---
type: "Bill"
title: "relative to intra-district public school transfers."
description: "relative to intra-district public school transfers."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nh"
legislature: "New Hampshire General Court"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 97"
citation: "New Hampshire SB 97 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Victoria Sullivan"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 29
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2025-01-22"
last_action: "2025-08-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/283343b4-d4d8-42f2-bb3e-9892b449929c"
source_url: "https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/bill_docket.aspx?lsr=0989&sy=2025&sortoption=&txtsessionyear=2025"
source_hash: "0ea8a362e3251466a6cee7b711f8d52c21f4d899bfba4323ff2bcfe00fe1ac1d"
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 97 (2025) — relative to intra-district public school transfers.

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment #2025-1980h** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/billText.aspx?sy=2025&id=2025-1980h&txtFormat=amend)

## Votes

- OTPA — **199–165** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Victoria Sullivan — primary (person)
- Erica J Layon — cosponsor (person)
- Howard Pearl — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-22** Introduced 01/09/2025 and Referred to Education; SJ 3 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-23** Hearing: 01/28/2025, Room 101, LOB, 09:50 am; SC 7
- **2025-03-07** Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2025-0735s, 03/13/2025, Vote 3-2; SC 12 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-13** Ought to Pass with Amendment #2025-0735s, MA, VV; Refer to Finance Rule 4-5; 03/13/2025; SJ 7 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2025-03-13** Committee Amendment # 2025-0735s, AA, VV; 03/13/2025; SJ 7
- **2025-03-13** Sen. Prentiss Floor Amendment # 2025-0844s, AF, VV; 03/13/2025; SJ 7
- **2025-03-19** Committee Report: Ought to Pass, 03/27/2025; Vote 5-1; CC; SC 14 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-27** Ought to Pass: MA, VV; OT3rdg; 03/27/2025; SJ 9 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2025-03-28** Introduced (in recess of) 03/27/2025 and referred to Education Policy and Administration HJ 11 P. 110 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01** Public Hearing: 04/07/2025 11:00 am LOB 205-207
- **2025-04-30** Executive Session: 05/07/2025 09:30 am LOB 205-207
- **2025-05-13** Majority Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2025-1980h 05/07/2025 (Vote 10-8; RC) `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-13** Minority Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate
- **2025-05-22** Amendment # 2025-1980h: AA DV 193-164 05/22/2025 HJ 15 P. 18
- **2025-05-22** Ought to Pass with Amendment 2025-1980h: MA DV 199-165 05/22/2025 HJ 15 P. 18 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2025-06-11** Sen. Ward Moved Nonconcur with the House Amendment; Requests C of C, MA, VV; (In Recess 06/05/2025); SJ 16
- **2025-06-11** President Appoints: Senators Sullivan, Ward, Altschiller; (In Recess 06/05/2025); SJ 16
- **2025-06-11** House Accedes to Senate Request for CofC (Rep. Kofalt): MA VV 06/05/2025 HJ 16 P. 171
- **2025-06-11** Speaker Appoints: Reps. Noble, Freeman, Morse, Tenczar 06/05/2025 HJ 16 P. 171
- **2025-06-16** Committee of Conference Meeting: 06/16/2025, 12:00 pm, Room 100, SH
- **2025-06-16** Conferee Change; Senator Abbas Replaces Senator Altschiller; SJ 17
- **2025-06-19** Conference Committee Report # 2025-2770c Filed 06/19/2025; As Amended by the House HJ 17
- **2025-06-26** Conference Committee Report 2025-2770c: Adopted, DV 207-163 06/26/2025 HJ 18 P. 16
- **2025-06-25** Removed from Consent (Reps. Cornell, Selig, Weinstein, Kluger, Balboni, M. Hall, Damon, Luneau, M. Murray, Burton) 06/25/2025 HJ 18 P. 2
- **2025-06-26** Conference Committee Report # 2025-2770c, Adopted, VV; 06/26/2025; SJ 17
- **2025-07-14** Enrolled Adopted, VV, (In recess 06/26/2025); SJ 18 `enrolled`
- **2025-07-14** Enrolled (in recess of) 06/26/2025 HJ 18
- **2025-07-15** Conferee Change: Rep. Terry Replaces Rep. Tenczar 06/12/2025 HJ 17 P. 22
- **2025-08-04** Signed by the Governor on 08/01/2025; Chapter 0293; Effective 07/01/2025 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/283343b4-d4d8-42f2-bb3e-9892b449929c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Hampshire legislature records).