Wednesday, August 19, 2026 · Joint session · 10 positions
- Pro-libertyHB 1336(New Title) relative to regulated conditional deposits.YEA Override
Why
This bill allows landlords and tenants to agree to a higher security deposit — up to two months' rent — when an applicant does not meet clearly disclosed, reasonable approval criteria.
* A rental agreement is a contract between two private parties. If the landlord is willing to take on additional risk by renting to tenants who don't meet the typical requirements, that is their choice.
- Pro-libertyHB 1422relative to the time to petition for a new trial.YEA Override
Why
This bill allows for a convicted person to apply for a new trial if they discover new evidence that may exonerate them. There would be no time limit in which new evidence may be uncovered.
* There are many cases of situations where new evidence exonerates an individual of a crime for which they were convicted. One prominant example is DNA evidence thay simply was never tested.
* A 3-year limit on introducing new evidence is arbitrary. It's purpose is to save the courts time and money, not to ensure justice is properly served. - Pro-libertyHB 1442(New Title) permitting classification of individuals based on biological sex under certain limited circumstances.YEA Override
Why
This bill as amended allows, but does not require, certain public institutions to be organized on the basis of biological sex. Bathrooms, sports teams and correctional facilities may choose to be organized on the basis of biological sex rather than gender.
* A core pillar of liberty is the ability to do whatever you want, so long as what you are doing does not have an impact upon anyone else's liberty.
* The benefit to those who want privacy and security in shared spaces outweighs the interest of others who want to use the facility of their choosing. - Pro-libertyHB 1565(New Title) relative to the penalty for false reports of suspected abuse and neglect made to the division for children, youth, and families, relative to owner's project manager services for school building aid projects, and relative to long-term care eligibility and making an appropriation therefor.YEA Override
Why
This bill creates both civil and criminal penalties for those who knowingly file a false report of child abuse.
* This bill serves as a deterrent against false and spiteful complaints.
* It reaffirms the duty of professional mandatory reporters to make good faith reports of abuse or neglect; doing so absolves them from criminal and civil liability. - Pro-libertyHB 1610allowing school districts to annually retain year-end unassigned general funds.YEA Override
Why
This bill adds new safeguards to make sure that when school districts spend unassigned general funds the expenditure is approved by voters and only used for "unusual circumstances".
* It is appropriate for school districts to routinely ask the voters to weigh in on how money in the budget is spent.
- Pro-libertyHB 221(New Title) enabling electric utilities to own, operate, and offer advanced nuclear resources, and relative to purchased power agreements for electric distribution utilities and limitations on community customer generators.YEA Override
Why
This bill allows the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to consider modifications to the Granite State Test in order to evaluate the cost effectiveness of the systems benefit charge (SBC). This charge is paid by all ratepayers and is used by the PUC to invest in energy efficiency programs.
* The purpose of the systems benefit charge is to save money for ratepayers in the long run. The Public Utilities Commission should have the flexibility to use what they believe is the best test to accurately measure the effectiveness of the systems benefits charge.
* If the systems benefits charge is not producing the desired outcome of financial savings for ratepayers, then the SBC should be modified or eliminated. - Pro-libertyHB 396(Second New Title) relative to the processing of cattle, swine, sheep, and goats at facilities not certified by the United States Department of Agriculture.YEA Override
Why
This bill allows for the local processing of cattle and other meat by the owner for direct sale to consumers. It has a limit of 3 cattle, 5 pigs and 10 sheep or goats per month.
* The bills gets the USDA out of the way and allows for the local processing of locally raised meat.
* It has a very small cap of only 3 cows per month. It will not be used to curcumvent commercial operations and is intended for small producers. - Pro-libertySB 268permitting classification of individuals based on biological sex under certain limited circumstances.YEA Override
Why
This bill permits classification of individuals based on biological sex in lavatory facilities and locker rooms, sporting competitions, and detention facilities.
* A core pillar of liberty is the ability to do whatever you want, so long as what you are doing does not have an impact upon anyone else's liberty.
* The benefit to those who want privacy and security in shared spaces outweighs the interest of others who want to use the facility of their choosing. - Pro-libertySB 468relative to enabling alternative treatment centers to operate a greenhouse cultivation location.YEA Override
Why
This bill allows alternative treatment centers to grow cannabis in greenhouses.
* The private personal use of cannabis should be legal for all adults.
* This bill allows operators who are already legally operating facilities that sell therapeutic cannabis to grow it in greenhouses for sale to their patients. - Pro-libertySB 552permitting classification of individuals based on biological sex under certain limited circumstances.YEA Override
Why
This bill allows for bathrooms, sports teams, and prisons to be separated by biological sex.
* A core pillar of liberty is the ability to do whatever you want, so long as what you are doing does not have an impact upon anyone else's liberty.
* The benefit to those who want privacy and security in shared spaces outweighs the interest of others who want to use the facility of their choosing.
21 bills with no position.
Thursday, June 4, 2026 · Joint session · 9 positions
- Pro-libertyHB 1300(Second New Title) establishing a school district local tax cap question for the state general election of 2026 and related limitations on central office administrative expenses in school districts.Support C of C
Why
This bill allows the voters to cap the local taxes related to school district spending. As amended, it will only propose the tax cap in the 2026 and 2028 November elections.
* The March town elections low turnout, generally around 20 percent of registered voters. In the November elections, that number is closer to 80 percent.
* This bill strenghtens democracy by giving more voters a voice in their local school board's budget. Asking this question of the voters when there is higher turnout allows more voters to weigh in on local property tax issues.
* This is an NHLA priority bill and will be highly weighted in the Liberty Rating. - Pro-libertyHB 1306relative to the counting of absentee ballots.Support C of C
Why
This bill creates a record for the absentee ballots and stores that record in three places.
* This report adopts the Senate version of the bill.
* Both the Senate and House versions of the bill acheive the same outcome, but go about doing it in different ways. In either case, increasing access to the record of absentee ballots allows for more easily verifiable elections. - Pro-libertyHB 1374(New Title) modifying the procedures for withdrawal from a cooperative school district and the discontinuance of elementary and high schools and requiring the review of school district operating documents by school boards.Support C of C
Why
This bill modifies the procedure for withdrawal from a cooperative school district to allow a majority of voters in a single withdrawing district to elect to withdraw. It also clarifies that a supermajority of voters in the withdrawing district voting in favor of withdrawal shall constitute conclusive evidence of the withdrawal of the district.
* This report largely adopts the Senate version of the bill. It adds specific time requirements for governing bodies to enter into an operating agreement for the school district within 90 days.
- Pro-libertyHB 1376(New Title) relative to a parent's ability to raise their child in a manner consistent with the child's biological sex and relative to breast surgeries for minors.Support C of C
Why
This bill, as reported from Committee of Conference, makes clear that raising your child as their biological sex is not a crime. It removes additional language relating to minors undergoing breast surgery, finding it redundant to existing law.
* This bill strengthens parental rights. Parents have a primary right to direct the upbringing, education, and medical decisions of their own children.
* This bill stops the state from imposing contested gender ideology through coercive power, preserving individual liberty and parental authority.
* This bill restores clear, objective boundaries around what constitutes genuine child abuse, preventing vague and politically motivated expansions of state power that could be weaponized against dissenting parents - Pro-libertyHB 155(New Title) relative to business enterprise tax returns and appropriating funds to the department of health and human services for licensed nursing facilities.Support C of C
Why
This bill increases the minimum threshold for a business to pay the Business Enterprise Tax (BET). It increase from $250,000 to $400,000. The bill also decreases the BET by 0.05% whenever there is a surplus of $100 million in business tax revenue. It does this until the rate drops to 0.25%.
* This bill increases the number of small businesses who likely will not have to file to pay business enterprise tax.
* This is a good compromise. It only lowers the BET when there is surplus BET revenue.
* Lowering the BET will help attract employers to New Hampshire. - Pro-libertyHB 317(New Title) allowing a supervisor of the checklist to verify a person's identity, with identification, if they personally know that person.Support C of C
Why
This bill allows a superviser of the checklist to verify a person's identity if they personally know them. It also requires the supervisor of the checklist to fill out a form when the do this.
* This version is the Senate version of the bill, which NHLA supported when it was under consideration in the Senate.
* In small towns where we know our neighbors, it makes sense to allow this type of accommodation. - Pro-libertyHB 340relative to electioneering by public employees.Support C of C
Why
This bill forbids electioneering by public employees and adds a civil penalty for violators. It specifially mentions biased surveys as a form of electioneering.
* This bill protects voters from improper influence by public employees.
* It also projects public employees by including the option of a civil penalty.
* Public employees should not be using their position of power and public trust for overtly political purposes. - Pro-libertyHB 609relative to the general court's authority over the sale, purchase, ownership, use, possession, transportation, licensing, permitting, taxation, and other matter pertaining to firearms, stun guns, Tasers, pepper spray devices, knives and other self-defense tools.Support C of C
Why
This bill as amended in the Committee of Conference, prevents local governments from writing rules relating to firearms and other weapons. It affirms that the state, and not local governments, is empowered to restrict the use of firearms. It gives private citizens the right to sue a local government who violates the law and improperly resitricts firearms.
* This version of the bill addresses preemption by local governments and adds new restictions to when agencies have the authority to make rules relating to firearms. While this is not an elimination of rulemaking entirely, it is a step in the right direction.
* Adding a private right of action allows private citizens to sue local governments who violate this law. This creates real penalties for activist local governments. - Pro-libertyHB 751(Second New Title) establishing a committee to study licensure of outpatient substance use disorder treatment facilities, authorizing parents to enroll their children in any public school in the state, and creating a limited exemption from parental consent required for certain recordings under the parental bill of rights.Support C of C
Why
This bill, as amended, requires school districts to allow at least 10 percent of their students to attend an open enrollment school if they so choose.
* While this is not the statewide open enrollment that was originally anticipated, this bill is a step forward in that it does not allow school districts to ban open enrollment entirely.
* Open enrollment allows families to vote with their feet, by taking their children from underperforming schools and placing them in other schools they prefer. Competition in the marketplace will lead to better learning outcomes for students and parents.
6 bills with no position.
Thursday, May 14, 2026 · House · 17 positions
- Pro-libertyCACR 12relating to voting on broad-based taxes. Providing that a supermajority vote of the general court shall be required to enact any broad-bases taxes.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill, as amended, would change to state constitution to make a personal income tax unconstitutional.
* In recent years, the State has been regularly lowering state taxes. Most recently, the Interest & Dividends Tax was eliminated.
* New Hampshire ranked #3 on the 2026 State Tax Competitiveness Index:<br />– <a href=https://taxfoundation.org/statetaxindex/>taxfoundation.org/statetaxindex</a>
* The New Hampshire Advantage is a direct result of efforts by elected officials to lower taxes.
* This bill ensures that New Hampshire will not easily slide backward into mediocrity and erode our economic advantage.
* A recent poll showed that 71% of voters oppose an income tax. Allowing the voters to have a voice on the matter promotes democracy. - Pro-libertySB 223(New Title) prohibiting student identification cards from being used as photo identification for purposes of obtaining a ballot.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill clarifies that only state-issued identification is allowed to be used to vote.
* This bill is cleanup legislation. The original bill to no longer allow non-government issued identification was already signed this year by Governor Ayotte.
- Pro-libertySB 405relative to amounts reported by political committees.YEA OTP
Why
This bill increases the threshold that requires reporting the name of a political donor from $50 to $200. It also increases the threshold to report their occupation and employer from $200 to $1,000.
* Given the massive amounts of money needed to run for election, it is unlikely that a donor is secretly purchasing influence from a candidate for less than $200.
* As the value of money is eroded by inflation, it is necessary to update these reporting standards. - Anti-libertySB 409relative to the penalties for the offense of disobeying an officer.NAY OTP/A
Why
This bill increases the crime of disobeying a police officer from a misdemeanor to a felony.
* This bill will not prevent high-speed chases. The people running from the police are most likely already guilty of felonies, which is why they run.
* The specific violations listed in the amendment (speeding, driving without headlights on, driving in the wrong direction) are already crimes. This bill is duplicating crimes that already exist. - Pro-libertySB 430(New Title) relative to mandatory disclosure by school district employees to parents and legal guardians.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill requires that schools shall not keep secrets from parents unless there is a warranted safety-based need to do so.
* The government should not be an instrument of keeping secrets from the legal parents or guardians of minor children unless there is a direct threat to the safety and well-being of the child.
* Those contingencies exist in this bill and are well-defined with a process to do so. Outside of those extenuating circumstances, the parent or guardian should have full knowledge and disclosure from the school about any circumstances pertaining to their child. - Pro-libertySB 431relative to violations of the prohibition on teaching discrimination.YEA OTP
Why
This bill protects teachers who accidentally teach discrimination.
* One main legal challenge to the recently passed ban of teaching discrimination is the issue of intent. By protecting teachers who had no intent to teach discrimination, this law makes legal challenges to the discrimination law baseless.
- Pro-libertySB 434relative to regulation of public school materials.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill, as amended, requires school districts to make a policy curating access to materials that are innapropriate to children and have no bonafide educational value.
* This bill keeps objectively inapropriate materials out of public schools.
* If parents want their children to see these types of materials, they can procure them directly and let their child view them outside of school hours. - Pro-libertySB 439relative to municipal data center zoning.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill, as amended, allows data centers by right in commercial or industrial zones.
* Property owners, including those who build and operate data centers, should be allowed to use their property as they see fit, as long as their use does not infringe on others.
* Data centers will still be subject to planning and zoning rules. They cannot have specific rules that are more restrictive than other similar uses. - Anti-libertySB 498relative to children's mental health services for persons 18 years of age and younger.YEA IS
Why
This bill creates the New Hampshire children's behavioral health association and allows it to collect assessments from insurance providers to fund itself.
* NHLA would prefer an ITL motion, but we understand an IS motion kills the bill, at least for this year.
* There is some debate about whether this bill creates a tax or mandated healthcare coverage. We oppose both, so regardless of how this bill is defined, we believe it is anti-liberty. - Pro-libertySB 508relative to the zoning board of adjustments appeal period.YEA OTP
Why
This bill requires that all grounds for appeal must be stated in the initial notice of appeal.
* This bill provides a clear framework allow applicants for zoning adjustments to appeal decisions related to their zoning. It also limits the amount of times a municipality can request modifications to an application.
* Local governments are often the bottleneck the the development process. By creating clearly defined rules and timelines for application review, this bill will streamline the development process. - Pro-libertySB 552permitting classification of individuals based on biological sex under certain limited circumstances.YEA OTP
Why
This bill allows for bathrooms, sports teams, and prisons to be separated by biological sex.
* A core pillar of liberty is the ability to do whatever you want, so long as what you are doing does not have an impact upon anyone else's liberty.
* The right to privacy and safety for those who present as their biological sex outweighs the interest of others who present differently from their biological sex to access the shared public spaces of their preference. As a result, it is a reasonable protection of liberty to allow for the use of shared public spaces to be separated on the basis of biological sex. - Anti-libertySB 557(Third New Title) making it illegal for liquor commission licensees to sell, distribute, furnish, offer for sale, advertise, manufacture, possess, or allow the ingestion, inhalation, smoking, or vaping of certain kratom products.NAY OTP/A
Why
This bill, as amended, classifies synthetic or semisynthetic kratom as a schedule II controlled drug.
* Individuals have an absolute right to control their own bodies and make personal choices about what substances they consume whether good or bad.
* Kratom is used responsibly by hundreds of thousands of Americans as a natural alternative to pharmaceutical opioids. Education, informed consent, and personal accountability should be promoted rather than a failed War on Drugs model that creates black markets, adulterated products, and unnecessary criminal records. - Anti-libertySB 624(New Title) restricting access to certain hemp-derived products and establishing the offenses of criminal adulteration and distribution of adulterated controlled substances.NAY OTP
Why
This bill makes it illegal to sell THC derivatives like Delta-9. It punishes business who sell them with fines. As amended, this bill creates new crimes for adding additional substances deemed not fit for human consumption to controlled substances.
* The amendment of this bill punishes those who secretly add unsafe substances to other controlled substances. While "unsafe" is a relative term, the liberty view of bodily autonomy requires a person to be aware of the risks they are taking and to consent; therefore, we are not opposing the amendment.
* NHLA does oppose the main bill. This bill moves cannabis policy in the wrong direction, by making THC alternatives illegal for adults 18-20. - Anti-libertySB 627(New Title) relative to toll rate adjustments and periodic inflation-based toll reviews for the New Hampshire turnpike system to support the 2027-2036 ten-year transportation plan.YEA IS
Why
This bill doubles toll rates on drivers who do not have a New Hampshire E-Z Pass.
* This bill represents a huge increase in tolls. In many cases a 100% increase in the cost to drivers.
* Just because a tax is targeted to non-New Hampshire residents doesn't make it any less of a tax.
* This bill doubles the tolls for cash customers who live in New Hampshire. - Pro-libertySB 643(New Title) requiring municipalities, towns, and cities to submit documentation to the department of revenue administration proving they are in compliance with local budget and tax caps and requiring municipalities to hold a public hearing and conduct a roll call vote when seeking to override a tax or spending cap.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill requires a public meeting and a roll call vote when a local government intends to override a tax cap.
* The public has a right to provide input in the process when governments decide they want to consider overriding a local tax cap.
* Requiring a roll call vote on this issue allows voters to know where their local elected officials stand on this issue and make informed decisions in the next election. - Anti-libertySB 667relative to the assault of emergency room personnel.NAY OTP
Why
This bill makes it a felony to assault "emergency room personnel".
* This bill is unnecessary, as assault of any person is already a crime. It is not any more of a crime if you assualt emergency room personnel.
* Adding more protected classes is anti-liberty as all humans should be protected from assault equally. As stated in the NH Constitution in Part 1 Article 1, All men are born equally free and independent. - Pro-libertySB 88prohibiting state government entities from including specified terms related to labor organization agreements in construction related contracts and grants.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill prohibits government entities from requiring contractors to use, or not to use, union labor, or discriminating against or in favor of them on that basis.
* This bill may reduce government spending because it prohibits government entities from discriminating in favor of contractors on the basis that they use union labor.
* It also prohibits them from discriminating against contractors on that basis, making the legislation even-handed.
11 bills with no position.
Thursday, May 14, 2026 · Senate · 10 positions
- Pro-libertyHB 1219relative to immunization requirements in foster family homes.YEA OTP
Why
This bill removes the requirement to vaccinate children or parents in a foster home.
* Getting vaccinated is a medical choice, not a mandate.
* This bill adds consistency to vaccine requirements for adults and children residing in foster homes.
* Freedom of religion is engrained in the NH Constitution. This bill protects one's religious beliefs by extending medical exemptions to adults who reside if foster homes. - Pro-libertyHB 1300(New Title) establishing a biennial school district local tax cap question and related limitations on central office administrative expenses in school districts.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill allows the voters to cap the local taxes related to school district spending. As amended, it will only propose the tax cap in the upcoming November election.
* The March town elections low turnout, generally around 20 percent of registered voters. In the November elections, that number is closer to 80 percent.
* This bill strenghtens democracy by giving more voters a voice in their local school board's budget. Asking this question of the voters when there is higher turnout allows more voters to weigh in on local property tax issues.
* This is an NHLA priority bill and will be highly weighted in the Liberty Rating. - Pro-libertyHB 1365relative to applications for licenses to carry a loaded pistol or revolver.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill prohibits pistol/revolver license application forms from requesting employment, personal references, or record disclosure information beyond what was required on the December 2009 version of form DSSP 85.
* This bill moves the needle in the direction of allowing more people to exercise their second amendment rights without administrative burdens getting in the way.
* This bill is a step in the right direction of protecting a person's personally identifiable information in public records which can easily be accessed by bad actors. - Pro-libertyHB 1376relative to a parent's ability to raise their child in a manner consistent with the child's biological sex.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill makes clear that raising your child as their biological sex is not a crime.
* This bill strengthens parental rights. Parents have a primary right to direct the upbringing, education, and medical decisions of their own children.
* This bill stops the state from imposing contested gender ideology through coercive power, preserving individual liberty and parental authority.
* This bill restores clear, objective boundaries around what constitutes genuine child abuse, preventing vague and politically motivated expansions of state power that could be weaponized against dissenting parents - Pro-libertyHB 1584directing the department of health and human services to provide notice of medical and religious exemptions from immunization requirements and relative to the form of such exemption.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to provide notice of the option to request a medical or religious exemption from immunization requirements.
*This bill will help to inform parents of their medical and religous rights under RSA 141-C and will reduce coercion by the Department of Health and Human Services.
- Pro-libertyHB 1772(New Title) relative to prescribing ibogaine for investigational use only.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill allows physicians licensed to prescribe drugs in New Hampshire to prescribe ibogaine for research purposes.
* Adults who are informed of the benefits and risks should be able to consent to try experimental treatments if they choose.
- Pro-libertyHB 1792prohibiting school districts and personnel from the instruction of critical race theory and LGBTQ+ ideologies in schools as well as establishing a private right of action for violations.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill institutes several reforms to prevent teaching discrimination. These include not endorsing certain points of view, or basing grades upon their agreement with a point of view expressed by a student.
* This bill promotes the ideas this country was founded upon, that all men are created equal, and that no one group is born inferior to another.
* This bill promotes non-discrimination of all groups of people while requiring educators to remain neutral and encourage free thought. - Anti-libertyHB 1793prohibiting public colleges and universities from regulating the possession or carrying of firearms and non-lethal weapons on campus.NAY OTP/A
Why
This bill as amended establishes a committee to study the issue of campus carry.
* NHLA is in support of Campus Carry. We oppose the amendment and request an OTP motion.
* There is no need to study this issue. Adults should have the right to lawfully exercise their 2nd Amendment rights on college campuses. - Pro-libertyHB 360(New Title) prohibiting public schools from performing surgical procedures or prescribing pharmaceutical drugs.YEA OTP
Why
This bill prevents any school physician or nurse, or other health care provider employed or contracted by a school district, to perform surgical procedures or prescribe pharmaceutical drugs on school grounds.
* Parents have the right to determine health care for their child. This bill will restore parental rights by limiting what medical procedures can be administered by the school district.
* It would be more appropriate to refer the child to their primary care physician who has the child's medical history and parent present when determining medical treatments. - Anti-libertyHB 609Relative to the general court's authority over the sale, purchase, ownership, use, possession, transportation, licensing, permitting, taxation, and other matter pertaining to firearms, stun guns, Tasers, pepper spray devices, knives and other self-defense tools.NAY OTP/A
Why
This bill, as amended, allows local governments to pass zoning ordinances regulating firearms and other self-defense tools. As amended, it also makes the "State" the regulatory authority instead of the General Court.
* The House version of the bill specifically granted authority to regulate firearms to the General Court. The current definition of "State" allowed enough ambiguity to allow state agencies potential rulemaking authority pertaining to firearms.
* The Senate amendment reverses that change and returns authority to the State instead of the General Court. This is opposite of the intended purpose of this bill.
* Additionally, by allowing local zoning to regulate firearms, this amendment erodes the General Court's jurisdiction further.
* NHLA supports OTP on the original version of HB609 without any amendments.
15 bills with no position.
Thursday, May 7, 2026 · House · 2 positions
- Anti-libertySB 501relative to authorization of seclusion or restraint during a personal safety emergency by a physician, physician associate, or advanced practice registered nurse.YEA ITL
Why
This bill allows for various techniques to restrain out of control patients.
* Existing law already allows doctors to restrain out of control patients. It is not clear what additional problem this legislation solves.
- Anti-libertySB 520relative to breast surgeries for minors.YEA ITL
Why
This bill allows a minor to get breast surgery without parental consent, in consultation with her primary care physician.
* Adults should always be afforded the medical freedom to consent to medical procedures, but minors are children and are still in the care of their parents. They should not be allowed to get surgery without parent or guardian consent, even if they have consulted a doctor.
11 bills with no position.
Thursday, May 7, 2026 · Senate · 16 positions
- Pro-libertyHB 1043relative to employer discretion in offering minimum payment options to employees.YEA OTP
Why
This bill allows employers to establish their own pay policies for employees reporting to work, making the statutory minimum pay requirement applicable only when no alternative company policy exists.
* Private employers should be free to set the pay standard for their employees.
* This is pro-business legislation for New Hampshire. This shows that New Hampshire is willing to empower small business to succeed. - Pro-libertyHB 121(New Title) requiring chartered public schools, school administrative units, and cities or school districts not audited under RSA 671:5 to be audited by an independent public accountant after the end of the fiscal year and requiring the results of such audits to be made available to the public.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill requires local school districts who don't elect an auditor to hire an auditor.
* In the wake of the Claremont School District losing $5 million dollars and now needing a bailout, it is clear that additional oversight of local schools and districts is necessary.
* School districts are not immune to negligence or corruption. Reasonable safeguards should be put into place. - Pro-libertyHB 1217permitting classification of individuals based on biological sex under certain limited circumstances.YEA OTP
Why
This bill allows public and private facilities to have facilities separated for biological men and women.
* With regard to private facilites, the owner should have the ability to classify based upon biological sex if they so choose. At a private facility, no one has a right to use it without permission and no one is forced to use it.
* With regard to public facilities, the benefit to those who want privacy and security in shared spaces outweighs the interest of others who want to use the facility of their choosing. - Pro-libertyHB 1245relative to voluntary portable benefits plans for independent contractors.YEA OTP
Why
This bill establishes a voluntary framework allowing independent contractors to participate in portable benefit plans through authorized providers.
* This bill allows independent contractors to keep their worker classification, and also receive benefits.
* This bill strikes an appropriate balance that allows new ways to compensate contractors. - Pro-libertyHB 1268(New Title) modifying the structure and administration of home education programs.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill removes notification and assessment requirements for parents teaching their children through an independent home education program.
* New Hampshire is one of the highest regulators of home education in the United States.
* This bill limits required notifications to only when students participate in public school programs, use the state or local assessment provided by the resident district, or if withdrawing from the public school.
* It changes many required evalutions from mandatory to optional. Parents still have to maintain a portfolio that they keep for 2 years. - Pro-libertyHB 1299permitting classification of individuals based on biological sex under certain limited circumstances and establishing that certain biological sex distinctions do not qualify as discrimination.YEA OTP
Why
This bill allows public and private facilities to have facilities separated for biological men and women.
* With regard to private facilites, the owner should have the ability to classify based upon biological sex if they so choose. At a private facility, no one has a right to use it without permission and no one is forced to use it.
* With regard to public facilities, the benefit to those who want privacy and security in shared spaces outweighs the interest of others who want to use the facility of their choosing. - Pro-libertyHB 1336(New Title) relative to regulated conditional deposits.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill allows landlords and tenants to agree to a higher security deposit — up to two months' rent — when an applicant does not meet clearly disclosed, reasonable approval criteria.
* A rental agreement is a contract between two private parties. If the landlord is willing to take on additional risk by renting to tenants who don't meet the typical requirements, that is their choice.
- Pro-libertyHB 1374relative to the procedures for withdrawal from a cooperative school district.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill modifies the procedure for withdrawal from a cooperative school district to allow a majority of voters in a single withdrawing district to elect to withdraw. It also clarifies that a supermajority of voters in the withdrawing district voting in favor of withdrawal shall constitute conclusive evidence of the withdrawal of the district. As amended, it allows voters to petition their school board and have a vote on whether to close a school.
* This bill gives towns the freedom to withdraw from a school district if its needs are not met.
* This prevents the cooperative district from outvoting the town and keeping them in the cooperative district against their will.
* The parents and taxpayers of each town should have the freedom to decide what's best for their education tax dollars. - Pro-libertyHB 1447restricting the use of certain public and private facilities on the basis of sex and establishing that such restriction does not qualify as discrimination.YEA OTP
Why
This bill allows public and private facilities to have facilities separated for biological men and women.
* With regard to private facilites, the owner should have the ability to classify based upon biological sex if they so choose. At a private facility, no one has a right to use it without permission and no one is forced to use it.
* With regard to public facilities, the benefit to those who want privacy and security in shared spaces outweighs the interest of others who want to use the facility of their choosing. - Pro-libertyHB 155(New Title) relative to business enterprise tax returns and appropriating funds to the department of health and human services for licensed nursing facilities.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill as amended increases the threshold that requires reporting business income from $250,000 to $375,000.
* This bill increases the number of small businesses who likely will not have to file to pay business enterprise tax.
* This bill is a replacement of a much better bill to lower the Business Enterprise Tax rate. NHLA requests an OTP motion, but will still score an OTP/A vote as pro-liberty. - Pro-libertyHB 1588(New Title) relative to the regulation of accessory parking for vehicles by local legislative bodies and multifamily housing within commercial districts by municipalities.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill, as amended, prevents local governments from requiring covered parking for multi-family development. It also allows buildings in commercial districts to be converted to housing.
* Additional parking requirements put in place my municipalities will have the effect of increasing development costs for property owners. Once properties are developed, the higher costs will be paid by home buyers.
* In some towns, housing may the best use of underutilized commercial properties. Property owners should have the right to convert their property from commercial to residential. - Pro-libertyHB 1610allowing school districts to annually retain year-end unassigned general funds.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill adds new safeguards to make sure that when school districts spend unassigned general funds the expenditure is approved by voters and only used for "unusual circumstances".
* It is appropriate for school districts to routinely ask the voters to weigh in on how money in the budget is spent.
- Anti-libertyHB 1630prohibiting the sale of nitrous oxide and certain inhalants for recreational purposes.NAY OTP
Why
This bill prohibits the sale of nitrous oxide and punishes businesses who sell them by revoking their license to sell alcohol.
* This bill is increasing and expanding the drug war to yet another chemical.
* While the rest of the nation is moving in the direction of legalizing or otherwise liberalizing drug laws, this bill moves us in the wrong direction. - Pro-libertyHB 1792prohibiting school districts and personnel from the instruction of critical race theory and LGBTQ+ ideologies in schools as well as establishing a private right of action for violations.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill institutes several reforms to prevent teaching discrimination. These include not endorsing certain points of view, or basing grades upon their agreement with a point of view expressed by a student.
* New Hampshire public schools have seen their curriculum move to the political left.
* This bill is a reset, which requires a neutral telling of world events and ideas, acknowledging ideas from the political left without claiming they are better than any other world views. - Anti-libertyHB 1793prohibiting public colleges and universities from regulating the possession or carrying of firearms and non-lethal weapons on campus.NAY OTP/A
Why
This bill as amended establishes a committee to study the issue of campus carry.
* NHLA is in support of Campus Carry. We oppose the amendment and request an OTP motion.
* There is no need to study this issue. Adults should have the right to lawfully exercise their 2nd Amendment rights on college campuses. - Pro-libertyHB 1817(New Title) relative to access to curricular courses and cocurricular programs within school districts.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill adds Education Freedom Account students to the list of students who are allowed to take curricular and co-curricular activities in the school district in which they reside.
* Currently, home educated students under 193-A and students who attend private or charter schools are allowed take curricular and co-curricular activities in the school district in which they reside.
* This bill adds EFA students to that list.
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Thursday, April 23, 2026 · House · 6 positions
- Pro-libertySB 101(New Title) authorizing parents to enroll their children in any public school in the state and creating a limited exemption from parental consent required for certain recordings under the parental bill of rights.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill allows parents to send their children to public schools outside of their resident district.
*This bill gives parents and students the flexibility to select schools that best match their needs, such as those with stronger academic programs, safer environments, or extracurricular activities, rather than being limited by geographic boundaries. This can lead to higher student engagement and satisfaction.
*By allowing students to "vote with their feet", open enrollment encourages underperforming schools to innovate and elevate their standards to attract and retain enrollment, creating a more dynamic public education system overall.
*This bill provides opportunities for students from low-income or under-resourced neighborhoods to access higher-quality schools in other districts, helping to level the playing field. - Anti-libertySB 465classifying xylazine as a schedule III controlled drug.YEA ITL
Why
This bill makes Xylazine a schedule III controlled substance.
* Adults have the right to do whatever they want to with their body. This includes taking drugs that might cause them harm.
* As long as their use of Xylazine is in private, the government has no role in regulating it. - Anti-libertySB 482establishing consumer protections for digital access transaction kiosks.NAY OTP/A
Why
This bill introduces identity verification, transaction caps and waiting periods to cryptocurrency ATM transactions.
* This bill implements unnecessary rules found in the traditional banking system to cryptocurrency transactions.
* Cryptocurrency transactions are already subject to federal rules and laws. We do not need additional state laws on top of that.
* NHLA requests an ITL motion on this bill. - Anti-libertySB 545relative to financial eligibility for the Medicare savings program.YEA ITL
Why
This bill increases eligibility for the Medicare Savings Program (MSP) by eliminating the resource test for financial eligibility.
* The current resource test includes personal assets like savings or property. It is appropriate to include these assets when determining eligibility.
* This program is for people who are poor. If a person owns property and/or an investment account, they are not poor. - Anti-libertySB 559reducing the minimum allowable speed limit on locally controlled roads.YEA ITL
Why
This bill changes the lowest speed limit that a local jurisdiction can mandate for a road. It changes it from 25 MPH to 20 MPH.
* In the name of safety, this bill reduces liberty by telling drivers on certain roads how fast they are allowed to drive.
* It's unclear whether or not this will have any real impact to make roads safer.
* In practice it will give law enforcement new reasons to pull a person over, who despite going 21 MPH is otherwise driving safely. - Anti-libertySB 627relative to toll rate adjustments and periodic inflation-based toll reviews for the New Hampshire turnpike system to support the 2027-2036 ten-year transportation plan.NAY OTP
Why
This bill doubles toll rates on drivers who do not have a New Hampshire E-Z Pass.
* This bill represents a huge increase in tolls. In many cases a 100% increase in the cost to drivers.
* Just because a tax is targeted to non-New Hampshire residents doesn't make it any less of a tax.
* This bill doubles the tolls for cash customers who live in New Hampshire.
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Thursday, April 23, 2026 · Senate · 3 positions
- Anti-libertyHB 1477relative to the permitting and regulation of anchored seasonal floating platforms on public waters.YEA ITL
Why
This bill creates a registration, permit process, and fee for floating platforms and creates a criminal penalty for failure to buy a permit.
*There are already legal guidelines for waterfront owners to anchor floating platforms.
* This adds a fee and a law enforcement penalty to force compliance under penalty of law.
* This is an encroachment on fair usage that has been understood for waterfront property owners and camps throughout the state. - Anti-libertyHB 1602creating a safe battery recycling stewardship program.YEA ITL
Why
This bill creates a new tax on the cost of batteries for the purpose of recycling.
* This is a sales tax by another name.
- Pro-libertyHB 1758relative to school bus drivers' certificates.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill as amended allows bus drivers who are certified outside New Hampshire to be considered certified in New Hampshire.
* This bill is a great example of removing an unnecessary regulatory burden. If another jurisdictions has similar requirements, New Hampshire should accept their existing license or certification.
* Laws like this encourage bus drivers based outside to move to New Hampshire, which fills an important economic need.
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Thursday, April 16, 2026 · Senate · 2 positions
- Pro-libertyHB 1066relative to warrant articles authorizing lease agreements.NAY IS
Why
This bill requires a public hearing if a town wants to enter into a lease valued at over $500,000.
* $500,000 is a significant amount of money for any town. A decision of that magnitude deserves the opportunity for the public to weigh in before a decision is made.
* We oppose the IS recommendation and request OTP on this bill. - Pro-libertyHB 1442limiting the use of certain facilities on the basis of sex and redefining the term "gender identity."YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill as amended allows, but does not require, certain public institutions to be organized on the basis of biological sex. Bathrooms, sports teams and correctional facilities may choose to be organized on the basis of biological sex rather than gender.
* A core pillar of liberty is the ability to do whatever you want, so long as what you are doing does not have an impact upon anyone else's liberty.
* The benefit to those who want privacy and security in shared spaces outweighs the interest of others who want to use the facility of their choosing.
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Thursday, April 9, 2026 · House · 2 positions
- Anti-libertySB 620Relative to refusal of consent to testing to determine alcohol concentration and penalties for aggravated driving while intoxicated.NAY OTP/A
Why
This bill as amended increases the penalty for refusing to consent to testing to determine alcohol concentration. It increases it from a 6-month to 9-month driver's license suspension.
* A person should not be punished because they exercise their 4th amendment right against warrantless searches or their 5th amendment right against self-incrimination.
* If a police officer has probable cause to require a test of a person's alcohol level, they should get court order or make an arrest, rather than coercing compliance by threatening to take away a person's license. - Anti-libertySB 649increasing fines for using a hand-held mobile electronic device while driving a motor vehicle.NAY OTP
Why
This bill increases fines and adds license suspension for repeat offenses involving the use of a hand-held mobile electronic device while driving, with enhanced penalties when the violation contributes to a crash.
* There is no indication that driving behavior will be improved by drastically increasing fines for use of handheld electronic devices while driving. The only change will be less money in the pockets of drivers and more ticket revenue.
4 bills with no position.
Thursday, April 9, 2026 · Senate · 2 positions
- Pro-libertyHB 365relative to proof of United States citizenship for indigent voters.YEA OTP
Why
This bill provides vouchers for indigent voters who cannot prove that they are United States citizens for the purpose of registering to vote.
* Ensuring free and fair elections is important to our democracy. To that end, all voters should be able to prove that they are United States citizens in order to register to vote.
* This bill allows the poorest among us to get state assistance, including financial assistance, to obtain the documents necessary to prove they are legally allowed to vote. - Pro-libertyHB 54allowing alternative treatment centers to operate for-profit.NAY IS
Why
This bill allows alternative medical cannabis centers to operate as for-profit entities.
* This bill creates more opportunity for the private, personal use of medical cannabis.
* NHLA supports this bill and requests an OTP motion.
2 bills with no position.
Thursday, March 26, 2026 · House · 6 positions
- Pro-libertyHB 1130relative to judicial performance evaluations.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill expands judicial performance reviews to apply broadly to all judges and judge-like public servants.
* This bill adds more transparency and accountability for the judiciary.
- Pro-libertyHB 1421modifying title exemptions for motor vehicles manufactured before the year 2000.YEA OTP
Why
This bill, with the proposed committee amendment, exempts vehicles more than 20 years old from the requirement to obtain a certificate of title.
* Vehicles manufactured before 2000 currently need a title in order to sell, register, or reassign as property. The fee to retitling a vehicle at point of sale is both an expense to the owner or buyer and a time-consuming process to get retitled and get the title sent.
* This bill makes it easier to sell or scrap old vehicles, removes obstacles for transferring abandoned vehicles, and is favorable for collectors, younger, or less financially established people to purchase or trade vehicles within the state without a bureaucratic layer costing both money and time in a transaction between two entities that does not involve the government. - Anti-libertyHB 1477relative to the permitting and regulation of anchored seasonal floating platforms on public waters.YEA ITL
Why
This bill creates a registration, permit process, and fee for floating platforms and creates a criminal penalty for failure to buy a permit.
*There are already legal guidelines for waterfront owners to anchor floating platforms.
* This adds a fee and a law enforcement penalty to force compliance under penalty of law.
* This is an encroachment on fair usage that has been understood for waterfront property owners and camps throughout the state. - Pro-libertyHB 1542(New Title) allowing alternative compliance payments to the renewable energy fund to be refunded to ratepayers on a per kilowatt hour basis.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill eliminates the renewable energy fund compliance payments.
* The net effect of this reduction will be a refund in costs for ratepayers.
* The money that is collected from these fees supports the renewable energy fund, which provides grants to support solar energy projects. If these projects are of a value to communities, they will fund them without state grants ostensibly provided by electricity providers. - Anti-libertyHB 1655establishing a funding source for maintaining state owned dams.NAY OTP/A
Why
This bill is a tax on properties adjacent to a body of water created by a state-owned dam.
* Dams are public resources created for a public benefit, which is to provide a stable and reliable water supply.
* Funds to maintain public infrastructure should be allocated in the biennial budget, not through a targeted tax on certain property owners. - Pro-libertyHB 1809authorizing the medical use of psilocybin through a program established in the department of health and human services.NAY ITL
Why
This bill authorizes the medical use of psilocybin in the state.
* Adults who are competent and fully informed of the benefits and risks of a particular medical treatment should be allowed to choose whether or not to have that treatment. The government should not arbitrarily get in the way.
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Thursday, March 26, 2026 · Senate · 5 positions
- Pro-libertyHB 1815relative to education financing.YEA OTP
Why
This bill asserts that the state legislature, and not the courts, is responsible for determining what amounts to an adequate education. It also clarifies that local funds for education are included when determining what is an adequate education.
* On the issue of an adequate education, the state supreme court's Con-Val decision is an attempt to legislate from the bench.
* The General Court already has the authority to determine what constitutes an adequate education. This bill merely seeks to clarify that. - Pro-libertySB 447enabling electric utilities to own, operate, and offer advanced nuclear resources, and relative to purchased power agreements for electric distribution utilities and limitations on community customer generators.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill enables electric utilities to own, operate, and offer advanced nuclear resources.
*Nuclear power is a superior form of energy production that will expand NH's ability to grow and develop as a regional economy. We should use the fact that we are the only state free enough to have a plant in the region to directly benefit our citizens.
*Other forms of energy production that are far less efficient have incentive programs that result in malinvestment and ill-placed resources resulting in their proliferation being incentivized and nuclear power being disincentivized. - Anti-libertySB 482establishing consumer protections for digital access transaction kiosks.NAY OTP/A
Why
This bill introduces identity verification and transaction caps to cryptocurrency ATM transactions.
* This bill implements unnecessary rules found in the traditional banking system to cryptocurrency exchange transactions.
* Cryptocurrency transactions are already subject to federal rules and laws. We do not need additional state laws on top of that. - Anti-libertySB 645relative to income eligibility for the New Hampshire child care scholarship program and reallocating certain revenue to fund the program.NAY OTP
Why
This bill directs a portion of unanticipated state tax revenue to pay for subsidized childcare programs. It also increases elibility in these programs.
* The solution to the issue of affordable child care is to make it easier to become a childcare provider in New Hampshire. If red tape is removed and more providers are available, the costs will come down.
* Government subsidies will only increase prices and stifle competition. - Pro-libertySB 659relative to education financing.YEA OTP
Why
This bill asserts that the state legislature, and not the courts, is responsible for determining what amounts to an adequate education. It also clarifies that local funds for education are included when determining what is an adequate education.
* On the issue of an adequate education, the state supreme court's Con-Val decision is an attempt to legislate from the bench.
* The General Court already has the authority to determine what constitutes an adequate education. This bill merely seeks to clarify that.
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Thursday, March 12, 2026 · Senate · 7 positions
- Pro-libertySB 268permitting classification of individuals based on biological sex under certain limited circumstances.
Why
This bill permits classification of individuals based on biological sex in lavatory facilities and locker rooms, sporting competitions, and detention facilities.
* A core pillar of liberty is the ability to do whatever you want, so long as what you are doing does not have an impact upon anyone else's liberty.
* The right to privacy and safety for those who present as their biological sex outweighs the interest of others who present differently from their biological sex to access the shared public spaces of their preference. As a result, it is a reasonable protection of liberty to allow for the use of shared public spaces to be separated on the basis of biological sex. - Anti-libertySB 517relative to the responsibility of local school districts to provide meals to students during school hours, reimbursing schools for meals provided to students at no cost, and making an appropriation therefor.NAY OTP
Why
This bill increases the eligibility of free school lunches to 200% of the federal poverty line. It mandates the state to pay for the lunches.
* A family of four making $66,000 per year will receive free school lunches. At this income level they can afford to feed their children without government assistance.
* Parents and guardians, not the government, are responsible for feeding their children. - Anti-libertySB 557prohibiting the sale of kratom products to anyone under 21 years of age and providing for the regulation of the sale of kratom products.NAY OTP/A
Why
This bill bans the sale of kratom products to adults aged 18 to 21.
* The private, personal use of kratom products should be legal to all adults.
* This bill takes away bodily autonomy from adults aged 18 to 21, treating them the same as minors who should not be able to consent. - Anti-libertySB 616relative to reporting requirements under the right to try act.NAY OTP
Why
This bill adds additional reporting requirements for healthcare providers providing services under the Right To Try act.
* These additional requirements only serve to make it more difficult for patients to try alternative treatments and for providers to offer them.
- Anti-libertySB 626(new title) restricting right-to-know requests to New Hampshire citizens.NAY OTP/A
Why
This bill restricts Right-to-Know requests to persons domiciled or maintaining a permanent residence in New Hampshire and requires proof of domicile or residency to file Right-to-Know requests.
**Information created with taxpayer money belongs to the public, and restricting access based on residency creates an artificial barrier to accountability.
**When records are openly accessible to anyone — journalists, watchdog groups, and citizens everywhere — it increases scrutiny and reduces the chances that misconduct stays hidden.
**Government decisions often affect people beyond a single state (businesses, travelers, researchers, taxpayers nationwide). Open records laws should reflect the principle that government power must remain visible to all. - Anti-libertySB 631(New Title) authorizing the sale of toll credits to fund a newly established noise barrier construction fund for the design and construction of noise barrier projects.NAY OTP
Why
This bill borrows against future toll revenues to build sound walls.
* If sounds walls were a priority, they should have been funded via the biennial budget process.
* Allowing the advance sale of tolls steals revenue from future year toll revenue. The state should live within its means and not build sound walls on credit. - Anti-libertySB 664limiting hospital executive compensation in communities designated as distressed place-based economies under certain circumstances.NAY OTP
Why
This bill freezes executive compensation at hospitals that lay off 10 or more people.
* Employee compensation is a private transaction between an employer and their employees. This law would inject government into this private matter.
* The free market should determine what is fair compensation for employees, not government regulation.
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Wednesday, March 11, 2026 · House · 74 positions
- Anti-libertyCACR 16relating to property. Providing that individuals may sleep on property they own or have a legal right to occupy.YEA ITL
Why
This bill will allow people to sleep on property they have a legal right to occupy.
* Homeless people have a legal right to occupy public land. This will lead to legal protections for homeless people to sleep on sidewalks, public parking lots or parks.
- Pro-libertyCACR 18relating to tax rates. Providing that the rate of taxes in the state shall not exceed certain annual percentages.YEA OTP
Why
This bill limits tax rate growth for NH and all its subsidiaries to a rate based on inflation (capped at 2.5%) and population growth. It also creates a cause for action with a trial by jury if theses caps are violated.
* Capping tax growth not only prevents sudden spikes in tax growth, it forces government institutions to operate efficiently.
* Putting this into the Constitution gives the voters the say on whether they want to do this, adding legitimacy compared to a legislative directive being put into place by the state and/or towns. - Pro-libertyCACR 19relative to the personal possession of cannabis. Providing that adults 21 years of age or older shall have the right to possess a modest amount of cannabis intended for their personal consumption.NAY ITL
Why
This bill is a constitutional amendment concurrent resolution that asks voters if adults aged 21 and over may possess a "modest amount" of cannabis.
* The private personal use of cannabis should be legal for all adults.
* This bill allows the voters to decide if they want recreational cannabis to be legal. - Pro-libertyCACR 23relative to legislative oversight of the judicial branch. establishing legislative oversight of the judicial branch.NAY ITL
Why
This CACR amends the NH Constitution to empower the legislature to create a commission, primarily composed of legislators, with authority to investigate complaints against judges, conduct hearings, recommend disciplinary actions including removal, and publish annual reports on judicial conduct and performance.
* This bill restores democratic accountability over judges who currently police themselves with no meaningful external check.
* It gives citizens a pathway to address judicial misconduct through their elected representatives rather than through opaque internal processes.
* Elected legislators answerable to voters are better positioned to protect liberty than unaccountable judicial self-regulation.
* It preserves judicial independence in deciding cases while adding accountability for conduct and performance. - Pro-libertyCACR 24relating to the right to educate children. Providing that parents and guardians have a right to direct the education of their children.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill puts a question on the ballot asking voters to create a right for parents and legal guardians to direct the education of their children.
* It is our belief that parents and legal guardians have a right to direct the education of their children, and that this right should be enshrined in the Constitution.
* This bill merely authorizes a vote on the issue. Ultimately voters will decide if this amendment is approved. - Pro-libertyCACR 26the powers of the governor. the governor shall not call up the national guard without the approval of the executive council.NAY ITL
Why
This constitutional amendment concurrent resolution would amend the New Hampshire Constitution to allow the Executive Council to hold a vote to prevent the governor from having power over the military forces of this state.
* War has broken out in the Middle East, mainly in Iran. There is a real possibility that the New Hampshire National Guard will be called up to serve.
* Allowing the voters to weigh in on the power of the governor to call up the National Guard might ensure that the national guard protects our state and is not sent abroad. - Pro-libertyCACR 29Relating to the supreme court. Providing that the supreme court may not make rules that have the force and effect of law.Support
Why
This constitutional amendment concurrent resolution provides that the Supreme Court may not make rules that have the force and effect of law.
* Judicial interpretation has been used to override or circumnavigate the legislative process and is a violation of the separations of power and of checks and balances.
* The judicial branch may not obfuscate the authority of the legislative branch by attempting to create case decisions which create laws outside of their scope of constitutional interpretation. - Anti-libertyHB 1008relative to modifying innovative land use controls, requirements, and appeals.YEA ITL
Why
This bill will lead to mandatory inclusionary zoning (aka low-income housing).
* The mandated development of low-income housing does not fix housing shortages; in fact it exacerbates them.
* The cost to build a market-rate home and a low-income home are the same. In order to recover the cost of building the homes that must be sold below market value, developers must charge more for the market-rate units, contributing to a lack of affordablity.
* The solution is to reduce, rather than increase, government involvement in housing development. - Anti-libertyHB 1017relative to accessory dwelling units and workforce housing.YEA ITL
Why
This bill establishes that municipalities may require accessory dwellings on private property be low-income units.
* The owner of the accessory dwelling unit should determine at what cost to rent that unit.
- Pro-libertyHB 1022relative to religious exemption from immunization requirements.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill simplifies the form that parents are required to sign for a religious exemption from immunization requirements.
*New Hampshire is the freest state in the nation with respect to religious freedom, and we should remove any government imposed barriers that prevent parents from exercising that freedom.
*This simplifies the process to ensure that all Granite Staters are able to exercise their religious liberty regarding what enters their children's bodies if they choose to. - Anti-libertyHB 1034relative to possession of firearms on school property.YEA ITL
Why
This bill creates unarmed victim zones in and around schools.
* This bill bans law-abiding adults from carrying a firearm into an area designated as a so-called "safe school zone" and would deny a mother who walks to pick up her child at school a tool to protect herself and her children.
* Studies have shown no correlation between the enactment of gun-free zones and improved safety:<br /><a href=https://www.rand.org/research/gun-policy/analysis/gun-free-zones.html>– rand.org/research/gun-policy/analysis/gun-free-zones.html</a> - Pro-libertyHB 1043relative to employer discretion in offering minimum payment options to employees.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill allows employers to establish their own pay policies for employees reporting to work, making the statutory minimum pay requirement applicable only when no alternative company policy exists.
* Private employers should be free to set the pay standard for their employees.
* This is pro-business legislation for New Hampshire. This shows that New Hampshire is willing to empower small business to succeed. - Anti-libertyHB 1049relative to storage requirements for firearms.YEA ITL
Why
This bill requires firearms to be stored when not in use in a manner that makes home defense impractical. It also requires that a locking safety device accompany all private and commercial firearms transactions and expands the criminal penalties.
* This bill infringes on individual liberties by mandating secure storage that delays access to firearms for lawful self-defense in the home, treating responsible owners as threats rather than letting individuals decide how to balance personal safety.
* It creates dangerous delays in life-threatening emergencies, forcing locks or safes that slow response times when seconds matter, potentially increasing harm while offering only marginal, unproven reductions in rare unauthorized access incidents. The proposed language that attempts to mitigate this is vague and likely offers no actual protection as "within such close proximity thereto that the person can readily retrieve and use the firearm as if the person carried the firearm on his or her person" read plainly ultimately requires a lock unless the firearm is in a holster being worn by the individual.
* It disproportionately burdens law-abiding gun owners with added costs for safes — potentially in multiple rooms, locks, or devices, despite the state's low rates of firearm misuse by minors and the limited practical benefit in a low-risk environment. - Pro-libertyHB 1066relative to warrant articles authorizing lease agreements.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill requires a public hearing if a town wants to enter into a lease valued at over $500,000.
* $500,000 is a significant amount of money for any town. A decision of that magnitude deserves the opportunity for the public to weigh in before a decision is made.
- Anti-libertyHB 1084relative to the relinquishment of deadly weapons by those subject to a domestic violence protective order.YEA ITL
Why
This bill modifies the process for when an ex parte domestic violence order of protection is issued requiring the respondent to relinquish deadly weapons. A respondent must immediately turn over all of their firearms and ammunition to the officer serving the restraining order.
* The bill repeatedly changes discretionary judicial authority (“may”) to mandatory action (“shall”), particularly with respect to weapon relinquishment, search warrants, and prohibitions on possession.
* The bill mandates immediate surrender of firearms and ammunition before a full evidentiary hearing; this results in deprivation of property and enumerated constitutional rights based on allegation, not adjudication. (Violation of due process.) - Pro-libertyHB 1121defining the cost of an adequate education.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill limits what expenses may be considered in defining the cost of an adequate education.
* The courts exceeded their mandate when they made a determination of the cost of an adequate education. That is a role of the General Court.
* This bill, with the proposed committee amendment, appropriately codifies what constitutes an adequate education, providing clarity on this long lingering issue. - Pro-libertyHB 1125enabling school districts to adopt partisan school district elections.YEA OTP
Why
This bill allows school districts to have partisan elections.
* All elections are partisan. Even ones claimed to be non-partisan.
* This bill allows for political parties to designate their preferred candidates for school board. - Anti-libertyHB 1144amending the excavation tax rate.YEA ITL
Why
This bill doubles the excavation tax rate from $0.02 to $0.04 per cubic yard of earth excavated.
* This bill will lead to higher construction costs at a time when building houses is already extremely costly, contributing to housing affordabiity issues.
* Excavation materials including concrete, roads, clean fill, and gravel are also used in many public projects. This tax will get passed on to all taxpayers in New Hampshire and the increase in revenue will be negated by the increased cost for the materials. - Anti-libertyHB 1145relative to affordable housing investment fees.YEA ITL
Why
This bill allows municipalities to charge developers "affordable housing development fees".
* This is a tax on the development of market-rate housing to pay for below-market-rate housing.
* It is not much different than mandating below-market-rate housing in a development project, which ultimately drives up the cost of market-rate units to make up for the lost revenue from below-market-rate units. - Anti-libertyHB 1146relative to subscription fees for motor vehicle features.YEA IS
Why
This bill prohibits motor vehicle manufacturers, dealers, or their agents from requiring or offering subscription services for pre-installed vehicle features, such as advanced safety features activated via software, that function independently without ongoing provider costs.
* This legislation interferes with the natural pricing mechanisms that allow manufacturers to recover costs for embedded technologies, likely leading to higher upfront vehicle prices or reduced investment in features as businesses navigate artificial restrictions on their offerings. Consumers ultimately bear the burden through less-efficient resource allocation, as capital is diverted from more valued innovations elsewhere in the economy.
* Government has no rightful authority to dictate the terms of private agreements between willing buyers and sellers, especially when no force or fraud is involved beyond market competition; prohibiting subscriptions for pre-installed features violates the deontological imperative against state meddling in consensual exchanges that respect individual autonomy and property in intellectual creations.
* Subscription models, like other market intermediaries, facilitate efficient service delivery without inherent exploitation, and banning them erodes the freedom to contract: even if some view ongoing fees as 'nickel-and-diming,' they represent voluntary trades where parties can walk away, and state intervention only empowers bureaucrats over buyers and sellers.
* While the appropriate motion for this bill is ITL, a motion of IS is acceptable. - Anti-libertyHB 1171relative to eviction safeguards for tenants whose Social Security payments are disrupted.YEA ITL
Why
This bill allows renters who pay using social security payments a 90-day eviction grace period instead of the terms negotiated with their landlord.
* A rental agreement is a private agreement between a landlord and a tenant. The government should not get involved.
- Anti-libertyHB 1177adding a definition to the labor laws regarding remote work and defining the nature of such employment.YEA ITL
Why
This bill provides regulations for remote work.
*This bill puts an undue burden on employers by potentially requiring furniture, equipment, and repayment of internet or phone bills.
* Employers will look to other states when needing to hire remote workers, thereby hurting the job market in New Hampshire.
*Current labor laws regarding scheduled breaks and overtime are already covered for remote workers. - Pro-libertyHB 1178relative to permissible window tinting on motor vehicles.Support
Why
This bill is a small change to New Hampshire's window tinting laws that would allow aftermarket tint on the windows to the left and right of the driver down to 35% visible light transmittance
(VLT).* Approximately 37 states allow for this level of tint or darker:<br /><a href=https://windowtintlaws.us/>– windowtintlaws.us</a>
* New Hampshire law enforcement already encounters tinted windows on the thousands of tourist vehicles that visit New Hampshire each year. No widespread problems have been reported with these vehicles.
* It is unfair to allow out-of-state visitors to drive with tinted windows while prohibiting New Hampshire residents the same freedom. - Anti-libertyHB 1180updating the definition of the state building code to include the International Energy Conservation Code 2024.YEA ITL
Why
This bill requires newly-constucted buildings to be all-electric.
* If developers want to go all-electric in their buildings, nothing is stopping them from doing so. This change would mandate electrification for everyone.
- Anti-libertyHB 1188relative to noncompete agreements for low-wage employees.YEA ITL
Why
This bill expands restrictions on the use of non-compete agreements for lower-income workers.
*This bill increases the government overreach into private contracts and negotiations between employers and employees.
*Employers rely on non-compete agreements to recoup upfront investment of training employees. This bill could hurt entry-level employment if employers aren't allowed to protect their investment in the employee. - Pro-libertyHB 1195relative to municipal zoning requirements for child day care providers.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill makes home-based family child care permitted by right in residential uses, removing the possibility for towns to impose a discretionary conditional use permit requirement.
* This bill protects private property rights in land use by making home child care a permitted use in all residences.
* Child care availablity is a challenge everywhere, but especially in New Hampshire. Cutting the red tape will help alleviate demand on existing childcare providers and provide more options for parents in need of child care. - Anti-libertyHB 1201requiring certain political committees to disclose the identity of their donors.YEA ITL
Why
This bill requires mandatory disclosure of donors for nonprofit organizations that get involved in politics.
* Currently the disclosure of donors is voluntary. This would make it mandatory.
* It's not clear how this could be enforced without some police powers. - Anti-libertyHB 1212establishing a commission to review draft rules related to minimum standards for public school approval and state academic standards developed by the department of education.YEA ITL
Why
This bill creates a commission made up of unelected education professionals to decide the state's education standards.
* The scope and size of the commission add a substantial layer of bureaucracy to state government, especially to the educational structure in the state.
* The 21 commission members are all professionals in the education-industrial complex, who have personal and professional conflicts of interest in the operation of the commission.
* No members of the public, parents, students, or legislators are allowed to input. Several of the teacher members are appointed by the two New Hampshire teachers' unions.
* Unelected bureaucrats should not be setting education policy. This is most appropriately handled by the members of local school district boards. - Pro-libertyHB 1219relative to immunization requirements in foster family homes.YEA OTP
Why
This bill removes the requirement to vaccinate children or parents in a foster home.
* Getting vaccinated is a choice, not a mandate.
- Pro-libertyHB 1235legalizing certain quantities of cannabis.NAY ITL
Why
This bill allows the possession of limited amounts of cannabis.
**Individuals should control what they put in their own bodies as long as they are not harming others. Criminalizing cannabis punishes peaceful behavior and violates personal liberty.
**Arresting and prosecuting people for cannabis possession wastes police and court resources that could be better used addressing violent crime and protecting property rights. - Anti-libertyHB 1239relative to the offense of loitering or prowling.NAY OTP
Why
This bill prevents convicted sex offenders from going pretty much everywhere. It contains an open-ended clause that allows law enforcement or a judge to selectively apply it to going anywhere.
* While we support keeping children safe, this bill is incredibly broad and will apply to pretty much any location.
* The bill prevents the offender from going within 1,000 feet of "any area where a reasonable person would know that minor children congregate". - Anti-libertyHB 1240relative to the apparent use of a deadly weapon during the offense of criminal threatening.NAY OTP
Why
This bill makes it a felony to use a fake weapon instead of a real weapon when guilty of criminal threatening.
* This bill increases the penalty of using a fake weapon to commit a crime.
* There is no crime if there is no real weapon. At best the suspect is guilty of deception. - Pro-libertyHB 1245relative to voluntary portable benefits plans for independent contractors.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill establishes a voluntary framework allowing independent contractors to participate in portable benefit plans through authorized providers.
* This bill allows independent contractors to keep their worker classification, and also receive benefits.
* This bill strikes an appropriate balance that allows new ways to compensate contractors. - Pro-libertyHB 1268modifying definitions and requirements relative to home education programs.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill removes notification and assessment requirements for parents teaching their children through an independent home education program.
* New Hampshire is one of the highest regulators of home education in the United States.
* This bill limits required notifications to only when students participate in public school programs, use the state or local assessment provided by the resident district, or if withdrawing from the public school.
* It changes many required evalutions from mandatory to optional. Parents still have to maintain a portfolio that they keep for 2 years. - Pro-libertyHB 1272providing that each candidate's party affiliation be printed on the town or school district ballot.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill allows political party to be listed next to candidate names on ballots for town or school district elections.
* All elections are partisan. Even ones claimed to be non-partisan.
* This bill allows, but does not require, political party registration to be listed on the ballot.
* This change must be approved by the voters in a town election. - Pro-libertyHB 1279relative to the use of physical force in defense of a person.YEA OTP
Why
This bill expands the right to defend oneself from being the victim of a felony offense to also include defending a third party from being the victim of a felony.
* People have a right to defend themselves. The law should protect those who act to protect themselves and others from criminals.
- Pro-libertyHB 1299permitting classification of individuals based on biological sex under certain limited circumstances and establishing that certain biological sex distinctions do not qualify as discrimination.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill allows public and private facilities to have facilities separated for biological men and women.
* With regard to private facilites, the owner should have the ability to classify based upon biological sex if they so choose. At a private facility, no one has a right to use it without permission and no one is forced to use it.
* With regard to public facilities, the benefit to those who want privacy and security in shared spaces outweighs the interest of others who want to use the facility of their choosing. - Pro-libertyHB 1300(new title) establishing a biennial school district local tax cap question and related limitations on central office administrative expenses in school districts.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill allows the voters to cap the local taxes related to school district spending every two years.
* The March town elections have a turnout generally around 20 percent. In the November elections, that number is more like 80 percent. Asking this question of the voters when more of them are voting allows more voters to weigh in on local property tax issues.
* This is an NHLA priority bill and will be highly weighted in the Liberty Rating. - Pro-libertyHB 1306relative to the counting of absentee ballots.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill creates a record for the absentee ballots and stores that record in three places.
* There have been reports of lack of clarity concerning tracking absentee ballots; this would address those concerns and create an official count of the absentee ballots and their status in the process as of election day.
* Given how close many of our recent elections have been, a better audit trail of absentee ballots will help increase confidence in election results. - Pro-libertyHB 1313repealing buffer zones for reproductive health care facilities.YEA OTP
Why
This bill repeals a violation of the First Amendment.
* Whereas the NHLA has a policy of not taking positions on the issue of abortion in general, this bill's restoration of freedom of expression protected by the First Amendment merits our taking a position in support of this bill.
* This bill repeals the "buffer zone" created by SB 319 (2014), restoring the right of people to peacefully assemble, as provided by the protections of the First Amendment.
* A similar Massachusetts law was already struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in a 9-0 opinion:<br />– <a href=https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/mccullen-v-coakley/>scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/mccullen-v-coakley</a> (McCullen v. Coakley, 573 U.S. 464 (2014)) - Anti-libertyHB 1334removing the authority of the education freedom accounts scholarship organization to make decisions about certain educational expenses.YEA ITL
Why
This bill removes the discretion of the administrator of Education Freedom Accounts to determine appropriate education expenses.
* This bill removes some of the autonomy of the Education Freedom Accounts program.
* Part of the reason the program is so successful is because it is independently managed. This bill would be a step backward and make the program less effective. - Pro-libertyHB 1335requiring health care providers to disclose to patients indirect financial incentives received by the provider.YEA OTP
Why
This bill requires a doctor to disclose if they are being paid $5,000 or more to promote a treatment or drug.
* When doctors are getting paid to promote a particular treatment, they are not providing impartial medical advice.
* Patients deserve this information so they can make an informed decision about a treatment. - Pro-libertyHB 1336allowing exceptions to the cap on residential security deposits for applicants not meeting standard approval criteria.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill allows landlords and tenants to agree to a higher security deposit — up to two months' rent — when an applicant does not meet clearly disclosed, reasonable approval criteria.
* A rental agreement is a contract between two private parties. If the landlord is willing to take on additional risk by renting to tenants who don't meet the typical requirements, that is their choice.
- Pro-libertyHB 1359relative to municipal association lobbying dues.NAY ITL
Why
This bill requires a vote on New Hampshire Municipal Association membership, and requires New Hampshire Municipal Association to provide reports on lobbying to its members.
*This bill provides taxpayers transparency in spending on memberships to municipal associations.
*This bill provides municipalities increased transparency in how their membership dues are being spent. - Pro-libertyHB 1374relative to the procedures for withdrawal from a cooperative school district.YEA OTP
Why
This bill modifies the procedure for withdrawal from a cooperative school district to allow a majority of voters in a single withdrawing district to elect to withdraw. It also clarifies that a supermajority of voters in the withdrawing district voting in favor of withdrawal shall constitute conclusive evidence of the withdrawal of the district.
* This bill gives towns the freedom to withdraw from a school district if its needs are not met.
* This prevents the cooperative district from outvoting the town and keeping them in the cooperative district against their will.
* The parents and taxpayers of each town should have the freedom to decide what's best for their education tax dollars. - Anti-libertyHB 1375prohibiting landlords from charging more than one application fee per tenant every 12 months.YEA ITL
Why
This bill prohibits landlords from collecting more than one application fee from the same prospective tenant within a 12-month period.
* This is yet another bill where the state is attempting to insert itself into a private transaction between a landlord and a potential tenant.
**This bill could potentially limit the supply of medium-term rentals in NH. Certain occupations such as travelling nurses rely on a healthy supply of medium-term rentals available in the marketplace to house those workers. - Pro-libertyHB 1376relative to a parent's ability to raise their child in a manner consistent with the child's biological sex.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill makes clear that raising your child as their biological sex is not a crime.
* Raising a child consistent with their biological sex in no way comes close to child abuse.
- Pro-libertyHB 1378relative to parental access to a minor child's electronic medical records.Support
Why
This bill allows parents access to all of a child's medical records.
* Parents are in charge of raising their children. There is no plausible scenario where an agent of the government or a medical provider should not allow medical information for a child to be withheld from the child's parents.
- Anti-libertyHB 1383relative to methods for overriding local tax caps.YEA ITL
Why
This bill removes the requirement that a municipality or district must vote by official ballot to override a local tax cap.
* A secret ballot ensures that citizens can vote their conscience without fear of retaliation from neighbors, local officials, or activists. This bill threatens the integrity of those votes by opening up opportunities of coersion through public voting.
*When votes are public (voice vote or show of hands), people may feel pressured to conform to the majority. Secret ballots allow taxpayers to vote honestly on spending and tax issues without intimidation. - Anti-libertyHB 1399making an appropriation to the Claremont school district for costs associated with a building renovation project from the revenue stabilization reserve account.YEA ITL
Why
This bill "reimburses" Claremont School District for a project completed over 10 years ago.
* This is a thinly-veiled bailout of the Claremont School District after years of mismanagement.
* No bailouts — if a school is failing financially, whether due to negligence or corruption, it is not the role of the state to bail them out.
* If the state does this, every school will request a bailout eventually. - Anti-libertyHB 1434enabling municipalities to vote to allow the sale of Keno.YEA ITL
Why
This bill enables municipalities to vote to allow the sale of Keno and repeals prospective law that would only allow municipalities to opt out of Keno.
* Greater freedom should be the default, not the exception. This bill explicitly bans Keno across the state unless a municipality opted in.
* Making every municipality pass an ordinance to allow something legal adds friction and bureaucracy. An opt-out system respects local control while avoiding unnecessary government hurdles. - Pro-libertyHB 1447restricting the use of certain public and private facilities on the basis of sex and establishing that such restriction does not qualify as discrimination.YEA OTP
Why
This bill allows public and private facilities to have facilities separated for biological men and women.
* With regard to private facilites, the owner should have the ability to classify based upon biological sex if they so choose. At a private facility, no one has a right to use it without permission and no one is forced to use it.
* With regard to public facilities, the benefit to those who want privacy and security in shared spaces outweighs the interest of others who want to use the facility of their choosing. - Anti-libertyHB 1456repealing the legislature's declaration of authority over public education.YEA ITL
Why
This bill repeals part of last year's budget trailer bill (HB2) in which the legislature formally declared itself the sole branch of government with authority to set education policy and funding levels.
* The 2025 declaration was a critical reassertion of legislative supremacy over taxation and appropriation, and repealing it invites unelected judges to resume dictating how much taxpayers must spend on education.
* Separation of powers demands that the branch closest to the voters, not the judiciary, controls the public purse, and this repeal would surrender that accountability back to the courts.
* The Claremont and ConVal decisions effectively allowed judges to function as a super-legislature on school funding, and removing the legislature's formal objection to that overreach signals acceptance of judicial policy-making.
* Restoring judicial authority to set education funding levels means restoring the power to force wealth transfers from taxpayers at amounts determined without any democratic input or electoral accountability. - Anti-libertyHB 1513relative to reporting and transparency reports for the education freedom account program.YEA ITL
Why
This bill creates additional information gathering and reporting requirements for the scholarship organization responsible for Education Freedom Accounts.
* This bill removes some of the autonomy of the Education Freedom Accounts program.
* Part of the reason the program is so successful is because it is independently managed. This bill would be a step backward and make the program less effective. - Pro-libertyHB 1526relative to the adopting of a municipal budget committee and electing members thereof.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill eliminates the default budget. If the budget is not approved by voters, last year's budget is approved with no increases.
* The default budget system doesn't work. This new budget method gives voters a real choice to either adopt a new budget, or extend last year's budget at the same spending level.
- Anti-libertyHB 1561prohibiting nationals of the People's Republic of China from attending state institutions of higher education.NAY OTP/A
Why
This bill prohibits nationals of the People's Republic of China from enrolling in masters and doctorate degree programs, participation in research, and full-time employment at public institutions of higher education.
* One of the best ways to spread Granite State culture to other countries is to educate international students in our schools.
* So long as international students are not displacing American students, this is a great tool for diplomacy.
* Many international students choose to stay in the country where they go to school. The results of the research generated by these students will benefit America instead of China. - Pro-libertyHB 1562relative to licensing requirements for health care facilities that operate on a membership-based business model.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill creates a carve-out for licensure for direct-membership health care, aka boutique care.
* There is a growing demand for these services, and this bill would help create a fertile ground for this segment of the healthcare economy.
- Pro-libertyHB 1597relative to business profits tax expense deductions.YEA OTP
Why
This bill amends RSA 77-A:3-a to increase the cap on Section 179 deductions for qualifying capital investments from $500,000 to $2,500,000 for property placed in service on or after January 1, 2027, aligning with federal Internal Revenue Code provisions.
* This bill does not affect the amount of the tax owed, only the timing of the payments. It allows New Hampshire business organizations, including corporations, partnerships, and proprietorships, to deduct larger upfront costs for business assets, thereby reducing their taxable gross business profits under the 7.5% business profits tax rate.
* Expanding the Section 179 deduction cap enables businesses to reinvest in growth more efficiently, fostering broader economic expansion that benefits workers, consumers, and communities through increased productivity and job opportunities without the drag of prolonged tax deferrals.
* Tax policies that delay capital recovery infringe on the rightful ownership of business assets by extending government claims on private earnings; this bill upholds the principle that individuals and enterprises should control their property's returns without arbitrary state limitations. - Pro-libertyHB 1609limiting the use of state, county, and municipal funds and property for construction and operation of certain immigrant detention facilities.NAY ITL
Why
This bill prevents state and local funds from being used to build immigrant detention centers.
* If the federal government wants to build immigrant detention centers using federal funds, New Hampshire should not get in their way. That said, state money should not be spent on a federal program like immigration enforcement.
- Pro-libertyHB 1616prohibiting state agencies and political subdivisions from advertising or expending funds to advertise vaccines in the state of New Hampshire.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill bans state spending promoting vaccinations. With the proposed committee amendment, it also prevents state materials from having broad vaccination recommendations.
* Getting vaccinated is a choice, not a mandate.
* Even when the government is only making a recommendation, they are using their influence and resources to promote a particular point of view on vaccines.
* Materials about vaccines are great, so long as they are purely educational, present information with an impartial viewpoint, and allow people to make their own informed decisions. - Anti-libertyHB 1660relative to municipal credit enhancement agreements and tax increment financing for priority housing development.YEA ITL
Why
This bill allows credit enhancement agreements to incentivize specific types of housing (senior housing, nursing facilities, and low-income housing).
* The government should not be incentivising one type of housing over another.
* The development of low-income housing does not fix housing shortages; in fact it exacerbates them.
* The cost to build a market-rate home and a low-income home are the same. In order to recover the cost of building the homes that must be sold below market value, developers must charge more for the market-rate units, contributing to a lack of affordablity.
* The solution is to reduce, rather than increase, government involvement in housing development. - Pro-libertyHB 1665relative to the issuance of subpoenas in administrative proceedings.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill amends the Administrative Procedure Act to grant all parties in administrative proceedings equal authority to subpoena witnesses and documents.
* Equalizing subpoena power removes a structural advantage government agencies hold over citizens in administrative hearings, restoring basic procedural fairness.
* Private parties facing government action deserve the same tools to compel evidence and testimony that the agency prosecuting them already enjoys.
* Tying administrative subpoena authority to existing court standards ensures a well-established legal framework rather than creating new bureaucratic discretion.
* This bill reinforces due process by ensuring that citizens are not forced to defend themselves with one hand tied behind their back when the state brings an action against them. - Pro-libertyHB 1704permitting public employees to bargain individually with public employers without any intervention.YEA OTP
Why
This bill allows most individual public sector employees to opt out of collective bargaining and instead negotiate their own employment and compensation terms.
* Individual bargaining will grant most public sector employees in the state the same ability to negotiate compensation that virtually all private sector workers presently enjoy.
- Pro-libertyHB 1706repealing the refugee resettlement program in the department of health and human services and prohibiting expenditure of state funds on refugee resettlement.YEA OTP
Why
This bill repeals the refugee resettlement program in the Department of Health and Human Services and prohibits expenditure of state funds on refugee resettlement.
* The state should not have a role in the resettlement of refugees.
- Anti-libertyHB 1708relative to statewide education property taxes and other tax revenues.YEA ITL
Why
This bill increases the Business Profits Tax to a level equal to or greater than that of neighboring states.
* This increase will hurt the job market in New Hampshire while forcing existing businesses to pass the increase down to the consumer.
* This bill also takes money out of the General Fund, used to fund infrastructure and other government functions, in favor of a decreasing student population which has been receiving historically increasing funding in excess of inflation levels. - Pro-libertyHB 1734authorizing the establishment of experimental treatment centers.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill authorizes the establishment of experimental treatment centers to provide eligible patients access to investigational drugs, biologics, and devices that have completed Phase I safety trials.
* This bill closes the access gap between clinical trials and FDA general approval.
* This is a model medical-freedom bill that expands patient choice, protects physician autonomy, and promotes innovation without mandates, subsidies, or coercion.
* It balances safety with speed, liberty, and responsibility. - Pro-libertyHB 1735permitting treatment of certain severe illness under the right to try act.YEA OTP
Why
This bill expands New Hampshire's Right to Try Act by extending access from just individuals with terminal illnesses to qualifying severe chronic and debilitating conditions, removing restrictive prerequisites in cases where the individual is willing and able to pay for a treatment that may not yet have demonstrated efficacy.
* Expanding access to treatments for severe illnesses could accelerate medical breakthroughs and improve outcomes for thousands of patients currently trapped by regulatory delays, as voluntary participation encourages innovation without taxpayer burdens or mandates. This practical reform addresses real-world inefficiencies in healthcare delivery, allowing faster, more personalized care that benefits society through reduced suffering and potential cost savings from effective therapies.
* Individuals have an inherent right to control their own bodies and pursue treatments free from arbitrary government prohibitions, as long as they obtain informed consent and no third parties are harmed. Forcing patients to wait for bureaucratic approval infringes on this natural liberty, making expansions like this a moral imperative to protect personal sovereignty against overreaching regulators. - Anti-libertyHB 1750making a supplemental appropriation to the department of health and human services for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).YEA ITL
Why
This bill allocates $4.4 million to the SNAP program.
* This bill asks the state to backfill money that did not come in from the federal government.
* This sets a precedence where any government program that gets cut at the federal level should be made whole by the state. However, they should not; or at the very least, that should be something determined though the biennial budget process. - Pro-libertyHB 1772(new title) relative to prescribing ibogaine for investigational use only.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill allows physicians licensed to prescribe drugs in New Hampshire to prescribe ibogaine for investigational use only.
* Adults who are informed of the benefits and risks should be able to consent to try experimental treatments if they choose.
- Pro-libertyHB 1788holding state contracts with DEI provisions to be void as a matter or law and establishing a right of action for taxpayers where public entities or state agencies engage with contracts with DEI provisions.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill requires courts to find that contracts that include DEI-related provisions are void as a matter of law. It allows private citizens to sue government agencies for allowing DEI policies.
* Removing DEI provisions from public contracts will treat all citizens equally under the law.
* Government at all levels should not treat people differently on the basis of their inclusion in a protected class or community of interest. - Pro-libertyHB 1796allowing the use of psilocybin in approved clinical settings to treat qualified medical conditions.NAY ITL
Why
This bill allows the limited use of psilocybin for medical purposes.
* Informed adults should be allowed to try alternative treatments for their medical conditions.
* Psilocybin has a reputation for recreational use. This bill is not about recreational use, it is a "right to try" bill. - Pro-libertyHB 1797relative to eligibility for public assistance, including the New Hampshire employment program, family assistance program, and SNAP.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to share data with other agencies and ensure SNAP beneficiaries remain eligible.
* This is a common sense reform to the SNAP program to ensure only eligible recipients are receiving benefits.
- Pro-libertyHB 1817permitting all students the choice to attend the school district in which they reside.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill adds Education Freedom Account students to the list of students who are allowed to take curricular and co-curricular activities in the school district in which they reside.
* Currently, home educated students under 193-A and students who attend private or charter schools are allowed take curricular and co-curricular activities in the school district in which they reside.
* This bill adds EFA students to that list. - Pro-libertyHB 686(new title) prohibiting certain public entities from conducting or sponsoring political surveys, polls, or questionnaires in their official capacities.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill creates a criminal penalty if a public employee distributes surveys that are political in nature using their government position or resources.
* Public employees are entrusted with community resources and are paid by the taxpayers. It is a betrayal of trust to use their public position and resources to influence elections.
116 bills with no position.
Thursday, March 5, 2026 · House · 27 positions
- Pro-libertyCACR 10relating to the adoption of tax laws. Providing that no law shall establish or increase a state imposed tax unless adopted by not less than two-thirds of the members present and voting.YEA OTP
Why
This bill increases the threshold to increase taxes to a 2/3 vote. It also requires bills to increase taxes to originate in the House.
* Requiring tax increases to originate in the House strengthens accountability. The House is the most representative body in New Hampshire government. House members are closest to the people and most directly accountable to them.
* The supermajority requirement is equally important. It ensures that new taxes cannot be imposed by narrow, temporary, or partisan majorities.
* If a tax increase truly serves the common good, it should be able to command broad support. - Anti-libertyCACR 22relating to the compensation of the legislature. Providing that the present compensation per elected term for legislators is hereby abolished.YEA ITL
Why
This bill is a constitutional amendment to remove the NH General Court's famous $200/biennium salary.
* Under current law, legislator salary is set by the NH Constitution at $200/biennium. By removing this provision of the Constitution, it removes a barrier toward setting legislator salaries at a much higher level via simple legislation, and encourages individuals to make a career out of being a legislator, destroying the citizen legislature.
* The existing modest compensation increases the probability that individuals will only attempt to serve for a limited number of terms, and saves New Hampshire taxpayers from being compelled to further fund an organization that demonstrably has as its goal the expansion of state power. - Pro-libertyHB 1046enabling a person to carry a firearm on a snowmobile being operated on private property.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill allows a person to carry a firearm on a snowmobile while on private property.
* As long as no one else is impacted, private citizens should be free to do whatever they want on their private property.
* Snowmobile operators are already allowed to carry a loaded sidearm or pistol under constitutional carry. - Pro-libertyHB 1048relative to repealing the prohibition on the possession or sale of blackjacks, slung shots, and metallic knuckles except by or to minors.YEA OTP
Why
This bill allows adults to possess and sell blackjacks, slung shots, and metallic knuckles.
* These types of weapons are also covered by the protections of the Second Amendment and Article 2-a.
* Adults should have the freedom to access tools like these for self-defense, if they so choose. - Anti-libertyHB 1063reducing the amount of meals and rooms taxes operators can retain.YEA ITL
Why
This bill reduces the portion of meals and rooms tax kept by the business collecting the tax from 3 percent to 1.5 percent.
* This 3 percent is retained in order to incentivise timely payment of meals and rooms tax collections. If this incentive is taken away, it is possible that fewer businesses will make timely payment of their taxes.
- Pro-libertyHB 1108Relative to the offense of criminal threatening.NAY ITL
Why
This bill allows a property owner to use a firearm in defense of themselves and their property.
* The use of a firearm should not be limited to defending oneself from threat of death. It is also appropriate to use a firearm to protect oneself from bodily harm or to protect property.
- Anti-libertyHB 1114relative to the documentation and preservation of public comment reports by standing legislative committees.YEA ITL
Why
This bill requires all written comments and remote sign-in for all bills to be saved in the permanent journal. It requires standing committees to summarize the comments and communicate their impact.
* This is a vast amount of unnecessary information that must be stored forever. The important aspects of a bill are the motions made and votes taken on that bill.
* Forcing committees to write up summaries of comments and their impact on decision-making is unnecessary busywork. What really matters is a legislator's vote, not writing down how they felt about the comments. - Pro-libertyHB 1134relative to the town meeting form of local governance.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill clarifies rules for voting on warrant articles during a town meeting.
* Clarifying the procedure for town meetings and warrant articles ensures the rights of all participants in town meetings. It also ensures that the procedure for considering warrant articles at town meetings is consistent from town to town throughout the state.
* This bill also clarifies the impact of warrant articles on budget caps and which warrant articles require a 3/5 vote to pass. - Anti-libertyHB 1212establishing a commission to review draft rules related to minimum standards for public school approval and state academic standards developed by the department of education.YEA ITL
Why
This bill creates a commission made up of unelected education professionals to decide the state's education standards.
* The scope and size of the commission add a substantial layer of bureaucracy to state government, especially to the educational structure in the state.
* The 21 commission members are all professionals in the education-industrial complex, who have personal and professional conflicts of interest in the operation of the commission.
* No members of the public, parents, students, or legislators are allowed to input. Several of the teacher members are appointed by the two New Hampshire teachers' unions.
* Unelected bureaucrats should not be setting education policy. This is most appropriately handled by the members of local school district boards. - Pro-libertyHB 1225relative to the definition of adjusted gross income with respect to child support guidelines.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill changes the gross income amount used to calculate child support by subtracting social security and medicare tax withholding, for employees. Before this bill, only self-employed individuals benefited from this reduction.
* This bill removes a form of double taxation in which the state removes a portion of income via taxes but still calculates wealth transfer based on the total before said tax.
- Anti-libertyHB 1227relative to the calculation of the local tax cap.YEA ITL
Why
This bill artificially inflates the base budget of a municipality or school district in order to increase spending for towns and districts with tax caps.
* This bill tries to circumvent the will of the voters who instituted a tax cap. It does this using an accounting trick that makes the base budget higher, so that inflationary increases, which are a percentage of the base budget, are larger.
- Anti-libertyHB 1238relative to the penalties for the offense of disobeying an officer.NAY OTP
Why
This bill increases the penalty for refusing to stop for a police officer from a misdemeanor to a felony.
* On its own, failure to stop when ordered by a police officer should not ruin one's life with a felony conviction. A misdemeanor is a more appropriate level of punishment.
* It is presumed that the reason a person will fail to stop is because they have committed some other crime. If that is the case, that other crime should be the felony they are charged with rather than refusing to stop their car. - Pro-libertyHB 1256removing the authority of the state librarian to award scholarships to students attending graduate library schools.YEA OTP
Why
This bill repeals the law that allows the state librarian to award graduate scholarships.
* This action appropriately returns the authority to grant scholarships to the New Hampshire Library Trustees Association.
- Anti-libertyHB 1264increasing the requirements of the education freedom savings account oversight committee and modifying the purpose of the committee.YEA ITL
Why
This bill requires the Education Freedom Savings Account Oversight Committee to review student data, eligibility requirements, and EFA expenditures. It also requires monthly meetings that are broadcast live.
* The EFA Program Administrator (Children's Scholarship Fund of New Hampshire) completed an independent audit for fiscal year 2025. The auditor had no reportable findings and found their finances to be in good standing.
* The EFA program works so well partly because it is independently run. Bills like this one threaten their ability to remain independent. - Anti-libertyHB 1367establishing a criminal offense of doxing.NAY OTP
Why
This bill would make doxing a misdemeanor and also allow for alleged doxers to be sued in civil court.
* New Hampshire already has existing laws against threatening and harassment. This bill would go beyond that by criminalizing conduct which may cause substantial emotional distress - such as mentioning someone's birthday on the internet.
* The bill is both vague and contains numerous exceptions including release of the information obtained from public records or news reports. - Anti-libertyHB 1387repealing limiting liability for certain design features of firearms.YEA ITL
Why
This bill repeals current law that protects firearm manufacturers from lawsuits related to the inclusion or noninclusion of certain features in guns.
* Firearm safety is the responsibility of the owner and operator.
* This bill is a thinly-veiled pathway to allowing litigation against manufacturers when a firearm is treated improperly. - Anti-libertyHB 1402relative to credentials for the position of superintendent of schools.YEA ITL
Why
This bill creates minimum requirements to serve as superintendent of schools.
* This is similar to other occupational licensing issues. A person's professional experience should dictate that they are qualified, not a piece of paper from the government.
* The members of the selection committee for the position, and not the government, should determine what criteria to prefer in an candidate for a superintendent role.
* Having certification does not mean that they will do their jobs well or effectively. - Anti-libertyHB 1403relative to credentials for the position of school business administrator.YEA ITL
Why
This bill creates minimum requirements to serve as school business administrator.
* This is similar to other occupational licensing issues. A person's professional experience should dictate that they are qualified, not a piece of paper from the government.
* The members of the selection committee for the position, and not the government, should determine what criteria to prefer in an candidate for a business administrator role.
* Having certification does not mean that they will do their jobs well or effectively. - Anti-libertyHB 1454relative to the possession of firearms following a court order requiring surrender of firearms and ammunition.YEA ITL
Why
This bill duplicates existing law that already requires firearms to be surrendered when required to do so by a court order.
* This bill will not make anyone safer. It duplicates existing law which already requires gun owners to relinquish their firearms when required to do so by a court order.
- Anti-libertyHB 1484establishing a state minimum wage and providing for incremental increases.YEA ITL
Why
This bill establishes a minimum wage for New Hampshire with annual increases through 2029.
* The free market should determine the appropriate wage for a job.
* Government intervention such as the minimum wage sounds good on paper. In practice, it leads to the elimination of jobs as businesses choose not to hire as many workers.
* If businesses are forced to pay more to the workers they need to hire, they will either increase what they charge for their goods or services to cover the increased cost, leading to inflation, or will be forced to hire fewer workers, potentially leading to decreased quality of goods and services, as well as higher unemployment in the economy as a whole. - Pro-libertyHB 1495allowing a reimbursement anticipation note to be used as collateral in certain circumstances.YEA OTP
Why
This bill restricts the allowable use of funds borrowed against reimbursement anticipation notes to the same allowable use of the anticipated funds.
* This is a common sense reform to make sure public money for education is spent properly.
- Anti-libertyHB 1578adds definitions and reporting requirements relative to education freedom accounts.YEA ITL
Why
This bill adds new and unnecessary reporting requirements to the administrators of the Education Freedom Accounts program.
* The EFA Program Administrator (Children's Scholarship Fund of New Hampshire) completed an independent audit for fiscal year 2025. The auditor had no reportable findings and found their finances to be in good standing.
* Most of the data requested in these reports is unlikely to yield useful information.
* The EFA program works so well partly because it is independently run. Bills like this one threaten their ability to remain independent. - Pro-libertyHB 1610allowing school districts to annually retain year-end unassigned general funds.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill adds new safeguards to make sure that when school districts spend unassigned general funds the expenditure is approved by voters and only used for "unusual circumstances".
* It is appropriate for school districts to routinely ask the voters to weigh in on how money in the budget is spent.
- Anti-libertyHB 1651Establishing sexual assault orders of protection and relative to sexual assault survivors' rights.NAY OTP/A
Why
This bill allows for a protective order if by a preponderance of evidence a person may be guilty of sexual assault. This results in their firearms being confiscated.
* This is a red flag bill, because the issuing of an order of protection takes away a person's lawfully owned firearms without being found guilty of a crime.
* The standard to get the order in place (preponderence of evidence) is a lower standard than what would be required to find someone guilty of sexual assault (beyond a reasonable doubt).
* Citizens are entitled to due process before their rights can be infringed, including their second amendment rights. - Pro-libertyHB 1815relative to education financing.YEA OTP
Why
This bill asserts that the state legislature, and not the courts, is responsible for determining what amounts to an adequate education. It also clarifies that local funds for education are included when determining what is an adequate education.
* On the issue of an adequate education, the state supreme court's Con-Val decision is an attempt to legislate from the bench.
* The General Court already has the authority to determine what constitutes an adequate education. This bill merely seeks to clarify that. - Anti-libertyHB 1820requiring the department of education to administer the education freedom account program.YEA ITL
Why
This bill requires the Department of Education to take over the administration from the Children's Scholarship Fund of New Hampshire.
* The EFA Program Administrator (Children's Scholarship Fund of New Hampshire) completed an independent audit for fiscal year 2025. The auditor had no reportable findings and found their finances to be in good standing.
* The EFA program works so well partly because it is independently run. Bills like this one threaten their ability to remain independent. - Anti-libertyHB 1834relative to the education freedom account enrollment cap.YEA ITL
Why
This bill caps the enrollment for the Education Freedom Accounts program at 10,000 students in 2026-2027 with increases to the cap in future school years.
* If every family in New Hampshire wants an education freedom account for their student, they should be able to get one. The cost to administer the program is a fraction of the cost to educate a student in public school.
* The cap is already set to increase to 12,500 in 2026-2027. This action would eliminate 2,500 education freedom accounts for otherwise eligible children.
22 bills with no position.
Thursday, March 5, 2026 · Senate · 5 positions
- Pro-libertyHB 186relative to the legalization and regulation of cannabis and making appropriations therefor.NAY ITL
Why
This bill legalizes cannabis and regulates it similarly to alcohol.
* The private personal use of cannabis should be legal.
* This legalization not only prevents innocent people from having their lives significantly impacted by minor possession arrests, but also reduces the expense of the criminal justice system, allowing police and prosecutors to focus on serious crimes where innocent people have been victimized.
* NH is currently a backwater island regarding cannabis. All of the other New England states have legalized cannabis, with nearly all positive results.
* Cannabis is already legal in 24 states.
* President Trump just signed an executive order to reassign cannabis from a Schedule I to Schedule III controlled substance. - Pro-libertyHB 323requiring the presentation of a government-issued photographic means of identification in order to vote.YEA OTP
Why
This bill removes college identification from the approved list of valid photo identification in order to obtain a ballot.
*The state has a duty to ensure elections are fair, accurate, and free of fraud. A student ID does not prove domicile in New Hampshire and has no place in New Hampshire elections.
*Student IDs are not accepted for getting on an airplane, renting a car, or reserving a hotel room. Private businesses do not generally accept student IDs as a legitimate form of identification. - Anti-libertySB 483making a contingent appropriation to the department of health and human services for recruitment and benefit grants for child care employers.NAY OTP
Why
This bill spends $15 million in providing financial incentives to childcare providers, in the circumstance that the state is denied the use of federal funds for this purpose.
* This bill amounts to the state or federal government (depending on the funding source) subsidizing childcare.
* Rather than seeking a government bailout, childcare employers should instead raise their rates and have the families who get the benefit of the childcare pay for the service. - Pro-libertySB 552permitting classification of individuals based on biological sex under certain limited circumstances.YEA OTP
Why
This bill allows for bathrooms, sports teams, and prisons to be separated by biological sex.
* A core pillar of liberty is the ability to do whatever you want, so long as what you are doing does not have an impact upon anyone else's liberty.
* The right to privacy and safety for those who present as their biological sex outweighs the interest of others who present differently from their biological sex to access the shared public spaces of their preference. As a result, it is a reasonable protection of liberty to allow for the use of shared public spaces to be separated on the basis of biological sex. - Anti-libertySB 554repealing the limitation of liability for certain design features of firearms.YEA ITL
Why
This bill repeals current law that protects firearm manufacturers from lawsuits related to the inclusion or noninclusion of certain features in guns.
* Firearm safety is the responsibility of the owner and operator.
* This bill is a thinly-veiled pathway to allowing litigation against manufacturers when a firearm is treated improperly.
12 bills with no position.
Thursday, February 19, 2026 · House · 19 positions
- Anti-libertyHB 1083requiring the disclosure of the source of certain political donations in state elections.YEA ITL
Why
This bill requires that independent expenditures of more than $50,000 in most cases require reporting the "original source" of the funds.
* Contribution disclosure requirements are already adequate in New Hampshire. This bill seeks to add another layer of complexity to campaign finance rules.
- Pro-libertyHB 1130relative to judicial performance evaluations.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill expands judicial performance reviews to apply broadly to all judges and judge-like public servants.
* This bill adds more transparency and accountability for the judiciary.
- Pro-libertyHB 1492(new title) relative to the regulation and appeal of motor vehicle towing from public highways and prohibiting the division of motor vehicles from suspending a license on the basis of debt owed to a private entity related to the towing or storing of a motor vehicle.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill requires invoices for towing services to prominently display the process to appeal the invoice. It also prevents a person's license from being suspended as a result of not paying the fees.
* It is improper to take someone's license away for inability to pay a debt.
* A driver's license should be taken away for excessive moving violations, as they prove one is not a safe driver. Failure to pay a debt is not a moving violation. - Pro-libertyHB 1499relative to additional grounds for eviction under the landlord and tenant statute.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill allows tenants to be evicted because they enter into a rental agreement using false identification or fail to disclose that they are an illegal alien, guilty of a serious crime, or a registered sex offender.
* Landlords should be able to terminate a tenancy without cause according to the terms of their rental agreement, so long as they are not discriminating against a protected class (age, race, gender, etc).
* This bill protects tenants who disclose their convictions in advance of signing a lease. - Anti-libertyHB 1557modifying the state average expenditure per pupil relative to students in special education.YEA ITL
Why
This bill lowers the threshold that triggers state payments to local school districts for special education students from 3.5 times the average student cost to 1.5 times the average student cost.
* This bill proposes to dramatically increase education funding without identifying a funding source. It is an unfunded mandate.
* New Hampshire had the <i>fourth-highest</i> growth rate in the nation in per-pupil public education spending from 2002-2023: it grew by 60.5% over that period. "Only the big, blue states of New York (75.8%), California (78.6%) and Illinois (62.5%) saw their public education expenditures rise at a faster rate":<br />– <a href=https://jbartlett.org/2025/11/nh-public-schools-post-nations-largest-enrollment-decline-and-4th-highest-per-pupil-spending-growth/>jbartlett.org/2025/11/nh-public-schools-post-nations-largest-enrollment-decline-and-4th-highest-per-pupil-spending-growth</a> - Anti-libertyHB 1627creating a single primary ballot.YEA ITL
Why
This bill creates a primary system where the top two candidates for each seat regardless of political party registration will make it to the general election.
* In practice, policies like these in other states have protected the two main political parties to the detriment of 3rd party and independent candidates.
* In places where a single party dominates, no other party's candidate will make it to the general election ballot at all.
* Proponents argue that the result of this system will be more moderate candidates. Historically, it has not had that effect. - Anti-libertyHB 1732relative to housing accessibility and voucher allocation in new multi-unit developments.YEA ITL
Why
This bill requires that virtually all new multifamily housing set aside 5 percent of their units for low-income housing. It also requires increased accessibility requirements.
* This proposal is the government telling a person what they are allowed to do with their private property.
* The cost to construct low-income units is not any cheaper than that of constructing market-rate units. In order to make up for the losses incurred on the low-income units, the developer must charge more for the market-rate units. This has the effect of exacerbating the housing crisis.
* Government should be getting out of the way of developers, not instituting more development requirements. - Pro-libertyHB 1758relative to school bus drivers' certificates.YEA OTP
Why
This bill allows bus drivers who are certified in Vermont to be considered certified in New Hampshire.
* This bill is a great example of removing an unnecessary regulatory burden. Unless the requirements to drive a bus vary significantly from New Hampshire to Vermont, a single license should be adequate for both states.
* Laws like this encourage bus drivers based in Vermont to move to New Hampshire. - Anti-libertyHB 1786relative to creating a state assessment on non-homestead luxury second homes to fund statewide housing development programs and address housing shortages and making appropriations therefor.Oppose
Why
This bill creates a new property tax on second homes of an additional 5% on their value over $1 million. It uses the funds for various tax credits for low-income housing, tuition assistance, trade programs, and other uses.
* This bill makes the false assumption that lack of funding is the reason houses aren't being built.
* Houses aren't being built because there are too many government rules that slow down or stop the process.
* Rather than institute a massive 5% tax on second homes to create trade labor programs, lawmakers should focus on allowing more projects to be approved and let developers find their own financing, which they are more than able and willing to do. - Anti-libertyHB 1791directing the department of education to establish a grant program at the post-secondary educational level for individuals with developmental disabilities, and making an appropriation therefor.YEA ITL
Why
This bill establishes a grant program for college-level programming for people with developmental disabilities.
* This program would be more appropriately-funded through the state's biennial budget process.
* The comments in the fiscal note state that a program of this type could not be accomplished with the money allocated, and would require either additional ongoing state funds, or funding from the sponsoring institution. - Pro-libertyHB 1792prohibiting school districts and personnel from the instruction of critical race theory and LGBTQ+ ideologies in schools as well as establishing a private right of action for violations.YEA OTP
Why
This bill would prevent indoctrination of public school students with ideas deemed too biased. Instead it requires neutral, fact-based teaching of all subjects.
* New Hampshire public schools have seen their curriculum move to the political left.
* This bill is a reset, which requires a neutral telling of world events and ideas, acknowledging ideas from the political left without claiming they are better than any other world views. - Anti-libertyHB 1799relative to required state funding for providing an opportunity for an adequate education.YEA ITL
Why
This is an omnibus bill that does many things. It increases the cost of an adequate education. It moves control of locally-collected education funds to the state. It establishes a study commission to explore new taxes to fund education.
* Education is already well-funded. The cost of an adequate education does not need refining.
* New Hampshire had the <i>fourth-highest</i> growth rate in the nation in per-pupil public education spending from 2002-2023: it grew by 60.5% over that period. "Only the big, blue states of New York (75.8%), California (78.6%) and Illinois (62.5%) saw their public education expenditures rise at a faster rate":<br />– <a href=https://jbartlett.org/2025/11/nh-public-schools-post-nations-largest-enrollment-decline-and-4th-highest-per-pupil-spending-growth/>jbartlett.org/2025/11/nh-public-schools-post-nations-largest-enrollment-decline-and-4th-highest-per-pupil-spending-growth</a>
* Moving control of SWEPT funds from local government to the state seeks to centralize control of education in the state government.
* The only way to pay for this increase in spending is through new taxes. New Hampshire voters want to see their taxes go down, not up. - Anti-libertyHB 1803rendering a recipient of an education tax credit scholarship ineligible to receive education freedom account funds in the same program year.YEA ITL
Why
This bill makes Education Freedom Account recipients ineligible to also receive an education tax credit.
* This bill seeks to punish those parents and students who make use of their school choice options and leave a public school.
- Pro-libertyHB 1811repealing statutory immunization requirements for children.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill makes vaccination for students attending schools or childcare centers optional instead of a mandate.
* Parents should be in charge of the medical decisions for their children, not the State of New Hampshire.
* By denying families access to basic public services like schools and childcare, the State is using its position of power to force compliance with vaccination rules.
* This change forces the state to use education, not intimidation, to promote vaccination. - Anti-libertyHB 1814establishing a 10-year strategic housing and infrastructure plan.YEA ITL
Why
This bill proposes a California-style centralized housing solution, where each town has a quota of homes to build.
* These types of regional housing needs assessments (aka "housing quotas") are in place in California.
* This is a top-down approach where the government forces growth where they want it.
* Property owners, not the government, should be making decisions about what type of use can be built on their property. Government should get out of the way. - Anti-libertyHB 1826relative to the cost of an opportunity for an adequate education.YEA ITL
Why
This bill increases the cost of an adequate education from $4,100 to $4,438 per student, with additional cost increases for low-income students and special education students.
* Education is already well-funded. The cost of an adequate education does not need refining.
* New Hampshire had the <i>fourth-highest</i> growth rate in the nation in per-pupil public education spending from 2002-2023: it grew by 60.5% over that period. "Only the big, blue states of New York (75.8%), California (78.6%) and Illinois (62.5%) saw their public education expenditures rise at a faster rate":<br />– <a href=https://jbartlett.org/2025/11/nh-public-schools-post-nations-largest-enrollment-decline-and-4th-highest-per-pupil-spending-growth/>jbartlett.org/2025/11/nh-public-schools-post-nations-largest-enrollment-decline-and-4th-highest-per-pupil-spending-growth</a> - Anti-libertyHB 1831repealing the education trust fund targeted aid cap.YEA ITL
Why
This bill removes the current targeted aid cap of $3,750 per pupil and allows for unlimited targeted aid.
* This bill seeks to remove a specific provision of the 2026-2027 budget.
* Targeted aid unfairly gives more dollars to large districts with more low-income students (in practice only Manchester). - Anti-libertyHB 1835relative to the formula for distribution of aid to school districts.YEA ITL
Why
This bill increases the cost to the state for special education to whatever a school district decides to spend and bill to the state.
* Districts need to align their expenses with the amount of money available, rather than demand unlimited money and expect the state to pay it. That is what budgets are for.
- Anti-libertyHB 1838establishing a voter-owned elections fund and commission and raising vehicle registration fees.YEA ITL
Why
This bill raises the fees for car registration to create public financing for elections.
* This is a tax increase, to which we are opposed.
* This bill proposes to spend these new taxes to fund political campaigns. Campaigns should be funded by private money, not with taxpayer dollars.
* This bill wants to take money without a person's consent, and then use it to send them political messaging they may not agree with. In the current system, at least the political ads are purchased with someone else's money.
22 bills with no position.
Thursday, February 19, 2026 · Senate · 11 positions
- Pro-libertyCACR 12relating to voting on broad-based taxes. Providing that a supermajority vote of the general court shall be required to enact any broad-bases taxes.YEA OTP
Why
This bill amends the NH Constitution to increase the vote threshold to raise taxes from a simple majority to two-thirds.
* In recent years, the State has been regularly lowering state taxes. Most recently, the Interest & Dividends Tax was eliminated.
* New Hampshire ranked #3 on the 2026 State Tax Competitiveness Index:<br />– <a href=https://taxfoundation.org/statetaxindex/>taxfoundation.org/statetaxindex</a>
* The New Hampshire Advantage is a direct result of efforts by elected officials to lower taxes.
* This bill ensures that New Hampshire will not easily slide backward into mediocrity and erode our economic advantage. - Pro-libertyHB 186relative to the legalization and regulation of cannabis and making appropriations therefor.NAY ITL
Why
This bill legalizes cannabis and regulates it similarly to alcohol.
* The private personal use of cannabis should be legal.
* This legalization would not only prevent innocent people from having their lives significantly impacted by minor possession arrests, but would also reduce the expense of the criminal justice system, allowing police and prosecutors to focus on serious crimes where innocent people have been victimized.
* NH is currently a backwater island regarding cannabis. All of the other New England states have legalized cannabis, with nearly all positive results.
* Cannabis is already legal in 24 states.
* President Trump just signed an executive order to reassign cannabis from a Schedule I to Schedule III controlled substance. - Pro-libertySB 430relative to mandatory disclosure by school district employees to parents.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill requires that schools shall not keep secrets from parents unless there is a warranted safety-based need to do so.
* The government should not be an instrument of keeping secrets from the legal parents or guardians of minor children unless there is a direct threat to the safety and well-being of the child.
* Those contingencies exist in this bill and are well-defined with a process to do so. Outside of those extenuating circumstances, the parent or guardian should have full knowledge and disclosure from the school about any circumstances pertaining to their child. - Pro-libertySB 434relative to regulation of public school materials.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill requires school districts to publicly post what materials they intend to use with students. It also creates a process to appeal if a parent thinks materials are not age-appropriate.
* This bill requires a response to parent complaints within 25 days.
* Justice delayed is justice denied. A common ridicule of government is how slow it can be to respond to the needs of its constituents.
* Whether or not a parent receives the desired outcome, they can at least count on the school superintendent to give them a timely answer. - Anti-libertySB 467relative to the penalty for certain fentanyl-related offenses and establishing a mandatory minimum sentence for the crime of distribution of a controlled drug with death resulting.NAY OTP
Why
This bill creates a minimum sentence of 3.5 years for possession of 20 grams or more of fentanyl. It makes the minimum sentence 7 years for 50 grams of fentanyl.
*The War on Drugs has been an abject failure. It has been a tremendous waste of resources, costing trillions of dollars, and has severely eroded the civil liberties of everyone, including non-drug users/dealers.
*Mandatory minimums are destructive because they do not permit judges to have flexible sentencing when the circumstances necessitate it.
*Every case is different, and legislating a one-size-fits-all on an issue as complex as drug use is a recipe for disaster, as the last 50 years have demonstrated. - Pro-libertySB 479allowing alternative treatment centers to operate for profit.NAY ITL
Why
This bill allows nonprofit medical cannabis centers to convert to for-profit businesses.
* Capitalism is a good thing. It has allowed the United States economy to become the envy of the world. Capitalism creates competition, which encourages companies to provide higher-quality products at better prices. The consumers win when there is a competitive marketplace.
* This bill allows alternative treatment centers to operate either as nonprofits or as for-profit businesses. No one is forced to make any change if they like their current operation. - Anti-libertySB 488enabling the governor to declare a state of emergency due to the failure of the legislature to pass a budget or continuing resolution to fund the New Hampshire state government by July 1 of the first year of a biennium.NAY OTP
Why
This bill allows the governor to continue funding the government if a budget is not passed on time.
* One reason that the various parties involved in the most recent biennial budget came to a compromise was the threat of an alternative state budget that was 10 percent lower than the current budget.
* This bill takes the teeth out of the July 1st deadline. All negotiating parties know that this deadline can be extended. It kicks the can down the road and encourages parties to dig their heels in rather than compromise. - Anti-libertySB 532increasing the requirements of the education freedom savings account oversight committee and modifying the purpose of the committee.YEA ITL
Why
This bill changes the role of the Education Freedom Savings Account Oversight Committee to give it oversight over EFA student data, eligibility requirements, and expenditures.
* This is a thinly-veiled attempt to add new regulation to the Education Freedom Accounts program.
* The EFA program is both very popular and widely considered a success. Additional regulation is not needed.
* The state spends significantly more money per student on traditional public schools. Those schools themselves are in more need of additional oversight and regulation than the EFA program. - Anti-libertySB 554repealing the limitation of liability for certain design features of firearms.YEA ITL
Why
This bill repeals current law that protects firearm manufacturers from lawsuits related to the inclusion or noninclusion of certain features in guns.
* Firearm safety is the responsibility of the owner and operator.
* This bill is a thinly-veiled pathway to allowing litigation against manufacturers when a firearm is treated improperly. - Anti-libertySB 576adds definitions and reporting requirements relative to education freedom accounts.YEA ITL
Why
This bill adds new reporting requirements for the Education Freedom Account Program.
* The EFA program is both very popular and widely considered a success. Additional regulation is not needed.
* The state spends significantly more money per student on traditional public schools. Those schools themselves are in more need of additional oversight and regulation than the EFA program. - Anti-libertySB 601relative to the allocation and disbursement of state contributions for non-state employer pension costs under the New Hampshire retirement system.YEA ITL
Why
This bill requires the state to pay 7.5 percent of the pension costs for employees who do not work for the state.
* This bill is the state sending more money to counties and towns to pay for pensions.
* Counties and towns are currently paying 100% of these pensions, as they should.
* All this bill will do is make a direct payment from the state to counties and towns with no strings attached, as money currently used to pay pensions would become unallocated funds.
* Prior state budgets have shown that when the state provides additional funds to towns, they still raise property taxes, so local taxpayers see no benefit from these direct payments.
14 bills with no position.
Thursday, February 12, 2026 · House · 22 positions
- Pro-libertyHB 1002repealing the solar energy systems tax exemption.YEA OTP
Why
This bill eliminates the tax credit for installing solar panels.
* Tax credits use government money to incentivize behavior. This is the government picking a preferred energy source.
* If a property owner thinks solar energy installations are a good idea, they should be willing to make the investment. - Pro-libertyHB 1176relative to the display of license plates on vehicles.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill removes the requirement that a motor vehicle display a front license plate.
*The front plate on a vehicle is redundant as the rear one is the one used by law enforcement, people on the road, and people looking at parked cars to identify vehicles.
*This bill will remove an unnecessary redundancy for drivers.
*Many other states already do this with little issue. - Pro-libertyHB 1323relative to parental alienation.YEA OTP
Why
This bill creates a motion to the court alleging parental alienation in the event it is believed one parent is materially interfering with the parental rights of the other.
This is a foundational parental rights issue creating a clear legal avenue to defend parental rights through court.
- Anti-libertyHB 1409modifying the deposit of revenues collected from video lottery terminals.YEA ITL
Why
This bill moves about $90 million in lottery revenue from the General Fund to the Education Trust Fund.
* Our schools are already highly funded. "Between 2001-2019, public schools in New Hampshire increased their total expenditures per student on an inflation-adjusted basis by 66.8 percent, from $11,336 in 2001 to $18,905 in 2019." (https://jbartlett.org/2025/01/higher-spending-lower-results-why-more-money-doesnt-equal-better-schools/).
* Higher spending doesn't create better education outcomes. During that same period, spending went up 66.8%, but student outcomes got worse. - Pro-libertyHB 1421modifying title exemptions for motor vehicles manufactured before the year 2000.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill, with the proposed committee amendment, exempts vehicles more than 20 years old from the requirement to obtain a certificate of title.
* Vehicles manufactured before 2000 currently need a title in order to sell, register, or reassign as property. The fee to retitling a vehicle at point of sale is both an expense to the owner or buyer and a time-consuming process to get retitled and get the title sent.
* This bill makes it easier to sell or scrap old vehicles, removes obstacles for transferring abandoned vehicles, and is favorable for collectors, younger, or less financially established people to purchase or trade vehicles within the state without a bureaucratic layer costing both money and time in a transaction between two entities that does not involve the government. - Pro-libertyHB 1460prohibiting the sale of location and other sensitive data regarding children.YEA OTP
Why
This bill makes it illegal to sell children's sensitive data regardless of knowledge or consent.
* This bill protects the privacy and welfare of children.
* While it does say that a parental consent or knowledge may override it, for reasons of safety, it is prudent to exercise restriction in the protection of children from being used in information sales for profit for any entity.
* This clears up ambiguous language about consent while protecting privacy. - Pro-libertyHB 1505requiring municipalities, towns, and cities to submit documentation to the department of revenue administration proving they are in compliance with local budget and tax caps.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill requires local governments to submit documentation proving that they are properly implementing local budget and tax caps. It clarifies language concerning "appropriations already raised".
* Most local governments are probably making good faith efforts to follow the law, but well-meaning local officials can still apply the law incorrectly.
* This bill provides additional guidance on how to make sure local governments are following the law. - Anti-libertyHB 1530requiring notification of abutters and public review prior to disturbing beaver dams in non-emergency situations.YEA ITL
Why
This bill requires notification of a local government and a public meeting before beaver dams may be removed.
* Private property owners should be able to do what they want with their property without government intervention.
- Pro-libertyHB 1542relative to renewable energy fund compliance payments.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill eliminates the renewable energy fund compliance payments.
* The net effect of this reduction will be a refund in costs for ratepayers.
* The money that is collected from these fees supports the renewable energy fund, which provides grants to support solar energy projects. If these projects are of a value to commnities, they will fund them without state grants ostensibly provided by electricity providers. - Anti-libertyHB 1570relative to governmental budget authority for agreements for law enforcement agencies to participate in federal immigration enforcement.YEA ITL
Why
This bill requires local government budgeting authorities to approve their law enforcement agency entering into an agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
* Setting aside the issue of immigration, this bill requires a local budget committee to approve a contract entered into by their police department.
* Town and City Budget Committees and Boards of Selectmen or Aldermen already set their police department budget (as well as all other town/city departments). Discretion to enter into a variety of agreements is appropriately delegated to law enforcement leadership.
* This amounts to micromanagement. If towns are unhappy with the decisions made by their police chief, their local leadership can replace them. - Anti-libertyHB 1580relative to the taxation of non-primary residences.YEA ITL
Why
This bill creates a tax on any residence that is not a primary residence. This also increases bureaucracy on municipal governments.
* Property taxes in New Hampshire are already among the highest in the nation. This bill would increase them by another $75 per $1000 of assessed value on homes over $500,000 in value.
* The General Court in 2025 passed a record number of housing-related bills to address challenges with home affordability. This bill is a step backward in the progress made in the last year. - Pro-libertyHB 1584directing the department of health and human services to provide notice of medical and religious exemptions from immunization requirements and relative to the form of such exemption.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to provide notice of the option to request a medical or religious exemption from immunization requirements. It requires appropriate displinary action for state employees who distribute marketing materials about vaccines.
* State employees have a duty of loyalty to the agency by whom they are employed.
* If they will not support policies of the agency for whom they work, they should seek new employment.
**This bill will help to inform parents of their medical and religous rights under RSA 141-C and will reduce coercion by the Department of Health and Human Services. - Anti-libertyHB 1596relative to the collection of certain health care program premiums; funding for the university system of New Hampshire; and raising the tobacco tax.YEA ITL
Why
This bill increases the tobacco tax from $1.78 to $2.80 per pack.
* In addition to raising this tax, the bill also appropriates $18 million per year to the University of New Hampshire and massively increases spending on certain public health insurance programs. These types of large tax increases and large funding allocations are better suited for the biennial budget cycle, not in a piecemeal bill.
- Anti-libertyHB 1642relative to extreme risk protection orders.YEA ITL
Why
This bill allows for orders to take away a person's firearms.
* This bill is a red flag law. It wants to take away a person's lawfully-owned firearms based upon the assumption they might be used in a crime in the future. No crime has been committed, but the government wants to take away this person's firearms anyway.
- Anti-libertyHB 1655establishing a funding source for maintaining state owned dams.NAY OTP/A
Why
This bill is a tax on properties adjacent to a body of water created by a state-owned dam.
* Dams are public resources created for a public benefit, which is to provide a stable and reliable water supply.
* Funds to maintain public infrastructure should be allocated in the biennial budget, not through a targeted tax on certain property owners. - Anti-libertyHB 1678requiring the secretary of state to accept voter registration forms directly from voters and to create an online portal for direct voter registration.YEA ITL
Why
This bill requires the Secretary of State to accept voter registrations and forward them to local towns. It requires the creation of an online voter registration process.
* The Secretary of State just passes the registration along to the local town. It seems wasteful and unneccessary when one can register in their town in the first place.
* Online voter registration increases the opportunity for voter fraud, as documentation demonstrating proof of identity, age, citizenship, and domicile cannot be property verified online. - Anti-libertyHB 1701reestablishing the New Hampshire college graduate retention incentive partnership program and making an appropriation therefor.YEA ITL
Why
This bill brings back the New Hampshire college graduate retention incentive partnership (NH GRIP).
* Paying hiring incentives to hire these employees creates a system where the state government is picking winners and losers.
* If these college graduates are high-value employment candidates, the government should not need to pay employers to hire them. - Anti-libertyHB 1715relative to the electronic filing of domestic violence and stalking petition case documents.YEA ITL
Why
This bill requires filings in cases concerning domestic violence and stalking petitions to be filed electronically. The court can grant an exception in extraordinary circumstances.
* The Judicial Branch states this bill will require the development of a purpose-built, secure electronic filing portal for protection order cases, because the temporary COVID-19 email-based filing process cannot be used permanently.
* The one-time cost to build the portal will range from $1,600,000 to $3,200,000 in FY 2027, with ongoing system operating costs of $300,000 to $700,000 in General Fund expenditures.
* This bill does not appropriate funds for the new online portal, and the Branch states they cannot absorb the costs into their operating budget.
* If this new system is genuinely needed, it should have been requested in the biennial state budget, rather than as a piecemeal allocation request for $3.2 million. - Anti-libertyHB 1716relative to the academic accountability of education freedom accounts.YEA ITL
Why
This bill requires EFA students to report results of a yearly standardized test or portfolio to the Department of Education.
* This bill imposes limits the current options available to evaluate Education Freedom Account recipients.
* This bill mandates that the Department of Education create a state standard for how students are to be evaluated. - Pro-libertyHB 1719removing Hepatitis B from the list of diseases for which immunization is required under state law.YEA OTP
Why
This bill removes the mandate for parents to vaccinate their children against Hepatitis B.
* Parents, not the government, should be in charge of the health decisions of their children.
- Anti-libertyHB 1798relative to the coverage of diapers under the state Medicaid plan.YEA ITL
Why
This bill directs the department of Health and Human Services to submit a demonstration waiver to CMS to provide Medicaid coverage for diapers for the first year of an infant's life.
* Medicaid is a government program that provides health insurance for adults and children with limited income and resources.
* Diapers are not medical care and should not be covered under Medicaid. - Anti-libertyHB 1810relative to a road salt fee to support certified winter road maintenance practices.YEA ITL
Why
This bill adds a $4 per ton fee to the purchase of road salt to subsidize the Green Snow Pro program.
* The money generated from this fee will be used to hire an administrator of the Green Snow Pro program and to provide grants to local governments to also adminster the program.
* Rather than a dedicated fee, this funding can be added to the biennial budget, if desired by the General Court.
12 bills with no position.
Thursday, February 5, 2026 · House
NHLA’s recommendations for this session are published.
Thursday, February 5, 2026 · Senate · 8 positions
- Anti-libertySB 463relative to possession of firearms in safe school zones.YEA ITL
Why
This bill prohibits carrying a firearm in a "safe school" zone.
*Making a place a "gun-free" zone doesn't make it safer. 92% of all mass shootings occur in gun-free zones: <br />– <a href=https://crimeresearch.org/2018/06/more-misleading-information-from-bloombergs-everytown-for-gun-safety-on-guns-analysis-of-recent-mass-shootings/>crimeresearch.org/2018/06/more-misleading-information-from-bloombergs-everytown-for-gun-safety-on-guns-analysis-of-recent-mass-shootings</a>
*Instituting this law makes law-abiding parents, voters, and teachers less safe by requiring that they are unarmed while on school property.
*This measure embodies safety theater: it makes people feel "safe" while actually making situations more dangerous. - Pro-libertySB 479allowing alternative treatment centers to operate for profit.NAY ITL
Why
This bill allows nonprofit medical cannabis centers to convert to for-profit businesses.
* Capitalism is a good thing. It has allowed the United States economy to become the envy of the world. Capitalism creates competition, which encourages companies to provide higher-quality products at better prices. The consumers win when there is a competitive marketplace.
* This bill allows alternative treatment centers to operate either as nonprofits or as for-profit businesses. No one is forced to make any change if they like their current operation. - Anti-libertySB 555relative to critical risk protection orders.YEA ITL
Why
This bill allows for orders to take away a person's firearms.
* This bill is a red flag law. It wants to take away a person's lawfully-owned firearms based upon the assumption they might be used in a crime in the future. No crime has been committed, but the government wants to take away this person's firearms anyway.
- Anti-libertySB 559reducing the minimum allowable speed limit on locally controlled roads.NAY OTP/A
Why
This bill changes the lowest speed limit that a local jurisdiction can mandate for a road. It changes it from 25 MPH to 20 MPH.
* In the name of safety, this bill reduces liberty by telling drivers on certain roads how fast they are allowed to drive.
* It's unclear whether or not this will have any real impact to make roads safer.
* In practice it will give law enforcement new reasons to pull a person over, who despite going 21 MPH is otherwise driving safely. - Anti-libertySB 582modifying the base cost of an adequate education.YEA ITL
Why
This bill increases the per-pupil base cost of an "adequate education" from $4,100 to $7,356.01. It also requires this number to be adjusted every two years.
* This bill amounts to hundreds of millions of dollars in additional taxpayer money being spent. This is a dramatic tax increase for all New Hampshire taxpayers.
* The added criteria justifying the costs have almost nothing to do with education. - Anti-libertySB 584increasing the amount of funding provided for students receiving special education services.YEA ITL
Why
This bill increases the amount of funding provided for students receiving special education services. It increases the current spending from $8,500 to $22,400 per SPED student.
* There is no fiscal note attached to the bill, but since there are an estimated 31,469 special education students (2023/24) in New Hampshire, the increase of $13,900 per student results in a total taxpayer increase of $437,419,100 per year.
* This additional spending is a 164% increase. - Anti-libertySB 627relative to toll rate adjustments, E-Z Pass customer discounts, and the acquisition and improvement of portions of Interstate Route 93 to support the New Hampshire turnpike system and the 2027-2036 ten year transportation plan.NAY OTP/A
Why
This bill increases the tolls on several toll roads for drivers not using a New Hampshire E-Z Pass. It also increases future tolls by the rate of inflation.
* Some will argue that tolls are a user fee to use the roads. In reality, people who have to commute to work probably have no other option than to travel through these tolls. It is a tax because commuters are forced to pay them.
* New Hampshire ranks #3 in the nation for State Tax Competitiveness in the Tax Foundation's 2026 Index (<a href=https://taxfoundation.org/statetaxindex/states/new-hampshire/>taxfoundation.org/statetaxindex/states/new-hampshire</a>). Adding new taxes would hurt our reputation as a live free or die state and erode the New Hampshire Advantage.
* Governor Ayotte has already declared that she will 100% veto this bill. - Pro-libertySB 651relative to the legalization and regulation of cannabis and making appropriations therefor.NAY ITL
Why
This bill legalizes cannabis for recreational use for those 21 and older and regulates it similarly to alcohol.
* The private personal use of cannabis is a victimless crime and should be legal.
* This legalization would not only prevent innocent people from having their lives significantly impacted by minor possession arrests, but would also reduce the expense of the criminal justice system, allowing police and prosecutors to focus on serious crimes where innocent people have been victimized.
* President Trump just signed an executive order to reassign cannabis from a Schedule I to Schedule III controlled substance.
6 bills with no position.
Thursday, January 29, 2026 · Senate · 4 positions
- Pro-libertySB 101authorizing parents to enroll their children in any public school in the state.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill allows parents to send their children to public schools outside of their resident district.
This bill gives parents and students the flexibility to select schools that best match their needs, such as those with stronger academic programs, safer environments, or extracurricular activities, rather than being limited by geographic boundaries. This can lead to higher student engagement and satisfaction.
By allowing students to "vote with their feet", open enrollment encourages underperforming schools to innovate and elevate their standards to attract and retain enrollment, creating a more dynamic public education system overall.
This bill provides opportunities for students from low-income or under-resourced neighborhoods to access higher-quality schools in other districts, helping to level the playing field. - Anti-libertySB 406making an appropriation to the city of Nashua for the purpose of purchasing the former Daniel Webster College property.YEA ITL
Why
This bill allocates $20 million to the City of Nashua for the purchase of the former Daniel Webster College property.
* This bill allocates $20 million to the city of Nashua to purchase property that has been held by a foreign owner for more than 7 years without incident.
* If there is market demand for private ownership of the tract, then the city should work to clear roadblocks to private development that would enable a market-based sale of the property directly to a private owner. - Pro-libertySB 418prohibiting municipalities from requiring licenses for the production and sale of homestead food products.YEA OTP
Why
This bill prohibits local governments from creating stricter regulations for homestead food operations than the state requirements.
*This bill prevents additional government overreach of homestead food sales already deemed safe by NH state standards.
*This bill encourages small entrepreneurs to build their homestead food business out of their home safely, following already-existing laws and regulations without the threat of local municipalities deciding which small businesses to shut down. - Anti-libertySB 634enabling municipalities to adopt a municipal occupancy fee.YEA ITL
Why
This bill allows local governments to add a $2/night surcharge to the rooms tax.
*This bill increases the fees to overnight guests in NH by allowing towns to add an additional fee on top of the already-high Meals and Rooms tax.
*When NH is seeing fewer Canadian tourists due to political tensions, now is not the time to increase fees to tourists visiting NH.
*Taxing tourists for the purpose of advertising tourism is self-defeating. NH can take a lesson from what happens in other areas (such as Las Vegas) when fees become too high.
10 bills with no position.
Wednesday, January 7, 2026 · House · 32 positions
- Pro-libertyCACR 4relating to voting eligibility. Providing that only legal resident citizens who are at least 18 years of age or older who reside in the place they claim as a domicile shall be eligible voters.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill requires that someone has a bonafide domicile in New Hampshire to vote.
* It's reasonable to expect people to live where they vote.
- Pro-libertyHB 104relative to requiring an official declaration of war for the activation of the New Hampshire national guard in a foreign state.NAY ITL
Why
This bill requires an official declaration of war for the activation of the New Hampshire national guard in a foreign state. This bill is known as the 'Defend the Guard Act'.
* This is an NHLA priority bill and will be highly weighted.
* The purpose of the National Guard is the defense of our nation. They are probably not defending our nation very well if they are deployed abroad. Other branches of the military exist for that purpose.
* Congress has failed to declare war since World War 2, yet we have sent our military into conflicts around the world. Requiring a declaration of war is a constitutional check on the powers of the Executive Branch of the US Government.
* Passing the Defend the Guard act will serve as a check on executive overeach at the federal level. - Pro-libertyHB 121relative to school district financial requirements and district probation processes.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill allows a local government to hire a CPA to audit their previous year's finances. It allows public schools to be put on probation when they fail to meet fiscal management standards
* In the wake of the Claremont School District losing $5 million dollars and now needing a bailout, it is clear that additional oversight of local schools and districts is necessary.
* School districts are not immune to negligence or corruption. Reasonable safeguards should be put into place. - Pro-libertyHB 155reducing the rate of the business enterprise tax.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill lowers the business enterprise tax from 0.55% to 0.50%.
* Lowering the business enterprise tax is a great step toward maintaining the New Hampshire advantage and attracting industry to our state.
- Pro-libertyHB 173relative to maintaining the purpose of a petitioned warrant article.YEA OTP
Why
This bill prevents warrant articles from being amended to change their purpose.
* Under the current process, special interest groups can (and do) hijack petitioned warrant articles at the Deliberative Session.
* A special interest group, which can attract a majority of supporters at the Deliberative Session, should not be allowed to overrule the right of the people to petition the government by changing the original purpose of the petitioned warrant article. - Pro-libertyHB 186relative to the legalization and regulation of cannabis and making appropriations therefor.YEA OTP
Why
This bill legalizes cannabis and regulates it similarly to alcohol.
* The private personal use of cannabis should be legal.
* This legalization would not only prevent innocent people from having their lives significantly impacted by minor possession arrests, but would also reduce the expense of the criminal justice system, allowing police and prosecutors to focus on serious crimes where innocent people have been victimized.
* President Trump just signed an executive order to reassign cannabis from a Schedule I to Schedule III controlled substance. - Anti-libertyHB 197relative to payment by the state of a portion of retirement system contributions of political subdivision employers.YEA ITL
Why
This bill requires the state to pay for 7.5% of the pension obligations of local governments.
* Unions have collective bargaining agreements with their local government, not with the state. This payment is the state paying for the pensions of those whom they do not employ.
* If this payment were enacted, it would be reasonable for the state to now be required to approve all local collective bargaining agreements, because they would then be a party to them. - Anti-libertyHB 295making school building aid program funds nonlapsing.YEA ITL
Why
This bill prevents the state from receiving back unused school building aid program funds by deeming them nonlapsing.
* Unspent funds should be returned to the state and reallocated.
* If unspent funds are no longer needed for the specified purpose, they can be allocated for a better purpose. - Pro-libertyHB 314prohibiting the use of federal, state, or local funds for lobbying activities.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill requires local approval through the warrant article process to spend taxpayer money on lobbying activities.
* It is a reasonable safeguard of public funds to require voters' approval if those funds will be used for lobbying efforts.
* Many taxpayers probably would object to their city or town using their tax dollars for lobbying on one particular issue or another. - Pro-libertyHB 317preventing a supervisor of the checklist from verifying a person's identity without identification, even if they personally know that person.YEA OTP
Why
This bill requires that every voter's identification is checked, even if the voter is personally known to the supervisor of the checklist.
* A valid government identification is required for so many everyday aspects of our life. There is no good reason that it should also not be required to vote.
- Pro-libertyHB 323requiring the presentation of a government-issued photographic means of identification in order to vote.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill removes college identification from the approved list of valid photo identification in order to obtain a ballot.
* A valid government identification is required for so many everyday aspects of our life. There is no good reason that it should also not be required to vote.
- Pro-libertyHB 360prohibiting public schools from performing surgical procedures or prescribing pharmaceutical drugs.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill prevents any school physician or nurse, or other health care provider employed or contracted by a school district, to perform surgical procedures or prescribe pharmaceutical drugs on school grounds.
* It would be more appropriate to simply have the parent take their child to their family doctor or the hospital for either of these purposes.
- Pro-libertyHB 365relative to proof of United States citizenship for indigent voters.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill provides vouchers for indigent voters who cannot prove that they are United States citizens for the purpose of registering to vote.
* Ensuring free and fair elections is important to our democracy. To that end, all voters should be able to prove that they are United States citizens in order to register to vote.
* This bill allows the poorest among us to get state assistance, including financial assistance, to obtain the documents necessary to prove they are legally allowed to vote. - Pro-libertyHB 366modifying the priority of applications for school building aid grants.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill changes the priority of building aid applications from how old the application is to one that prioritizes the best use of funds.
* Removing arbitrary restrictions to the assessment of building aid applications will allow dollars to go where they are needed most.
* Projects that have been waiting longer are not always the most important ones. - Pro-libertyHB 392directing the dissolution of the department of health and human services' office of health equity, department of environmental services' functions for civil rights and environmental justice, and the governor's council on diversity and inclusion.YEA OTP
Why
This bill eliminates Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs in state executive agencies.
* Decisions about how to best use state resources should be made based upon what is best for New Hampshire and its residents, and should not be used to promote a particular political ideology.
- Pro-libertyHB 463relative to the composition of the board of recount in elections for the select board and for the school board.YEA OTP
Why
This bill prevents a candidate for local office from supervising their own recount.
* It is a blatant conflict of interest to supervise your own recount.
- Pro-libertyHB 510relative to establishing certain due process rights for students, student organizations, and faculty members facing disciplinary actions by state institutions of higher learning.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill establishes for students, student organizations, and faculty members of publicly funded New Hampshire colleges and universities the right to certain due process protections when disciplinary proceedings are brought against them by such institutions.
* In recent years, colleges have transformed from beacons of free speech to institutions of thought conformity.
* This bill will provide protections for outspoken students or faculty members. It ensures that if they are accused of violating a campus policy that they are presumed innocent, allowed to provide a defense, can have legal representation, and can appeal decisions. - Pro-libertyHB 609relative to the general court's authority over the sale, purchase, ownership, use, possession, transportation, licensing, permitting, taxation, and other matter pertaining to firearms, stun guns, Tasers, pepper spray devices, knives and other self-defense tools.YEA OTP
Why
This bill clarifies that only the General Court and not state agencies have the authority to regulate firearms and other self-defense tools.
* The current definition of the "state" regulating these items has allowed state agencies to declare authority to regulate them.
* This bill clarifies that unelected bureaucrats do not get to write gun laws. - Anti-libertyHB 648relative to insurance coverage for glucose monitoring.YEA IS
Why
This bill would mandate coverage for glucose testing and not require a doctor's prescription.
* We would prefer this bill was found Inexpedient to Legislate.
* This bill will increase insurance premiums for everyone.
* The bill would require coverage for continuous glucose monitoring devices even in cases where a doctor has not found it medically necessary, incentivising individuals to get the devices and consumables 'just in case' but then not actually using them. - Anti-libertyHB 651modifying the base cost and differential aid costs of an adequate education.YEA ITL
Why
This bill increases the base cost and differential aid costs of adequacy grants substantially. It also micromanages how schools are required spend their money, including some items that some schools don't even need.
* Our schools are already highly funded. "Between 2001-2019, public schools in New Hampshire increased their total expenditures per student on an inflation-adjusted basis by 66.8 percent, from $11,336 in 2001 to $18,905 in 2019." (https://jbartlett.org/2025/01/higher-spending-lower-results-why-more-money-doesnt-equal-better-schools/).
* Higher spending doesn't create better education outcomes. During that same period, spending went up 66.8%, but student outcomes got worse. - Pro-libertyHB 656relative to the authority of local school districts to accept federal grants.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill requires additional transparency measures in order for school districts to accept federal grants.
* The public has a right to know if money accepted has strings attached. Often the federal government gives out grants as a way to encourage a certain behavior.
* School board members and the public will be better informed of the obligations created by certain federal grants. - Anti-libertyHB 665relative to eligibility for free school meals.YEA ITL
Why
This bill increases the eligibility for free school meals to those families who earn up to 300% of the federal poverty line.
* A family of 4 earning $96,450 per year would now get free lunches, which they can easily afford without government assistance.
* This bill also eliminates reduced lunches. All lunches offered would be free ones. This is a large expansion of the program.
* Parents should be feeding their children, not the government. - Pro-libertyHB 675(New Title) limiting the authority of school districts to make certain appropriations.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill would limit school district budget increases to inflation only until 2028. It could be overridden by a 2/3 vote of a local legislative body.
* Our schools are already highly funded. "Between 2001-2019, public schools in New Hampshire increased their total expenditures per student on an inflation-adjusted basis by 66.8 percent, from $11,336 in 2001 to $18,905 in 2019." (https://jbartlett.org/2025/01/higher-spending-lower-results-why-more-money-doesnt-equal-better-schools/).
* Higher spending doesn't create better education outcomes. During that same period, spending went up 66.8%, but student outcomes got worse.
* The bill includes the ability to override the cap with a 2/3 vote. - Pro-libertyHB 686relative to electioneering by certain public employees.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill creates a civil penalty if a public employee engages in electioneering while serving in their official public role.
* Public employees are entrusted with community resources and are paid by the taxpayers. It is a betrayal of trust to use their public position to influence elections.
- Pro-libertyHB 709allowing parents or guardians to admit their children into any school district where they pay any property or school district taxes.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill allows students into any school district where their family pays property taxes.
* Adam Smith said <i>"In general, if any branch of trade, or any division of labour, be advantageous to the public, the freer and more general the competition, it will always be the more so." </i> There are few endeavors where competition is more stifled than public education, where the state seizes money and then provides a mandated venue where that money will be spent — eliminating any market pressures for schools to improve. The school choice enabled by this bill allows parents to look at the education services provided by each school in the district and determine which one provides an education which will work best for their children.
* When schools have to compete with each other to keep students in their doors, they are incentivized to provide the highest quality education for students. - Pro-libertySB 134relative to work requirements under the state Medicaid program.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill adds work requires for Medicaid, increases the documentation required, and requires quarterly re-verification.
* It is a reasonable expectation for a person recieving free medical care from the government to have a job.
* Such requirements are neccessary to prevent fraud in the system. - Anti-libertySB 15relative to incorporating hard labor as a sentencing option for capital murder and serious sexual assaults on children, defining hard labor, establishing medical exemptions and penalties for abuse thereof, providing alternative punitive measures for legitimate medical exemptions, and authorizing jury determination of hard labor in qualifying cases.NAY OTP/A
Why
The bill, with the proposed committtee amendment, allows juries to punish criminals with hard labor for the crimes of capital murder and felonious sexual assault on a child under 13.
* Hard labor is cruel and unusual punishment and should be unconstitutional.
- Anti-libertySB 204relative to the responsibility of local school districts to provide meals to students during school hours, reimbursing schools for meals provided to students at no cost, and making an appropriation therefor.YEA ITL
Why
This bill allows school districts to vote to approve an increase in their school lunch eligibility to 200% of the federal poverty line.
* Enabling the school district to enact this program doesn't make it more palatable.
* A family of 4 earning $64,300 per year would now get free lunches, which they can easily afford without government assistance.
* Parents should be feeding their children, not the government. - Pro-libertySB 268permitting classification of individuals based on biological sex under certain limited circumstances.YEA OTP
Why
This bill permits classification of individuals based on biological sex in lavatory facilities and locker rooms, sporting competitions, and detention facilities.
* A core pillar of liberty is the ability to do whatever you want, so long as what you are doing does not have an impact upon anyone else's liberty.
* The right to privacy and safety for those who present as their biological sex outweighs the interest of others who present differently from their biological sex to access the shared public spaces of their preference. As a result, it is a reasonable protection of liberty to allow for the use of shared public spaces to be separated on the basis of biological sex. - Pro-libertySB 27relative to dwellings over water.YEA OTP
Why
Dwellings that extend over water are currently subject to onerous impediments to rework. This bill will slightly ease those impediments.
* This legislation takes a positive step by easing unnecessary state control over private property, specifically for owners of dwellings over water who would then have more freedom to repair and improve their structures without excessive bureaucratic hurdles. Such measures respect the fundamental right of individuals to manage their own assets as they see fit.
* By removing the mandate for a net reduction in facilities for environmental improvements, the bill acknowledges that property owners can be trusted to balance their needs with environmental concerns. This trust in individual decision-making over centralized mandates echoes the belief in personal autonomy and responsibility. - Pro-libertySB 33relative to the regulation of public school materials.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill requires school districts to have a process to review complaints about inappropriate books in their schools.
* With this bill, parents will have a transparent process to file a grievance if material they believe is offensive or inappropriate for their children is in a school.
* This bill empowers school boards to have the final say on these grievances, rather than unelected school employees. - Pro-libertySB 34relative to parental consent for student participation in Medicaid to schools program.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill requires parental consent before a student in a school may receive medical or dental treatment from Medicaid.
* Parents should make healthcare decisions for their children, not educators or administrators.
32 bills with no position.
Wednesday, January 7, 2026 · Senate · 4 positions
- Pro-libertyHB 340relative to electioneering by public employees.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill forbids electioneering by public employees and adds an additional clarification about what is and is not electioneering.
* This bill protects voters from improper influence by public employees.
* It also prohibits the usage of public time, facilities, and equipment to promote particular candidates and issues.
* The bill does not prohibit personal and private behavior or expressions of free speech when not acting in a public capacity. - Anti-libertyHB 451establishing the paint product stewardship program.NAY OTP
Why
This bill establishes a new program that requires paint manufacturers to accept paint for recycling purposes. It adds a fee on the cost of paint to pay for recycling.
* This bill is the government legislating "good behavior". If manufacturers and retailers wanted to be in the paint recycling business, they already would be. Some of them are.
* The cost of recycling paint should already be included in the overall cost of the paint or charged when the paint is recycled. This fee is basically a new sales tax on paint.
* This bill also requires plans for paint recycling to be submitted to the state. This is unnecessary oversight. - Pro-libertyHB 723repealing the multi-use energy data platform.YEA OTP
Why
This bill repeals a 2019 law requiring the creation of the state energy data platform.
* The law to create this platform was passed in 2019. In the past 6 years, the Public Utilities Commission has not built it.
* Most, if not all energy providers already offer some or all of this information to their customers. - Pro-libertySB 88prohibiting state government entities from including specified terms related to labor organization agreements in construction related contracts and grants.YEA OTP/A
Why
This bill prohibits government entities from requiring contractors to use, or not to use, union labor, or discriminating against or in favor of them on that basis.
* This bill may reduce government spending because it prohibits government entities from discriminating in favor of contractors on the basis that they use union labor.
* It also prohibits them from discriminating against contractors on that basis, making the legislation even-handed.
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