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HB665 Relative to eligibility for free school meals.

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Relative to eligibility for free school meals.

Impact Score — How Does This Bill Affect You?

7

Overall Impact Score

Mixed

Scale: 1 (harmful) to 10 (beneficial)

8
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Your Wallet

Free school meals save struggling families hundreds of dollars per child per year and ensure children can focus on learning.

8
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Your Community

Well-fed children learn better, behave better, and are healthier; school meals are one of the most effective anti-poverty programs.

5
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Your Freedom

Expands a government program but does not restrict any freedoms.

Status

Inexpedient to Legislate: Motion Adopted Regular Calendar 189-158 01/07/2026 House Journal 1 P. 120

Voted Yes

0 R

Voted No

0 R

R Yes D Yes R No D No

Sponsor

Muriel Hall (D)

The Short Version

Would have expanded eligibility for free school meals to more NH children. Killed 189-158. Many families earn too much to qualify for free meals but too little to comfortably afford daily school lunch costs.

Who's Behind This Bill?

Who Benefits

  • ▲ Children from working families
  • ▲ Parents struggling with food costs
  • ▲ Schools dealing with hunger-related behavior issues

Who Pays the Price

  • ▼ State budget for expanded meal coverage

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 ( 157 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) 2026-01-07
Passed

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

189R
Voted to Kill the Bill (189)
1R + 157D
Voted to Keep It Alive (158)
31
Absent
17
Not voting
Show all 395 individual votes

Voted Yea (189)

Republicans (189)

Voted Nay (158)

Republicans (1)
Democrats (157)
Absent (31)

Adam Presa (R) , Allison Knab (D) , Bill Boyd (R) , 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) , Jeffrey Tenczar (R) , Jim Creighton (R) , Jodi Nelson (R) , Larry Gagne (R) , Laurence Miner (R) , Mary Ford (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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