Bills & Programs
Bills & Programs
The programmes and bills behind the findings.
The Education Funding System
New Hampshire defines a per-pupil cost of an adequate education in statute, sends that amount to municipalities, and leaves districts to raise the remainder locally. The gap between the two is the mechanism behind most of the state's school-funding arguments.
7 analyses · ProgramEducation Freedom Account Program
Established in RSA 194-F. Administered for the Department of Education by a private scholarship organisation, which determines eligibility, disburses funds and reviews receipts.
5 analyses · ProgramHB 1300 (2026)
Legislation allowing voters to limit growth in the local school property-tax levy, adjusted for inflation and new construction, and capping school administrative unit central-office spending at 6 percent of the combined appropriations of the districts within the SAU.
2 analyses · BillHB 197 (2026)
A bill to restore a 7.5 percent state contribution toward employer pension costs for teachers, police officers and firefighters.
2 analyses · BillLand Use and Zoning
The municipal rules that determine what may be built, at what density and with what parking, and the state law that constrains them.
2 analyses · ProgramPension Cost Sharing
The state formerly paid a share of the employer contributions municipalities and school districts make to the New Hampshire Retirement System for teachers, police officers and firefighters. That share was reduced and then ended, leaving the full employer cost with local employers.
2 analyses · ProgramSB 295 (2025)
Legislation establishing universal eligibility for Education Freedom Accounts, removing the programme's household income cap. Its full title as amended is "(New Title) relative to education freedom accounts".
2 analyses · BillNamed but not yet covered
These have entity records so an analysis can reference them, but no analysis is filed under them yet.