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HB 1448 Bans public schools from using any World Economic Forum teaching materials.

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Bans public schools from using any World Economic Forum teaching materials.

Impact Score — How Does This Bill Affect You?

4

Overall Impact Score

Concerning

Scale: 1 (harmful) to 10 (beneficial)

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Your Wallet

No measurable financial impact on taxpayers or schools

4
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Your Community

Minimal practical effect since WEF materials are not used in NH schools

4
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Your Freedom

Restricts what materials schools can use, though rarely relevant in practice

Status

Signed into law February 5, 2026.

Sponsor

Rep. Bryan Morse (R-Merrimack)

The Short Version

Pure conspiracy-theory legislation — and it's now law. The WEF isn't writing your kid's textbooks. This is red meat for the "Great Reset" crowd — banning materials from a specific organization that lives rent-free in certain people's heads. Practically meaningless but signals the legislature's priorities: performative culture war over actual education policy. Rep. Bryan Morse (R-Merrimack) spent taxpayer time and legislative resources on this while real education funding bills died. The fact that this became law while school building aid (HB 366) got killed tells you everything.

Who's Behind This Bill?

Who Benefits

  • ▲ No practical beneficiary — WEF materials aren't used in NH schools

Who Pays the Price

  • ▼ Legislative time spent on non-issues instead of real education policy
  • ▼ School building aid (HB 366) was killed the same session

Connected Organizations

Great Reset conspiracy movement

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 ( 197 for , 5 against ) , and Democrats opposed it ( 1 for , 170 against ) .

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

Ought to Pass 2026-05-07
Passed

YES = Pass the bill. NO = Reject the bill.

14R
Voted to Pass (14)
0R + 8D
Voted Against (8)
2
Absent
0
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Absent (2)

Denise Ricciardi (R) , Kevin Avard (R)

Ought to Pass (passage vote) 2026-02-05
Passed

YES = Pass the bill. NO = Reject the bill.

183R + 1D
Voted to Pass (184)
5R + 162D
Voted Against (167)
29
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14
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Voted Yea (184)

Republicans (183)
Democrats (1)

Voted Nay (167)

Republicans (5)
Democrats (162)
Absent (29)

Aidan Ankarberg (I) , Arnold Davis (R) , Brian Nadeau (R) , Bryan Morse (R) , Catherine Sofikitis (D) , Cathy Kenny (R) , Daniel Popovici-Muller (R) , David Lundgren (R) , Douglas Trottier (R) , Gaby Grossman (D) , Gregory Hill (R) , Janet Lucas (D) , Juliet Harvey-Bolia (R) , Kevin Verville (R) , Linda Gould (R) , Matthew Coker (R) , Matthew Hicks (D) , Michael Murphy (R) , Mike Ouellet (R) , Paul Terry (R) , Peter Varney (R) , Robley Hall (R) , Russell Muirhead (D) , Sandra Panek (R) , Stephanie Payeur (D) , Ted Gorski (R) , Terry Roy (R) , Thomas Buco (D) , Vicki Wilson (R)

Full Analysis

Rep. Bryan Morse (R-Merrimack) apparently believes the World Economic Forum is infiltrating New Hampshire's public school classrooms. It isn't. The WEF is a Davos conference organizer and think tank that publishes policy papers read by economics professors and global leaders — not K-12 teachers designing lesson plans in Concord or Manchester.

But facts don't matter when you're legislating for the conspiracy-theory base. HB 1448 bans any public school in NH from using materials produced by, derived from, or associated with the World Economic Forum. This is "Great Reset" paranoia turned into law.

The practical impact is close to zero — no NH teacher was using WEF materials in their classroom. But the signal it sends is loud: this legislature would rather spend time banning imaginary threats than funding real schools. Governor Ayotte signed it into law on February 5, 2026.

Here's the contrast that tells you everything about this legislature's priorities: HB 1448 (ban WEF conspiracy materials) — signed into law. HB 366 (fund crumbling school buildings) — killed in the Senate. They found time to protect your children from Klaus Schwab but not from leaking roofs.

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