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HR40 • 2026

urging the legislature to adequately fund public education.

urging the legislature to adequately fund public education.

Education
Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
John Cloutier (D), Gary Woods (D), Wayne Burton (D), Hope Damon (D), Linda Ryan (D), Mark Vallone (D), Nancy Murphy (D), Terri O'Rorke (D), Suzanne Prentiss (D), Suzanne Vail (D), Karen Hegner (D), Donovan Fenton (D)
Last action
2026-02-27
Official status
HOUSE
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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urging the legislature to adequately fund public education.

urging the legislature to adequately fund public education.

What This Bill Does

  • urging the legislature to adequately fund public education.

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Bill History

  1. 2026-02-27 H

    Majority Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate 02/18/2026 (Vote 10-7; RC) HC 10 P. 82

  2. 2026-02-27 H

    Minority Committee Report: Ought to Pass

  3. 2026-02-11 H

    Executive Session: 02/18/2026 10:00 am GP 234

  4. 2026-02-05 H

    Public Hearing: 02/13/2026 01:45 pm GP 232

  5. 2025-12-04 H

    Introduced 01/07/2026 and referred to Education Funding HJ 1 P. 40

Official Summary Text

urging the legislature to adequately fund public education.

Current Bill Text

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HR 40 - AS INTRODUCED

2026 SESSION
26-3169
07/08

HOUSE RESOLUTION
40

A RESOLUTION
urging the legislature to adequately fund public education.

SPONSORS: Rep. Cloutier, Sull. 6; Rep. Damon, Sull. 8; Rep. N. Murphy, Hills. 12; Rep. Vail, Hills. 6; Rep. Woods, Merr. 30; Rep. Ryan, Hills. 4; Rep. O'Rorke, Ches. 7; Rep. Hegner, Hills. 41; Rep. Burton, Straf. 10; Rep. Vallone, Rock. 5; Sen. Prentiss, Dist 5; Sen. Fenton, Dist 10

COMMITTEE: Education Funding

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ANALYSIS

This resolution urges the legislature to conform to the judicial branch's holdings in the Claremont series of public education funding cases and to adequately fund public education.

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26-3169
07/08

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty-Six

A RESOLUTION
urging the legislature to adequately fund public education.

Whereas, in its 1993 and 1997 decisions, in the Claremont series of public school funding cases, the New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled that the New Hampshire Constitution imposes upon the legislature 4 obligations with respect to public K-12 education: (1) define an adequate education; (2) determine its cost; (3) fund it with constitutional taxes; and (4) ensure its delivery through accountability; and
Whereas, while the legislature has unjustifiably had reservations as to the court's authority to impose obligations upon a coordinate branch of government, the legislature, in the spirit of comity, has devoted extensive time, energy and public tax dollars to satisfying them; and
Whereas, in the most recent of these cases, the judicial branch correctly asserted authority to review the legislature's determinations with respect to its 4 supposed obligations, and to fund education at levels determined by the court; and
Whereas, the legislature now deems it necessary to definitively proclaim that the legislature shall conform to the holdings and determinations of the state's supreme judicial authority as to what the state's education funding policies shall be; now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the House of Representatives:
That the general court has the responsibility and obligation to adequately fund a student's education; and
That the general court ought to comply with the judicial branch's findings in the most recent Claremont case.