---
type: "Bill"
title: "relative to the information that appears on the school budget ballot."
description: "relative to the information that appears on the school budget ballot."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nh"
legislature: "New Hampshire General Court"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 557"
citation: "New Hampshire HB 557 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ross Berry"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 29
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2025-01-14"
last_action: "2025-08-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/846ad278-283b-45c7-b141-ccec5824a70e"
source_url: "https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/bill_docket.aspx?lsr=0833&sy=2025&sortoption=&txtsessionyear=2025"
source_hash: "d9d5f1900af3b686352afabc3c510827f3547dad64a57160eb00102e6b17c663"
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 HB 557 (2025) — relative to the information that appears on the school budget ballot.

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment #2025-2929e** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/billText.aspx?sy=2025&id=2025-2929e&txtFormat=amend)

## Votes

- Ought to Pass w/Amendment — **15–8** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ross Berry — primary (person)
- Jason M. Osborne — cosponsor (person)
- Joe H. Alexander — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Sweeney — cosponsor (person)
- Samuel G Farrington — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-14** Introduced (in recess of) 01/09/2025 and referred to Municipal and County Government HJ 3 P. 15 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-21** Vacated and Referred to Education Policy and Administration (Rep. Pauer): MA VV (in recess of) 01/09/2025 HJ 3 `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-29** Public Hearing: 02/05/2025 11:15 am LOB 205-207
- **2025-03-06** Executive Session: 03/12/2025 10:00 am LOB 205-207
- **2025-03-19** Majority Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2025-1031h 03/17/2025 (Vote 10-8; RC) HC 17 P. 52 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-19** Minority Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate
- **2025-03-27** Amendment # 2025-1031h: AA VV 03/27/2025 HJ 11 P. 12
- **2025-03-27** Ought to Pass with Amendment 2025-1031h: MA DV 202-166 03/27/2025 HJ 11 P. 12 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2025-03-28** Introduced 03/27/2025 and Referred to Education Finance; SJ 10 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-09** ==CANCELLED== Hearing: 04/25/2025, Room 100, SH, 09:00 am; SC 17
- **2025-04-09** Hearing: 04/17/2025, Room 103, SH, 01:00 pm; SC 17
- **2025-05-02** Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2025-1878s, 05/15/2025, Vote 4-2; SC 21 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-15** Committee Amendment # 2025-1878s, AA, VV; 05/15/2025; SJ 13
- **2025-05-15** Ought to Pass with Amendment #2025-1878s, RC 15Y-8N, MA; OT3rdg; 05/15/2025; SJ 13 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2025-06-02** House Non-Concurs with Senate Amendment 2025-1878s and Requests CofC (Rep. Osborne): MA VV 05/22/2025 HJ 15 P. 52
- **2025-06-03** Speaker Appoints: Reps. Cordelli, Noble, Drye, Freeman 05/22/2025 HJ 15 P. 52
- **2025-06-11** Sen. Murphy Accedes to House Request for Committee of Conference, MA, VV; (In recess 06/05/2025); SJ 16
- **2025-06-11** President Appoints: Senators Murphy, Ward, Altschiller; (In Recess 06/05/2025); SJ 16
- **2025-06-16** Conference Committee Meeting: 06/16/2025 09:30 am LOB 205-207
- **2025-06-16** Conferee Change; Senator Innis Replaces Senator Altschiller; SJ 17
- **2025-06-18** Conference Committee Report Filed, # 2025-2767c; 06/26/2025
- **2025-06-25** Removed from Consent (Reps. Damon, Selig, Oppel, W. Thomas, Balboni, Ames, Weinstein, Burton, Luneau, Bricchi) 06/25/2025 HJ 18 P. 18
- **2025-06-26** Conference Committee Report # 2025-2767c, Adopted, VV; 06/26/2025; SJ 17
- **2025-06-26** Conference Committee Report 2025-2767c: Adopted, DV 196-156 06/26/2025 HJ 18 P. 47
- **2025-07-11** Enrolled Bill Amendment # 2025-2929e Adopted, VV, (In recess of 06/26/2025); SJ 18 `amendment-passage`
- **2025-07-14** Enrolled Bill Amendment # 2025-2929e: AA VV (in recess of) 06/26/2025 HJ 18 P. 62
- **2025-07-18** Enrolled Adopted, VV, (In recess 06/26/2025); SJ 18 `enrolled`
- **2025-07-18** Enrolled (in recess of) 06/26/2025 HJ 18 P. 64
- **2025-08-11** Signed by Governor Ayotte 08/01/2025; Chapter 281; eff. I. Sec 1 & 2 eff as provided in Sec 3 II. Rem eff 08/01/2025 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/846ad278-283b-45c7-b141-ccec5824a70e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Hampshire legislature records).