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IntroducedDec 10, 2025
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Passed House
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Passed Senate
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Became Law
New Hampshire House Bill
Title: limiting the use of state, county, and municipal funds and property for construction and operation of certain immigrant detention facilities.
Last Action See all actions
House • Mar 13, 2026: Inexpedient to Legislate: MA RC 185-154 03/12/2026 HJ 8
Latest Bill Text See all bill texts
Summary
Comments on HB 1609
Tweets
Whip Lists
Sponsors


- Germanacosponsor
- Alissandra Murraycosponsor
- Scherrcosponsor
- Seibertcosponsor
- Perkins Kwokacosponsor
Votes
YES: 185
- Aldrich, Glen
- Alexander, Joe
- Ammon, Keith
- Andrus, Louise
- Aron, Judy
- Aron, Michael
- Aures, Cyril
- Avellani, Lino
- Aylward, Deborah
- Bailey, Glenn
- Barbour, Liz
- Barton, Joseph
- Beaulier, Calvin
- Belcher, Mike
- Bennett, Cindy
- Berezhny, Lex
- Bernardy, JD
- Berry, Ross
- Bjelobrk, Marie Louise
- Boehm, Ralph
- Bogert, Steven
- Boyd, Bill
- Boyd, Stephen
- Bridle, Nicholas
- Brown, Pam
- Brown, Richard
- Bryer, Scott
- Burnham, Claudine
- Cambrils, Jose
- Coker, Matthew
- Colcombe, Riché
- Cole, Brian
- Comtois, Barbara
- Corcoran, Travis
- Crawford, Karel
- Creighton, James
- Daniels, Gary
- Davis, Arnold
- DeDe-Poulin, Denise
- DeLemus, Susan
- DeRoy, Susan
- DeSimone, Debra
- Devoid, Ricky
- Dolan, Tom
- Donnelly, Tanya
- Drago, Mike
- Drew, Matt
- Drye, Margaret
- Dumont, Dillon
- Dunn, Ron
- Dupont, Pierre
- Durkin, Sean
- Erf, Keith
- Farrington, Samuel
- Flanagan, Jack
- Foote, Charles
- Franz, Linda
- Freeman, Lisa
- Gagne, Larry
- Giasson, Henry
- Girard, Dale
- Gonzalez, Ernesto
- Gorski, Ted
- Gould, Linda
- Granger, Michael
- Grant, George
- Griffin, Gerald
- Guthrie, Joseph
- Guzofski, James
- Harrington, Michael
- Harvey-Bolia, Juliet
- Hemingway, Wayne
- Hill, Gregory
- Hunt, John
- Kaczynski, Thomas
- Karasinski, Sly
- Katsakiores, Phyllis
- Kelley, Diane
- Kenny, Catherine
- Kesselring, Steven
- Khan, Aboul
- King, Seth
- Kofalt, Jim
- Korzen, Lori
- Kuttab, Katelyn
- Labrie, Brian
- Ladd, Rick
- Lascelles, Richard
- Layon, Erica
- Litchfield, Melissa
- Louis, Darrell
- Love, David
- Lundgren, David
- Lynn, Bob
- MacDonald, John
- MacDonald, Wayne
- Mannion, Dennis
- Mannion, Tim
- Mannion, Tom
- Mattson, Rita
- Mazur, Lisa
- McDonnell, Valerie
- McGrath, Linda
- McGuire, Carol
- McGuire, Dan
- McLean, Mark
- McMahon, Charles
- Mehegan, Peter
- Melvin, Charles
- Miles, Julie
- Milz, David
- Miner, Laurence
- Minor, Sheri
- Moffett, Michael
- Mooney, Maureen
- Morency, Pete
- Morton, Jonathan
- Murphy, Denis
- Murphy, Mary
- Nadeau, Brian
- Nalevanko, Rich
- Nelson, Jodi
- Noble, Kristin
- Ohm, Bill
- Osborne, Jason
- Paquette, Kathleen
- Pauer, Diane
- Pearson, Mark
- Pearson, Stephen
- Peeples, Raymond
- Perez, Kristine
- Peternel, Katy
- Pitaro, Matthew
- Plante, Raymond
- Ploszaj, Tom
- Polozov, Yury
- Popovici-Muller, Daniel
- Porcelli, Susan
- Post, Lisa
- Potenza, Kelley
- Potucek, John
- Proulx, Mark
- Prout, Andrew
- Prudhomme-O'Brien, Katherine
- Qualey, James
- Reinfurt, Sherri
- Rollins, Skip
- Roy, Terry
- Sabourin dit Choinière, Matt
- Schmidt, Peter
- Schneller, John
- Scully, Kevin
- See, Alvin
- Selby, Donald
- Sellers, John
- Sheehan, Vanessa
- Sirois, Shane
- Slottje, Jeremy
- Soti, Julius
- Spilsbury, Walter
- Summers, James
- Sweeney, Joe
- Sytek, John
- Taylor, Brian
- Tenczar, Jeffrey
- Terry, Paul
- Thibault, James
- Thomas, Douglas
- Tierney, James
- Toner, Travis
- Tremblay, Marc
- Tripp, Richard
- Tudor, Paul
- Turcotte, Len
- Ulery, Jordan
- Vallone, Mark
- Verville, Kevin
- Vose, Michael
- Walker, David
- Walsh, Lilli
- Walsh, Thomas
- Weyler, Kenneth
- Wherry, Robert
- Wilson, Vicki
- Wood, Clayton
NO: 154
- Almy, Susan
- Ames, Dick
- Balboni, Peggy
- Baldwin, Heather
- Bay, Luz
- Beauchemin, Paige
- Berch, Paul
- Bergeron, Dan
- Bixby, Peter
- Bolton, Bill
- Bricchi, Tracy
- Budathoki, Suraj
- Burroughs, Anita
- Burton, Wayne
- Butler, Billie
- Cahill, Michael
- Caplan, Tony
- Chourasia, Manoj
- Chretien, Suzanne
- Cloutier, John
- Cormen, Thomas
- Damon, Hope
- Darby, Will
- Dargie, Paul
- Davis, Fred
- de Vries, Erica
- DiSilvestro, Linda
- Ebel, Karen
- Edgar, Michael
- Elberger, Susan
- England, Myles
- Faulkner, Barry
- Fellows, Sallie
- Foss, Lily
- Fox, Dru
- Foxx, Loren
- Fracht, David
- Gallager, Eric
- Georges, Mary
- Germana, Nicholas
- Gibbs, Merryl
- Gilman, Julie
- Gilmore, Gary
- Gregg, Alicia
- Grill, Jessica
- Gruber, James
- Grund, Stephanie
- Hakken-Phillips, Mary
- Hall, Muriel
- Hartnett, Tim
- Harvey, Cathryn
- Hegner, Karen
- Herbert, Christopher
- Horrigan, Timothy
- Howard, Heath
- Howland, Allan
- Jack, Martin
- Jacobs, Samantha
- Jeudy, Jean
- Johnson, Erik
- Jones, Philip
- Juris, Louis
- Kelly, Eileen
- Kerwin, Erin
- Kluger, Lee Ann
- Knab, Allison
- LaMontagne, Jessica
- Lane, Connie
- Larochelle, John
- Leapley, Nicole
- LeClerc, Daniel
- Leishman, Peter
- Levesque, Cassandra
- Lloyd, Christal
- Long, Patrick
- Lucas, Janet
- Luneau, David
- MacKenzie, Mark
- Maggiore, Jim
- Malloy, Dennis
- Mandelbaum, Jennifer
- Manohar, Sanjeev
- Manos, Zoe
- McAleer, Chris
- McGhee, Kat
- Meuse, David
- Miller, Seth
- Muns, Chris
- Murphy, Nancy
- Murray, Alissandra
- Murray, Kate
- Murray, Megan
- Nagel, David
- Newell, Jodi
- Newman, Ray
- Newman, Sue
- Newsom, James
- O'Rorke, Terri
- Oppel, Thomas
- Paige, David
- Paige, Mark
- Palmer, William
- Parshall, Lucius
- Pearson, Wayne
- Petrigno, Peter
- Plamondon, Marc
- Preece, David
- Raymond, Heather
- Raynolds, Ned
- Rockmore, Ellen
- Roesener, James
- Rombeau, Catherine
- Rung, Rosemarie
- Ryan, Linda
- Salvi, Santosh
- Sargent, Gregory
- Schamberg, Thomas
- Scherr, Buzz
- Schultz, Kris
- Seibert, Christine
- Selig, Loren
- Simpson, Alexis
- Smith, Marjorie
- Snodgrass, Jim
- Sofikitis, Catherine
- Sorensen, Carrie
- Soucy, Timothy
- Southworth, Thomas
- Spahr, Terry
- Spier, Carry
- St. Clair, Charlie
- Staub, Kathy
- Stavis, Laurel
- Stone, John
- Stringham, Jerry
- Sullivan, Brian
- Sullivan, Jared
- Sykes, George
- Telerski, Laura
- Tellez, Trinidad
- Thomas, Wendy
- Turer, Eric
- Vail, Suzanne
- Veilleux, Daniel
- Wade, Alice
- Wall, Janet
- Wallner, Mary Jane
- Ward, Gerald
- Weber, Lucy
- Weinstein, Toni
- Wheeler, Jonah
- Wilhelm, Matthew
- Woodcock, Stephen
- Woods, Gary
EXCUSED: 32
- Ball, Lorie
- Booras, Efstathia
- Bordes, Mike
- Buco, Thomas
- Cornell, Patricia
- DeVito, Sayra
- Edwards, Jess
- Fedolfi, Jim
- Ford, Mary
- Grossman, Gaby
- Grote, Jaci
- Hamblen, Joseph
- Harb, Robert
- Haskins, Linda
- Hicks, Matthew
- Janigian, John
- Lovett, Peter
- Markell, Jay
- McFarlane, Donald
- Muirhead, Russell
- Notter, Jeanine
- Rhodes, Jennifer
- Rice, Kimberly
- Richards, Beth
- Seaworth, Brian
- Smith, Geoffrey
- Smith, Jonathan
- Spillane, James
- Swanson, Dale
- Vandecasteele, Susan
- Varney, Peter
- Warden, Mark
OTHER: 21
Actions
- Mar 13, 2026 | House
- Special Order to the next order of business (Rep. Weber): MA VV 03/12/2026 HJ 8
- Inexpedient to Legislate: MA RC 185-154 03/12/2026 HJ 8
- Mar 12, 2026 | House
- Special Order to next order of business (Rep. Beauchemin): MF DV 130-190 03/11/2026 HJ 7
- Mar 04, 2026 | House
- Minority Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment #2026-0207h
- Majority Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate 03/03/2026 (Vote 9-7; RC) HC 10 P. 88
- Feb 27, 2026 | House
- Executive Session: 03/03/2026 01:00 pm GP 159
- Jan 08, 2026 | House
- Public Hearing: 01/15/2026 01:30 pm GP 231
- Dec 10, 2025 | House
- Introduced 01/07/2026 and referred to Executive Departments and Administration
Documents
- Remote Testimony by Capron, Alexander (NEWMARKET, NH) - Support, House Executive Departments and AdministrationPDF
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