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Education

The Senate Committee on Education, chaired by Ruth Ward.

Members

Bills Referred, 2025-2026

  • HB 10-FN: establishing a parental bill of rights. (Signed into law)
  • HB 50: relative to intentional or knowing violation of the prohibition on teaching discrimination. (Killed)
  • HB 68: making best interest placements within the same school district mandatory in the absence of a valid reason to deny the placement. (Killed)
  • HB 76-FN: relative to tracking special education complaints. (Signed into law)
  • HB 90-FN: relative to the definition of part-time teachers. (Signed into law)
  • HB 108: relative to bullying and cyberbullying across multiple school districts. (Signed into law)
  • HB 112-FN: 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. (Died on the table)
  • HB 115-FN: making temporary appropriations for the expenses and encumbrances of the state of New Hampshire. (Vetoed, override failed)
  • HB 129-FN: relative to the definition of the term "evidence-based" within public education. (Killed)
  • HB 131: relative to bullying and cyberbullying prevention. (Signed into law)
  • HB 184: establishing a committee to study changing school start times. (Killed)
  • HB 193: relative to the maximum number of credits per course eligible for the dual and concurrent enrollment program. (Signed into law)
  • HB 208-FN: relative to certification requirements for school nurses. (Killed)
  • HB 222-FN: repealing the requirement for a memorandum of understanding between a chartered public school and school district regarding how students with disabilities will receive special education services and updating the organizational structure of the department of corrections. (Signed into law)
  • HB 231: prohibiting school district personnel from transporting students to medical or mental health appointments, visits, or procedures without parental consent. (Signed into law)
  • HB 235: relative to amending the educator code of ethics and code of conduct to include responsibility to parents. (Signed into law)
  • HB 292-FN: establishing a revolving loan fund for school districts. (Died: the chambers did not agree on a version)
  • HB 319-FN: relative to the responsibility of local school districts to provide transportation for pupils in kindergarten. (Vetoed, override failed)
  • HB 324-FN: relative to prohibiting obscene or harmful sexual materials in schools. (Vetoed, override failed)
  • HB 354: relative to alternate certification pathways for career and technical education instructors. (Signed into law)
  • HB 361: prohibiting mandatory mask policies in schools. (Signed into law)
  • HB 394: relative to the powers and duties of cooperative school district budget committees and the role of cooperative school district board member representatives on such committees. (Signed into law)
  • HB 431: establishing a commission to study the costs of special education. (Killed)
  • HB 440: relative to educator licensing. (Signed into law)
  • HB 446: relative to parental notice for non-academic surveys in public schools. (Vetoed, override failed)
  • HB 484: relative to reallocation or repurposing of career and technical education classroom space by local school districts. (Signed into law)
  • HB 494-FN: relative to the math learning communities program. (Signed into law)
  • HB 532: relative to alternative dispute resolution and individualized education plan team meeting facilitation. (Signed into law)
  • HB 571: including Constitution Day in patriotic exercises required of public schools. (Signed into law)
  • HB 653-FN: establishing a pilot program within the department of education to implement alternatives to restraint and seclusion of students. (Died on the table)
  • HB 667-FN: relative to health education and requiring the viewing of certain videos demonstrating gestational development. (Vetoed, override failed)
  • HB 676: relative to the composition and responsibilities of the parent and education service provider advisory commission, and establishing education freedom account impact and parent satisfaction surveys. (Killed)
  • HB 677-FN: relative to the possession and use of epinephrine at recreation camps, schools, and institutions of higher education. (Signed into law)
  • HB 699: relative to special education definitions. (Signed into law)
  • HB 709-FN: allowing parents or guardians to admit their children into any school district where they pay any property or school district taxes. (Killed)
  • HB 741-FN: allowing parents to send their children to any school district they choose. (Referred for interim study)
  • HB 749-FN: requiring instruction on communism in public high schools. (Killed)
  • HB 752: relative to procedures for the closing of a charter school. (Signed into law)
  • HB 753-FN: relative to expedited due process hearings to enforce special education rights. (Signed into law)
  • HB 754-FN: establishing automatic discovery in due process hearings for actions seeking to enforce special education rights. (Signed into law)
  • HB 763-FN: relative to school emergency plans for sports related injuries. (Signed into law)
  • HB 768: allowing public schools to contract with any approved nonpublic school. (Signed into law)
  • HB 781-FN: requiring school districts to adopt policies establishing a cell phone-free education. (Vetoed, override failed)
  • HB 1093: relative to public charter schools and governmental land use exemptions. (Signed into law)
  • HB 1099: establishing a committee to study the cost and liability of providing educational services to students placed in residential facilities. (Signed into law)
  • HB 1155: repealing the home education advisory council. (Referred for interim study)
  • HB 1202: relative to dual and concurrent enrollment requirements for courses at institutions within the community college system of New Hampshire. (Signed into law)
  • HB 1256: removing the authority of the state librarian to award scholarships to students attending graduate library schools. (Became law unsigned)
  • HB 1267: prohibiting school district attorneys and non-school personnel from questioning students without their parent or guardian present. (Veto overridden, became law)
  • HB 1268: modifying the structure and administration of home education programs and relative to pharmacy benefits managers, managed care laws, notice of drug pricing options and pharmacy benefit manager business practices. (Signed into law)
  • HB 1270: clarifying the definition of part-time teacher. (Signed into law)
  • HB 1358: establishing a commission to study transitioning all public schools to public charter schools. (Vetoed, override failed)
  • HB 1370: repealing the public school identification and accommodation of gifted and talented students reporting requirement. (Killed)
  • HB 1373: relative to background check disqualifications for applicants seeking educator credentials. (Signed into law)
  • HB 1374: modifying the procedures for withdrawal from a cooperative school district and the discontinuance of elementary and high schools and requiring the review of school district operating documents by school boards. (Signed into law)
  • HB 1448: prohibiting the use of the World Economic Forum materials within state curriculum. (Became law unsigned)
  • HB 1467-FN: relative to the New Hampshire seal of civic excellence and engagement program. (Signed into law)
  • HB 1503: allowing the department of education to allocate funds to create a database of maps of public schools for emergency use cases. (Signed into law)
  • HB 1514: 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. (Signed into law)
  • HB 1529: repealing the reading recovery training program. (Became law unsigned)
  • HB 1571-FN-A: requiring the department of education to review statewide academic standards and curricula. (Died on the table)
  • HB 1573: permitting excused absences for student participation in certain activities and mandating the state board of education to grant school reassignment requests for students demonstrating a manifest educational hardship (Signed into law)
  • HB 1574-FN: 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. (Died: conferees could not agree)
  • HB 1635: modifying the requirements of suicide prevention education policies in schools. (Killed)
  • HB 1774-FN: relative to qualifying scholarship granting organizations and federal workforce Pell grants. (Signed into law)
  • HB 1792-FN: relative to the prohibition on teaching discrimination. (Died: the chambers did not agree on a version)
  • HB 1795-FN: requiring criminal history record checks for the renewal of teaching licenses. (Signed into law)
  • HB 1808-FN-A: establishing the position of academic research and improvement performance data analyst in the department of education and making an appropriation therefor. (Died on the table)
  • HB 1817-FN: relative to access to curricular courses and cocurricular programs within school districts. (Signed into law)
  • HB 1818-FN: requiring the department of education to use its 10-year school facilities plans to plan and project out building consolidation projects. (Died on the table)
  • HB 1827-FN-A: requiring the department of education to conduct a confidential criminal history record check on all prospective educational personnel. (Signed into law)
  • HB 1828-FN: requiring the department of education to establish an auditing process relative to teacher preparation programs at the post-secondary educational level. (Died on the table)
  • HB 1832-FN: adding students with a parent or guardian on active military duty to the education freedom accounts priority guidelines. (Referred for interim study)
  • HB 1836-FN: relative to the input-based accountability system requirements and enforcement. (Killed)
  • SB 33-FN: relative to the regulation of public school materials. (Died: the chambers did not agree on a version)
  • SB 34: relative to parental consent for student participation in Medicaid to schools program. (Died: the chambers did not agree on a version)
  • SB 57: establishing a study committee to analyze reducing the number of school administrative units and establishing a commission to study the costs of special education. (Signed into law)
  • SB 59-FN: establishing a recruitment incentive program within the community college system for public safety communicators and dispatchers and making an appropriation therefor. (Died on the table)
  • SB 69-LOCAL: relative to acceptance of or rejection of charitable contributions, gifts, or donations by local school boards, establishing a virtual early childhood readiness family engagement program, and specifying that library user information exempted from disclosure in the right-to-know law includes information regarding library cards and library membership status. (Died: the chambers did not agree on a version)
  • SB 96: relative to mandatory disclosure by school district employees to parents and relative to enforcement of parental rights against school districts and school employees. (Died: conferees could not agree)
  • SB 97-FN: relative to intra-district public school transfers. (Signed into law)
  • SB 98-FN: extending the donations to regional career and technical education center programs. (Signed into law)
  • SB 99-FN: relative to regional career and technical education agreements. (Signed into law)
  • SB 100-FN: relative to the prohibition on teaching discrimination. (Died: the chambers did not agree on a version)
  • SB 101-FN: authorizing parents to enroll their children in any public school in the state. (Died on the table)
  • SB 102-FN: making informational materials regarding type 1 diabetes available on the department of education website. (Signed into law)
  • SB 203-FN: relative to administration of the education freedom accounts program. (Killed)
  • SB 204-FN-A: 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. (Killed)
  • SB 205-FN: requiring schools to offer free or reduced cost breakfast and lunch to children who meet federal income eligibility guidelines. (Killed)
  • SB 206-FN: requiring school districts and chartered public schools to adopt policies establishing a cell phone-free education. (Died: conferees could not agree)
  • SB 207-FN: requiring the department of education to administer the education freedom account program. (Killed)
  • SB 208-FN: requiring local school boards and public libraries to adopt curation policies. (Killed)
  • SB 209-FN: relative to owner's project managers for projects funded by school building aid and relative to reporting requirements for persons or entities financing lawsuits. (Died: the chambers did not agree on a version)
  • SB 210: relative to bullying and cyberbullying prevention and relative to allowing parents to send their children to any school district they choose. (Died: conferees could not agree)
  • SB 211: relative to biological sex in student athletics. (Killed)
  • SB 403: requiring all schools to start the school year after Labor Day. (Referred for interim study)
  • SB 429-FN-A: relative to the placement of trauma kits in public schools and making an appropriation therefor and relative to the parental bill of rights concerning the creation of student media recordings. (Signed into law)
  • SB 430: relative to mandatory disclosure by school district employees to parents and legal guardians. (Signed into law)
  • SB 431: relative to violations of the prohibition on teaching discrimination. (Died on the table)
  • SB 432-FN: authorizing the application of sunscreen in schools and camps without a licensed health care provider's note or prescription and establishing a skin cancer prevention education program. (Killed)
  • SB 433-FN: establishing the seizure safe schools act. (Killed)
  • SB 434: relative to regulation of public school materials. (Vetoed, override failed)
  • SB 517-FN: 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. (Died on the table)
  • SB 531-FN: 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. (Signed into law)
  • SB 532: increasing the requirements of the education freedom savings account oversight committee and modifying the purpose of the committee. (Killed)
  • SB 533: requiring the state to seek bids for contracts to oversee and operate the state's education freedom account program every three years. (Killed)
  • SB 574: establishing a commission to study the efficiency and structure of school administrative units. (Signed into law)
  • SB 575: establishing a committee to study the issue of school bullying and modifying both the exemption of teacher certification records from the right-to-know law and the assignment of superintendent services for school administrative units. (Signed into law)
  • SB 576: adds definitions and reporting requirements relative to education freedom accounts. (Killed)
  • SB 577-FN: prohibiting the use and recommending avoidance of specific color additives in meals offered or made available by public schools as a part of school breakfast and lunch meal programs. (Signed into law)
  • SB 578: relative to play-based curriculum and limitations on recess periods for pupils. (Died: conferees could not agree)
  • SB 579-FN: modifying the language for intra-district public school transfers to include schools within school administrative units. (Referred for interim study)
  • SB 580-FN: relative to establishing a school cooperative purchasing program. (Killed)
  • SB 658-FN: authorizing the department of education to establish a safe and resilient schools advisory council. (Referred for interim study)

And 1,082 bills in 16 earlier terms.

Recent Meetings

  • The Committee on Education met on April 21, 2026 for hearings on HB 1358, HB 1374, HB 1448 and HB 1268.
  • The Committee on Education met on April 14, 2026 for hearings on HB 1093, HB 1155, HB 1256, HB 1529 and HB 1574-FN.
  • The Committee on Education met on April 7, 2026 for hearings on HB 112-FN, HB 1571-FN-A, HB 1827-FN-A and HB 1573.
  • The Committee on Education met on March 31, 2026 for hearings on HB 1774-FN, HB 1817-FN, HB 1828-FN and HB 1836-FN.
  • The Committee on Education met on March 24, 2026 for hearings on HB 1818-FN, HB 1370, HB 1635, HB 1795-FN and HB 131.
  • The Committee on Education met on March 17, 2026 for hearings on HB 1514, HB 1792-FN, HB 1099 and HB 1267.
  • The Committee on Education met on March 10, 2026 for hearings on HB 1467-FN, HB 1574-FN, HB 1503, HB 1202, HB 1270 and HB 1792-FN.
  • The Committee on Education met on March 3, 2026 for hearings on HB 1808-FN-A, HB 1832-FN, HB 709-FN and HB 1373.
  • The Committee on Education met on February 17, 2026 for hearings on SB 403, SB 658-FN, SB 575, SB 574 and SB 431.
  • The Committee on Education met on February 10, 2026 for hearings on SB 532, SB 533 and SB 576.
  • The Committee on Education met on February 3, 2026 for hearings on SB 434 and SB 430.
  • The Committee on Education met on January 27, 2026 for hearings on SB 433-FN, SB 579-FN, SB 580-FN and SB 517-FN.
  • The Committee on Education met on January 20, 2026 for hearings on SB 429-FN-A, SB 432-FN, SB 531-FN, SB 577-FN, SB 578 and SB 101-FN.
  • The Committee on Education met on October 14, 2025 for a hearing on HB 292-FN.
  • The Committee on Education met on May 6, 2025 for hearings on HB 699, HB 532, HB 446, HB 676 and HB 768.
  • The Committee on Education met on April 29, 2025 for hearings on HB 394, HB 431, HB 699, HB 361 and HB 50.
  • The Committee on Education met on April 22, 2025 for hearings on HB 354, HB 494-FN, HB 677-FN, HB 781-FN and HB 115-FN.
  • The Committee on Education met on April 15, 2025 for hearings on HB 68, HB 108, HB 235 and HB 292-FN.
  • The Committee on Education met on April 10, 2025 for hearings on HB 90-FN, HB 324-FN, HB 741-FN, HB 749-FN and HB 754-FN.
  • The Committee on Education met on April 8, 2025 for hearings on HB 319-FN, HB 653-FN, HB 763-FN and HB 753-FN.
  • The Committee on Education met on April 2, 2025 for hearings on HB 667-FN, HB 231, HB 571, HB 484 and HB 752.
  • The Committee on Education met on April 1, 2025 for hearings on HB 10-FN, HB 319-FN, HB 653-FN, HB 763-FN and HB 753-FN.
  • The Committee on Education met on March 25, 2025 for hearings on HB 184, HB 193, HB 222-FN and HB 440.
  • The Committee on Education met on March 18, 2025 for hearings on HB 76-FN and HB 208-FN.
  • The Committee on Education met on March 4, 2025 for hearings on SB 96, SB 210 and SB 211.
  • The Committee on Education met on February 18, 2025 for hearings on SB 208-FN, SB 209-FN and SB 33-FN.
  • The Committee on Education met on February 11, 2025 for hearings on SB 203-FN, SB 207-FN, SB 204-FN-A and SB 205-FN.
  • The Committee on Education met on February 4, 2025 for hearings on SB 99-FN, SB 102-FN, SB 206-FN and SB 100-FN.
  • The Committee on Education met on January 28, 2025 for hearings on SB 69-LOCAL, SB 97-FN, SB 98-FN and SB 101-FN.
  • The Committee on Education met on January 21, 2025 for hearings on SB 34, SB 59-FN and SB 57.

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