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SB533 • 2026

requiring the state to seek bids for contracts to oversee and operate the state's education freedom account program every three years.

requiring the state to seek bids for contracts to oversee and operate the state's education freedom account program every three years.

Education
Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Debra Altschiller (D), David Watters (D), Rebecca Perkins Kwoka (D), Cindy Rosenwald (D), Suzanne Prentiss (D), Peggy Balboni (D), Donovan Fenton (D)
Last action
2026-02-19
Official status
SENATE
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.

requiring the state to seek bids for contracts to oversee and operate the state's education freedom account program every three years.

requiring the state to seek bids for contracts to oversee and operate the state's education freedom account program every three years.

What This Bill Does

  • requiring the state to seek bids for contracts to oversee and operate the state's education freedom account program every three years.

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. 2026-05-08 S

    Hearing: 02/10/2026, Room Map Room, SL, 09:30 am; SC 4

  2. 2026-02-19 S

    Inexpedient to Legislate, RC 16Y-8N, MA === BILL KILLED ===; 02/16/2026; SJ 4

  3. 2026-02-10 S

    Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate, 02/19/2026, Vote 3-1; SC 6

  4. 2025-11-24 S

    Introduced 01/07/2026 and Referred to Education; SJ 1

Official Summary Text

requiring the state to seek bids for contracts to oversee and operate the state's education freedom account program every three years.

Current Bill Text

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SB 533 - AS INTRODUCED

2026 SESSION
26-2138
07/06

SENATE BILL
533

AN ACT
requiring the state to seek bids for contracts to oversee and operate the state's education freedom account program every three years.

SPONSORS: Sen. Altschiller, Dist 24; Sen. Rosenwald, Dist 13; Sen. Fenton, Dist 10; Sen. Watters, Dist 4; Sen. Prentiss, Dist 5; Sen. Perkins Kwoka, Dist 21; Rep. Balboni, Rock. 38

COMMITTEE: Education

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ANALYSIS

This bill requires the education freedom account administrator to seek bids for contracts to oversee and operate the state's education freedom account program every three years.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
26-2138
07/06

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty-Six

AN ACT
requiring the state to seek bids for contracts to oversee and operate the state's education freedom account program every three years.

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

1 The State and Its Government; Department of Education; Education Freedom Accounts; Administrator. Amend RSA 21-N:7-a, II to read as follows:
II. Contract with
, and seek multiple contract bids from,
scholarship organizations
every 3 years
, subject to the approval of the governor and executive council.

2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.