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HB1716 Relative to the academic accountability of education freedom accounts.

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Relative to the academic accountability of education freedom accounts.

Impact Score — How Does This Bill Affect You?

6

Overall Impact Score

Mixed

Scale: 1 (harmful) to 10 (beneficial)

7
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Your Wallet

Better accountability for EFA spending would help ensure taxpayer dollars are producing educational results rather than being wasted.

7
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Your Community

Academic accountability ensures students using public voucher funds are actually receiving a quality education.

5
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Your Freedom

Balances parental school choice with public accountability for taxpayer-funded programs.

Status

Inexpedient to Legislate: Motion Adopted Regular Calendar 194-166 02/12/2026 House Journal 4 P. 24

Voted Yes

0 R

Voted No

0 R

R Yes D Yes R No D No

Sponsor

Tracy Bricchi (D)

The Short Version

Would require academic accountability measures for Education Freedom Account recipients, ensuring public funds used for private schooling produce measurable educational outcomes. Killed on a party-line ITL vote 194-166.

Who's Behind This Bill?

Who Benefits

  • ▲ Taxpayers funding EFA program
  • ▲ Students whose academic progress would be tracked
  • ▲ Public school advocates

Who Pays the Price

  • ▼ EFA recipients who prefer no oversight
  • ▼ Private schools that resist testing requirements

Roll Call Detail (1 vote)

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 1 recorded vote on this bill — counting each legislator's net direction and treating kill motions as opposing the bill — Republicans opposed it ( 6 for , 194 against ) , and Democrats supported it ( 160 for ) .

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

Inexpedient to Legislate (kill motion) 2026-02-12
Passed

YES = Kill the bill. NO = Keep the bill alive.

194R
Voted to Kill the Bill (194)
6R + 160D
Voted to Keep It Alive (166)
19
Absent
15
Not voting
Show all 394 individual votes

Voted Yea (194)

Republicans (194)

Voted Nay (166)

Republicans (6)
Democrats (160)
Absent (19)

Beth Richards (D) , Catherine Sofikitis (D) , Charles Foote (R) , David Meuse (D) , Gaby Grossman (D) , Harry Bean (R) , Jeffrey Tenczar (R) , John MacDonald (R) , Julie Gilman (D) , Mark MacKenzie (D) , Mary Murphy (R) , Michael Murphy (R) , Myles England (D) , Peter Varney (R) , Richard Brown (R) , Sean Durkin (R) , Thomas Buco (D) , Tim Mannion (R) , William Dolan (D)

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Bill statuses as of May 2026. Check LegiScan or NH General Court for the latest.

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