HB1155 Repealing the home education advisory council.

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Repealing the home education advisory council.

Impact Score — How Does This Bill Affect You?

Overall Impact Score

Concerning

Scale: 1 (harmful) to 10 (beneficial)

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Your Wallet

No direct financial impact to taxpayers or families is evident from eliminating an advisory council.

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Your Community

Homeschooling families lose a structured opportunity to provide input on state rulemaking that directly affects them, reducing their voice in educational governance.

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Your Freedom

Removing mandatory rule review by a stakeholder advisory body weakens the procedural check on state regulatory authority over homeschooling programs.

Status

Refer to Interim Study, Motion Adopted, Voice Vote; 05/07/2026; Senate Journal 11

Voted Yes

180 R

Voted No

7 R + 149 D

R Yes D Yes R No D No

Sponsor

Katy Peternel (R)

The Short Version

This bill eliminates the home education advisory council and removes the requirement that the state board of education submit proposed homeschooling rules to that council for review and comment before finalizing them. Homeschooling families will lose a formal channel to review and comment on regulations affecting their education programs.

Who's Behind This Bill?

Who Benefits

▲ State board of education (streamlined rulemaking process without mandatory council review)

Who Pays the Price

▼ Homeschooling families and their organizations (loss of formal advisory role in rulemaking)

Roll Call Detail (2 votes)

Every recorded floor vote on this bill, with each legislator's individual vote. Click a name to see that rep's full record.

Who actually supports this bill?

Across the 2 recorded votes on this bill — counting each legislator's net direction and treating kill motions as opposing the bill — Republicans supported it ( 180 for , 7 against ) , and Democrats opposed it ( 149 against ) .

"Supporting" means voting for passage OR voting against a kill motion. "Opposing" is the inverse. Concurs and amendment-only votes don't count.

Adopt Amendment 2026-03-11

Passed

YES = Adopt this amendment. NO = Reject this amendment.

183R

Voted to Adopt Amendment (183)

5R + 146D

Voted Against Amendment (151)

Absent

Not voting

Show all 392 individual votes

Voted Yea (183)

Republicans (183)

Voted Nay (151)

Republicans (5)

Democrats (146)

Did not vote (25)

Adam Presa (R) , Aidan Ankarberg (I) , Alice Wade (D) , Amy Malone (D) , Beth Richards (D) , Billie Butler (D) , Bryan Morse (R) , Christopher Herbert (D) , Douglas Trottier (R) , Efstathia Booras (D) , Eleana Colby (D) , Ernesto Gonzalez (R) , Gary Gilmore (D) , James MacKay (D) , Jonah Wheeler (D) , Karen Hegner (D) , Mark Paige (D) , Matthew Wilhelm (D) , Michael Murphy (R) , Peter Morency (R) , Russell Dumais (R) , Sheri Minor (R) , Sherman Packard (R) , Stephanie Payeur (D) , Steven Smith (R)

Ought to Pass with Amendment 2026-03-11

Passed

YES = Pass the bill with the attached amendment. NO = Reject the bill (as amended).

180R

Voted to Pass (180)

7R + 149D

Voted Against (156)

Absent

Not voting

Show all 392 individual votes

Voted Yea (180)

Republicans (180)

Voted Nay (156)

Republicans (7)

Democrats (149)

Did not vote (23)

Adam Presa (R) , Aidan Ankarberg (I) , Alice Wade (D) , Amy Malone (D) , Beth Richards (D) , Billie Butler (D) , Bryan Morse (R) , Douglas Trottier (R) , Efstathia Booras (D) , Eleana Colby (D) , Ernesto Gonzalez (R) , James MacKay (D) , John Stone (D) , John Suiter (R) , Karen Hegner (D) , Mark Paige (D) , Michael Murphy (R) , Peter Morency (R) , Russell Dumais (R) , Sheri Minor (R) , Sherman Packard (R) , Stephanie Payeur (D) , Steven Smith (R)

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Bill statuses as of October 7, 2026. Check LegiScan or NH General Court for the latest.

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