Bill Text - HB1221 (2026)

Directing the commission to study costs of special education to consider establishing centralized locations throughout the state for certain special education-related services.


Revision: Dec. 1, 2025, 9:41 a.m.

HB 1221  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2026 SESSION

26-2715

07/08

 

HOUSE BILL 1221

 

AN ACT directing the commission to study costs of special education to consider establishing centralized locations throughout the state for certain special education-related services.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Morse, Merr. 3

 

COMMITTEE: Education Policy and Administration

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill directs the commission to study costs of special education to consider establishing centralized locations throughout the state for certain special education-related services.

 

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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

26-2715

07/08

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty-Six

 

AN ACT directing the commission to study costs of special education to consider establishing centralized locations throughout the state for certain special education-related services.

 

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

 

1  New Subparagraph; Education; Special Education; Commission to Study Costs of Special Education Established.  Amend RSA 186-C:1-a, III by inserting after subparagraph (m) the following new subparagraph:  

(n)  Whether creating centralized school administrative unit locations for students throughout the state could help offset the costs for paying for excess full-time special education staff while maintaining classroom integration.

2  Repeals.  The following are repealed:  

I.  2025, 220:7, relative to the repeal of the commission to study special education.

II.  2025, 220:8, I, relative to the effective date of the repeal of the commission to study special education.

3  Prospective Repeal.  RSA 186-C:1-a, relative to the commission to study special education, is repealed.

4  Effective Date.

I.  Section 2 of this act shall take effect June 30, 2026.

II.  Section 3 of this act shall take effect July 1, 2027.

III.  The remainder of this act shall take effect on its passage.