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Next week is the last week for the House and Senate to finish their votes for this session before committees of conferences are established on bills the House and Senate passed but with an amendment from either chamber that needs to be discussed. 

We still have a few bills and topics we are tracking that could significantly impact public education. Here are the bills we are watching next week and asking you to take all three actions below.

HB 1300, the education tax cap bill was amended in committee to allow one tax cap vote, during the November general election, in 2026 but

House Defeats SB 101 (Open Enrollment) 

 Vigilance Still Required

VICTORY. A huge win today as SB 101, Open Enrollment, was tabled in the House after it failed to pass. This was a bipartisan vote with a core group of commonsense Republicans standing with all Democrats to support protecting public schools for all students. The deadline for this bill was today and any attempt to remove it from the table would require a two-thirds vote of the legislature. We do still have HB 751 waiting for action from the committee of conference so the issue is not done, and we will be calling on you again in the

AFT-NH President Deb Howes Statement on Defeat of SB 101 (Open Enrollment)

Granite State public school students won today when the New Hampshire House put the needs of all public-school students first and defeated SB101, an Open Enrollment proposal that was far from ready to become law. All students deserve robust, well-funded public schools in their home districts, and this proposal lacked the safeguards, stable funding, and predictability needed to protect students, classrooms and communities. This bipartisan vote showed respect for local voters and property taxpayers, who voted at annual