NH SB 434

enacted

relative to regulation of public school materials.

New Hampshire · 2026 Regular Session · upper

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Quick answers

Did NH SB 434 pass?

Yes. NH SB 434 has been enacted into law. Latest recorded action (2026-08-19): Notwithstanding the Governor's Veto, Shall SB 434 Become Law: RC 16Y-8N, Veto Overridden by necessary two-thirds vote; 08/19/2026; SJ 15

What is NH SB 434 about?

NH SB 434 is a bill in the 2026 Regular Session titled “relative to regulation of public school materials.”.

Who sponsors NH SB 434?

Timothy Lang is the primary sponsor of NH SB 434, joined by 20 cosponsors.

Introduced: 2025-11-21
Latest action: 2026-08-19 — Notwithstanding the Governor's Veto, Shall SB 434 Become Law: RC 16Y-8N, Veto Overridden by necessary two-thirds vote; 08/19/2026; SJ 15
Bill type: bill
Last updated: —

Committees

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Action timeline

Newest first

2026-08-19
Notwithstanding the Governor's Veto, Shall SB 434 Become Law: RC 16Y-8N, Veto Overridden by necessary two-thirds vote; 08/19/2026; SJ 15
2026-08-19
Veto Sustained 08/19/2026: RC 165-140 Lacking Necessary Two-Thirds Vote HJ 16 P. 56
2026-07-09
Vetoed by Governor 07/02/2026
executive-veto
2026-06-17
Enrolled (in recess of) 06/04/2026 HJ 15
2026-06-17
Enrolled (in recess of) 06/04/2026 HJ 15 P. 45
2026-06-17
Enrolled Adopted, VV, (In recess 06/04/2026); SJ 14
enrolled
2026-05-21
Sen. Ward Moved to Concur with the House Amendment, RC 14Y-8N, MA; 05/21/2026; SJ 13
2026-05-14
Ought to Pass with Amendment 2026-1937h: MA RC 188-161 05/14/2026 HJ 13
committee-passage-favorable,passage
2026-05-14
Ought to Pass with Amendment 2026-1937h: MA RC 188-161 05/14/2026 HJ 13 P. 46
committee-passage-favorable,passage
2026-05-14
FLAM # 2026-1937h (Rep. Noble): AA DV 191-157 05/14/2026 HJ 13
2026-05-14
FLAM # 2026-1937h (Rep. Noble): AA DV 191-157 05/14/2026 HJ 13 P. 45
2026-05-14
Amendment # 2026-1815h: AF DV 8-336 05/14/2026 HJ 13
2026-05-14
Amendment # 2026-1815h: AF DV 8-336 05/14/2026 HJ 13 P. 45
2026-05-06
Minority Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate
2026-05-06
Majority Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2026-1815h 05/04/2026 (Vote 10-8; RC) HC 19 P. 20
committee-passage-favorable
2026-04-29
Executive Session: 05/04/2026 10:30 am GP 232
2026-04-01
Public Hearing: 04/08/2026 11:30 am GP 232
2026-02-26
Introduced (in recess of) 02/19/2026 and referred to Education Policy and Administration HJ 5 P. 124
introduction,referral-committee
2026-02-19
Ought to Pass with Amendment #2026-0643s, RC 16Y-8N, MA; OT3rdg; 02/19/2026; SJ 4
committee-passage-favorable,passage
2026-02-19
Sen. Altschiller Floor Amendment # 2026-0826s, AF, VV; 02/19/2026; SJ 4
2026-02-19
Committee Amendment # 2026-0643s, AA, VV; 02/19/2026; SJ 4
2026-02-10
Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2026-0643s, 02/19/2026, Vote 3-1; SC 6
committee-passage-favorable
2026-01-22
Hearing: 02/03/2026, Room Map Room, SL, 09:15 am; SC 3
2025-11-21
Introduced 01/07/2026 and Referred to Education; SJ 1
introduction,referral-committee

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Documents

Votes

Ought to Pass w/Amendment
2026-02-19 · pass · 16-8
Member-level votes (24)
- Sharon M. Carson: yes
- David H. Watters: no
- Kevin A. Avard: yes
- Regina Birdsell: yes
- Cindy Rosenwald: no
- James P. Gray: yes
- Ruth Ward: yes
- Bill M. Gannon: yes
- Daniel E. Innis: yes
- Suzanne M. Prentiss: no
- Denise Ricciardi: yes
- Rebecca Perkins Kwoka: no
- Timothy Lang: yes
- Donovan Fenton: no
- Keith R. Murphy: yes
- Howard Pearl: yes
- Daryl Abbas: yes
- Debra Altschiller: no
- David Rochefort: yes
- Mark McConkey: yes
- Tim McGough: yes
- Tara Reardon: no
- Victoria Sullivan: yes
- Pat Long: no
OTPA
2026-05-14 · pass · 188-161
Member-level votes (387)
- 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: yes
- 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: yes
- 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: yes
- 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: no
- Michael D Cahill: no
- 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: yes
- George E Sykes: no
- Thomas C Walsh: yes
- Gerald W.R. Ward: no
- Glen C Aldrich: yes
- Keith Michael Ammon: yes
- Lino M Avellani: yes
- Russell Dumais: other
- 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: no
- Alexis H Simpson: no
- Thomas L Southworth: no
- Michael A Edgar: no
- Michael I Moffett: yes
- Barry Faulkner: no
- Barbara Comtois: other
- 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: other
- 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: other
- Beth S. Richards: other
- Ellen D Read: no
- Julie D Gilman: other
- Kate Rushford Murray: no
- Mark A Pearson: yes
- Kris Schultz: no
- Charlie G. St. Clair: no
- 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: no
- Laura Damphousse Telerski: no
- Matthew B. Wilhelm: no
- Connie Boyles Lane: no
- Gary L Woods: no
- Tom Dolan: yes
- 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: no
- 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: yes
- 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: other
- Lex Berezhny: yes
- Mary A Hakken-Phillips: no
- Russell Muirhead: no
- Jim A Kofalt: other
- 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: yes
- 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: 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: yes
- Muriel C Hall: no
- Catherine A Rombeau: no
- Jodi L Nelson: other
- Cyril Nicholas Aures: yes
- Deborah Aylward: yes
- Peggy Balboni: no
- Heather P Baldwin: other
- Lorie Ball: yes
- Luz Bay: no
- Steven T Bogert: other
- Bill R Bolton: other
- Richard R Brown: other
- Claudine R Burnham: no
- Matthew Coker: yes
- Riché Colcombe: yes
- Travis James Corcoran: yes
- Thomas H Cormen: no
- Hope E Damon: no
- Will Darby: no
- William Dolan: no
- Tanya Donnelly: yes
- Mike Drago: yes
- Margaret M Drye: yes
- Ron C Dunn: yes
- Susan A Elberger: no
- Charles H Foote: yes
- Loren E Foxx: no
- Nicholas A Germana: no
- Merryl Gibbs: no
- Michael E Granger: other
- Alicia C Gregg: other
- Jessica Grill: no
- Matthew S Hicks: other
- Molly C Howard: no
- Heath Howard: no
- Allan Howland: no
- Philip M Jones: no
- Louis C Juris: no
- Catherine M Kenny: yes
- Seth King: yes
- Allison Knab: no
- 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: no
- 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: no
- James Leon Roesener: no
- Linda V Ryan: no
- Alvin B See: yes
- Christine Seibert: no
- Loren Selig: no
- John Sellers: yes
- Shane A Sirois: yes
- Geoffrey Smith: no
- 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: other
- 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: no
- 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: other
- 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: yes
- Lily M Foss: no
- Linda Franz: yes
- Mary Ngwanda Georges: no
- Henry R Giasson: yes
- Dale R Girard: yes
- Ernesto L Gonzalez: other
- George C Grant: yes
- James Gruber: no
- Stephanie Grund: other
- James H Guzofski: yes
- Robley Hall: other
- 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: other
- 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: yes
- Sheri Minor: yes
- Pete Morency: yes
- Bryan Morse: other
- Mary Murphy: yes
- 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: other
- Raymond S Plante: yes
- Adam Joseph Presa: yes
- 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: other
- John W. Suiter: other
- Dale Swanson: no
- Brian R. Taylor: no
- James R Thibault: yes
- Travis J Toner: yes
- Alice Wade: no
- Toni Weinstein: other
- Vicki A Wilson: yes
- Billie Butler: no
- Bobbi Boudman: no
- David John Preece: other
Concur
2026-05-21 · pass · 14-8
Member-level votes (24)
- Sharon M. Carson: yes
- David H. Watters: no
- Kevin A. Avard: yes
- Regina Birdsell: yes
- Cindy Rosenwald: no
- James P. Gray: yes
- Ruth Ward: yes
- Bill M. Gannon: yes
- Daniel E. Innis: yes
- Suzanne M. Prentiss: no
- Denise Ricciardi: other
- Rebecca Perkins Kwoka: no
- Timothy Lang: yes
- Donovan Fenton: no
- Keith R. Murphy: yes
- Howard Pearl: yes
- Daryl Abbas: yes
- Debra Altschiller: no
- David Rochefort: yes
- Mark McConkey: other
- Tim McGough: yes
- Tara Reardon: no
- Victoria Sullivan: yes
- Pat Long: no

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