Bills affecting Person with a disability in New Hampshire — 2026 session

Relative to nondiscrimination due to disability.

Relative to the special education aid formula and the administration and monitoring of state special education aid.

Repealing the public school identification and accommodation of gifted and talented students reporting requirement.

Relative to supporting the preferred method of communication of an individual with a communication disability.

Establishing a committee to study siting and maintenance rules regarding certain intellectual and developmental disability (IDD) and acquired brain disorder (ABD) community residences.

Requiring charter schools to have uniform and transparent billing costs and practices for special education services.

Modifying the state average expenditure per pupil relative to students in special education.

Enabling physician associates to certify that a person with a disability may hunt with a crossbow.

Establishing a commission to study the costs of special education.

Repealing the requirement for a memorandum of understanding between a chartered public school and school district regarding how students with disabilities will receive special education services and updating the organizational structure of the department of corrections.

Requiring catastrophic special education state aid funding to be drawn from the education trust fund.

Requiring the department of education to collect and publish data regarding the costs associated with providing special education services to students of public, charter, private, trade, and other K-12 schools or academies.

Relative to housing accessibility and voucher allocation in new multi-unit developments.

Increasing the amount of funding provided for students receiving special education services.

Allowing the commissioner of the department of education to withhold funds from public schools if such schools are not providing special education services in compliance with state law.

Relative to local property tax exemptions for veterans with a 100 percent disability rating.

Relative to aid to school districts for the cost of special education.

Directing the commission to study costs of special education to consider establishing centralized locations throughout the state for certain special education-related services.