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HB1826 Relative to the cost of an opportunity for an adequate education.

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Relative to the cost of an opportunity for an adequate education.

Impact Score — How Does This Bill Affect You?

4

Overall Impact Score

Concerning

Scale: 1 (harmful) to 10 (beneficial)

4
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Your Wallet

Killing this bill maintains the status quo on education cost calculations, which many argue underfunds schools and shifts costs to local property taxes.

4
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Your Community

Without revising the adequacy formula, property-poor districts continue to struggle to fund quality education, perpetuating inequality between communities.

5
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Your Freedom

Procedural bill related to funding formulas with no direct impact on individual rights or freedoms.

Status

Inexpedient to Legislate: Motion Adopted Regular Calendar 192-157 02/19/2026 House Journal 5 P. 52

Voted Yes

0 R

Voted No

0 R

R Yes D Yes R No D No

Sponsor

Roderick Ladd (R)

The Short Version

Would have revised how NH calculates the cost of providing an adequate education, a central issue in the state's longstanding Claremont school funding cases. Killed on a 192-157 party-line vote.

Who's Behind This Bill?

Who Benefits

  • ▲ Wealthier school districts content with current formula
  • ▲ Taxpayers opposed to increased state education spending

Who Pays the Price

  • ▼ Students in underfunded school districts
  • ▼ Property-poor communities bearing heavy tax burdens

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 ( 1 for , 191 against ) , and Democrats supported it ( 156 for , 1 against ) .

"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) 2026-02-19
Passed

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

191R + 1D
Voted to Kill the Bill (192)
1R + 156D
Voted to Keep It Alive (157)
31
Absent
13
Not voting
Show all 393 individual votes

Voted Yea (192)

Republicans (191)
Democrats (1)

Voted Nay (157)

Republicans (1)
Democrats (156)
Absent (31)

Alicia Gregg (D) , Andrew Prout (R) , Anita Burroughs (D) , Barbara Comtois (R) , Beth Richards (D) , Brian Cole (R) , Catherine Sofikitis (D) , Cathryn Harvey (D) , Charles McMahon (R) , Claudine Burnham (R) , Daniel Popovici-Muller (R) , Eleana Colby (D) , Ellen Read (D) , Gaby Grossman (D) , Jack Flanagan (R) , James Tierney (R) , Jay Markell (R) , John Leavitt (R) , John Suiter (R) , Karen Hegner (D) , Kimberly Rice (R) , Laurel Stavis (D) , Michael Murphy (R) , Mike Belcher (R) , Pamela Brown (R) , Richard Brown (R) , Samantha Jacobs (D) , Terry Roy (R) , Tim Mannion (R) , Timothy Soucy (D) , Wayne Pearson (D)

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