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SB574 Establishing a commission to study the efficiency and structure of school administrative units.

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Establishing a commission to study the efficiency and structure of school administrative units.

Impact Score — How Does This Bill Affect You?

6

Overall Impact Score

Mixed

Scale: 1 (harmful) to 10 (beneficial)

6
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Your Wallet

If the study leads to consolidation of duplicative administrative units, it could save taxpayers significant money on superintendent salaries and administrative overhead.

6
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Your Community

More efficient school administration could redirect resources from bureaucracy to classrooms. However, consolidation could reduce local control over education.

5
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Your Freedom

A study commission at this stage. Future consolidation could reduce local school governance autonomy.

Status

Sen. Ward Moved to Concur with the House Amendment, Regular Calendar 13Y-9N, Motion Adopted; 05/21/2026; Senate Journal 13

Voted Yes

0 R

Voted No

0 R

R Yes D Yes R No D No

Sponsor

Daniel Innis (R)

The Short Version

Creates a commission to study the efficiency and structure of School Administrative Units (SAUs) in NH. Some critics argue NH has too many small, duplicative administrative units that waste taxpayer money.

Who's Behind This Bill?

Who Benefits

  • ▲ Taxpayers if administrative costs are reduced
  • ▲ Students if savings are redirected to education

Who Pays the Price

  • ▼ SAU administrators whose positions may be at risk
  • ▼ Small communities that value local school governance

Roll Call Detail (3 votes)

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 3 recorded votes on this bill — counting each legislator's net direction and treating kill motions as opposing the bill — Republicans supported it ( 189 for , 2 against ) , and Democrats opposed it ( 8 for , 149 against ) .

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

Concur with other chamber's amendments 2026-05-21
Passed

YES = Accept the other chamber's amendments. NO = Reject the other chamber's amendments.

13R
Voted to Concur (13)
1R + 8D
Voted to Not Concur (9)
2
Absent
0
Not voting
Show all 24 individual votes
Absent (2)

Denise Ricciardi (R) , Mark McConkey (R)

Adopt Amendment 2026-05-14
Passed

YES = Adopt this amendment. NO = Reject this amendment.

190R + 1D
Voted to Adopt Amendment (191)
1R + 156D
Voted Against Amendment (157)
31
Absent
14
Not voting
Show all 393 individual votes

Voted Yea (191)

Republicans (190)
Democrats (1)

Voted Nay (157)

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

Alicia Gregg (D) , Arnold Davis (R) , Barbara Comtois (R) , Beth Richards (D) , Bill Bolton (D) , Catherine Sofikitis (D) , David Preece (D) , Denise DeDe-Poulin (R) , Gaby Grossman (D) , Heather Baldwin (D) , Jean Jeudy (D) , Jeffrey Tenczar (R) , Jim Fedolfi (R) , Jim Kofalt (R) , Jodi Nelson (R) , John Suiter (R) , Julie Gilman (D) , Kevin Verville (R) , Linda Haskins (D) , Matthew Hicks (D) , Myles England (D) , Peter Varney (R) , Raymond Peeples (R) , Richard Brown (R) , Robley Hall (R) , Sanjeev Manohar (D) , Sean Durkin (R) , Stephanie Grund (D) , Steven Bogert (R) , Thomas Buco (D) , Toni Weinstein (D)

Ought to Pass with Amendment 2026-05-14
Passed

YES = Pass the bill with the attached amendment. NO = Reject the bill (as amended).

189R + 8D
Voted to Pass (197)
2R + 149D
Voted Against (151)
32
Absent
13
Not voting
Show all 393 individual votes

Voted Yea (197)

Republicans (189)
Democrats (8)

Voted Nay (151)

Republicans (2)
Democrats (149)
Absent (32)

Alicia Gregg (D) , Arnold Davis (R) , Barbara Comtois (R) , Beth Richards (D) , Bill Bolton (D) , Catherine Sofikitis (D) , David Preece (D) , Denise DeDe-Poulin (R) , Donald McFarlane (R) , Gaby Grossman (D) , Heather Baldwin (D) , Jean Jeudy (D) , Jeffrey Tenczar (R) , Jim Fedolfi (R) , Jim Kofalt (R) , Jodi Nelson (R) , John Suiter (R) , Julie Gilman (D) , Kevin Verville (R) , Linda Haskins (D) , Matthew Hicks (D) , Myles England (D) , Peter Varney (R) , Raymond Peeples (R) , Richard Brown (R) , Robley Hall (R) , Sanjeev Manohar (D) , Sean Durkin (R) , Stephanie Grund (D) , Steven Bogert (R) , Thomas Buco (D) , Toni Weinstein (D)

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