---
type: "Bill"
title: "establishing a committee to study New Hampshire teacher shortages and recruitment incentives, and relative to defining secondary school grades for teacher loan forgiveness programs."
description: "establishing a committee to study New Hampshire teacher shortages and recruitment incentives, and relative to defining secondary school grades for teacher loan forgiveness programs."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nh"
legislature: "New Hampshire General Court"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 236"
citation: "New Hampshire SB 236 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jay Kahn"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-12-14"
last_action: "2022-06-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/11f5442f-8ceb-444c-b3a1-ed599245096c"
source_url: "http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/bill_status.aspx?lsr=2959&sy=2022&sortoption=&txtsessionyear=2022"
source_hash: "34af379708a8f2ec7d5f051aaeda6ae472059bbdb5b9846eca1d237084b35d86"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-nh"]
---

# New Hampshire SB 236 (2022) — establishing a committee to study New Hampshire teacher shortages and recruitment incentives, and relative to defining secondary school grades for teacher loan forgiveness programs.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Amendment #2022-0734h** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/billText.aspx?sy=2022&id=2022-0734h&txtFormat=amend)

## Sponsors

- Jay Kahn — primary (person)
- David H Watters — cosponsor (person)
- Mary Heath — cosponsor (person)
- Mel Myler — cosponsor (person)
- Ruth Ward — cosponsor (person)
- Suzanne M Prentiss — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2021-12-14** To Be Introduced 01/05/2022 and Referred to Education; SJ 1 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-12-21** Hearing: 01/18/2022, Room 101, LOB, 09:15 am; SC 50
- **2022-01-26** Committee Report: Ought to Pass, 02/03/2022; SC 5 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-03** Ought to Pass: MA, VV; OT3rdg; 02/03/2022; SJ 2 `passage`
- **2022-03-23** Introduced 03/17/2022 and referred to Education `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-03-28** Public Hearing: 04/06/2022 10:00 am LOB 205-207
- **2022-04-13** Executive Session: 04/19/2022 11:00 am LOB 205-207
- **2022-04-13** Public Hearing on non-germane Amendment # 2022-0734h(NT): 04/19/2022 10:00 am LOB 205-207
- **2022-04-20** Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2022-0734h(NT) (Vote 19-0; CC) `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-05-04** Amendment # 0734h: AA VV 05/04/2022 HJ 11
- **2022-05-04** Ought to Pass with Amendment 0734h: MA VV 05/04/2022 HJ 11 `passage`
- **2022-05-12** Sen. Ward Moved to Concur with the House Amendment, MA, VV; 05/12/2022; SJ 12
- **2022-05-27** Enrolled Adopted, VV, (In recess 05/26/2022); SJ 13
- **2022-05-27** Enrolled (in recess of) 05/26/2022 HJ 14
- **2022-06-08** Signed by the Governor on 06/07/2022; Chapter 0150; Effective 06/07/2022 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/11f5442f-8ceb-444c-b3a1-ed599245096c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Hampshire legislature records).