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HB652: relative to suicide prevention.

Citation
2020 HB652
Official source

Bill details

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House status
Passed/Adopted with Amendment
Senate status
Laid on Table
Committee
Senate Education and Workforce Development
Hearing
04/23/2019 at 10:15 AM
Selected version
Current official bill text

Sponsors

Topics

Education and Workforce Development

Official links

HB 652 - AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE

27Feb2019... 0423h

2019 SESSION

19-0790

06/03

HOUSE BILL 652

AN ACT relative to suicide prevention.

SPONSORS: Rep. Lucas, Sull. 2

COMMITTEE: Education

ANALYSIS

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

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27Feb2019... 0423h 19-0790

06/03

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Nineteen

AN ACT relative to suicide 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; State Board of Education; Rulemaking; Suicide Prevention Training. 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, to require 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. Such training shall be available to all staff, including but not limited to aides, secretaries, custodians, lunch service persons, bus drivers, co-curricular advisors, students, and volunteers. Such rules shall allow for the use of self-training materials in fulfilling the annual training requirement and shall give local districts the discretion to determine how to both administer the training requirement and ensure that the training requirement is met.

3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect upon its passage.