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SB 100 · 2025 · Senate · Education Committee

Narrowing the teaching discrimination ban

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(New Title) relative to the prohibition on teaching discrimination.

Revises the state's ban on teaching discrimination in public schools by requiring intentional or knowing conduct, limiting the prohibition to targeting specific racial groups, and creating an enforcement process through the educator code of conduct and civil actions.AI-generated

Status

Died — the House and Senate did not agree · June 12, 2025
  1. ✓Introduced
  2. ✕Senate
  3. House
  4. Governor
  5. Law

Analysis

This bill revises the construction of and the mental state applicable to the prohibition on teaching discrimination in public schools.

From the bill's official ANALYSIS section.

In the bill's words

Quoted verbatim from the bill as amended by the House. Passages chosen from the operative text.Computed by this site

“No pupil in any public school in this state shall be intentionally or knowingly taught, instructed, inculcated or compelled to express belief in, or support for, any one or more of the following:”
Section 1
“Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit discussion by educators or others, as part of a larger course of academic instruction, of the historical existence of ideas and subjects identified in this section, or construed to mean that educators have any positive interest in teaching, instructing, or inculcating discrimination against any group of people.”
Section 2
“Prohibitions in this section shall apply only to teaching, instruction, and inculcation targeting members of any racial group, including but not limited to, white people or people of European descent, black people or people of Sub-Saharan African descent, or Hispanic or Latino people.”
Section 2
“A report of intentional or knowing violation of this section by an educator shall be considered a possible violation of the educator code of conduct which shall justify investigation and potentially disciplinary sanction by the state board of education.”
Section 2

Official record

Bill page — docket & status

gc.nh.gov · the authoritative source

Sponsors

Sen. Timothy LangRPrimeMajority Whip
  • Sen. Kevin AvardRDeputy Majority Whip
  • Sen. Regina BirdsellRMajority Leader
  • Sen. Daniel InnisRVice Chair· Education Finance
  • Sen. Howard PearlRChair· Executive Departments and Administration
  • Sen. Bill GannonRChair· Judiciary

Public testimony

477 signed in online · 126 wrote testimony

3% support97% oppose0% neutral

ForSupport amendment to restore and enforce the law

AgainstBanned concepts law already ruled unconstitutional

AI-generatedLeading arguments, summarized by the testimony tool.

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“Teachers should be teaching reading, writing, mathematics and science not DEI. Test scores are plummeting as schools have focused on indoctrination and not education.”
— Jacqueline Larochelle, New Bostonsupports
“This has already been ruled unconstitutional. Don't try to sneak it back in. Discrimination not only happened, it is still happening: see all the anti immigration and anti trans bills you people wasted time and money passing this year.…”
— Deb Baker, Concordopposes
“As a retired High School science teacher in NH, I am opposed to telling history teachers to teach only part of our true history. Allow them to teach the truth.…”
— Marian Baker, Hillsboroopposes
“I want my grandchildren to learn the true and accurate history of our country. This bill is a thinly veiled attempt to codify the "divisive concepts" law that has already been ruled unconstitutional in federal court.…”
— Mary Lincoln, Londonderryopposes

Verbatim excerpts of submitted testimony, quoted from the testimony tool.

Read the testimony · as of Aug 12, 2026

Votes

yeanay
Starting text: Bill as introduced

Hearings and debates

  • Feb 4, 2025Public hearingSenate EducationWatchnot located in the transcript — opens the full streamHearing
  • Mar 6, 2025Floor debateSenate floor1:00:39–1:05:164m 37slocated in the stream transcriptCommittee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2025-0491s; Ought to Pass with Amendment #2025-0491s — adopted, roll call 16-8; Committee Amendment # 2025-0491s — adopted, voice vote
  • Apr 9, 2025Public hearingHouse Education Policy and Administration1:01:32–1:34:2032m 48slocated in the stream transcriptPublic Hearing
  • May 20, 2025Public hearingHouse Education Policy and AdministrationWatchnamed in a list of bills, not taken up — opens the full stream==RECESSED== Executive Session
  • May 27, 2025Public hearingHouse Education Policy and Administration3:15:55–3:57:1641m 21slocated in the stream transcriptMajority Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2025-2332h (NT) — roll call; Public Hearing on non-germane Amendment # 2025-2332h; ==CONTINUED== Executive Session
  • Jun 5, 2025Floor debateHouse floor5:36:00–5:53:5517m 55slocated in the stream transcriptOught to Pass with Amendment 2025-2332h — adopted, roll call 194-165; Amendment # 2025-2332h — adopted, division 192-155
  • Jun 12, 2025Floor debateSenate floor30:50–31:3949slocated in the stream transcriptSen. Ward Moved Nonconcur with the House Amendment — adopted, voice vote

Timestamps locate where this bill is taken up in the chamber's YouTube stream.

Legislative history

  1. Jan 9, 2025SenIntroduced 01/09/2025 and Referred to Education; SJ 3
  2. Feb 4, 2025SenHearing: 02/04/2025, Room 101, LOB, 09:15 am; SC 8
  3. Mar 6, 2025SenCommittee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2025-0491s, 03/06/2025, Vote 3-2; SC 11
  4. Mar 6, 2025SenCommittee Amendment # 2025-0491s, AA, VV; 03/06/2025; SJ 6
  5. Mar 6, 2025SenOught to Pass with Amendment #2025-0491s, RC 16Y-8N, MA; OT3rdg; 03/06/2025; SJ 6
  6. Mar 27, 2025HouseIntroduced (in recess of) 03/27/2025 and referred to Education Policy and Administration HJ 11 P. 111
  7. Apr 9, 2025HousePublic Hearing: 04/09/2025 10:30 am LOB 205-207
  8. May 20, 2025House==RECESSED== Executive Session: 05/20/2025 09:30 am LOB 206-208
  9. May 27, 2025HousePublic Hearing on non-germane Amendment # 2025-2332h: 05/27/2025 11:30 am LOB 205-207
  10. May 27, 2025House==CONTINUED== Executive Session: 05/27/2025 01:30 pm LOB 205-207
  11. May 27, 2025HouseMajority : Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2025-2332h (NT) 05/27/2025 (Vote 9-8; RC) HC 27 P. 17
  12. May 28, 2025HouseMinority : Inexpedient to Legislate
  13. Jun 5, 2025HouseAmendment # 2025-2332h: AA DV 192-155 06/05/2025 HJ 16 P. 106
  14. Jun 5, 2025HouseOught to Pass with Amendment 2025-2332h: MA RC 194-165 06/05/2025 HJ 16 P. 106
  15. Jun 12, 2025SenSen. Ward Moved Nonconcur with the House Amendment, MA, VV; 06/12/2025; SJ 16

Coverage

No reporting linked yet.

Background reading

Evergreen reading on the policy area — spanning perspectives — not coverage of this specific bill.

  • Educational gag ordersFree expression

    PEN America — The national wave of teaching restrictions and how their enforcement provisions differ.AI-generated

  • Map of divisive concepts legislationFree speech

    FIRE — A civil-liberties tracker of what has been enacted and struck down.AI-generated

  • Local Government Center v. New HampshireLitigation — NH

    ACLU of New Hampshire — The New Hampshire challenge to the teaching-discrimination law and its vagueness holding.AI-generated

Documents (PDF)

Bill text & amendments link direct to gc.nh.gov; committee reports stream from the state record.