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SB204 Relative to the responsibility of local school districts to provide meals to students during school hours, reimbursing schools for meals provided to students at no cost, and making an appropriation therefor.

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Relative to the responsibility of local school districts to provide meals to students during school hours, reimbursing schools for meals provided to students at no cost, and making an appropriation therefor.

Impact Score — How Does This Bill Affect You?

8

Overall Impact Score

Beneficial

Scale: 1 (harmful) to 10 (beneficial)

8
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Your Wallet

Would save families hundreds of dollars per year on school meal costs, especially benefiting low- and middle-income households.

9
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Your Community

Universal school meals reduce hunger, improve academic performance, and eliminate stigma around free lunch programs.

6
⚖️

Your Freedom

Removes a financial barrier for families but requires state funding.

Status

Inexpedient to Legislate: Motion Adopted Regular Calendar 183-161 01/07/2026 House Journal 1 P. 123

Voted Yes

0 R

Voted No

0 R

R Yes D Yes R No D No

Sponsor

Donovan Fenton (D)

The Short Version

Would have required school districts to provide meals to students at no cost during school hours, with state reimbursement. Killed by a close 183-161 ITL vote. Would have ensured no NH child goes hungry at school regardless of family income.

Who's Behind This Bill?

Who Benefits

  • ▲ Families with children in public schools
  • ▲ Low- and middle-income households
  • ▲ Students who currently go without meals
  • ▲ Schools that administer meal programs

Who Pays the Price

  • ▼ Taxpayers funding the state appropriation

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 ( 3 for , 183 against ) , and Democrats supported it ( 158 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.

183R
Voted to Kill the Bill (183)
3R + 158D
Voted to Keep It Alive (161)
33
Absent
18
Not voting
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Voted Yea (183)

Republicans (183)

Voted Nay (161)

Republicans (3)
Democrats (158)
Absent (33)

Adam Presa (R) , Allison Knab (D) , Bill Boyd (R) , Cassandra Levesque (D) , Charles Foote (R) , Charlie St. Clair (D) , David Lundgren (R) , 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) , Tom Dolan (R) , Travis Toner (R)

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