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NH Rev Stat § 188-H:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 188-H - Sexual Misconduct at Institutions of Higher Education|Section 188-H:4 - Sexual Misconduct Climate Surveys.

    188-H:4 Sexual Misconduct Climate Surveys. –||Each institution of higher education shall biennially conduct a sexual misconduct climate survey of all students at said institution. Each institution's sexual misconduct climate survey shall include a base set of common questions recommended by the task force on sexual misconduct and approved by the director, hereinafter described as the "base survey." The director shall provide a copy of the base sexual misconduct climate survey to all institutions biennially. Each institution shall also be permitted to append their own campus-specific questions to the base survey, provided that these questions do not require the disclosure of any personally-identifying information and are not unnecessarily traumatizing for victims of sexual violence. Within 120 days after completion of a sexual misconduct climate survey, each institution shall submit a summary of the results to the director and shall also post a summary of the results on the institution's website in an easily accessible manner.|||Source. 2020, 24:18, eff. Jan. 16, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 188-H:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 188-H - Sexual Misconduct at Institutions of Higher Education|Section 188-H:6 - Collaboration With Law Enforcement.

    188-H:6 Collaboration With Law Enforcement. –||I. Each institution of higher education shall adopt policies and procedures with the local law enforcement agency having primary jurisdiction over the city or town wherein the institution's primary campus is located to establish the respective roles and responsibilities of each party related to the prevention of and response to on-campus and off-campus sexual misconduct. Institutions of higher education and local law enforcement agencies shall develop policies and procedures that comply with all applicable state and federal confidentiality and privacy laws and:||(a) Delineate sharing protocols for investigative responsibilities.||(b) Provide protocols for investigations, including standards for notification and communication and measures to promote evidence preservation.||(c) Coordinate training, programing, and requirements on issues related to sexual misconduct.||(d) Ensure that reporting parties are able to move safely and comfortably between classes, extracurriculars, sports, and campus jobs.||(e) Develop a protocol for sharing information about specific crimes, which may include a mechanism for sharing information anonymously, that:||(1) Requires that the reporting party authorized or requested that such information be shared and is fully and accurately informed about what procedures shall occur if the information is shared; and||(2) Is carried out in a manner that is consistent with the General Education Provisions Act, 20 U.S.C. section 1221, and any other applicable provisions under state law.||(f) Establish the methods for sharing the Clery Act reporting requirements and for facilitating the issuance of timely warnings and emergency notifications required by the Clery Act relative to crimes that may pose a serious threat to the campus or near campus communities.||(g) Develop methods for notifying the appropriate county attorney's office.||(h) Update such policies and procedures biennially.||II. The commission may waive the requirements of this section in the case of an institution that demonstrates that it acted in good faith but was unable to adopt joint policies and procedures with the local law enforcement agency having primary jurisdiction over the city or town wherein the institution's primary campus is located.||III. Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, a member of the department of state police or a local police department who acts as a first responder to a report of sexual misconduct at an institution of higher education shall receive training in the awareness of dating violence, domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking and in trauma-informed response, subject to appropriation.|||Source. 2020, 24:18, eff. Jan. 16, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 188-H:9 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 188-H - Sexual Misconduct at Institutions of Higher Education|Section 188-H:9 - Awareness Programming.

    188-H:9 Awareness Programming. –||An institution of higher education, with guidance from its Title IX coordinator, local law enforcement, and the rape crisis center or the domestic violence center, shall provide mandatory annual sexual misconduct primary prevention and awareness programming for all students and all employees of the institution that shall include:||I. An explanation of consent as it applies to sexual activity and sexual relationships.||II. The role drugs and alcohol play in an individual's ability to consent.||III. Information on options relating to the reporting of an incident of sexual misconduct, the effects of each option, and the methods to report an incident of sexual misconduct, including confidential and anonymous disclosure.||IV. Information on the institution's procedures for resolving sexual misconduct complaints and the range of sanctions or penalties the institution may impose on students and employees found responsible for a violation.||V. The name, contact information, and role of the confidential resource advisor.||VI. Strategies for bystander intervention and risk reduction.||VII. Opportunities for ongoing sexual misconduct prevention and awareness campaigns and programming.|||Source. 2020, 24:18, eff. Jan. 16, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 188-H:10 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 188-H - Sexual Misconduct at Institutions of Higher Education|Section 188-H:10 - Training for Individuals Involved in the Disciplinary Process.

    188-H:10 Training for Individuals Involved in the Disciplinary Process. –||An individual who participates in the implementation of an institution of higher education's disciplinary process, including an individual responsible for resolving complaints of reported incidents, shall have training or experience in handling sexual misconduct complaints and the operations of the institution's disciplinary process. The training shall include, but not be limited to:||I. Information on working with and interviewing persons subjected to sexual misconduct.||II. Information on particular types of conduct that constitute sexual misconduct, including same-sex dating violence, domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking.||III. Information on consent and the role drugs and alcohol may play in an individual's ability to consent.||IV. The effects of trauma, including any neurobiological impact on a person.||V. Cultural competence training regarding how sexual misconduct may impact students differently depending on factors that contribute to a student's cultural background, including but not limited to national origin, sex, ethnicity, religion, gender identity, gender expression, and sexual orientation.||VI. Ways to communicate sensitively and compassionately with a reporting party of sexual misconduct including, but not limited to, an awareness of responding to a reporting party with consideration of that party's cultural background and providing services to or assisting in locating services for the reporting party. Ways to communicate sensitively with a responding party, including an awareness of the emotional impact of being wrongly accused.||VII. Training and information regarding how dating violence, domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking may impact students with developmental or intellectual disabilities.|||Source. 2020, 24:18, eff. Jan. 16, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 188-H:11 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 188-H - Sexual Misconduct at Institutions of Higher Education|Section 188-H:11 - Institutional Training.

    188-H:11 Institutional Training. –||Each institution of higher education shall ensure that its Title IX coordinator and members of its special or campus police force or the campus safety personnel employed by the institution are educated in the awareness of sexual misconduct and in trauma-informed response.|||Source. 2020, 24:18, eff. Jan. 16, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 188-H:12 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 188-H - Sexual Misconduct at Institutions of Higher Education|Section 188-H:12 - Data Reporting Requirements.

    188-H:12 Data Reporting Requirements. –||Annually, not later than October 1, an institution of higher education shall prepare and submit to the director, the commissioner of the department of health and human services, the clerks of the senate and house of representatives, and the chairpersons of the senate and house committees with jurisdiction over education a report that includes:||I. The total number of allegations of dating violence, domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking reported to the institution's Title IX coordinator by a student or employee of the institution against another student or employee of the institution.||II. The number of law enforcement investigations initiated in response to complaints of sexual misconduct brought forward by students or employees of the institution against another student or employee of the institution, if known.||III. The number of students found responsible for violating an institution's policies prohibiting sexual misconduct.||IV. The number of students found not responsible for violating an institution's policies prohibiting sexual misconduct.||V. The number of disciplinary actions imposed by the institution as a result of a finding of responsibility for violating an institution's policies prohibiting sexual misconduct. The report shall provide information in an anonymous manner that complies with state and federal privacy laws.|||Source. 2020, 24:18, eff. Jan. 16, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 188-H:13 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 188-H - Sexual Misconduct at Institutions of Higher Education|Section 188-H:13 - Amnesty.

    188-H:13 Amnesty. –||A reporting party or a witness that causes an investigation of sexual misconduct, or drug or alcohol use, shall not be subject to a disciplinary proceeding or sanction for a violation of the institution of higher education's student conduct policy related to the incident unless the institution determine that the report was not made in good faith or that the violation was egregious. An egregious violation shall include, but not be limited to, taking an action that places the health and safety of another person at risk.|||Source. 2020, 24:18, eff. Jan. 16, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 188-H:14 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 188-H - Sexual Misconduct at Institutions of Higher Education|Section 188-H:14 - Enforcement and Penalty.

    188-H:14 Enforcement and Penalty. –||Upon determination, after reasonable notice and opportunity for a hearing, that an institution of higher education has violated or failed to carry out any provision of this chapter or any rule adopted under this chapter, the director may impose a civil penalty upon such institution for each violation not to exceed $150,000, which shall be adjusted for inflation annually, or one percent of an institution's annual operating budget, whichever is lower. The director shall use any such civil penalty funds to provide oversight of this chapter.|||Source. 2020, 24:18, eff. Jan. 16, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 188-H:15 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 188-H - Sexual Misconduct at Institutions of Higher Education|Section 188-H:15 - Memoranda of Understanding With Rape Crisis Centers or Domestic Violence Centers.

    188-H:15 Memoranda of Understanding With Rape Crisis Centers or Domestic Violence Centers. –||I. An institution of higher education shall enter into and maintain a memorandum of understanding with a rape crisis center or domestic violence center to:||(a) Assist in developing the institution's policies, programing, and training regarding sexual misconduct involving students or employees.||(b) Provide an off-campus alternative for students and employees of the institution to receive free and confidential sexual assault crisis services, including access to a sexual assault nurse examiner if available, or free and confidential domestic violence crisis services in response to sexual misconduct.||(c) Ensure that a student or employee of the institution may access free and confidential counseling and advocacy services either on campus or off campus.||(d) Ensure cooperation and training between the institution and the crisis center or agency to ensure an understanding of the roles that the institution, crisis center, and agency should play in responding to reports and disclosures of sexual misconduct against students and employees of the institution and the institution's protocols for providing support and services to such students and employees.||II. A memorandum of understanding may include an agreement, including a fee structure, between the rape crisis center or domestic violence center and the institution of higher education to provide confidential victim services. Confidential victim services may include case consultation and training fees for confidential resource advisors, consultation fees for the development and implementation of student education and prevention programs, the development of staff training and prevention curriculum, and confidential on-site office space for an advocate from a rape crisis center or domestic violence center to meet with students.||III. The commission may waive the requirements of this section in the case of an institution that demonstrates that it acted in good faith but was unable to obtain a signed memorandum.|||Source. 2020, 24:18, eff. Jan. 16, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 189:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:1 - Days of School.

    189:1 Days of School. –||The school board of every district shall provide standard schools for at least 180 days in each year, or the equivalent number of hours as required in the rules of the department of education, at such places in the district as will best serve the interests of education and give to all the pupils within the district as nearly equal advantages as are practicable.|||Source. 1883, 43:6. PS 92:1. 1919, 106:20. 1921, 85, II:1. PL 117:1. RL 135:1. RSA 189:1. 1959, 133:1. 2007, 71:1. 2011, 42:1, eff. July 8, 2011.|
NH Rev Stat § 189:1-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:1-a - Duty to Provide Education.

    189:1-a Duty to Provide Education. –||I. It shall be the duty of the school board to provide, at district expense, elementary and secondary education to all pupils who reside in the district until such time as the pupil has acquired a high school diploma or has reached age 21, whichever occurs first; provided, that the board may exclude specific pupils for gross misconduct or for neglect or refusal to conform to the reasonable rules of the school, and further provided that this section shall not apply to pupils who have been exempted from school attendance in accordance with RSA 193:5.||II. Elected school boards shall be responsible for establishing the structure, accountability, advocacy, and delivery of instruction in each school operated and governed in its district. To accomplish this end, and to support flexibility in implementing diverse educational approaches, school boards shall establish, in each school operated and governed in its district, instructional policies that establish instructional goals based upon available information about the knowledge and skills pupils will need in the future.||III. School boards shall adopt a teacher performance evaluation system, with the involvement of teachers and principals, for use in the school district. A school board may consider any resources it deems reasonable and appropriate, including any resources that may be provided by the state department of education. In this paragraph, "teacher" shall have the same meaning as in RSA 189:14-a, V.||IV. Pursuant to RSA 193:3, VI, a school board may execute a contract with any approved nonsectarian private school approved by the school board as a school tuition program as defined in RSA 193:3, VII to provide for the education of a child who resides in the school district, and may raise and appropriate money for the purposes of the contract, if the school district does not have a public school at the pupil's grade level and the school board decides it is in the best interest of the pupil.|||Source. 1969, 356:10. 1973, 72:28. 1975, 22:1. 1983, 84:1. 2011, 108:1. 2013, 243:1. 2017, 182:1, eff. Aug. 28, 2017.|
NH Rev Stat § 189:1-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:1-b - Freedom of Assembly; Freedom of Religion.

    189:1-b Freedom of Assembly;  Freedom of Religion. –||I. On each school day, before classes of instruction officially convene in the public schools of this sovereign state, a period of not more than 5 minutes shall be available to those who may wish to exercise their right to freedom of assembly and participate voluntarily in the free exercise of religion.||II. There shall be no teacher supervision of this free exercise of religion, nor shall there be any prescribed or proscribed form or content of prayer.|||Source. 1977, 182:1, eff. Aug. 13, 1977.|
NH Rev Stat § 189:1-c (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:1-c - Student Member.

    189:1-c Student Member. –||In addition to the school board members authorized in RSA 671:4, the members of the school board may choose by a simple majority to add one or more nonvoting student members from a high school within its district to the board. The powers and duties of a student member shall be as described in RSA 194:23-f. In districts having more than one public high school, the school board may rotate the student member representation as determined by the board.|||Source. 1983, 111:2. 2009, 5:1, eff. June 16, 2009.|
NH Rev Stat § 189:1-d (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:1-d - Definitions.

    189:1-d Definitions. –||In this chapter:||I. "Attendance" means full-time participation in a program of instruction under the direction of a teacher employed by the school district. Educationally disabled home educated pupils educated at school district expense under the direction of a teacher employed by the school district shall be included.||II. "Membership" means pupils of whom attendance is expected, whether a pupil is present or absent on any given day.||III. "Average daily membership in attendance" means the aggregate half-day membership of pupils attending schools operated by a school district divided by the number of half-days of instruction offered. The average daily membership in attendance for preschool and kindergarten pupils shall be divided by the number of instructional days offered to higher-level elementary grades.||IV. "Average daily membership in residence" means the average daily membership in attendance of pupils who are legal residents of the school district pursuant to RSA 193:12 or RSA 193:27, IV and attend a state-approved public or nonpublic school as assigned by the school district in which the pupil resides, or by the state, or attend an approved chartered public school.|||Source. 1993, 322:5. 2003, 241:9. 2008, 354:1. 2009, 297:1, eff. Sept. 29, 2009.|
NH Rev Stat § 189:1-e (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:1-e - Directory Information.

    189:1-e Directory Information. –||A local education agency which maintains education records may provide information designated as directory information consistent with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). Each year schools shall give parents public notice of the types of information designated as directory information. By a specified time after parents are notified of their review rights, parents shall request in writing to remove all or part of the information on their child that they do not wish to be available to the public. Such approval shall be renewed on an annual basis. Items of directory information, which is information not generally considered harmful or an invasion of privacy if disclosed, may include:||I. Name and address of a student.||II. Field of study.||III. Weight and height of athletes.||IV. Most recent previous school attended.||V. Date and place of birth.||VI. Participation in officially recognized activities and sports.||VII. Date of attendance, degrees, and awards.|||Source. 1997, 255:1, eff. Aug. 18, 1997.|
NH Rev Stat § 189:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:2 - Reduction of Time.

    189:2 Reduction of Time. –||If the school board of any district shall decide that, by reason of special conditions or circumstances, the maintenance of standard schools for 180 days, or the equivalent number of hours if approved by the commissioner of the department of education, in said district is undesirable, said school board may so represent in writing to the state board. If, upon hearing, the state board, or the commissioner when authorized by the state board, shall be of the opinion that the representation is true, it may reduce the time of maintaining such schools in said district to such limits as it may deem wise. Provided, however, that the state board, or the commissioner if authorized, shall not reduce the days during which schools shall be in session, as provided in RSA 189:1, on account of workshops, conventions or teachers' institutes.|||Source. 1919, 106:20. 1921, 85, II:1. PL 117:2. RL 135:2. RSA 189:2. 1959, 133:2. 1981, 318:5. 2007, 71:1, eff. Aug. 10, 2007.|
NH Rev Stat § 189:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:3 - Other Modifications.

    189:3 Other Modifications. –||If any other provisions in the laws which relate to education shall be found by the state board to impose upon any district obligations which, by reason of unusual circumstances or of exceptional conditions in that district, result in an unnecessary expenditure of school money, or in a procedure which is inimical to the best interests of education therein, the state board, upon like proceedings, may suspend or modify such obligations as in its judgment may be reasonable.|||Source. 1919, 106:20. 1921, 85, II:1. PL 117:3. RL 135:3.|
NH Rev Stat § 189:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:4 - Decisions of State Board.

    189:4 Decisions of State Board. –||All such decisions of the state board shall be made in writing, recorded by it and a copy sent for record to the clerk of the district affected thereby.|||Source. 1919, 106:20. 1921, 85, II:1. PL 117:4. RL 135:4.|
NH Rev Stat § 189:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XV - Education|Title 189 - School Boards, Superintendents, Teachers, and Truant Officers; School Census|Section 189:5 - Repealed by 1969, 104:1, eff. June 24, 1969.

    189:5 Repealed by 1969, 104:1, eff. June 24, 1969. –|