---
type: "Bill"
title: "relative to surety indemnification requirements for private postsecondary career schools."
description: "relative to surety indemnification requirements for private postsecondary career schools."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nh"
legislature: "New Hampshire General Court"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 442"
citation: "New Hampshire SB 442 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jay Kahn"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-12-20"
last_action: "2018-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d8102672-0424-4c53-ba05-5a3b0f429eb1"
source_url: "http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_Status/bill_status.aspx?lsr=2868&sy=2018&sortoption=&txtsessionyear=2018"
source_hash: "3c2f1a7a8ec876162da120c898762b165f0321ab9aab75b53d404beb2fc74adc"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-nh"]
---

# New Hampshire SB 442 (2018) — relative to surety indemnification requirements for private postsecondary career schools.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **latest version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/billText.aspx?sy=2018&id=1884&txtFormat=html)

## Sponsors

- Jay Kahn — primary (person)
- David H Watters — cosponsor (person)
- Mary Stuart Gile — cosponsor (person)
- Mel Myler — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-12-20** To Be Introduced 01/03/2018 and Referred to Education; SJ 1 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2017-12-28** Hearing: 01/30/2018, Room 103, LOB, 09:00 am; SC 2
- **2018-02-02** Committee Report: Ought to Pass, 02/15/2018; Vote 5-0; CC SC 7 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-15** Ought to Pass: MA, VV; OT3rdg; 02/15/2018; SJ 4 `passage`
- **2018-03-12** Introduced 03/07/2018 and referred to Education HJ 7 P. 51 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-03-14** Public Hearing: 03/27/2018 10:30 AM LOB 207
- **2018-04-03** Executive Session: 04/03/2018 LOB 207
- **2018-04-04** Committee Report: Ought to Pass for 04/12/2018 (Vote 19-0; CC) HC 14 P. 3 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-12** Ought to Pass: MA VV 04/12/2018 HJ 12 P. 2 `passage`
- **2018-05-01** Enrolled 04/26/2018
- **2018-05-01** Enrolled (In recess 04/26/2018); SJ 15
- **2018-06-04** Signed by the Governor on 05/30/2018; Chapter 0136; Effective 07/29/2018 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d8102672-0424-4c53-ba05-5a3b0f429eb1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Hampshire legislature records).