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NH SB 33

died on adjournment

relative to the regulation of public school materials.

New Hampshire · 2026 Regular Session · upper

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Quick answers

Did NH SB 33 pass?

No. NH SB 33 died when the 2026 Regular Session adjourned without final action on it. Bills that die this way are sometimes reintroduced in a later session. Latest recorded action (2026-02-05): Special Order to the Present Time, Without Objection, MA; 02/05/2026; SJ 3

What is NH SB 33 about?

NH SB 33 is a bill in the 2026 Regular Session titled “relative to the regulation of public school materials.”.

Who sponsors NH SB 33?

Kevin A. Avard is the primary sponsor of NH SB 33, joined by 8 cosponsors.

Introduced
2025-01-07
Latest action
2026-02-05 — Special Order to the Present Time, Without Objection, MA; 02/05/2026; SJ 3
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Sponsors

  • Kevin A. Avardprimary
  • Keith R. Murphycosponsor
  • Shane A Siroiscosponsor
  • Howard Pearlcosponsor
  • Tim McGoughcosponsor
  • Diane Pauercosponsor
  • Jim A Kofaltcosponsor
  • Bill M. Gannoncosponsor
  • Timothy Langcosponsor

Committees

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Action timeline

Newest first

  1. 2026-02-05

    Special Order to the Present Time, Without Objection, MA; 02/05/2026; SJ 3

  2. 2026-02-05

    Sen. Ward Moved Nonconcur with the House Amendment, MA, VV; 02/05/2026; SJ 3

  3. 2026-01-07

    Ought to Pass with Amendment 2025-3079h: MA RC 181-157 01/07/2026 HJ 1 P. 149

    committee-passage-favorable,passage

  4. 2026-01-07

    Amendment # 2025-3079h: AA DV 175-150 01/07/2026 HJ 1 P. 147

  5. 2025-11-19

    Minority Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate

  6. 2025-11-19

    Majority Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2025-3079h 11/05/2025 (Vote 10-8; RC) HC 51 P. 29

    committee-passage-favorable

  7. 2025-10-22

    Executive Session: 11/05/2025 02:00 pm GP 232

  8. 2025-05-20

    Retained in Committee

  9. 2025-05-12

    Executive Session: 05/20/2025 09:30 am LOB 206-208

  10. 2025-04-15

    Public Hearing: 04/23/2025 11:00 am LOB 205-207

  11. 2025-04-01

    ==CANCELLED== Public Hearing: 04/09/2025 10:00 am LOB 205-207

  12. 2025-03-28

    Introduced (in recess of) 03/27/2025 and referred to Education Policy and Administration HJ 11 P. 109

    introduction,referral-committee

  13. 2025-03-13

    Without Objection, Sen. Avard Moved the Question, MA; 03/13/2025; SJ 7

  14. 2025-03-13

    Sen. Ward Moved Ought to Pass; 03/13/2025; SJ 7

    committee-passage-favorable

  15. 2025-03-13

    Ought to Pass: RC 16Y-8N, MA; OT3rdg; 03/13/2025; SJ 7

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  16. 2025-03-13

    Rereferred to Committee, RC 8Y-16N, MF; 03/13/2025; SJ 7

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  17. 2025-03-13

    SB 33-FN was Removed from the Consent Calendar; 03/13/2025; SJ 7

  18. 2025-03-07

    Committee Report: Rereferred to Committee, 03/13/2025, Vote 4-1, CC SC 12

  19. 2025-02-11

    Hearing: 02/18/2025, Room 101, LOB, 10:30 am; SC 10

  20. 2025-01-07

    Introduced 01/08/2025 and Referred to Education; SJ 2

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Versions

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Documents

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Votes

  • OTPA

    2026-01-07 · pass · 181-157

    Member-level votes (386)
    • Phyllis M Katsakiores: yes
    • Mary Jane Wallner: no
    • John B. Hunt: yes
    • Janet G Wall: no
    • Wayne M. Burton: no
    • Gary R Gilmore: no
    • 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: no
    • 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: other
    • 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: other
    • Dan McGuire: yes
    • Jeanine M Notter: yes
    • Bill H Ohm: yes
    • Mark L Proulx: yes
    • Brian Seaworth: yes
    • Steven D Smith: yes
    • Marc D Tremblay: yes
    • Mark Warden: yes
    • Dick Ames: no
    • Paul S. Berch: no
    • Peter W Bixby: no
    • Efstathia S Booras: no
    • Michael D Cahill: other
    • Karel A. Crawford: other
    • 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: yes
    • 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: other
    • Michael Vose: yes
    • Patricia Cornell: no
    • Linda R Gould: yes
    • Christopher J. Herbert: no
    • David J. Luneau: other
    • 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: other
    • Sallie D Fellows: other
    • 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: other
    • 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: other
    • 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: yes
    • 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: other
    • 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: no
    • 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: other
    • 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: no
    • 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: no
    • 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: yes
    • Jeremy Slottje: yes
    • Jim Snodgrass: no
    • Carrie Sorensen: no
    • Terry Spahr: no
    • John Joseph Stone: no
    • John W. Suiter: yes
    • Dale Swanson: no
    • Brian R. Taylor: no
    • 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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