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SB 293 · 2025 · Senate · Education Finance Committee

Medicaid enrollment counts toward school lunch funding

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relative to using enrollment in Medicaid as a measure of eligibility for school lunches.

Expands the definition of pupil for purposes of school funding and increases funding for schools with pupils enrolled in Medicaid.AI-generated

Status

Killed in the Senate — Inexpedient to Legislate · March 13, 2025
  1. ✓Introduced
  2. ✕Senate
  3. House
  4. Governor
  5. Law

Analysis

This bill: I. Expands the meaning of pupil as it pertains to school funding. II. Increases funding for schools who have pupils enrolled in Medicaid.

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

“"Economically disadvantaged pupil" means pupils in kindergarten through grade 12 who are eligible for the federal free or reduced-price meal program or enrolled in Medicaid and whose household income would qualify them for the federal free or reduced-price meal program.”
Section 1
“In addition to aid for the cost of the opportunity for an adequate education provided under RSA 198:40-a, each year the commissioner shall calculate an extraordinary need grant for schools and provide that amount of aid to a municipality's school districts as follows:”
Section 3
“No pupil or school shall be required to participate in the federal free or reduced price meal program.”
Section 1
“A municipality with an equalized valuation per economically disadvantaged pupil [eligible to receive a free or reduced-priced meal] of $1,664,640 or less shall receive $11,500 per economically disadvantaged pupil [eligible to receive a free or reduced-price meal] in the municipality's ADMR.”
Section 3

Official record

Bill page — docket & status

gc.nh.gov · the authoritative source

Sponsors

Sen. Pat LongDPrime
  • Rep. Laura TelerskiDDeputy Democratic Leader

Public testimony

No one submitted online testimony on this bill. See the record

Votes

yeanay
Starting text: Bill as introduced
  • Mar 13, 2025SenateCommittee report: Inexpedient to Legislate3–2
    Overall
    60% yea
  • Mar 13, 2025SenateVoice voteInexpedient to Legislateadopted

Hearings and debates

  • Feb 12, 2025Public hearingSenate Education Finance5:03–9:154m 12slocated in the stream transcriptHearing
  • Mar 13, 2025Floor debateSenate floor1:19:53–1:23:544m 1slocated in the stream transcriptCommittee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate; Inexpedient to Legislate — adopted, voice vote

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

Legislative history

  1. Jan 30, 2025SenIntroduced 01/30/2025 and Referred to Education Finance; SJ 4
  2. Feb 12, 2025SenHearing: 02/12/2025, Room 100, SH, 03:00 pm; SC 9
  3. Mar 13, 2025SenCommittee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate, 03/13/2025, Vote 3-2; SC 12
  4. Mar 13, 2025SenInexpedient to Legislate, MA, VV === BILL KILLED ===; 03/13/2025; SJ 7

Coverage

No reporting linked yet.

Background reading

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

  • Summer EBTPrimary source

    USDA Food and Nutrition Service — The federal program, including the streamlined-certification provision the data sharing rests on.AI-generated

  • Summer nutrition programsAdvocacy

    Food Research & Action Center — Participation gaps and why automatic enrollment matters to reach.AI-generated

  • National School Lunch ProgramPrimary source

    USDA Food and Nutrition Service — The free and reduced-price eligibility determination that Summer EBT enrollment now piggybacks on.AI-generated

Documents (PDF)

  • Introducedversion

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