NH HB 656

enacted

relative to the authority of local school districts to accept federal grants.

New Hampshire · 2026 Regular Session · lower

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Quick answers

Did NH HB 656 pass?

Yes. NH HB 656 has been enacted into law. Latest recorded action (2026-06-22): Signed by Governor Ayotte 06/12/2026; Chapter 130; eff. 08/11/2026

What is NH HB 656 about?

NH HB 656 is a bill in the 2026 Regular Session titled “relative to the authority of local school districts to accept federal grants.”.

Who sponsors NH HB 656?

Katy Peternel is the primary sponsor of NH HB 656, joined by 11 cosponsors.

Introduced: 2025-01-21
Latest action: 2026-06-22 — Signed by Governor Ayotte 06/12/2026; Chapter 130; eff. 08/11/2026
Bill type: bill
Last updated: —

Committees

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Action timeline

Newest first

2026-06-22
Signed by Governor Ayotte 06/12/2026; Chapter 130; eff. 08/11/2026
2026-05-28
Enrolled (in recess of) 05/21/2026 HJ 14
2026-05-28
Enrolled (in recess of) 05/21/2026 HJ 14 P. 34
2026-05-28
Enrolled Adopted, VV, (In recess 05/21/2026); SJ 14
enrolled
2026-04-17
Ought to Pass: MA, VV; OT3rdg; 04/23/2026; SJ 10
committee-passage-favorable,passage
2026-04-14
Committee Report: Ought to Pass, 04/23/2026; Vote 4-0; CC; SC 15
committee-passage-favorable
2026-02-09
Hearing: 02/12/2026, Room 103, SH, 09:30 am; SC 5
2026-01-30
Introduced 01/29/2026 and Referred to Education Finance; SJ 3
introduction,referral-committee
2026-01-07
Ought to Pass with Amendment 2025-2933h: MA RC 186-155 01/07/2026 HJ 1 P. 118
committee-passage-favorable,passage
2026-01-07
Amendment # 2025-2933h: AA VV 01/07/2026 HJ 1 P. 118
2025-11-20
Minority Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate
2025-11-20
Majority Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2025-2933h 11/13/2025 (Vote 10-8; RC) HC 51 P. 25
committee-passage-favorable
2025-10-28
Executive Session: 11/13/2025 02:00 pm GP 232
2025-10-28
Full Committee Work Session: 11/13/2025 01:00 pm GP 232
2025-10-15
==RESCHEDULED== Executive Session: 11/04/2025 02:00 pm GP 232
2025-10-13
==RESCHEDULED== Full Committee Work Session: 11/04/2025 01:00 pm GP 232
2025-03-12
Retained in Committee
2025-03-05
Executive Session: 03/12/2025 10:30 am LOB 201
2025-02-27
==CANCELLED== Executive Session: 03/11/2025 10:30 am LOB 205-207
2025-02-12
Executive Session: 02/18/2025 10:30 am LOB 205-207
2025-01-22
Public Hearing: 01/28/2025 02:15 pm LOB 205-207
2025-01-21
Introduced (in recess of) 01/09/2025 and referred to Education Funding HJ 3 P. 21
introduction,referral-committee

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Amendment: #2025-2933hCompare
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Documents

Votes

OTPA
2026-01-07 · pass · 186-155
Member-level votes (386)
- Phyllis M Katsakiores: yes
- Mary Jane Wallner: no
- John B. Hunt: other
- Janet G Wall: no
- Wayne M. Burton: no
- Gary R Gilmore: other
- Kenneth L Weyler: yes
- Gary L. Daniels: other
- Sherman A. Packard: other
- John J Sytek: yes
- John R Cloutier: no
- James R MacKay: other
- Susan W Almy: no
- Joseph A. Guthrie: yes
- Peter R Leishman: no
- Marjorie K. Smith: no
- Michael D Harrington: other
- Charles E McMahon: yes
- Maureen C. Mooney: yes
- Peter B Schmidt: no
- Ralph G Boehm: yes
- Jordan G. Ulery: yes
- Thomas L Buco: other
- Jean L. Jeudy: no
- Lucy McVitty Weber: no
- Debra L DeSimone: yes
- Larry G Gagne: other
- Timothy O. Horrigan: no
- Rick M Ladd: yes
- Carol M McGuire: yes
- Timothy A. Soucy: no
- Susan C DeLemus: yes
- Jack B. Flanagan: yes
- Gregory G. Hill: yes
- David C Lundgren: yes
- Dan McGuire: yes
- Jeanine M Notter: yes
- Bill H Ohm: yes
- Mark L Proulx: yes
- Brian Seaworth: yes
- Steven D Smith: other
- Marc D Tremblay: yes
- Mark Warden: yes
- Dick Ames: no
- Paul S. Berch: no
- Peter W Bixby: no
- Efstathia S Booras: other
- Michael D Cahill: other
- Karel A. Crawford: yes
- Linda A. DiSilvestro: no
- Karen E Ebel: no
- Linda C Harriott-Gathright: no
- Martin L. Jack: no
- Aboul B Khan: yes
- Dennis J Malloy: no
- David E Milz: yes
- Chris Muns: no
- Skip A. Rollins: yes
- Thomas C Schamberg: no
- Joe Sweeney: other
- George E Sykes: no
- Thomas C Walsh: yes
- Gerald W.R. Ward: no
- Glen C Aldrich: other
- Keith Michael Ammon: yes
- Lino M Avellani: yes
- Russell Dumais: yes
- Thomas L Kaczynski: yes
- Mark McLean: yes
- Jason M. Osborne: yes
- John Michael Potucek: yes
- Katherine J. Prudhomme-O'Brien: yes
- Kimberly A Rice: yes
- James A Spillane: yes
- Douglas W. Thomas: yes
- Len P Turcotte: yes
- Peter R. Varney: yes
- Michael Vose: yes
- Patricia Cornell: no
- Linda R Gould: yes
- Christopher J. Herbert: no
- David J. Luneau: no
- Alexis H Simpson: no
- Thomas L Southworth: no
- Michael A Edgar: no
- Michael I Moffett: yes
- Barry Faulkner: no
- Barbara Comtois: yes
- Jim L Fedolfi: other
- Gerald Griffin: yes
- Lisa M Freeman: yes
- Richard W. Lascelles: yes
- Kevin J Scully: yes
- Andrew J. Prout: yes
- John A Leavitt: yes
- Kevin G. Verville: yes
- Jess Edwards: yes
- Richard P Tripp: yes
- John C Janigian: yes
- Cathryn A Harvey: no
- Mark S MacKenzie: no
- Sue A Newman: no
- Catherine M Sofikitis: no
- Beth S. Richards: no
- Ellen D Read: no
- Julie D Gilman: no
- Kate Rushford Murray: no
- Mark A Pearson: yes
- Kris Schultz: no
- Charlie G. St. Clair: other
- Brian M Sullivan: no
- Anita D Burroughs: no
- Stephen L Woodcock: no
- John T MacDonald: yes
- Jerry M. Stringham: no
- Sallie D Fellows: no
- Laurel Stavis: no
- Keith Erf: yes
- Nancy A Murphy: no
- Rosemarie Rung: no
- Wendy Ellen N Thomas: no
- Ray E Newman: no
- Fred E Davis: other
- Laura Damphousse Telerski: no
- Matthew B. Wilhelm: no
- Connie Boyles Lane: no
- Gary L Woods: no
- Tom Dolan: other
- David C Love: yes
- Stephen C. Pearson: yes
- Mark A Vallone: no
- Robert D Harb: yes
- Charles R Melvin: yes
- Gaby M Grossman: other
- Jim V. Maggiore: no
- David James Meuse: no
- Terry W Roy: yes
- Cassandra N Levesque: other
- Judy F. Aron: yes
- Megan A Murray: no
- Kat McGhee: no
- Joe H. Alexander: yes
- Paul P Dargie: no
- Peter Petrigno: no
- Tom Ploszaj: yes
- Mike Bordes: other
- Juliet Harvey-Bolia: yes
- Douglas R. Trottier: other
- Jonathan H Smith: yes
- Chris R McAleer: no
- Dru Fox: no
- Lucius Parshall: no
- James R Qualey: yes
- Jennifer M Rhodes: yes
- Arnold G Davis: yes
- Lex Berezhny: yes
- Mary A Hakken-Phillips: no
- Russell Muirhead: no
- Jim A Kofalt: yes
- Lisa C.M. Post: yes
- Ted Gorski: yes
- Daniel T. Veilleux: no
- Vanessa L Sheehan: yes
- Diane E. Kelley: yes
- Diane Pauer: yes
- James L Creighton: other
- Ross Berry: yes
- Louise Andrus: yes
- Tony M Caplan: no
- Jose E Cambrils: yes
- Eric B Gallager: no
- Matthew Pitaro: yes
- Stephen E. Boyd: yes
- Paul D Tudor: yes
- Erica J Layon: yes
- Julius F Soti: yes
- Bob J. Lynn: yes
- Susan J Vandecasteele: other
- Melissa A. Litchfield: yes
- JD Bernardy: yes
- Mark Paige: no
- Glenn Bailey: yes
- Aidan Ankarberg: other
- Walter Spilsbury: yes
- Wayne D. MacDonald: yes
- Paul A Terry: yes
- Bill Boyd: other
- Muriel C Hall: no
- Catherine A Rombeau: no
- Jodi L Nelson: other
- Cyril Nicholas Aures: yes
- Deborah Aylward: other
- Peggy Balboni: no
- Heather P Baldwin: no
- Lorie Ball: yes
- Luz Bay: no
- Steven T Bogert: yes
- Bill R Bolton: no
- Richard R Brown: yes
- Claudine R Burnham: yes
- Matthew Coker: other
- Riché Colcombe: yes
- Travis James Corcoran: yes
- Thomas H Cormen: no
- Hope E Damon: no
- Will Darby: no
- William Dolan: other
- Tanya Donnelly: yes
- Mike Drago: yes
- Margaret M Drye: yes
- Ron C Dunn: yes
- Susan A Elberger: no
- Charles H Foote: other
- Loren E Foxx: no
- Nicholas A Germana: no
- Merryl Gibbs: other
- Michael E Granger: yes
- Alicia C Gregg: no
- Jessica Grill: no
- Matthew S Hicks: no
- Molly C Howard: no
- Heath Howard: other
- Allan Howland: no
- Philip M Jones: no
- Louis C Juris: no
- Catherine M Kenny: yes
- Seth King: yes
- Allison Knab: other
- Katelyn T Kuttab: yes
- Jessica Finn LaMontagne: no
- Nicole M Leapley: no
- Daniel J LeClerc: no
- Christal R Lloyd: no
- Peter Lovett: no
- Tom D Mannion: yes
- Dennis Mannion: yes
- Zoe R Manos: no
- Lisa R Mazur: yes
- Valerie E McDonnell: yes
- Alissandra Murray: no
- David J Nagel: other
- Jodi K Newell: no
- Kristin Noble: yes
- Mike Ouellet: yes
- David Paige: no
- William S Palmer: no
- Stephanie R Payeur: no
- Kristine Perez: yes
- Katy Peternel: yes
- Yury Polozov: yes
- Daniel Popovici-Muller: yes
- Susan M Porcelli: yes
- Kelley L Potenza: yes
- Heather Raymond: no
- Ned Raynolds: other
- James Leon Roesener: no
- Linda V Ryan: no
- Alvin B See: yes
- Christine Seibert: no
- Loren Selig: no
- John Sellers: yes
- Shane A Sirois: other
- Geoffrey Smith: other
- Carry Spier: no
- Kathy Staub: no
- Jared Sullivan: no
- James Summers: yes
- Trinidad Tellez: no
- Jeffrey Tenczar: other
- Eric S Turer: no
- David E Walker: yes
- Lilli M Walsh: yes
- Jonah Orion Wheeler: no
- Robert J Wherry: yes
- Clayton D Wood: yes
- Dick H Thackston: yes
- James W Tierney: yes
- Brian D Cole: yes
- Mike S Belcher: yes
- Marc W Plamondon: no
- David Fracht: no
- Paige Beauchemin: no
- Sean C Durkin: yes
- Erik R Johnson: no
- Jennifer Mandelbaum: no
- Michael Aron: yes
- Liz F Barbour: yes
- Joseph J Barton: yes
- Calvin Beaulier: yes
- Cindy Lynn Bennett: yes
- Dan H Bergeron: other
- Marie Louise Bjelobrk: yes
- Tracy Anne Bricchi: no
- Nicholas D. Bridle: yes
- Pam Brown: yes
- Scott R Bryer: yes
- Manoj Chourasia: no
- Suzanne L Chretien: no
- Eleana Marie Colby: no
- Erica R de Vries: no
- Denise DeDe-Poulin: other
- Susan G DeRoy: yes
- Sayra Lynn DeVito: yes
- Ricky J Devoid: yes
- Matt Drew: yes
- Dillon J Dumont: yes
- Pierre M Dupont: yes
- Myles England: other
- Samuel G Farrington: yes
- Mary J Ford: other
- Lily M Foss: no
- Linda Franz: yes
- Mary Ngwanda Georges: no
- Henry R Giasson: yes
- Dale R Girard: yes
- Ernesto L Gonzalez: yes
- George C Grant: yes
- James Gruber: no
- Stephanie Grund: no
- James H Guzofski: yes
- Robley Hall: yes
- Joseph Hamblen: yes
- Tim Hartnett: no
- Karen A Hegner: no
- Wayne J Hemingway: yes
- Samantha Jacobs: no
- Sly Karasinski: yes
- Eileen S Kelly: no
- Erin Kerwin: no
- Steven Kesselring: yes
- Lee Ann Kluger: no
- Lori E Korzen: yes
- Brian H Labrie: yes
- John H Larochelle: no
- Patrick N Long: no
- Darrell A Louis: yes
- Janet Marie Lucas: no
- Amy L Malone: other
- Tim E Mannion: other
- Sanjeev K Manohar: no
- Jay D Markell: yes
- Rita G Mattson: yes
- Donald S McFarlane: yes
- Linda McGrath: yes
- Peter L. Mehegan: yes
- Julie Miles: yes
- Seth B Miller: other
- Laurence A Miner: other
- Sheri Minor: other
- Pete Morency: yes
- Bryan Morse: yes
- Mary Murphy: other
- Denis Vincent Murphy: yes
- Brian G Nadeau: yes
- Rich M Nalevanko: yes
- James Newsom: no
- Terri O'Rorke: no
- Thomas Oppel: no
- Kathleen Paquette: yes
- Wayne Pearson: no
- Raymond C. Peeples: yes
- Raymond S Plante: yes
- Adam Joseph Presa: other
- Sherri L Reinfurt: yes
- Ellen B Rockmore: no
- Matt R Sabourin dit Choinière: yes
- Santosh Salvi: no
- Gregory M Sargent: no
- Buzz Scherr: no
- John Schneller: yes
- Donald Evan Selby: other
- Jeremy Slottje: yes
- Jim Snodgrass: no
- Carrie Sorensen: no
- Terry Spahr: other
- John Joseph Stone: no
- John W. Suiter: yes
- Dale Swanson: no
- Brian R. Taylor: yes
- James R Thibault: yes
- Travis J Toner: other
- Alice Wade: no
- Toni Weinstein: no
- Vicki A Wilson: yes
- Billie Butler: no
- David John Preece: no

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