New Hampshire's HB1268, the "Home Education Freedom Act," has passed the full state Senate with unanimous Republican support, after narrowly clearing the House 174-166. The bill would strip away most of what little oversight New Hampshire still has: it makes parental notification optional and repeals both the recordkeeping requirement and the mandatory annual academic evaluation.
The motive isn't hidden — Republican sponsors openly frame it as affirming a parent's right to direct their child's education and removing the state from a role they say it shouldn't have.
This is deregulation, not new restriction — for New Hampshire families it would mean less paperwork, not more. But it is not law yet. The Senate attached unrelated provisions dealing with pharmacy benefit managers, which means the House and Senate versions must be reconciled, and as the session's final weeks arrived several bills stalled in exactly that kind of negotiation. The outcome is genuinely uncertain.
The bill would also bar the state's child-welfare division from treating home education itself as a negative factor, and would let parents sue over bad-faith reports made primarily because a family homeschools.