Revision: Dec. 1, 2025, 8:32 a.m.
HB 1099 - AS INTRODUCED
2026 SESSION
26-2691
12/06
HOUSE BILL 1099
SPONSORS: Rep. Hill, Merr. 2; Rep. Bernardy, Rock. 36; Rep. Erf, Hills. 28; Rep. Freeman, Belk. 8; Rep. Kofalt, Hills. 32; Rep. Sheehan, Hills. 43
COMMITTEE: Education Funding
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ANALYSIS
This bill establishes a committee to study private businesses providing special and behavioral education services to school age children, and whether local school districts are receiving adequate reimbursement for special and behavioral education services that are provided.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
26-2691
12/06
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty-Six
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Committee to Study Private Businesses in Special Education Established.
I. There is established a committee to study private for-profit and non-profit businesses whose primary purpose is to work with behavioral or special educational issues with school-age children.
II. The members of the committee shall be as follows:
(a) One member of the senate, appointed by the president of the senate.
(b) Four members of the house of representatives, appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives.
III. The committee shall study:
(a) Whether there is a mechanism for reimbursement of services provided by a local school district where businesses working with behavioral and special educational issues with school age children utilize the existing local school district's resources or services.
(b) Whether students become residents of the local school district where a business working with behavioral and special educational issues with school age children provides room and board to students.
(c) The funding for special education services where parents of a child reside in another school district, and whether additional provisions are required if the local school district is providing special education or behavioral services for the child.
(d) Whether a local school district shall be reimbursed for providing special education or behavioral services for a child where a business working with behavioral and special educational issues with school age children is a non-profit that makes payments in lieu of taxes to the municipality in which said business provides services.
(e) The funding for special or behavioral education services where the state has placed children in a business working with behavioral and special educational issues with school age children and where such services may be provided by the local school district.
(f) Any other pertinent or relevant issue deemed necessary by the committee.
IV. The first named member of the house of representatives shall serve as chairperson of the committee. The first meeting of the committee shall be called by the first-named member of the house of representatives. The first meeting of the committee shall be held within 60 days of the effective date of this section. Three members of the committee shall constitute a quorum.
V. The committee shall report its findings and any recommendations for proposed legislation to the president of the senate, the speaker of the house of representatives, the senate clerk, the house clerk, and the chairperson of the education policy and administration standing committee on or before November 1, 2026.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect upon its passage.