Bill Text - HB1512 (2026)

Allowing municipalities to hold a vote to prevent their residents from receiving education freedom account vouchers.


Revision: Dec. 10, 2025, 9:04 a.m.

HB 1512  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2026 SESSION

26-2614

07/09

 

HOUSE BILL 1512

 

AN ACT allowing municipalities to hold a vote to prevent their residents from receiving education freedom account vouchers.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Read, Rock. 10; Rep. Damon, Sull. 8; Rep. Ankarberg, Straf. 7; Rep. H. Howard, Straf. 4

 

COMMITTEE: Municipal and County Government

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill allows municipalities to a vote to prevent their residents from receiving education freedom account vouchers.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

26-2614

07/09

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty-Six

 

AN ACT allowing municipalities to hold a vote to prevent their residents from receiving education freedom account vouchers.

 

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

 

1  New Section; Education; Education Freedom Accounts; Municipal Opt-Out.  Amend RSA 194-F by inserting after section 12 the following new section:  

194-F:13  Municipal Opt-Out.  

I.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, any municipality, city, town, or village may hold a referendum to determine whether its residents shall be entitled to receive education freedom account vouchers pursuant to RSA 194-F.  Any referendum held pursuant to this section shall be held, to whatever extent possible, using the same or similar procedures and methods of adoption as under RSA 40.  

II.  Upon a vote of yes, residents eligible for education freedom account vouchers under RSA 194-F shall be permitted to receive such vouchers.  

III.  Upon a vote of no, no resident who would otherwise be eligible to receive an education freedom account voucher shall receive such voucher.  

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2026.