HB 35 - AS INTRODUCED
2023 SESSION
23-0116
09/10
HOUSE BILL 35
AN ACT requiring student identification cards to include the National Eating Disorders Hotline.
SPONSORS: Rep. Rung, Hills. 12; Rep. Healey, Hills. 12; Rep. B. Boyd, Hills. 12; Rep. Cannon, Straf. 12; Rep. Tanner, Sull. 5; Rep. Levesque, Straf. 4; Rep. N. Murphy, Hills. 12
COMMITTEE: Education
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ANALYSIS
This bill requires student identification cards to include the National Eating Disorders Hotline phone number.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
23-0116
09/10
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Three
AN ACT requiring student identification cards to include the National Eating Disorders Hotline.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Chapter; Eating Disorder Education. Amend RSA by inserting after chapter 193-J the following new chapter:
CHAPTER 193-K
EATING DISORDER EDUCATION
193:K:1 Public School Identification Cards
I. Each school district and chartered public school that serves any students in grades 6 through 12 that issues student identification cards shall include on either side of the cards the telephone number for the National Eating Disorder Hotline.
II. The requirement in paragraph I shall apply to any student identification card issued for the first time or for replacement cards issued for damaged or lost student identification cards after the effective date of this section.
III. Public schools and charter schools issuing student identification cards pursuant to this section shall annually and prior to the start of each school year certify to their respective governing bodies that the contact information being included on student identification cards for the National Eating Disorder Hotline is accurate and up to date.
IV. The National Eating Disorder Hotline shall be labeled on student identification cards and include the telephone number: National Eating Disorder Hotline 1-800-931-2237.
2 Higher Education; Student Identification Cards; Eating Disorder Hotline. Amend the chapter title of RSA 188-I and RSA 188-I:1 to read as follows:
CHAPTER 188-I
SUICIDE PREVENTION AND EATING DISORDERS IN HIGHER EDUCATION
188-I:1 Student Identification Cards.
I. Each institution of higher education shall adopt a policy implementing the requirement that student identification cards shall include on either side of the cards the telephone number for both the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline and the National Eating Disorder Hotline.
II. The requirement in paragraph I shall apply to any student identification card issued for the first time or for replacement cards issued for damaged or lost student identification cards after the effective date of this section.
III. Public and private institutions of higher learning that issue student identification cards, including the institutions of the university system of New Hampshire, the community college system, and private higher education institutions regulated by the higher education commission under RSA 21-N:8-a, II, shall comply with the requirement in paragraph I by including on either side of the student identification cards the telephone number for both the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline and the National Eating Disorder Hotline.
3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.