Powerful Republican lawmakers are getting behind legislation that would divert business taxes to private organizations to issue as scholarships to New Hampshire schoolchildren to attend private or religious schools.

House Republican Leader D.J. Bettencourt is co-sponsoring a House bill to make New Hampshire the ninth state to adopt a tax credit program. Supporters feel it may be easier than enacting vouchers in a state that traditionally has resisted such options.

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