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HB1831 Repealing the education trust fund targeted aid cap.

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Repealing the education trust fund targeted aid cap.

Impact Score — How Does This Bill Affect You?

7

Overall Impact Score

Mixed

Scale: 1 (harmful) to 10 (beneficial)

7
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Your Wallet

Removing the aid cap could increase state education spending but reduce local property tax burdens in communities with high-need students.

8
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Your Community

Would direct more funding to schools serving disadvantaged students, addressing persistent equity gaps in NH education funding.

5
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Your Freedom

A fiscal policy change with no direct impact on individual rights. Improves educational opportunity for students in high-need districts.

Status

Lay HB1831 on Table (Rep. Peternel): Motion Adopted Regular Calendar 187-158 02/19/2026 House Journal 5 P. 55

Voted Yes

0 R

Voted No

0 R

R Yes D Yes R No D No

Sponsor

Suzanne Chretien (D)

The Short Version

Would remove the cap on targeted education aid from the Education Trust Fund, potentially increasing state funding for schools that serve the highest-need students. Tabled on a party-line vote.

Who's Behind This Bill?

Who Benefits

  • ▲ Students in high-need school districts
  • ▲ Property-poor communities with high property tax burdens
  • ▲ Low-income families

Who Pays the Price

  • ▼ Fiscal conservatives concerned about uncapped state spending
  • ▼ State budget if education costs increase

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 ( 4 for , 185 against ) , and Democrats supported it ( 154 for , 2 against ) .

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

Table 2026-02-19
Passed

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

185R + 2D
Voted to Kill the Bill (187)
4R + 154D
Voted to Keep It Alive (158)
31
Absent
17
Not voting
Show all 393 individual votes

Voted Yea (187)

Republicans (185)
Democrats (2)

Voted Nay (158)

Republicans (4)
Democrats (154)
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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Bill statuses as of May 2026. Check LegiScan or NH General Court for the latest.

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