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HB491 • 2026

establishing a committee to study alternative funding methods for public education and how to reduce its reliance on local real estate property taxes.

establishing a committee to study alternative funding methods for public education and how to reduce its reliance on local real estate property taxes.

Education Taxes
Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Walter Spilsbury (R)
Last action
2026-01-07
Official status
HOUSE
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.

establishing a committee to study alternative funding methods for public education and how to reduce its reliance on local real estate property taxes.

establishing a committee to study alternative funding methods for public education and how to reduce its reliance on local real estate property taxes.

What This Bill Does

  • establishing a committee to study alternative funding methods for public education and how to reduce its reliance on local real estate property taxes.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2026-01-07 H

    Inexpedient to Legislate: MA RC 195-157 01/07/2026 HJ 1 P. 109

  2. 2025-11-20 H

    Majority Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate 11/13/2025 (Vote 10-8; RC) HC 51 P. 24

  3. 2025-11-20 H

    Minority Committee Report: Ought to Pass

  4. 2025-10-28 H

    Executive Session: 11/13/2025 02:00 pm GP 232

  5. 2025-10-15 H

    ==RESCHEDULED== Executive Session: 11/04/2025 02:00 pm GP 232

  6. 2025-09-17 H

    Subcommittee Work Session: 09/30/2025 10:00 am GP 232

  7. 2025-08-27 H

    Subcommittee Work Session: 09/16/2025 10:00 am GP 232

  8. 2025-03-12 H

    Retained in Committee

  9. 2025-03-05 H

    Executive Session: 03/12/2025 10:30 am LOB 201

  10. 2025-02-27 H

    ==CANCELLED== Executive Session: 03/11/2025 10:30 am LOB 205-207

  11. 2025-01-29 H

    Public Hearing: 02/07/2025 02:30 pm LOB 205-207

  12. 2025-01-14 H

    Introduced (in recess of) 01/09/2025 and referred to Education Funding HJ 3 P. 13

Official Summary Text

establishing a committee to study alternative funding methods for public education and how to reduce its reliance on local real estate property taxes.

Current Bill Text

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HB 491 - AS INTRODUCED

2025 SESSION
25-0771
07/05

HOUSE BILL
491

AN ACT
establishing a committee to study alternative funding methods for public education and how to reduce its reliance on local real estate property taxes.

SPONSORS: Rep. Spilsbury, Sull. 3

COMMITTEE: Education Funding

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ANALYSIS

This bill establishes a committee to study alternative funding methods for public education and how to reduce its reliance on local real estate property taxes.

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in
bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [
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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
25-0771
07/05

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Five

AN ACT
establishing a committee to study alternative funding methods for public education and how to reduce its reliance on local real estate property taxes.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

1 Committee Established. There is established a committee to study how New Hampshire funds public education and how to reduce its reliance on local real estate property taxes.

2 Membership and Compensation.
I. The members of the committee shall be as follows:
(a) Five members of the house of representatives, appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives, 2 from the ways and means committee, 2 from the education committee, and one from the finance committee.
(b) Four members of the senate, appointed by the president of the senate.
II. Legislative members of the committee shall receive mileage at the legislative rate when attending to the duties of the committee.

3 Duties. The committee shall make recommendations for rebalancing and changing available revenue sources and assess the manner in which the state now funds public general education, with a specific focus on the impacts of over-burdening the local real property tax.

4 Chairperson; Quorum. The members of the study committee shall elect a chairperson from among the members. The first meeting of the committee shall be called by the first-named house member. The first meeting of the committee shall be held within 45 days of the effective date of this section. A majority of the members of the committee shall constitute a quorum.

5 Report. The committee shall report its findings and any recommendations for proposed legislation to the speaker of the house of representatives, the president of the senate, the house clerk, the senate clerk, the governor, and the state library on or before November 1, 2025.

6 Effective Date. This act shall take effect upon its passage.