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Committee advances bullying‑prevention rewrite, adds reporting and timelines; some members seek broader scope
Summary
An amended Senate Bill 210 passed out of the House Education Committee after testimony about retaliation, reporting timelines and including cyberbullying language from a related House bill. Some members urged expanding coverage to private and charter schools and refining timelines.
The House Education Committee voted to advance an amended version of Senate Bill 210, a comprehensive package that revises New Hampshire’s bullying statute, adds cyberbullying provisions from a related House bill, and imposes reporting deadlines and new educator‑conduct violations for intentional noncompliance.
The amendment combines prior work on cyberbullying (House Bill 108) with additional requirements for school handbooks, parent notification timelines (a five‑day limit on superintendent waivers to notify parents except for cross‑district incidents), additional reporting metrics to the Department of Education, and a new educator‑conduct provision that would allow investigations and potential discipline for "intentional or knowing" violations of reporting or timelines.
Why it matters: Committee sponsors and witnesses said the changes respond to repeated, sometimes harrowing, testimony about bullying and cyberbullying…
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