HB 1163 - AS INTRODUCED
 
 
2020 SESSION
20-2295
06/04
 
HOUSE BILL 1163
 
 
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
 
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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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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
20-2295
06/04
 
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
 
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty
 
 
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.