HB 136 - AS INTRODUCED
2021 SESSION
21-0470
06/04
HOUSE BILL 136
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. Burroughs, Carr. 1; Rep. Mullen, Hills. 7; Rep.
Tanner, Sull. 9; Rep. Ellison, Merr. 27; Rep. Wolf, Merr. 5; Rep. Rung, Hills. 21;
Rep. Cannon, Straf. 18
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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
 HB 136 - AS INTRODUCED
21-0470
06/04
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty One
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 1 New Paragraph; Education; Duties of the State Board of Education. Amend RSA 186:11 by
2 inserting after paragraph XXXVII the following new paragraph:
3 XXXVIII. Require all public and chartered public schools to update documents and software
4 that record an individual’s sex or gender to allow that individual to designate sex or gender that is
5 neither exclusively male or exclusively female.
6 2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.


Statutes affected:
Introduced: 186:11
latest version: 186:11