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New Hampshire’s Senate voted unanimously on Wednesday to reject changes to the state’s anti-bullying law that received strong support from the House, such as limiting school responsibility in dealing with off-campus incidents.

When Leila Pouliot’s 6-year-old son, Benjamin, was bullied on the school bus last fall, school officials told her that because he wasn’t on school grounds, "there wasn’t a whole lot they could do about it."

Washington lawmakers have approved an anti-bullying measure that gay state Rep. Marko Liias [D-Edmonds] introduced. Governor Chris Gregoire has indicated she will sign House Bill 1163 into law.

New Jersey is among the states that have enacted tougher anti-bullying measures since Tyler Clementi took his own life last fall, but some school officials remain concerned about whether these laws could infringe upon students’ First Amendment rights.

Four months after a university student’s suicidal leap from the George Washington Bridge, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has signed a bill touted as the toughest anti-bullying law in the nation.

Sixteen-year-old Matthew Zimmer told lawmakers at a hearing Monday on toughening New Jersey’s anti-bullying law that he withdrew from his public high school to escape being tormented because he’s gay.

New Jersey lawmakers introduced an "anti-bullying bill of rights" Monday that one advocate said would be the toughest state law of its kind in the nation, a proposal that follows the widely publicized suicide of a Rutgers University student who was humiliated online.