HB 152 - AS INTRODUCED
2021 SESSION
21-0319
06/05
HOUSE BILL 152
AN ACT relative to the apportionment of costs in cooperative school districts.
SPONSORS: Rep. McGhee, Hills. 27
COMMITTEE: Education
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ANALYSIS
This bill permits the apportionment formula for a cooperative school district to be subject to
review 5 years after an article to continue the current formula was passed.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.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 152 - AS INTRODUCED
21-0319
06/05
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty One
AN ACT relative to the apportionment of costs in cooperative school districts.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 1 Cooperative School Districts; Reconsideration of Apportionment Formula. Amend RSA 195:8
2 to read as follows:
3 195:8 Reconsideration Procedure. If a cooperative school district was organized prior to July 1,
4 1963, the basis for the apportionment of all such costs may be subject to review, pursuant to an
5 article for that purpose duly inserted in the warrant for a district meeting to be held at any time
6 after the expiration of the 5-year period measured from the date of the first annual meeting. If the
7 apportionment formula for a cooperative school district has been duly changed, or if an article to
8 continue the current formula has been passed at a district meeting, the basis for the
9 apportionment of all such costs may be subject to review, pursuant to an article for that purpose duly
10 inserted in the warrant for a district meeting to be held at any time after the expiration of the 5-year
11 period measured from the date of the meeting at which the last change was made to the cost
12 apportionment formula or the last article to continue the current formula was passed. In
13 either case, the cooperative school district may then by majority vote elect to apportion all such costs
14 by the adoption of one of the formulas set forth in RSA 195:7, I(a), (b), or (c). Such apportionment
15 may be reviewed in the same manner at any time in order to permit the enlargement of the territory
16 of a school district or an increase in the number of grades for which the district shall be responsible.
17 2 Cooperative School Districts; Procedure for Formation. Amend RSA 195:18, III(i) to read as
18 follows:
19 (i) The method by which the articles of agreement may be amended with the approval of
20 the board; except that no amendment may permit secession of territory. The provisions adopted
21 under either subparagraph (e) or (g) above may be subject to review pursuant to an article for that
22 purpose duly inserted in the warrant for a district meeting which may be held at any time after the
23 expiration of the 5-year period measured from the date of the first annual meeting. If the
24 apportionment formula for a cooperative school district has been duly changed, or if an article to
25 continue the current formula has been passed at a district meeting, the basis for the
26 apportionment of all such costs may be subject to review pursuant to an article for that purpose duly
27 inserted in the warrant for a district meeting which may be held at any time after the expiration of
28 the 5-year period measured from the date of the meeting at which the last change was made to the
29 cost apportionment or the last article to continue the current formula was passed. However,
30 such provisions may be amended at any time in order to permit the enlargement of a cooperative
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1 school district or an increase in the number of grades for which the cooperative school district shall
2 be responsible.
3 3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.


Statutes affected:
Introduced: 195:8, 195:18
Ought to Pass: 195:8, 195:18
latest version: 195:8, 195:18