate status
Inexpedient to Legislate
Committee
Senate Education and Workforce Development
Hearing
03/05/2019 at 09:45 AM
Selected version
Current official bill text

Sponsors

Topics

Education and Workforce Development Education

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SB 199 - AS INTRODUCED

2019 SESSION

19-0912

06/04

SENATE BILL 199

AN ACT requiring teachers to have training in suicide and bullying awareness and prevention.

SPONSORS: Sen. Ward, Dist 8; Sen. Birdsell, Dist 19; Sen. Bradley, Dist 3; Sen. Carson, Dist 14; Sen. Gray, Dist 6; Sen. Morse, Dist 22; Rep. Abrami, Rock. 19

COMMITTEE: Education and Workforce Development

ANALYSIS

This bill requires the state board of education to adopt rules requiring annual training in suicide awareness and prevention for teachers and administrators.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

19-0912

06/04

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Nineteen

AN ACT requiring teachers to have training in suicide and bullying awareness and prevention.

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

1 Short Title. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Jason Flatt Act of 2019."

2 New Paragraph; Duties of State Board of Education. Amend RSA 186:11 by inserting after paragraph XXXVII the following new paragraph:

XXXVIII. Suicide Awareness and Prevention. Adopt rules, pursuant to RSA 541-A, requiring every teacher, supervisor, and administrator in the public schools of this state to receive at least 2 hours of training in suicide awareness and prevention annually and establish a penalty for noncompliance.

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