HB231: (New Title) prohibiting school district personnel from transporting students to medical or mental health appointments, visits, or procedures without parental consent.

CHAPTER 22

HB 231 - FINAL VERSION

20Mar2025... 0603h

2025 SESSION

25-0283

11/09

HOUSE BILL 231

AN ACT prohibiting school district personnel from transporting students to medical or mental health appointments, visits, or procedures without parental consent.

SPONSORS: Rep. Perez, Rock. 16; Rep. Andrus, Merr. 5; Rep. Dunn, Rock. 16; Rep. Kuttab, Rock. 17; Rep. Love, Rock. 13; Rep. Noble, Hills. 2; Rep. Sellers, Graf. 18; Sen. Innis, Dist 7

COMMITTEE: Education Policy and Administration

AMENDED ANALYSIS

This bill requires school districts to create a policy prohibiting school district personnel from transporting any student who is a minor for any medical, mental health, or health-related procedures, appointments, or visits without knowledge and approval of a parent or guardian unless he or she is following a published school district emergency health or medical protocol or policy.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

20Mar2025... 0603h 25-0283

11/09

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Five

AN ACT prohibiting school district personnel from transporting students to medical or mental health appointments, visits, or procedures without parental consent.

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

22:1 New Paragraph; Policy; Transport for Medical and Health-Related Appointments. Amend RSA 186:11 by inserting after paragraph IX-e the following new paragraph:

IX-f. Require School Districts to Adopt a Policy Prohibiting Transportation for Medical and Health-Related Appointments. A school district shall adopt a policy prohibiting any school district personnel from transporting a minor or accompanying a minor during transport, except emergency transport by ambulance, for a medical appointment, mental health appointment or visit that includes any type of mental health evaluation, treatment, or counseling, or any other health-related appointment or visit, without the knowledge and approval of the minor's parent or guardian, unless he or she is following a published school district emergency health or medical emergency protocol or policy.

22:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.

Approved: May 14, 2025

Effective Date: July 13, 2025