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HB295 Making school building aid program funds nonlapsing.

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Making school building aid program funds nonlapsing.

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

Prevents taxpayer-approved school building funds from being lost to budget technicalities, protecting the investment.

7
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Your Community

Ensures committed school building aid actually reaches schools rather than lapsing back to the general fund.

5
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Your Freedom

No direct freedom impact.

Status

Inexpedient to Legislate: Motion Adopted Regular Calendar 191-150 01/07/2026 House Journal 1 P. 101

Voted Yes

0 R

Voted No

0 R

R Yes D Yes R No D No

Sponsor

Michael Cahill (D)

The Short Version

Would make school building aid funds carry forward rather than expiring at the end of the budget cycle. Prevents loss of committed school construction funds due to bureaucratic timelines. Killed on a party-line vote.

Who's Behind This Bill?

Who Benefits

  • ▲ School districts with approved building projects
  • ▲ Students in schools needing repairs
  • ▲ Towns that voted for school construction

Who Pays the Price

  • ▼ State budget flexibility is slightly reduced

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 , 189 against ) , and Democrats supported it ( 149 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.

Inexpedient to Legislate (kill motion) 2026-01-07
Passed

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

189R + 2D
Voted to Kill the Bill (191)
1R + 149D
Voted to Keep It Alive (150)
28
Absent
26
Not voting
Show all 395 individual votes

Voted Yea (191)

Republicans (189)
Democrats (2)

Voted Nay (150)

Republicans (1)
Democrats (149)
Absent (28)

Adam Presa (R) , Allison Knab (D) , Cassandra Levesque (D) , Charles Foote (R) , Charlie St. Clair (D) , David Nagel (R) , Deborah Aylward (R) , Denise DeDe-Poulin (R) , Douglas Trottier (R) , Efstathia Booras (D) , Fred Davis (D) , Gaby Grossman (D) , Gary Daniels (R) , Heath Howard (D) , Jim Creighton (R) , Jodi Nelson (R) , Larry Gagne (R) , Laurence Miner (R) , Mary Murphy (R) , Merryl Gibbs (D) , Michael Cahill (D) , Michael Harrington (R) , Michael Murphy (R) , Mike Bordes (R) , Myles England (D) , Shane Sirois (R) , Tim Mannion (R) , Travis Toner (R)

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