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HB1163: requiring schools to update documents and software to include the option of identifying a student as non-binary.

Citation
2020 HB1163
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House status
Interim Study
Committee
House Education
Hearing
01/29/2020 at 01:00 PM
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Education

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HB 1163 - AS INTRODUCED

2020 SESSION

20-2295

06/04

HOUSE BILL 1163

AN ACT requiring schools to update documents and software to include the option of identifying a student as non-binary.

SPONSORS: Rep. Woodcock, Carr. 2; Rep. Doherty, Merr. 20; Rep. Mullen, Hills. 7; Rep. Ellison, Merr. 27; Rep. Rung, Hills. 21; Rep. Butler, Carr. 7; Rep. Burroughs, Carr. 1; Rep. Cannon, Straf. 18; Rep. Le, Rock. 31; Rep. Kanzler, Carr. 2

COMMITTEE: Education

ANALYSIS

This bill requires schools to update documents and software to include the option of identifying a student as non-binary.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

20-2295

06/04

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty

AN ACT requiring schools to update documents and software to include the option of identifying a student as non-binary.

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

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

XXXVIII. Gender Identification. Require, as of the effective date of this paragraph, all school boards to update documents and software to provide the option of declaring non-binary as well as male or female for gender identification. Where a program uses a letter code rather than a word, "x" shall be added as an option.

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