{"id": "CACR8", "year": 2012, "term": "2011-2012", "title": "relating to education. Providing that the legislature shall have the power to authorize schools.", "narrative": "It was introduced on January 6, 2011 and referred to the House Education committee. The committee held a public hearing on February 24, 2011. The committee met in executive session on February 24, 2011 to vote on its recommendation. The committee retained the bill, holding it for further work rather than reporting it out this year. The committee held a work session on September 20, 2011. The committee met in executive session on October 18, 2011 to vote on its recommendation. The majority recommended that the House pass it, and the minority recommended that the House kill it, by a vote of 10\u20135. The report was placed on the regular calendar. On January 5, 2012 the House adopted \u201cSpecial Order to End of Regular Calendar Including Bills Removed from Consent Calendar (Rep Balboni)\u201d on a voice vote. On January 5, 2012 the House adopted \u201cSpecial Order to Next Order of Business (Rep G.Richardson)\u201d on a roll call 328\u201319. On January 5, 2012 the House rejected a motion to pass it on a roll call 219\u2013127. On January 5, 2012 the House rejected a motion to lay it on the table on a division vote 114\u2013234. On January 5, 2012 the House adopted \u201cRecommit (Rep Balboni)\u201d on a division vote 246\u2013103. The committee held a public hearing on February 16, 2012. The committee met in executive session on February 21, 2012 to vote on its recommendation. The majority recommended that the House pass it, and the minority recommended that the House kill it, by a vote of 12\u20135. The report was placed on the regular calendar. On March 8, 2012 the House failed \u201cLay On The Table (Rep Bettencourt)\u201d on a division vote 229\u201383. On March 8, 2012 the House adopted \u201cPostpone to a Date Certain Being Mar 15 (Rep Bettencourt)\u201d on a voice vote. On March 15, 2012 the House adopted \u201cSpecial Order to a Time Certain Being March 21 Session (Rep Bettencourt)\u201d on a voice vote. On March 21, 2012 the House adopted \u201cSpecial Order to a Time Certain Being March 28 Session at Approx 11:00 AM (Rep Bettencourt)\u201d on a voice vote. On March 28, 2012 the House rejected a motion to pass it on a roll call 222\u2013133. On March 28, 2012 the House rejected a motion to kill it on a division vote 165\u2013190. On March 28, 2012 the House adopted \u201cLaid On The Table (Rep Itse)\u201d on a division vote 299\u201356. On June 6, 2012 the House adopted \u201cRemove From The Table (Rep Greazzo)\u201d on a division vote 187\u2013164. On June 6, 2012 the House failed \u201cSuspend Rules to Allow Consideration (Rep Greazzo)\u201d on a division vote 182\u2013163. On June 6, 2012 the House failed \u201cReconsideration of Rules Suspension (Rep C.Christensen)\u201d on a roll call 156\u2013163.", "stages": [{"label": "House Committee (Education)", "hand": "H:committee", "text": "It was introduced on January 6, 2011 and referred to the House Education committee. The committee held a public hearing on February 24, 2011. The committee met in executive session on February 24, 2011 to vote on its recommendation. The committee retained the bill, holding it for further work rather than reporting it out this year. The committee held a work session on September 20, 2011. The committee met in executive session on October 18, 2011 to vote on its recommendation. The majority recommended that the House pass it, and the minority recommended that the House kill it, by a vote of 10\u20135. 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Joseph Thomas (R)", "s": "thomas, joseph", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Norman Tregenza (R)", "s": "tregenza, norman", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Marc Tremblay (R)", "s": "tremblay, marc", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Stella Tremblay (R)", "s": "tremblay, stella", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Timothy Twombly (R)", "s": "twombly, timothy", "p": "R", "v": "Nay"}, {"n": "Rep. Lucien Vita (R)", "s": "vita, lucien", "p": "R", "v": "Nay"}, {"n": "Rep. James Waddell (R)", "s": "waddell, james", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Joanne Ward (R)", "s": "ward, joanne", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Mark Warden (R)", "s": "warden, mark", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. James Webb (R)", "s": "webb, james", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Michael Weeden (R)", "s": "weeden, michael", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Randall Whitehead (R)", "s": "whitehead, randall", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. 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David Pierce (D)", "s": "pierce, david", "p": "D", "v": "Nay"}, {"n": "Rep. Jennifer Daler (D)", "s": "daler, jennifer", "p": "D", "v": "Nay"}, {"n": "Rep. Russell Day (R)", "s": "day, russell", "p": "R", "v": "Not Voting/Excused"}, {"n": "Rep. Daniel Sullivan (D)", "s": "sullivan, daniel", "p": "D", "v": "Nay"}, {"n": "Rep. Patrick Long (D)", "s": "long, patrick", "p": "D", "v": "Nay"}, {"n": "Rep. Nickolas Levasseur (D)", "s": "levasseur, nickolas", "p": "D", "v": "Not Voting/Excused"}, {"n": "Rep. Connie Soucy (R)", "s": "soucy, connie", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Richard Barry (R)", "s": "barry, richard", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Edith Hogan (R)", "s": "hogan, edith", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Robert Haefner (R)", "s": "haefner, robert", "p": "R", "v": "Not Voting/Excused"}, {"n": "Rep. Gary Richardson (D)", "s": "richardson, gary", "p": "D", "v": "Nay"}, {"n": "Rep. Frank Case (R)", "s": "case, frank", "p": "R", "v": "Not Voting/Excused"}, {"n": "Rep. 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Ted Rokas (D)", "s": "rokas, ted", "p": "D", "v": "Nay"}, {"n": "Rep. Dino Scala (R)", "s": "scala, dino", "p": "R", "v": "Not Voting/Excused"}, {"n": "Rep. Donna Schlachman (D)", "s": "schlachman, donna", "p": "D", "v": "Nay"}, {"n": "Rep. John Sedensky (R)", "s": "sedensky, john", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Carl Seidel (R)", "s": "seidel, carl", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Peter Silva (R)", "s": "silva, peter", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Suzanne Smith (D)", "s": "smith, suzanne", "p": "D", "v": "Nay"}, {"n": "Rep. Todd Smith (R)", "s": "smith, todd", "p": "R", "v": "Not Voting/Excused"}, {"n": "Rep. William Smith (R)", "s": "smith, william", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Jeffrey St. Cyr (R)", "s": "st. cyr, jeffrey", "p": "R", "v": "Nay"}, {"n": "Rep. Franklin Sterling (R)", "s": "sterling, franklin", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. James Sullivan (R)", "s": "sullivan, james", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. 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Lyle Bulis (R)", "s": "bulis, lyle", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. David Pierce (D)", "s": "pierce, david", "p": "D", "v": "Nay"}, {"n": "Rep. Jennifer Daler (D)", "s": "daler, jennifer", "p": "D", "v": "Nay"}, {"n": "Rep. Russell Day (R)", "s": "day, russell", "p": "R", "v": "Nay"}, {"n": "Rep. Daniel Sullivan (D)", "s": "sullivan, daniel", "p": "D", "v": "Nay"}, {"n": "Rep. Patrick Long (D)", "s": "long, patrick", "p": "D", "v": "Nay"}, {"n": "Rep. Nickolas Levasseur (D)", "s": "levasseur, nickolas", "p": "D", "v": "Nay"}, {"n": "Rep. Connie Soucy (R)", "s": "soucy, connie", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Richard Barry (R)", "s": "barry, richard", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Edith Hogan (R)", "s": "hogan, edith", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Robert Haefner (R)", "s": "haefner, robert", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Gary Richardson (D)", "s": "richardson, gary", "p": "D", "v": "Nay"}, {"n": "Rep. 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Chip Rice (D)", "s": "rice, chip", "p": "D", "v": "Not Voting/Excused"}, {"n": "Rep. Andrew White (D)", "s": "white, andrew", "p": "D", "v": "Nay"}, {"n": "Rep. Lynne Blankenbeker (R)", "s": "blankenbeker, lynne", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Steven Cunningham (R)", "s": "cunningham, steven", "p": "R", "v": "Not Voting/Not Excused"}, {"n": "Rep. Patrick Abrami (R)", "s": "abrami, patrick", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Donald Andolina (R)", "s": "andolina, donald", "p": "R", "v": "Nay"}, {"n": "Rep. Jason Antosz (R)", "s": "antosz, jason", "p": "R", "v": "Not Voting/Excused"}, {"n": "Rep. Kevin Avard (R)", "s": "avard, kevin", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Gary Azarian (R)", "s": "azarian, gary", "p": "R", "v": "Nay"}, {"n": "Rep. J. Michael Ball (R)", "s": "ball, j. michael", "p": "R", "v": "Not Voting/Excused"}, {"n": "Rep. Thomas Beattie (R)", "s": "beattie, thomas", "p": "R", "v": "Not Voting/Not Excused"}, {"n": "Rep. James Belanger (R)", "s": "belanger, james", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Jerry Bergevin (R)", "s": "bergevin, jerry", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Regina Birdsell (R)", "s": "birdsell, regina", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Spec Bowers (R)", "s": "bowers, spec", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Lester Bradley (R)", "s": "bradley, lester", "p": "R", "v": "Nay"}, {"n": "Rep. Kevin Brown (R)", "s": "brown, kevin", "p": "R", "v": "Not Voting/Excused"}, {"n": "Rep. Paul Brown (R)", "s": "brown, paul", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Randall Brownrigg (R)", "s": "brownrigg, randall", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. John Burt (R)", "s": "burt, john", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Michael Buxton (R)", "s": "buxton, michael", "p": "R", "v": "Nay"}, {"n": "Rep. John Byrnes (R)", "s": "byrnes, john", "p": "R", "v": "Not Voting/Excused"}, {"n": "Rep. Anne Cartwright (R)", "s": "cartwright, anne", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Cynthia Chase (D)", "s": "chase, cynthia", "p": "D", "v": "Nay"}, {"n": "Rep. Brian Chirichiello (R)", "s": "chirichiello, brian", "p": "R", "v": "Not Voting/Excused"}, {"n": "Rep. James Coffey (R)", "s": "coffey, james", "p": "R", "v": "Nay"}, {"n": "Rep. Seth Cohn (R)", "s": "cohn, seth", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Guy Comtois (R)", "s": "comtois, guy", "p": "R", "v": "Nay"}, {"n": "Rep. William Condra (R)", "s": "condra, william", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Timothy Copeland (R)", "s": "copeland, timothy", "p": "R", "v": "Nay"}, {"n": "Rep. Sean Coughlin (R)", "s": "coughlin, sean", "p": "R", "v": "Not Voting/Excused"}, {"n": "Rep. Gary Coulombe (D)", "s": "coulombe, gary", "p": "D", "v": "Nay"}, {"n": "Rep. Kathleen Cusson-Cail (R)", "s": "cusson-cail, kathleen", "p": "R", "v": "Nay"}, {"n": "Rep. Duffy Daugherty (R)", "s": "daugherty, duffy", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Joshua Davenport (R)", "s": "davenport, joshua", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Cameron DeJong (R)", "s": "dejong, cameron", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Susan DeLemus (R)", "s": "delemus, susan", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Helen Deloge (D)", "s": "deloge, helen", "p": "D", "v": "Nay"}, {"n": "Rep. Daniel Donovan (R)", "s": "donovan, daniel", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Joe Duarte (R)", "s": "duarte, joe", "p": "R", "v": "Nay"}, {"n": "Rep. Richard Dwinell (R)", "s": "dwinell, richard", "p": "R", "v": "Nay"}, {"n": "Rep. Duane Erickson (R)", "s": "erickson, duane", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Jack Flanagan (R)", "s": "flanagan, jack", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. June Frazer (D)", "s": "frazer, june", "p": "D", "v": "Nay"}, {"n": "Rep. Robert Fredette (R)", "s": "fredette, robert", "p": "R", "v": "Nay"}, {"n": "Rep. John Gimas (D)", "s": "gimas, john", "p": "D", "v": "Nay"}, {"n": "Rep. Philip Ginsburg (D)", "s": "ginsburg, philip", "p": "D", "v": "Nay"}, {"n": "Rep. J. 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Gladys Johnsen (D)", "s": "johnsen, gladys", "p": "D", "v": "Nay"}, {"n": "Rep. Kyle Jones (R)", "s": "jones, kyle", "p": "R", "v": "Not Voting/Not Excused"}, {"n": "Rep. Laura Jones (R)", "s": "jones, laura", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Thomas Keane (R)", "s": "keane, thomas", "p": "R", "v": "Nay"}, {"n": "Rep. Robert Kingsbury (R)", "s": "kingsbury, robert", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Joseph Krasucki (R)", "s": "krasucki, joseph", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Kenneth Kreis (R)", "s": "kreis, kenneth", "p": "R", "v": "Not Voting/Excused"}, {"n": "Rep. Paul LaCasse (R)", "s": "lacasse, paul", "p": "R", "v": "Not Voting/Excused"}, {"n": "Rep. George Lambert (R)", "s": "lambert, george", "p": "R", "v": "Not Voting/Not Excused"}, {"n": "Rep. Kirsten Larsen Schultz (R)", "s": "larsen schultz, kirsten", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Kathleen Lauer-Rago (R)", "s": "lauer-rago, kathleen", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Thomas Laware (R)", "s": "laware, thomas", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Donald LeBrun (R)", "s": "lebrun, donald", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Benjamin Lefebvre (D)", "s": "lefebvre, benjamin", "p": "D", "v": "Not Voting/Excused"}, {"n": "Rep. Frederick Leonard (R)", "s": "leonard, frederick", "p": "R", "v": "Not Voting/Not Excused"}, {"n": "Rep. Mark Lindsley (R)", "s": "lindsley, mark", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Patricia Lovejoy (D)", "s": "lovejoy, patricia", "p": "D", "v": "Nay"}, {"n": "Rep. Charlene Lovett (R)", "s": "lovett, charlene", "p": "R", "v": "Not Voting/Excused"}, {"n": "Rep. David Lundgren (R)", "s": "lundgren, david", "p": "R", "v": "Not Voting/Excused"}, {"n": "Rep. Robert Luther (R)", "s": "luther, robert", "p": "R", "v": "Not Voting/Not Excused"}, {"n": "Rep. Bruce MacMahon (R)", "s": "macmahon, bruce", "p": "R", "v": "Nay"}, {"n": "Rep. Robert Malone (R)", "s": "malone, robert", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. 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Philip Munck (R)", "s": "munck, philip", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Brian Murphy (R)", "s": "murphy, brian", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Keith Murphy (R)", "s": "murphy, keith", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Jeanine Notter (R)", "s": "notter, jeanine", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. William O'Connor (R)", "s": "o'connor, william", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. John O'Connor (R)", "s": "o'connor, john", "p": "R", "v": "Not Voting/Excused"}, {"n": "Rep. Bill Ohm (R)", "s": "ohm, bill", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Richard Okerman (R)", "s": "okerman, richard", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}, {"n": "Rep. Jeffrey Oligny (R)", "s": "oligny, jeffrey", "p": "R", "v": "Not Voting/Excused"}, {"n": "Rep. Barry Palmer (R)", "s": "palmer, barry", "p": "R", "v": "Nay"}, {"n": "Rep. William Panek (R)", "s": "panek, william", "p": "R", "v": "Not Voting/Not Excused"}, {"n": "Rep. James Parison (R)", "s": "parison, james", "p": "R", "v": "Not Voting/Excused"}, {"n": "Rep. 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Michael A Balboni", "committee": "Education", "vote_yeas": 10, "vote_nays": 5, "text": "CACR 8 restores the people's right to local control of education and the authority of the legislature in education and education funding. In 1968, NH ballots included Question No. 3, a proposed Constitutional amendment which read: \"Are you in favor of amending Article 6 of Part I of the Constitution so as to strike out certain specific sectarian references ....\" The ballot question included this summary of the original Article 6: \"Article 6 authorizes local public taxation for the support of `Protestant' clergymen only, and promises equal protection of the law solely to `every denomination of Christians'.\" The ballot question provided voters with the following explanation of the effect of the proposed amendment: \"If the amendment is adopted, ... the above-described sectarian references will be stricken from the state constitution, putting all religious denominations on a basis of equality and removing the present conflict with the U.S. Constitution.\" Though the voters were told that only the sectarian references were to be removed, the actual amendment language went far beyond this. The amendment also removed and altered several non-religious phrases in the Article, and these changes were not explained to the voters. CACR 8 would give the people the opportunity to restore to their Constitution the non-religious aspects that were removed in 1968. These restorations include the following: the purpose of education as being to teach the fundamental principles of the Constitution so that the people are better able to control their government; empowering the legislature to authorized schools, to create and regulate public schools; providing school districts the exclusive control over the selection of their teachers and their compensation; the school districts control over curriculum which is inherent in the original Article's exclusive control over the selection of teachers; and each school district's responsibility as the first payers of education expense consistent with the exclusive control over teacher selection and compensation and curriculum selection. CACR 8 then proposes two further changes: it ratifies judicial opinions which enable the state to pay for nonreligious education at religious schools; and it clarifies the legislature's power to supplement local funding of public education. The first change makes clearly and permanently constitutional the state's current practices such as funding the non-religious education component for special needs students as required, for example, under federal special ed regulations, and the giving of scholarships to nursing students for the non-religious part of their education at religious schools. The second part ensures that the state funding of education will be consistent with the coordinating Articles of the Constitution of New Hampshire, specifically Part I, Articles 12, 28 and 29 and Part II, Articles 2 and 5 which make the legislature the supreme policy body of the state, and the only body capable of determining state spending. CACR 8 can be summed up as restoring the local control of education and the authority of the legislature in regard to education and education funding; thereby returning the people firmly in control of public education."}, {"side": "Minority", "author": "Rep. June M Frazer", "committee": "Education", "text": "Objection 1. State funding of Education. Article 6 states that the parishes, et al, \"have the right of . . . contracting with them [their teachers] for their support or maintenance, or both.\" It does not say that the parishes, et al, have the sole obligation for support or maintenance of their teachers. The amendment to this passage - adding the word \"exclusive\" before \"the right\" - takes the state completely out of funding for support and maintenance of teachers. A further amendment statement nails this down and expands \"support and maintenance\" of teachers to support and maintenance of \"schools\": \"\"The several political subdivisions for public education, charter schools, parishes, bodies corporate, shall make adequate provision at their own expense [emphasis 26 mine], for their schools, provided that the legislature may [emphasis mine] supplement that provision in the manner and degree that the Legislature finds most beneficial to the general good. This amendment takes away all obligation for the state to fund public education. Objection 2. State support of religious schools. The second-to-last sentence of Article 6 states that \"no person shall ever be compelled to pay toward the schools of any sect or denomination.\" In deleting the word \"schools' and substituting the words \"religious education,\" the amendment opens the door to public funding of religious schools, which the constitution emphatically states that no person (i.e., taxpayer) should ever have to do. This amendment allows for state funding of religious schools."}], "source": "House Calendar 70, 2011", "date": "2011-11-10", "dated": "printed", "cite": "HC 70", "cite_url": "https://gc.nh.gov/house/calendars_journals/viewer.aspx?fileName=calendars%5C2011%5CNo%2070%20%20November%2010%202011.pdf"}, {"bill": "CACR8", "title": "relating to education", "majority_recommendation": "OUGHT TO PASS", "minority_recommendation": "INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE", "reports": [{"side": "Majority", "author": "Rep. Michael A Balboni", "committee": "Education", "vote_yeas": 10, "vote_nays": 5, "text": "CACR 8 restores the people's right to local control of education and the authority of the legislature in education and education funding. In 1968, NH ballots included Question No. 3, a proposed Constitutional amendment which read: \"Are you in favor of amending Article 6 of Part I of the Constitution so as to strike out certain specific sectarian references ....\" The ballot question included this summary of the original Article 6: \"Article 6 authorizes local public taxation for the support of `Protestant' clergymen only, and promises equal protection of the law solely to `every denomination of Christians'.\" The ballot question provided voters with the following explanation of the effect of the proposed amendment: \"If the amendment is adopted, ... the above-described sectarian references will be stricken from the state constitution, putting all religious denominations on a basis of equality and removing the present conflict with the U.S. Constitution.\" Though the voters were told that only the sectarian references were to be removed, the actual amendment language went far beyond this. The amendment also removed and altered several non-religious phrases in the Article, and these changes were not explained to the voters. CACR 8 would give the people the opportunity to restore to their Constitution the non-religious aspects that were removed in 1968. These restorations include the following: the purpose of education as being to teach the fundamental principles of the Constitution so that the people are better able to control their government; empowering the legislature to authorized schools, to create and regulate public schools; providing school districts the exclusive control over the selection of their teachers and their compensation; the school districts control over curriculum which is inherent in the original Article's exclusive control over the selection of teachers; and each school district's responsibility as the first payers of education expense consistent with the exclusive control over teacher selection and compensation and curriculum selection. CACR 8 then proposes two further changes: it ratifies judicial opinions which enable the state to pay for nonreligious education at religious schools; and it clarifies the legislature's power to supplement local funding of public education. The first change makes clearly and permanently constitutional the state's current practices such as funding the non-religious education component for special needs students as required, for example, under federal special ed 28 regulations, and the giving of scholarships to nursing students for the non-religious part of their education at religious schools. The second part ensures that the state funding of education will be consistent with the coordinating Articles of the Constitution of New Hampshire, specifically Part I, Articles 12, 28 and 29 and Part II, Articles 2 and 5 which make the legislature the supreme policy body of the state, and the only body capable of determining state spending. CACR 8 can be summed up as restoring the local control of education and the authority of the legislature in regard to education and education funding; thereby returning the people firmly in control of public education."}, {"side": "Minority", "author": "Rep. June M Frazer", "committee": "Education", "text": "Objection 1. State funding of Education. Article 6 states that the parishes, et al, \"have the right of . . . contracting with them [their teachers] for their support or maintenance, or both.\" It does not say that the parishes, et al, have the sole obligation for support or maintenance of their teachers. The amendment to this passage - adding the word \"exclusive\" before \"the right\" - takes the state completely out of funding for support and maintenance of teachers. A further amendment statement nails this down and expands \"support and maintenance\" of teachers to support and maintenance of \"schools\": \"\"The several political subdivisions for public education, charter schools, parishes, bodies corporate, shall make adequate provision at their own expense, for their schools, provided that the legislature may supplement that provision in the manner and degree that the Legislature finds most beneficial to the general good. This amendment takes away all obligation for the state to fund public education. Objection 2. State support of religious schools. The second-to-last sentence of Article 6 states that \"no person shall ever be compelled to pay toward the schools of any sect or denomination.\" In deleting the word \"schools' and substituting the words \"religious education,\" the amendment opens the door to public funding of religious schools, which the constitution emphatically states that no person (i.e., taxpayer) should ever have to do. This amendment allows for state funding of religious schools."}], "source": "House Calendar 1, 2012", "date": "2011-12-30", "dated": "printed", "cite": "HC 1", "cite_url": "https://gc.nh.gov/house/calendars_journals/viewer.aspx?fileName=calendars%5C2012%5CNo%2001%20December%2030%202011.pdf"}, {"bill": "CACR8", "title": "relating to education", "majority_recommendation": "OUGHT TO PASS", "minority_recommendation": "INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE", "reports": [{"side": "Majority", "author": "Rep. Michael A Balboni", "committee": "Education", "vote_yeas": 12, "vote_nays": 5, "text": "CACR 8 restores the people's right to local control of education and the authority of the Legislature in education and education funding. In 1968, NH ballots included Question No. 3, a proposed Constitutional amendment which read: \"Are you in favor of amending Article 6 of Part I of the Constitution so as to strike out certain specific sectarian references ...\". The ballot question included this summary of the original Article 6: \"Article 6 authorizes local public taxation for the support of `Protestant' clergymen only, and promises equal protection of the law solely to `every denomination of Christians'.\" The ballot question provided voters with the following explanation of the effect of the proposed amendment: \"If the amendment is adopted, ... the above-described sectarian references will be stricken from the state constitution, putting all religious denominations on a basis of equality and removing the present conflict with the U.S. Constitution.\" Though the voters were told that only the sectarian references were to be removed, the actual amendment changes went far beyond this. The amendment also removed and altered several non-religious phrases in the Article, and these changes were not explained to the voters. CACR 8 would give the people the opportunity to restore to their Constitution the non-religious aspects that were removed in 1968. These restorations include the following: the purpose of education as being to teach the fundamental principles of the Constitution so that the people are better able to control their government; empowering the legislature to authorize schools, to create and regulate public schools; providing school districts the exclusive control over the selection of their teachers and their compensation; the school districts control over curriculum which is inherent in the original Article's exclusive control over the selection of teachers; and each school district's responsibility as the first payers of education expense consistent with the exclusive control over teacher selection and compensation and curriculum selection. CACR 8 then proposes 56 two further changes: it ratifies judicial rulings which enable the state to pay for non-religious education at religious schools; and it clarifies the legislature's power to supplement local funding of public education. The first change makes clearly and permanently constitutional the state's current practices such as funding the non-religious education component for special needs students as required, for example, under federal special ed regulations, and the giving of scholarships to nursing students for the non-religious part of their education at religious schools. The second part ensures that the state funding of education will be consistent with the coordinating Articles of the Constitution of New Hampshire, specifically Part I, Articles 12, 28 and 29 and Part II, Articles 2 and 5 which make the legislature the supreme policy body of the state, and the only body capable of determining state spending. CACR 8 can be summed up as restoring the local control of education and the authority of the legislature in regard to education and education funding; thereby returning the people firmly in control of public education."}, {"side": "Minority", "author": "Rep. June M Frazer", "committee": "Education", "text": "This constitutional amendment opens the door to local funding of schools without any supplement from the state. Note the word \"may\" in the following sentence: \"The several political subdivisions ... shall make adequate provision at their own expense for their schools, provided that the legislature may supplement that provision in the manner and degree that the legislature finds most beneficial to the general good.\" Should a future legislature choose to unfund the public schools, funding them would force already overburdened property taxpayers to pay markedly higher taxes to maintain the quality of their schools. Moreover, CACR 8, in this same language, has already been rejected by the House. The reason why it was recommitted to the education committee was to hold it in case other related bills did not materialize. Since CACR 12 is still in process, passing CACR 8, already rejected once, would be in opposition to the reason it was recommitted."}], "source": "House Calendar 18, 2012", "date": "2012-03-02", "dated": "printed", "cite": "HC 18", "cite_url": "https://gc.nh.gov/house/calendars_journals/viewer.aspx?fileName=calendars%5C2012%5CNo%2018%20March%202%202012.pdf"}], "docket_reports": [], "report_actions": [{"before": "2012-03-02", "date": "2012-01-05", "text": "Recommit (Rep Balboni): MA DIV 246-103"}], "veto_message": null, "bill_note": null, "subject": "Constitutional Amendments", "subject_source": "granite record", "house_committee": "Education", "senate_committee": "", "lsr": "2012-80", "docket_url": "https://gc.nh.gov/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/bill_docket.aspx?lsr=80&sy=2012&txtsessionyear=2012&txtbillnumber=cacr8&sortoption=billnumber", "documents": [{"label": "Bill status page", "url": "https://gc.nh.gov/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/Bill_status.aspx?lsr=80&sy=2012&txtsessionyear=2012&txtbillnumber=cacr8&sortoption=billnumber", "kind": "status"}, {"label": "Docket", "url": "https://gc.nh.gov/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/bill_docket.aspx?lsr=80&sy=2012&txtsessionyear=2012&txtbillnumber=cacr8&sortoption=billnumber", "kind": "docket"}, {"label": "HC 27", "url": "https://gc.nh.gov/house/calendars_journals/viewer.aspx?fileName=calendars%5C2011%5CNo%2027%20March%2025%202011.pdf", "kind": "record"}, {"label": "HC 70", "url": "https://gc.nh.gov/house/calendars_journals/viewer.aspx?fileName=calendars%5C2011%5CNo%2070%20%20November%2010%202011.pdf", "kind": "record"}, {"label": "HC 25", "url": "https://gc.nh.gov/house/calendars_journals/viewer.aspx?fileName=calendars%5C2012%5CNo%2025%20March%2023%202012.pdf", "kind": "record"}, {"label": "House Calendar 1, 2012, committee report", "url": "https://gc.nh.gov/house/calendars_journals/viewer.aspx?fileName=calendars%5C2012%5CNo%2001%20December%2030%202011.pdf", "kind": "report"}, {"label": "House Calendar 18, 2012, committee report", "url": "https://gc.nh.gov/house/calendars_journals/viewer.aspx?fileName=calendars%5C2012%5CNo%2018%20March%202%202012.pdf", "kind": "report"}], "amendments": [], "billtext": {"version": "As introduced", "title": "", "analysis": "", "body": "ANALYSIS\n\nThis constitutional amendment concurrent resolution provides that the legislature shall have the power to authorize schools.\n\n- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -\n\nExplanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.\n\nMatter removed from current law appears [ in brackets and struckthrough.]\n\nMatter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.\n\n11-0080\n\n06/05\n\nSTATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE\n\nIn the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Eleven\n\nCONCURRENT RESOLUTION PROPOSING CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT\n\nRELATING TO: education.\n\nPROVIDING THAT: the legislature shall have the power to authorize schools.\n\nBe it Resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring, that the\n\nConstitution of New Hampshire be amended as follows:\n\nI. That article 6 of the first part of the constitution be amended to read as follows:\n\n[Art.] 6. [ [Morality and Piety.]] As morality and piety, rightly grounded on [ high principles] the principles of self-government expressed in the Constitution, will give the best and greatest security to government, and will lay, in the hearts of men, the strongest obligations to due subjection; and as the knowledge of these is most likely to be propagated through a society by establishment of schools for that purpose, therefore, the people of this State have a right to empower, and do hereby fully empower the Legislature to authorize from time to time, the public schools in the political subdivisions for public education and charter schools and the several political subdivisions for public education, charter schools, parishes, bodies[,] corporate, or religious societies shall at all times have the exclusive right of electing their own teachers, [ and] of contracting with them for their support or maintenance, or both, and of establishing their own curricula. The several political subdivisions for public education, charter schools, parishes, bodies corporate, or religious societies shall make adequate provision at their own expense for their schools, provided that the Legislature may supplement that provision in the manner and degree that the Legislature finds most beneficial to the general good. But no person shall ever be compelled to pay towards the support of the [ schools] religious education of any sect or denomination. And every person, denomination or sect shall be equally under the protection of the law; and no subordination of any one sect, denomination or persuasion to another shall ever be established.\n\nII. That the above amendment proposed to the constitution be submitted to the qualified voters of the state at the state general election to be held in November, 2012.\n\nIII. That the selectmen of all towns, cities, wards and places in the state are directed to insert in their warrants for the said 2012 election an article to the following effect: To decide whether the amendments of the constitution proposed by the 2011 session of the general court shall be approved.\n\nIV. That the wording of the question put to the qualified voters shall be:\n\n\u201cAre you in favor of amending article 6 of the first part of the constitution to read as follows:\n\n[Art.] 6. As morality and piety, rightly grounded on the principles of self-government expressed in the Constitution, will give the best and greatest security to government, and will lay, in the hearts of men, the strongest obligations to due subjection; and as the knowledge of these is most likely to be propagated through a society by establishment of schools for that purpose, therefore, the people of this State have a right to empower, and do hereby fully empower the Legislature to authorize from time to time, the public schools in the political subdivisions for public education and charter schools and the several political subdivisions for public education, charter schools, parishes, bodies corporate, or religious societies shall at all times have the exclusive right of electing their own teachers, of contracting with them for their support or maintenance, or both, and of establishing their own curricula. The several political subdivisions for public education, charter schools, parishes, bodies corporate, or religious societies shall make adequate provision at their own expense for their schools, provided that the Legislature may supplement that provision in the manner and degree that the Legislature finds most beneficial to the general good. But no person shall ever be compelled to pay towards the support of the religious education of any sect or denomination. And every person, denomination or sect shall be equally under the protection of the law; and no subordination of any one sect, denomination or persuasion to another shall ever be established.\u201d\n\nV. That the secretary of state shall print the question to be submitted on a separate ballot or on the same ballot with other constitutional questions. The ballot containing the question shall include 2 squares next to the question allowing the voter to vote \u201cYes\u201d or \u201cNo.\u201d If no cross is made in either of the squares, the ballot shall not be counted on the question. The outside of the ballot shall be the same as the regular official ballot except that the words \u201cQuestions Relating to Constitutional Amendments proposed by the 2011 General Court\u201d shall be printed in bold type at the top of the ballot.\n\nVI. That if the proposed amendment is approved by 2/3 of those voting on the amendment, it becomes effective when the governor proclaims its adoption.", "in_text": [], "chars": 5620}, "nver": 0, "namd": 0, "rsa": {}, "amends": {}, "constitution": [{"verb": "amend", "part": 1, "art": "6", "href": "/laws#part1-art6", "label": "Part First, Article 6"}]}