Education Funding

Chairman: Rick Ladd
VChairman: Walter Spilsbury
Clerk: Pam Brown
Committee Asst: Karen Gekas
Researcher: Jennifer Foor
Location: GP Room 232
Phone: 603-271-3565
Bills currently in Committee
Bills originally referred to committee
Members

There are 60 bills originally referred to this committee

HB112-FN
Title: (New Title) requiring students in the university and community college systems of New Hampshire to pass the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services civics naturalization test, take a course that covers fundamental American documents as part of the general education curriculum, or pass a civics course competency test.
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01/21/2025 01:00 PM
HB295
Title: making school building aid program funds nonlapsing.
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01/24/2025 09:30 AM
HB366-FN-A
Title: (New Title) modifying the priority of applications for school building aid grants.
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01/21/2025 09:30 AM
HB443
Title: relative to terms of appointed members on the higher education commission.
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02/07/2025 11:00 AM
HB491
Title: establishing a committee to study alternative funding methods for public education and how to reduce its reliance on local real estate property taxes.
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02/07/2025 02:30 PM
HB510-FN
Title: (New Title) establishing a commission to study due process in higher education disciplinary proceedings.
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01/21/2025 11:15 AM
HB563-FN
Title: (New Title) relative to the cost of an opportunity for an adequate education, extraordinary need grants, fiscal capacity disparity aid, and determination of education grants.
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01/30/2025 09:30 AM
HB651-FN
Title: modifying the base cost and differential aid costs of an adequate education.
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01/28/2025 10:00 AM
HB656
Title: relative to the authority of local school districts to accept federal grants.
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01/28/2025 02:15 PM
HB665-FN-A
Title: relative to eligibility for free school meals.
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02/07/2025 01:45 PM
HB675-FN-A-L
Title: (Second New Title) limiting total central office administrative expenses by school districts and requiring reporting of central office administrative expenses to the department of education.
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01/30/2025 01:15 PM
HB716-FN
Title: making an appropriation for the dual and concurrent enrollment program.
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01/28/2025 03:00 PM
HB729-FN-A
Title: making an appropriation to the department of education for an attorney to recodify education laws.
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02/11/2025 11:20 AM
HB734-FN
Title: relative to the state education property tax and the low- and moderate-income homeowners property tax relief program.
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01/30/2025 02:45 PM
HB742-FN-A
Title: requiring catastrophic special education state aid funding to be drawn from the education trust fund.
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01/30/2025 11:30 AM
HB772-FN
Title: establishing a foundation opportunity budget program for funding public education.
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02/04/2025 02:15 PM
HB773-FN
Title: relative to aid to school districts for the cost of special education.
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02/04/2025 11:30 AM
HB1099
Title: (New Title) establishing a committee to study the cost and liability of providing educational services to students placed in residential facilities.
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02/13/2026 11:15 AM
HB1104
Title: modifying the priority of applications for school building aid grants.
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01/20/2026 11:45 AM
HB1121
Title: defining the cost of an adequate education.
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02/10/2026 10:00 AM
HB1202
Title: relative to dual and concurrent enrollment requirements for courses at institutions within the community college system of New Hampshire.
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01/22/2026 11:00 AM
HB1288
Title: relative to enabling school administrative units to adopt budget caps.
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01/29/2026 10:45 AM
HB1495
Title: allowing a reimbursement anticipation note to be used as collateral in certain circumstances.
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01/27/2026 10:00 AM
HB1503
Title: allowing the department of education to allocate funds to create a database of maps of public schools for emergency use cases.
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01/22/2026 11:30 AM
HB1514
Title: (New Title) requiring the department of education and the department of revenue administration to send school monitoring and financial reports to relevant school and school board authorities.
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01/27/2026 10:30 AM
HB1557-FN
Title: modifying the state average expenditure per pupil relative to students in special education.
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01/15/2026 11:00 AM
HB1561-FN
Title: (New Title) prohibiting nationals of the People's Republic of China from enrollment in masters and doctorate degree programs, participation in research, and full time employment at public institutions of higher education.
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02/13/2026 10:00 AM
HB1563-FN-L
Title: (New Title) relative to the special education aid formula and the administration and monitoring of state special education aid.
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01/15/2026 01:00 PM
HB1574-FN
Title: (Second New Title) relative to the extension of the free and reduced price breakfast and lunch programs and supporting administrative costs for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and making appropriations therefor.
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01/15/2026 09:30 AM
HB1578
Title: adds definitions and reporting requirements relative to education freedom accounts.
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01/29/2026 01:45 PM
HB1579
Title: establishing a committee to study methods for increasing revenues to enable additional spending on education.
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01/29/2026 02:30 PM
HB1586-FN
Title: allowing the commissioner of the department of education to withhold funds from public schools if such schools are not providing special education services in compliance with state law.
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01/15/2026 10:15 AM
HB1610
Title: allowing school districts to annually retain year-end unassigned general funds.
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01/29/2026 11:30 AM
HB1623-FN
Title: requiring charter schools to have uniform and transparent billing costs and practices for special education services.
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01/29/2026 01:00 PM
HB1672-FN
Title: requiring schools to present line-item expenses as part of the school budget process.
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01/27/2026 09:30 AM
HB1701-FN
Title: reestablishing the New Hampshire college graduate retention incentive partnership program and making an appropriation therefor.
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01/22/2026 09:30 AM
HB1714-FN
Title: authorizing the state to issue bonds to fund public school expenses.
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01/20/2026 10:00 AM
HB1729-FN-A
Title: relative to the creation of a centralized enterprise resource planning service, and making an appropriation therefor.
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01/22/2026 12:45 PM
HB1776-FN
Title: requiring higher educational institutions to report the reception of foreign grants, donations, and contracts to the department of education and the general court.
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02/03/2026 10:00 AM
HB1781-FN
Title: relative to child support obligations during postsecondary education.
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02/03/2026 11:30 AM
HB1791-FN-A
Title: directing the department of education to establish a grant program at the post-secondary educational level for individuals with developmental disabilities, and making an appropriation therefor.
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01/22/2026 10:00 AM
HB1799-FN
Title: relative to required state funding for providing an opportunity for an adequate education.
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01/20/2026 01:30 PM
HB1803-FN
Title: rendering a recipient of an education tax credit scholarship ineligible to receive education freedom account funds in the same program year.
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01/15/2026 02:00 PM
HB1807-FN
Title: (New Title)  relative to mandatory reports to voters.
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02/13/2026 10:30 AM
HB1815-FN
Title: relative to education financing.
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02/13/2026 01:00 PM
HB1816-FN
Title: (New Title) relative to the intervention of the department of education into a school or school district during a financial emergency and requiring the state school board to establish rules governing the vetting of school district business administrator candidates.
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01/27/2026 11:00 AM
HB1818-FN
Title: (New Title) requiring the department of education to use its 10-year school facilities plans to plan and project out building consolidation projects.
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01/29/2026 10:00 AM
HB1824-FN
Title: relative to school district financial distress.
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01/27/2026 11:30 AM
HB1826-FN
Title: relative to the cost of an opportunity for an adequate education.
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01/20/2026 10:30 AM
HB1827-FN-A
Title: (New Title) requiring the department of education to conduct a confidential criminal history record check on all prospective educational personnel.
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02/03/2026 10:45 AM
HB1831-FN
Title: repealing the education trust fund targeted aid cap.
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01/20/2026 11:00 AM
HB1835-FN
Title: relative to the formula for distribution of aid to school districts.
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01/22/2026 10:30 AM
HR19
Title: encouraging state colleges and universities to invite more conservative speakers to campus for the purpose of increasing diversity of viewpoints.
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02/13/2026 02:30 PM
HR40
Title: urging the legislature to adequately fund public education.
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02/13/2026 01:45 PM
SB204-FN-A
Title: relative to the responsibility of local school districts to provide meals to students during school hours, reimbursing schools for meals provided to students at no cost, and making an appropriation therefor.
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04/15/2025 12:45 PM
SB491-FN
Title: (New Title) enabling students to utilize education freedom account funds to pay for certain career and technical education funding and removing references to "curriculum frameworks" as they relate to the substantive educational content of an adequate education.
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04/28/2026 10:00 AM
SB513-FN
Title: (New Title) relative to the hiring of an owner's project manager (OPM) for construction or renovation projects which utilize school building aid.
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03/31/2026 10:30 AM
SB531-FN
Title: (New Title) establishing a task force to study the feasibility of the creation of cosmetology related programming in Coos County and requiring the reporting of student meal debt by school districts and public chartered schools to the department of education.
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04/28/2026 10:30 AM
SB580-FN
Title: (New Title) relative to establishing a school cooperative purchasing program.
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03/31/2026 11:30 AM
SB586-FN
Title: (New Title) requiring chartered public schools, school administrative units, and cities or school districts not audited under RSA 671:5 to be audited by an independent public accountant after the end of the fiscal year and requiring the results of such audits to be made available to the public.
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04/07/2026 01:00 PM