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HB1533: relative to health education curriculum in schools.

Citation
2022 HB1533
Official source

Bill details

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House status
Inexpedient to Legislate
Committee
House Education
Hearing
02/18/2026 at 11:00 AM
Selected version
Current official bill text

Sponsors

Topics

Education Health care

Official links

HB 1533 - AS INTRODUCED

2022 SESSION

22-2488

10/05

HOUSE BILL 1533

AN ACT relative to health education curriculum in schools.

SPONSORS: Rep. Toll, Ches. 16; Rep. Perez, Hills. 23; Rep. Labranche, Hills. 22; Rep. Hyland, Hills. 38; Rep. Schapiro, Ches. 16; Rep. Welkowitz, Ches. 4; Rep. Massimilla, Graf. 1; Rep. M. Murray, Hills. 22; Rep. Query, Hills. 16; Rep. Altschiller, Rock. 19; Sen. Kahn, Dist 10

COMMITTEE: Education

ANALYSIS

This bill requires that health education instruction in schools include the meaning of consent, respect for personal boundaries, and sexual violence prevention.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

22-2488

10/05

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Two

AN ACT relative to health education curriculum in schools.

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

1 Schools; Health Education Instruction.. Amend RSA 189:10 to read as follows:

189:10 Studies. The school board shall ensure that health education and physical education are taught to pupils as part of the basic curriculum. The school board shall ensure that all studies prescribed by the state board of education are thoroughly taught, especially physiology, hygiene, and health and physical education as they relate to the effects of alcohol and other drugs[,]; child abuse as established in the definition of "abused child" under RSA 169-C:3, II [,]; human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), and sexually transmitted diseases on the human system[,]; and age-appropriate instruction on the meaning of consent, respect for personal boundaries, and sexual violence prevention. The department of education shall survey school districts biennially to receive reports on compliance with this section, and provide the report to the president of the senate, speaker of the house of representatives, the chairpersons of the senate and house committees with jurisdiction over education, the senate committee with jurisdiction over health and human services, and the house committee with jurisdiction over child and family law.

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