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IntroducedJan 09, 2025
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Passed SenateMar 20, 2025
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Passed HouseMay 22, 2025
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Signed into Law
Title: prohibiting planning boards from considering the number of bedrooms a given unit or development has during the hearing and approval process.
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House • May 22, 2025: Lay SB174 on Table (Rep. Alexander Jr.): MA DV 239-120 05/22/2025 HJ 15
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Votes
YES: 176
- Aldrich, Glen
- Alexander, Joe
- Almy, Susan
- Ames, Dick
- Aron, Michael
- Bailey, Glenn
- Baldwin, Heather
- Barton, Joseph
- Bay, Luz
- Beauchemin, Paige
- Beaulier, Calvin
- Berezhny, Lex
- Bergeron, Dan
- Berry, Ross
- Bixby, Peter
- Booras, Efstathia
- Bricchi, Tracy
- Budathoki, Suraj
- Burroughs, Anita
- Burton, Wayne
- Cahill, Michael
- Caplan, Tony
- Chourasia, Manoj
- Chretien, Suzanne
- Cloutier, John
- Cole, Brian
- Cordelli, Glenn
- Cormen, Thomas
- Cornell, Patricia
- Daniels, Gary
- Darby, Will
- Dargie, Paul
- Davis, Fred
- de Vries, Erica
- DeVito, Sayra
- Donnelly, Tanya
- Drew, Matt
- Dumont, Dillon
- Dupont, Pierre
- Edgar, Michael
- Elberger, Susan
- England, Myles
- Farrington, Samuel
- Faulkner, Barry
- Fellows, Sallie
- Ford, Mary
- Foss, Lily
- Fox, Dru
- Fracht, David
- Gallager, Eric
- Georges, Mary
- Germana, Dylan
- Germana, Nicholas
- Giasson, Henry
- Gibbs, Merryl
- Gilman, Julie
- Gilmore, Gary
- Granger, Michael
- Grant, George
- Grill, Jessica
- Gruber, James
- Hakken-Phillips, Mary
- Hall, Muriel
- Hall, Robley
- Hartnett, Tim
- Harvey-Bolia, Juliet
- Haskins, Linda
- Hegner, Karen
- Herbert, Christopher
- Hicks, Matthew
- Horrigan, Timothy
- Howard, Heath
- Howard, Molly
- Howland, Allan
- Jack, Martin
- Janigian, John
- Jeudy, Jean
- Juris, Louis
- Kaczynski, Thomas
- Kelly, Eileen
- Kerwin, Erin
- Kesselring, Steven
- Kluger, Lee Ann
- Kofalt, Jim
- LaMontagne, Jessica
- Lane, Connie
- Layon, Erica
- Leapley, Nicole
- LeClerc, Daniel
- Levesque, Cassandra
- Lloyd, Christal
- Long, Patrick
- Lovett, Peter
- Lucas, Janet
- MacKay, James
- Malone, Amy
- Mannion, Tom
- Manohar, Sanjeev
- Mazur, Lisa
- McAleer, Chris
- McDonnell, Valerie
- McFarlane, Donald
- McGuire, Carol
- McGuire, Dan
- Meuse, David
- Miller, Seth
- Morse, Bryan
- Muirhead, Russell
- Muns, Chris
- Murray, Alissandra
- Murray, Kate
- Newell, Jodi
- Newman, Ray
- Newman, Sue
- Newsom, James
- Noble, Kristin
- O'Rorke, Terri
- Oppel, Thomas
- Osborne, Jason
- Paige, David
- Paige, Mark
- Palmer, William
- Pauer, Diane
- Peternel, Katy
- Pitaro, Matthew
- Plamondon, Marc
- Polozov, Yury
- Potenza, Kelley
- Raynolds, Ned
- Reinfurt, Sherri
- Roesener, James
- Ryan, Linda
- Salvi, Santosh
- Sargent, Gregory
- Scherr, Buzz
- Schmidt, Peter
- Scully, Kevin
- See, Alvin
- Seibert, Christine
- Sellers, John
- Simpson, Alexis
- Slottje, Jeremy
- Smith, Marjorie
- Snodgrass, Jim
- Sorensen, Carrie
- Soti, Julius
- Soucy, Timothy
- Southworth, Thomas
- Spahr, Terry
- Spier, Carry
- Spillane, James
- Staub, Kathy
- Stone, John
- Stringham, Jerry
- Sullivan, Brian
- Sullivan, Jared
- Swanson, Dale
- Sweeney, Joe
- Sykes, George
- Telerski, Laura
- Tellez, Trinidad
- Thackston, Dick
- Thibault, James
- Turer, Eric
- Veilleux, Daniel
- Vose, Michael
- Wade, Alice
- Wall, Janet
- Wallner, Mary Jane
- Ward, Gerald
- Warden, Mark
- Weber, Lucy
- Weinstein, Toni
- Wherry, Robert
- Wilhelm, Matthew
- Woods, Gary
NO: 183
- Ammon, Keith
- Andrus, Louise
- Aron, Judy
- Aures, Cyril
- Avellani, Lino
- Aylward, Deborah
- Balboni, Peggy
- Ball, Lorie
- Barbour, Liz
- Bean, Harry
- Belcher, Mike
- Bennett, Cindy
- Berch, Paul
- Bernardy, JD
- Bjelobrk, Marie Louise
- Boehm, Ralph
- Bogert, Steven
- Bolton, Bill
- Bordes, Mike
- Boyd, Bill
- Boyd, Stephen
- Brown, Pam
- Brown, Richard
- Bryer, Scott
- Burnham, Claudine
- Cambrils, Jose
- Colby, Eleana
- Colcombe, Riché
- Comtois, Barbara
- Corcoran, Travis
- Creighton, James
- Damon, Hope
- Davis, Arnold
- DeDe-Poulin, Denise
- DeLemus, Susan
- DeRoy, Susan
- DeSimone, Debra
- Devoid, Ricky
- DiSilvestro, Linda
- Drago, Mike
- Drye, Margaret
- Dumais, Russell
- Dunn, Ron
- Durkin, Sean
- Ebel, Karen
- Erf, Keith
- Flanagan, Jack
- Foote, Charles
- Foxx, Loren
- Franz, Linda
- Freeman, Lisa
- Gagne, Larry
- Girard, Dale
- Gonzalez, Ernesto
- Gorski, Ted
- Gould, Linda
- Gregg, Alicia
- Griffin, Gerald
- Grote, Jaci
- Guthrie, Joseph
- Guzofski, James
- Hamblen, Joseph
- Harb, Robert
- Harrington, Michael
- Harriott-Gathright, Linda
- Harvey, Cathryn
- Hemingway, Wayne
- Hill, Gregory
- Hunt, John
- Jacobs, Samantha
- Jones, Philip
- Katsakiores, Phyllis
- Kelley, Diane
- Kenny, Catherine
- Khan, Aboul
- King, Seth
- Knab, Allison
- Korzen, Lori
- Kuttab, Katelyn
- Labrie, Brian
- Ladd, Rick
- Larochelle, John
- Lascelles, Richard
- Leishman, Peter
- Litchfield, Melissa
- Love, David
- Luneau, David
- Lynn, Bob
- MacDonald, John
- MacDonald, Wayne
- MacKenzie, Mark
- Maggiore, Jim
- Malloy, Dennis
- Mannion, Dennis
- Manos, Zoe
- Markell, Jay
- Mattson, Rita
- McGhee, Kat
- McGrath, Linda
- McMahon, Charles
- Mehegan, Peter
- Melvin, Charles
- Miles, Julie
- Milz, David
- Miner, Laurence
- Moffett, Michael
- Mooney, Maureen
- Morency, Pete
- Morton, Jonathan
- Murphy, Denis
- Murphy, Mary
- Murphy, Nancy
- Murray, Megan
- Nadeau, Brian
- Nagel, David
- Nalevanko, Rich
- Nelson, Jodi
- Notter, Jeanine
- Ohm, Bill
- Panek, Sandra
- Parshall, Lucius
- Pearson, Mark
- Pearson, Stephen
- Peeples, Raymond
- Perez, Kristine
- Petrigno, Peter
- Plante, Raymond
- Ploszaj, Tom
- Popovici-Muller, Daniel
- Porcelli, Susan
- Potucek, John
- Preece, David
- Presa, Adam
- Proulx, Mark
- Prout, Andrew
- Qualey, James
- Raymond, Heather
- Rhodes, Jennifer
- Rockmore, Ellen
- Rollins, Skip
- Rombeau, Catherine
- Roy, Terry
- Rung, Rosemarie
- Sabourin dit Choinière, Matt
- Schamberg, Thomas
- Schneller, John
- Seaworth, Brian
- Seidel, Sheila
- Selby, Donald
- Selig, Loren
- Sheehan, Vanessa
- Sirois, Shane
- Smith, Jonathan
- Smith, Steven
- Sofikitis, Catherine
- Spilsbury, Walter
- St. Clair, Charlie
- Stavis, Laurel
- Suiter, John
- Summers, James
- Sytek, John
- Taylor, Brian
- Tenczar, Jeffrey
- Terry, Paul
- Thomas, Douglas
- Thomas, Wendy
- Tierney, James
- Toner, Travis
- Tripp, Richard
- Tudor, Paul
- Turcotte, Len
- Vail, Suzanne
- Valerino, Brian
- Vallone, Mark
- Vandecasteele, Susan
- Varney, Peter
- Verville, Kevin
- Walker, David
- Walsh, Thomas
- Weyler, Kenneth
- Wheeler, Jonah
- Wilson, Vicki
- Wood, Clayton
EXCUSED: 30
- Bouchard, Donald
- Coker, Matthew
- Crawford, Karel
- Dolan, Tom
- Edwards, Jess
- Fedolfi, Jim
- Grossman, Gaby
- Grund, Stephanie
- Johnson, Erik
- Karasinski, Sly
- Leavitt, John
- Louis, Darrell
- Lundgren, David
- Mandelbaum, Jennifer
- Mannion, Tim
- McLean, Mark
- Minor, Sheri
- Ouellet, Mike
- Paquette, Kathleen
- Payeur, Stephanie
- Post, Lisa
- Prudhomme-O'Brien, Katherine
- Read, Ellen
- Rice, Kimberly
- Richards, Beth
- Schultz, Kris
- Trottier, Douglas
- Ulery, Jordan
- Walsh, Lilli
- Woodcock, Stephen
OTHER: 9
YES: 179
- Aldrich, Glen
- Almy, Susan
- Aron, Judy
- Aures, Cyril
- Avellani, Lino
- Aylward, Deborah
- Balboni, Peggy
- Ball, Lorie
- Barbour, Liz
- Bean, Harry
- Belcher, Mike
- Bennett, Cindy
- Berch, Paul
- Bernardy, JD
- Bjelobrk, Marie Louise
- Boehm, Ralph
- Bogert, Steven
- Bolton, Bill
- Bordes, Mike
- Boyd, Bill
- Boyd, Stephen
- Brown, Pam
- Brown, Richard
- Bryer, Scott
- Burnham, Claudine
- Cambrils, Jose
- Colby, Eleana
- Colcombe, Riché
- Comtois, Barbara
- Corcoran, Travis
- Creighton, James
- Damon, Hope
- Davis, Arnold
- DeLemus, Susan
- DeRoy, Susan
- DeSimone, Debra
- Devoid, Ricky
- Drago, Mike
- Drye, Margaret
- Dumais, Russell
- Dunn, Ron
- Durkin, Sean
- Ebel, Karen
- Edgar, Michael
- Erf, Keith
- Flanagan, Jack
- Foote, Charles
- Foxx, Loren
- Franz, Linda
- Freeman, Lisa
- Gagne, Larry
- Girard, Dale
- Gonzalez, Ernesto
- Gorski, Ted
- Gould, Linda
- Griffin, Gerald
- Grote, Jaci
- Guthrie, Joseph
- Guzofski, James
- Hall, Robley
- Hamblen, Joseph
- Harb, Robert
- Harrington, Michael
- Harriott-Gathright, Linda
- Harvey, Cathryn
- Hemingway, Wayne
- Herbert, Christopher
- Hill, Gregory
- Hunt, John
- Jones, Philip
- Katsakiores, Phyllis
- Kelley, Diane
- Kenny, Catherine
- Khan, Aboul
- King, Seth
- Kluger, Lee Ann
- Knab, Allison
- Korzen, Lori
- Kuttab, Katelyn
- Labrie, Brian
- Ladd, Rick
- Lascelles, Richard
- Leishman, Peter
- Litchfield, Melissa
- Love, David
- Luneau, David
- Lynn, Bob
- MacDonald, John
- MacDonald, Wayne
- Maggiore, Jim
- Malloy, Dennis
- Mannion, Dennis
- Manos, Zoe
- Markell, Jay
- Mattson, Rita
- McGhee, Kat
- McGrath, Linda
- McMahon, Charles
- Mehegan, Peter
- Melvin, Charles
- Milz, David
- Miner, Laurence
- Moffett, Michael
- Mooney, Maureen
- Morency, Pete
- Morse, Bryan
- Morton, Jonathan
- Murphy, Denis
- Murphy, Mary
- Murphy, Nancy
- Murray, Kate
- Nadeau, Brian
- Nagel, David
- Nalevanko, Rich
- Nelson, Jodi
- Notter, Jeanine
- Ohm, Bill
- Paige, Mark
- Panek, Sandra
- Parshall, Lucius
- Pearson, Mark
- Pearson, Stephen
- Peeples, Raymond
- Perez, Kristine
- Petrigno, Peter
- Plante, Raymond
- Ploszaj, Tom
- Popovici-Muller, Daniel
- Porcelli, Susan
- Potucek, John
- Presa, Adam
- Proulx, Mark
- Prout, Andrew
- Qualey, James
- Rhodes, Jennifer
- Rockmore, Ellen
- Rollins, Skip
- Rombeau, Catherine
- Roy, Terry
- Rung, Rosemarie
- Sabourin dit Choinière, Matt
- Schamberg, Thomas
- Schneller, John
- Seaworth, Brian
- Selby, Donald
- Selig, Loren
- Sheehan, Vanessa
- Sirois, Shane
- Smith, Jonathan
- Smith, Steven
- Sofikitis, Catherine
- Spilsbury, Walter
- St. Clair, Charlie
- Stavis, Laurel
- Suiter, John
- Summers, James
- Sytek, John
- Taylor, Brian
- Tenczar, Jeffrey
- Terry, Paul
- Thomas, Douglas
- Thomas, Wendy
- Tierney, James
- Toner, Travis
- Tripp, Richard
- Tudor, Paul
- Turcotte, Len
- Valerino, Brian
- Vallone, Mark
- Vandecasteele, Susan
- Varney, Peter
- Verville, Kevin
- Vose, Michael
- Walker, David
- Walsh, Thomas
- Weyler, Kenneth
- Wheeler, Jonah
- Wherry, Robert
- Wood, Clayton
NO: 180
- Alexander, Joe
- Ames, Dick
- Ammon, Keith
- Andrus, Louise
- Aron, Michael
- Bailey, Glenn
- Baldwin, Heather
- Barton, Joseph
- Bay, Luz
- Beauchemin, Paige
- Beaulier, Calvin
- Berezhny, Lex
- Bergeron, Dan
- Berry, Ross
- Bixby, Peter
- Booras, Efstathia
- Bricchi, Tracy
- Budathoki, Suraj
- Burroughs, Anita
- Burton, Wayne
- Cahill, Michael
- Caplan, Tony
- Chourasia, Manoj
- Chretien, Suzanne
- Cloutier, John
- Cole, Brian
- Cordelli, Glenn
- Cormen, Thomas
- Cornell, Patricia
- Daniels, Gary
- Darby, Will
- Dargie, Paul
- Davis, Fred
- de Vries, Erica
- DeDe-Poulin, Denise
- DeVito, Sayra
- DiSilvestro, Linda
- Donnelly, Tanya
- Drew, Matt
- Dumont, Dillon
- Dupont, Pierre
- Elberger, Susan
- England, Myles
- Farrington, Samuel
- Faulkner, Barry
- Fellows, Sallie
- Ford, Mary
- Foss, Lily
- Fox, Dru
- Fracht, David
- Gallager, Eric
- Georges, Mary
- Germana, Dylan
- Germana, Nicholas
- Giasson, Henry
- Gibbs, Merryl
- Gilman, Julie
- Gilmore, Gary
- Granger, Michael
- Grant, George
- Gregg, Alicia
- Grill, Jessica
- Gruber, James
- Hakken-Phillips, Mary
- Hall, Muriel
- Hartnett, Tim
- Harvey-Bolia, Juliet
- Haskins, Linda
- Hegner, Karen
- Hicks, Matthew
- Horrigan, Timothy
- Howard, Heath
- Howard, Molly
- Howland, Allan
- Jack, Martin
- Jacobs, Samantha
- Janigian, John
- Jeudy, Jean
- Juris, Louis
- Kaczynski, Thomas
- Kelly, Eileen
- Kerwin, Erin
- Kesselring, Steven
- Kofalt, Jim
- LaMontagne, Jessica
- Lane, Connie
- Larochelle, John
- Layon, Erica
- Leapley, Nicole
- LeClerc, Daniel
- Levesque, Cassandra
- Lloyd, Christal
- Long, Patrick
- Lovett, Peter
- Lucas, Janet
- MacKay, James
- MacKenzie, Mark
- Malone, Amy
- Mannion, Tom
- Manohar, Sanjeev
- Mazur, Lisa
- McAleer, Chris
- McDonnell, Valerie
- McFarlane, Donald
- McGuire, Carol
- McGuire, Dan
- Meuse, David
- Miles, Julie
- Miller, Seth
- Muirhead, Russell
- Muns, Chris
- Murray, Alissandra
- Murray, Megan
- Newell, Jodi
- Newman, Ray
- Newman, Sue
- Newsom, James
- Noble, Kristin
- O'Rorke, Terri
- Oppel, Thomas
- Osborne, Jason
- Paige, David
- Palmer, William
- Pauer, Diane
- Peternel, Katy
- Pitaro, Matthew
- Plamondon, Marc
- Polozov, Yury
- Potenza, Kelley
- Preece, David
- Raymond, Heather
- Raynolds, Ned
- Reinfurt, Sherri
- Roesener, James
- Ryan, Linda
- Salvi, Santosh
- Sargent, Gregory
- Scherr, Buzz
- Schmidt, Peter
- Scully, Kevin
- See, Alvin
- Seibert, Christine
- Seidel, Sheila
- Sellers, John
- Simpson, Alexis
- Slottje, Jeremy
- Smith, Marjorie
- Snodgrass, Jim
- Sorensen, Carrie
- Soti, Julius
- Soucy, Timothy
- Southworth, Thomas
- Spahr, Terry
- Spier, Carry
- Spillane, James
- Staub, Kathy
- Stone, John
- Stringham, Jerry
- Sullivan, Brian
- Sullivan, Jared
- Swanson, Dale
- Sweeney, Joe
- Sykes, George
- Telerski, Laura
- Tellez, Trinidad
- Thackston, Dick
- Thibault, James
- Turer, Eric
- Vail, Suzanne
- Veilleux, Daniel
- Wade, Alice
- Wall, Janet
- Wallner, Mary Jane
- Ward, Gerald
- Warden, Mark
- Weber, Lucy
- Weinstein, Toni
- Wilhelm, Matthew
- Wilson, Vicki
- Woods, Gary
EXCUSED: 30
- Bouchard, Donald
- Coker, Matthew
- Crawford, Karel
- Dolan, Tom
- Edwards, Jess
- Fedolfi, Jim
- Grossman, Gaby
- Grund, Stephanie
- Johnson, Erik
- Karasinski, Sly
- Leavitt, John
- Louis, Darrell
- Lundgren, David
- Mandelbaum, Jennifer
- Mannion, Tim
- McLean, Mark
- Minor, Sheri
- Ouellet, Mike
- Paquette, Kathleen
- Payeur, Stephanie
- Post, Lisa
- Prudhomme-O'Brien, Katherine
- Read, Ellen
- Rice, Kimberly
- Richards, Beth
- Schultz, Kris
- Trottier, Douglas
- Ulery, Jordan
- Walsh, Lilli
- Woodcock, Stephen
OTHER: 9
Actions
- May 22, 2025 | House
- Amendment #2025-1639h: AA VV 05/22/2025 HJ 15
- FLAM #2025-2343h (Rep. Howland): AA DV 234-124 05/22/2025 HJ 15
- Lay SB174 on Table (Rep. B. Boyd): MF RC 179-180 05/22/2025 HJ 15
- Ought to Pass with Amendment 2025-1639h 2025-2343h: MF RC 176-183 05/22/2025 HJ 15
- Lay SB174 on Table (Rep. Alexander Jr.): MA DV 239-120 05/22/2025 HJ 15
- May 17, 2025 | House
- Removed from Consent (Reps. Kuttab, Panek, Bordes, Rice, B. Boyd, Boehm, Porcelli, Perez, Andrus, Ball) 05/17/2025 HJ 14
- May 06, 2025 | House
- Executive Session: 05/06/2025 10:00 am LOB 305
- Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment #2025-1639h 05/06/2025 (Vote 16-0; CC)
- Apr 08, 2025 | House
- Public Hearing: 04/08/2025 10:30 am LOB 305
- Mar 27, 2025 | House
- Introduced (in recess of) 03/27/2025 and referred to Housing HJ 11 P. 112
- Mar 20, 2025 | Senate
- Committee Report: Ought to Pass, 03/20/2025, Vote 4-2; SC 13
- Ought to Pass: MA, VV; OT3rdg; 03/20/2025; SJ 8
- Mar 04, 2025 | Senate
- Hearing: 03/04/2025, Room 100, SH, 10:15 am; SC 11
- Jan 09, 2025 | Senate
- Introduced 01/09/2025 and Referred to Commerce; SJ 3
Documents
- Sen Hearing RptHTML
- Sen Hearing RptPDF
- Sen Comm RptHTML
- Sen Comm RptPDF
- Remote Testimony by Avallon, Jim (North Hampton, NH) - Oppose, House HousingHTML
- Remote Testimony by Baker, Cathy (Portsmouth, NH) - Oppose, House HousingHTML
- Remote Testimony by Chappelle, Maura Annette (Coös county, NH) - Oppose, House HousingHTML
- Remote Testimony by Heap, Francesca (Richmond, NH) - Oppose, House HousingHTML
- Remote Testimony by Kasiecki, Philip (Manchester, NH) - Oppose, House HousingHTML
- Remote Testimony by Murray, Roger (Wolfeboro, NH) - Oppose, House HousingHTML
- Remote Testimony by Porcelli, Susan (Hampton Falls, NH) - Oppose, House HousingHTML
- Remote Testimony by Richardson, Daniel (Nashua, NH) - Oppose, House HousingHTML
- Remote Testimony by Schutte, Carol (Hampton Falls, NH) - Oppose, House HousingHTML
- Remote Testimony by Schweiker, Roy (Concord, NH) - Oppose, House HousingHTML
- Remote Testimony by Stadler, John (Lyme, NH) - Oppose, House HousingHTML
- Remote Testimony by Stadler, Nomi (Lyme, NH) - Oppose, House HousingHTML
- Remote Testimony by WEIMAR, ROBERT (HAMPSTEAD, NH) - Oppose, House HousingHTML