---
type: "Bill"
title: "relative to education freedom accounts."
description: "relative to education freedom accounts."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nh"
legislature: "New Hampshire General Court"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 295"
citation: "New Hampshire SB 295 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Victoria Sullivan"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 36
vote_count: 11
first_action: "2025-01-30"
last_action: "2025-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/350e4400-14d1-4b50-a795-a4b1f1325969"
source_url: "https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/bill_docket.aspx?lsr=0955&sy=2025&sortoption=&txtsessionyear=2025"
source_hash: "a72a587aa7db626f27b06dfddf8f2be7078dadcf37107597331ed8140983b23d"
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 295 (2025) — relative to education freedom accounts.

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment #2025-2271h** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/billText.aspx?sy=2025&id=2025-2271h&txtFormat=amend)

## Votes

- Floor Amendment — **8–16** (fail) · upper
- OTPA — **190–178** (pass) · lower
- Ought to Pass — **16–8** (pass) · upper
- Floor Amendment — **8–16** (fail) · upper
- Adopt Floor Amendment — **167–201** (fail) · lower
- Adopt Floor Amendment — **165–199** (fail) · lower
- Floor Amendment — **8–16** (fail) · upper
- Previous Question — **195–166** (pass) · lower
- OTPA — **188–176** (pass) · lower
- Ought to Pass w/Amendment — **16–8** (pass) · upper
- Reconsider — **171–198** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Victoria Sullivan — primary (person)
- Bill M. Gannon — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel E. Innis — cosponsor (person)
- Howard Pearl — cosponsor (person)
- James P. Gray — cosponsor (person)
- Jeanine M Notter — cosponsor (person)
- Keith R. Murphy — cosponsor (person)
- Kevin A. Avard — cosponsor (person)
- Kimberly A Rice — cosponsor (person)
- Kristin Noble — cosponsor (person)
- Valerie E McDonnell — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-30** Introduced 01/30/2025 and Referred to Education Finance; SJ 4 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-06** Hearing: 02/12/2025, Room 100, SH, 03:20 pm; SC 9
- **2025-03-07** Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2025-0793s, 03/13/2025, Vote 3-2; SC 12 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-13** Ought to Pass with Amendment #2025-0793s, RC 16Y-8N, MA; Refer to Finance Rule 4-5; 03/13/2025; SJ 7 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2025-03-13** Committee Amendment # 2025-0793s, AA, VV; 03/13/2025; SJ 7
- **2025-03-13** Sen. Perkins Kwoka Floor Amendment # 2025-0963s, RC 8Y-16N, AF; 03/13/2025; SJ 7
- **2025-03-13** Sen. Altschiller Floor Amendment # 2025-0887s, RC 8Y-16N, AF; 03/13/2025; SJ 7
- **2025-03-13** Sen. Prentiss Floor Amendment # 2025-0886s, RC 8Y-16N, AF; 03/13/2025; SJ 7
- **2025-03-18** Committee Report: Ought to Pass, 03/27/2025, Vote 5-2; SC 14 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-27** Ought to Pass: RC 16Y-8N, MA; OT3rdg; 03/27/2025; SJ 9 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2025-03-28** Introduced (in recess of) 03/27/2025 and referred to Education Funding HJ 11 P. 113 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** Public Hearing: 04/15/2025 01:45 pm LOB 205-207
- **2025-04-23** ==CANCELLED== Executive Session: 05/02/2025 09:30 am LOB 205-207
- **2025-05-01** Executive Session: 05/01/2025 01:00 pm LOB 205-207
- **2025-05-01** Majority Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2025-1857h 05/01/2025 (Vote 10-8; RC) HC 23 P. 13 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-01** Minority Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate
- **2025-05-08** Amendment # 2025-1857h: AA DV 185-155 05/08/2025 HJ 14 P. 32
- **2025-05-08** Previous Question MA DV 195-166 05/08/2025 HJ 14 P. 33
- **2025-05-08** FLAM # 2025-1979h (Rep. Luneau): AF RC 165-199 05/08/2025 HJ 14 P. 35
- **2025-05-08** Ought to Pass with Amendment 2025-1857h: MA RC 188-176 05/08/2025 HJ 14 P. 35 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2025-05-08** Referred to Finance 05/08/2025 HJ 14 P. 39 `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-19** Division II Work Session: 05/23/2025 10:00 am LOB 209
- **2025-05-20** Executive Session: 05/28/2025 10:00 am LOB 210-211
- **2025-05-28** Majority Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2025-2271h 05/28/2025 (Vote 14-11; RC) HC 27 P. 22 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-28** Minority Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate
- **2025-06-05** Special Order to next order of business (Rep. Osborne): MA VV 06/05/2025 HJ 16 P. 94
- **2025-06-05** Amendment # 2025-2271h: AA VV 06/05/2025 HJ 16 P. 95
- **2025-06-05** FLAM # 2025-2702h (Rep. Luneau): AF RC 167-201 06/05/2025 HJ 16 P. 96
- **2025-06-05** Ought to Pass with Amendment 2025-2271h: MA RC 190-178 06/05/2025 HJ 16 P. 98 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2025-06-05** Reconsider OTPA (Rep. Osborne): MF RC 171-198 06/05/2025 HJ 16 P. 100
- **2025-06-05** Sen. Murphy Moved to Concur with the House Amendment, MA, VV; 06/05/2025; SJ 15
- **2025-06-06** Enrolled (in recess of) 06/05/2025 HJ 16 P. 167
- **2025-06-06** Enrolled Adopted, VV, (In recess 06/05/2025); SJ 16 `enrolled`
- **2025-06-11** Signed by the Governor on 06/10/2025; Chapter 0075 `executive-signature`
- **2025-06-11** I. Sections 4 and 6 of this act shall take effect as provided in Section 7
- **2025-06-11** II. Remainder Effective 06/10/2025

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/350e4400-14d1-4b50-a795-a4b1f1325969`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Hampshire legislature records).