SB582 Modifying the base cost of an adequate education.
Modifying the base cost of an adequate education.
Impact Score — How Does This Bill Affect You?
Overall Impact Score
Mixed
Scale: 1 (harmful) to 10 (beneficial)
Your Wallet
Would have adjusted education funding formulas, potentially increasing state contributions and reducing property tax burden.
Your Community
Updating the base cost of adequate education could have better funded schools, especially in property-poor towns.
Your Freedom
Funding formula adjustments are largely administrative with no direct freedom implications.
Status
Special Order to After the Senate's Lunch Break, Without Objection, Motion Adopted; 02/05/2026; Senate Journal 3
Voted Yes
0 R
Voted No
0 R
Sponsor
Debra Altschiller (D)
The Short Version
Would have modified the base cost calculation for adequate education funding in NH. Killed by Inexpedient to Legislate vote 16-8, preventing an update to per-pupil adequacy funding levels.
Who's Behind This Bill?
Who Benefits
- ▲ Students in underfunded school districts
- ▲ Property-poor communities
- ▲ Property taxpayers in towns with high education tax rates
Who Pays the Price
- ▼ State general fund if adequacy 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 ( 16 against ) , and Democrats supported it ( 8 for ) .
"Supporting" means voting for passage OR voting against a kill motion. "Opposing" is the inverse. Concurs and amendment-only votes don't count.
YES = Kill the bill. NO = Keep the bill alive.
Show all 24 individual votes
Voted Yea (16)
Bill statuses as of May 2026. Check LegiScan or NH General Court for the latest.
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