Bill Text: NH HB71 | 2025 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibiting the use of the facilities of a public elementary school, a public secondary school, or an institution of higher education to provide shelter for aliens who have not been admitted into the United States.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 9-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-12-23 - Introduced 01/08/2025 and referred to Education Policy and Administration House Journal 2 [HB71 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2025-HB71-Introduced.html

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HB 71-FN - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2025 SESSION

25-0064

02/05

 

HOUSE BILL 71-FN

 

AN ACT prohibiting the use of the facilities of a public elementary school, a public secondary school, or an institution of higher education to provide shelter for aliens who have not been admitted into the United States.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. J. Harvey-Bolia, Belk. 3; Rep. Hill, Merr. 2; Rep. Pauer, Hills. 36; Rep. Peternel, Carr. 6; Rep. Sweeney, Rock. 25; Rep. Freeman, Belk. 8; Rep. Sabourin, Rock. 30; Rep. Thibault, Merr. 25; Sen. Murphy, Dist 16

 

COMMITTEE: Education Policy and Administration

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill prohibits the use of public schools or institutions of higher learning from providing shelter for specified aliens who have not been admitted to the United States, absent a specified disaster.

 

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

25-0064

02/05

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Five

 

AN ACT prohibiting the use of the facilities of a public elementary school, a public secondary school, or an institution of higher education to provide shelter for aliens who have not been admitted into the United States.

 

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 

1  New Section; Prohibition on Use of School and Institution Facilities to Shelter Certain Aliens.  Amend RSA 126-A by inserting after section 32 the following new section:

126-A:32-a  Prohibition on Use of School and Institution Facilities to Shelter Certain Aliens.

I.  In this section:

(a)  “Shelter or housing”:

(1)  Means emergency shelter or housing provided exclusively to specified aliens under order of the federal government, a state, or a unit of local government; and

(2)  Does not include short-term emergency shelter made necessary by a specified disaster.

(b)  “Short-term” means for a duration not to exceed 72 hours.

(c)  “Specified alien” means an alien, as defined in section 101(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. section 1101(a), who has not been admitted, as so defined.

(d)  “Specified disaster” means any fire, flood, hurricane, tornado, storm, high water, tidal wave, earthquake, or snowstorm, for which a disaster declaration is made by the federal government or a state.

II.  As a condition on receipt of state financial assistance under any applicable program by a district public school, chartered public school, public academy, or an institution of higher learning, the facilities of the school or institution shall not be used to provide shelter or housing for specified aliens.

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.

 

LBA

25-0064

11/25/24

 

HB 71-FN- FISCAL NOTE

AS INTRODUCED

 

AN ACT prohibiting the use of the facilities of a public elementary school, a public secondary school, or an institution of higher education to provide shelter for aliens who have not been admitted into the United States.

 

FISCAL IMPACT:   This bill does not provide funding, nor does it authorize new positions.

Estimated State Impact
		FY 2025	FY 2026		FY 2027	FY 2028
Revenue		$0	$0		$0	$0
Revenue Fund(s)		None
Expenditures*		$0	$0		$0	$0
Funding Source(s)		None
Appropriations*		$0	$0		$0	$0
Funding Source(s)		None
*Expenditure = Cost of bill                *Appropriation = Authorized funding to cover cost of bill

 

METHODOLOGY:

This bill prohibits certain educational facilities from being used to provide shelter to specified aliens who have not been admitted into the United States.  The Department of Health and Human Services suggests that the bill may conflict with federal guidance, potentially resulting in the loss of federal funding from the Office of Refugee Resettlement and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.  In the worst-case scenario in which all such funding were withheld, the Department estimates the loss of federal revenue at $12 to $18 million per year.

 

The Department of Education states that the bill will have no impact on that Department.

 

AGENCIES CONTACTED:

Departments of Education and Health and Human Services