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NH HB1816

Bill

Status

Introduced

12/18/2025

Primary Sponsor

Roderick Ladd

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Origin

House of Representatives

2026 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Authorizes the state board of education to declare a "financial emergency" for a school district or school when immediate department oversight is necessary to meet financial, operational, and instructional responsibilities

  • Empowers the commissioner of education to develop and oversee a recovery plan that may alter administrative practices, reallocate resources, renegotiate contracts, and provide department oversight of governance and administrative services for up to one year

  • Allows the department of education to request up to $200,000 from the education trust fund into a non-lapsing reserve fund to implement district financial emergency recovery plans

  • Requires the state board of education to adopt administrative rules for implementing corrective and technical assistance to schools or districts in financial emergency

  • Takes effect January 1, 2027

Legislative Description

Relative to the intervention of the department of education into a school or school district during a financial emergency.

Last Action

Ought to Pass with Amendment 2026-0983h: Motion Adopted Voice Vote 03/11/2026 House Journal 7

3/11/2026

Committee Referrals

Education Funding12/18/2025

Full Bill Text

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