HB 769 · 2025 · House · Education Funding Committee
Raising school funding and tax rate
AI-generatedrelative to the base annual cost per pupil of providing the opportunity for an adequate education and statewide education property tax rate.
Increases the base annual cost per pupil for providing the opportunity for an adequate education and changes the statewide education property tax rate.AI-generated
Status
Killed in the House — Inexpedient to Legislate · March 13, 2025- ✓Introduced
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Analysis
This bill increases the base cost of providing the opportunity for an adequate education, and changes the statewide education property tax rate.
From the bill's official ANALYSIS section.
In the bill's words
Quoted verbatim from the bill as introduced. Passages chosen from the operative text.Computed by this site
“Beginning July 1, [2005] 2025, and every fiscal year thereafter, [the commissioner of the department of revenue administration shall set] the education tax rate [at a level sufficient to generate revenue of $363,000,000 when] shall be set at $2.50 per $1,000 and imposed on all persons and property taxable pursuant to RSA 76:8, except property subject to tax under RSA 82 and RSA 83-F.”
“The rate shall be set to the nearest 1/2 cent necessary to generate the revenue required in this section.]”
Official record
gc.nh.gov · the authoritative source
Sponsors
Public testimony
27 signed in online · 2 wrote testimony
33% support67% oppose0% neutral
In their wordsVerbatim, exactly as submitted
“I write today in opposition to HB 769 due to concerns about how this increased education funding may be diverted away from public schools and into the growing network of vouchers and charter schools.…”
“I support the concept of this bill, however I think it will increase our already high property taxes by too much. A rate higher than current rates but lower than the proposed rate would be preferable.”
Verbatim excerpts of submitted testimony, quoted from the testimony tool.
Read the testimony · as of Aug 12, 2026
Votes
yeanay- Feb 25, 2025HouseCommittee report· consent calendar: Inexpedient to Legislate18–0Overall100% yea
- Mar 13, 2025HouseVoice voteInexpedient to Legislateadopted
Hearings and debates
- Feb 4, 2025Public hearingHouse Education Funding1:27:49–1:29:221m 33slocated in the stream transcriptPublic Hearing
- Feb 12, 2025Public hearingHouse Education FundingWatchnot located in the transcript — opens the full streamFull Committee Work Session
- Feb 25, 2025Public hearingHouse Education Funding3:59:31–4:01:181m 47slocated in the stream transcriptCommittee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate; Full Committee Work Session; Executive Session
- Mar 13, 2025Floor debateHouse floorWatchnot located in the transcript — opens the full streamInexpedient to Legislate — adopted, voice vote
Timestamps locate where this bill is taken up in the chamber's YouTube stream.
Legislative history
- Jan 9, 2025HouseIntroduced (in recess of) 01/09/2025 and referred to Education Funding HJ 3 P. 26
- Feb 4, 2025HousePublic Hearing: 02/04/2025 11:00 am LOB 205-207
- Feb 12, 2025HouseFull Committee Work Session: 02/12/2025 10:00 am LOB 210-211
- Feb 25, 2025HouseFull Committee Work Session: 02/25/2025 10:00 am LOB 205-207
- Feb 25, 2025HouseExecutive Session: 02/25/2025 10:00 am LOB 205-207
- Feb 25, 2025House: Inexpedient to Legislate 02/25/2025 (Vote 18-0; CC)
- Mar 13, 2025HouseInexpedient to Legislate: MA VV 03/13/2025 HJ 8 P. 11
Coverage
No reporting linked yet.
Background reading
Evergreen reading on the policy area — spanning perspectives — not coverage of this specific bill.
- New Hampshire’s effort to overturn the Claremont school funding rulings, explainedExplainer — NH context
New Hampshire Bulletin — How Claremont, ConVal and Rand fit together, and what overturning them would require.AI-generated
NH School Funding Fairness Project — The ConVal holding as the districts that sued read it, including the $7,356 base figure.AI-generated
- New Hampshire Supreme Court rules state violated constitution by underfunding public schoolsLegal analysis
Education Law Center — A national school-finance litigation group's summary of the decision.AI-generated
- Formella’s school funding fix: kill ClaremontConservative
NH Journal — The argument for returning funding decisions to the legislature.AI-generated
- Reaction mixed on ConVal education rulingReaction round-up
InDepthNH — Both sides on the day of the ruling, before the legislative response took shape.AI-generated
Documents (PDF)
Bill text & amendments link direct to gc.nh.gov; committee reports stream from the state record.