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SB582 Modifying the base cost of an adequate education.

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Modifying the base cost of an adequate education.

Impact Score — How Does This Bill Affect You?

7

Overall Impact Score

Mixed

Scale: 1 (harmful) to 10 (beneficial)

7
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Your Wallet

Would have adjusted education funding formulas, potentially increasing state contributions and reducing property tax burden.

8
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Your Community

Updating the base cost of adequate education could have better funded schools, especially in property-poor towns.

5
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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

R Yes D Yes R No D No

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.

Inexpedient to Legislate 2026-02-05
Passed

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

16R
Voted to Kill the Bill (16)
0R + 8D
Voted to Keep It Alive (8)
0
Absent
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Not voting
Show all 24 individual votes

Bill statuses as of May 2026. Check LegiScan or NH General Court for the latest.

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