The New Hampshire Legislature advanced several key bills last week, including Republican overhauls on education funding, rollbacks on bail reform and more. Here’s what you need to know.

This past week

■The House of Representatives and Senate both passed expansions on Education Freedom Accounts, laying out two different visions for the future of the state’s school choice voucher program, while shutting down Democrats’ attempts to establish more oversight and regulation over EFAs. The Senate’s version would remove income eligibility requirements but cap the program’s enrollment at 12,250 students. The House went a step further, voting to make them universally available to all New Hampshire families, with no enrollment limit.

■Republicans also approved House Bill 675, which establishes budget caps for local school districts, to be tied to inflation. It passed with an amendment, stripping a provision from the original bill that would’ve increased state aid by thousands of dollars per student.

■In an early test of Ayotte’s legislative influence, the Republican majority also passed House Bill 592, rolling back bail reforms that former governor Chris Sununu had signed into law. Ayotte’s version would lower the standard of proof required to detain people arrested by police and repeal the magistrate system that began in January. It would also allow for the automatic detainment of individuals who have previously committed certain crimes while out on bail, failed to show up for court or violated any bail conditions until their hearing.

The week ahead

■On Wednesday, March 19, at 9:30 a.m., the House Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs Committee will decide whether to advance HB 377 and HB 712, which would ban gender-affirming medical care for minors.

■On Thursday, March 20, at 10 a.m. the House of Representatives and Senate will convene for session with only a few weeks left for each chamber to act on legislation. They’ll vote on limits to transgender rights, establishing a parental bill of rights and legalizing medical aid in dying. The dockets can be found on the General Court’s website.

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Charlotte Matherly is the statehouse reporter for the Concord Monitor and Monadnock Ledger-Transcript in partnership with Report for America. Follow her on X at @charmatherly and send her an email at cmatherly@cmonitor.com.