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IntroducedNov 21, 2025
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Passed SenateFeb 12, 2026
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Passed House
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Became Law
New Hampshire Senate Bill
Title: relative to authorization of seclusion or restraint during a personal safety emergency by a physician, physician associate, or advanced practice registered nurse.
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House • May 07, 2026: Lay SB501 on Table (Rep. W. MacDonald): MA RC 188-154 05/07/2026 HJ 12
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- Pearlcosponsor
- Fentoncosponsor
- Perkins Kwokacosponsor
- McGoughcosponsor
- Keith Murphycosponsor
- Avardcosponsor
- Ruth Wardcosponsor
- Birdsellcosponsor
Votes
YES: 188
- Aldrich, Glen
- Alexander, Joe
- Ammon, Keith
- Andrus, Louise
- Aron, Judy
- Aron, Michael
- Aures, Cyril
- Avellani, Lino
- Aylward, Deborah
- Bailey, Glenn
- Ball, Lorie
- Barbour, Liz
- Barton, Joseph
- Beaulier, Calvin
- Belcher, Mike
- Berezhny, Lex
- Bernardy, JD
- Berry, Ross
- Bjelobrk, Marie Louise
- Boehm, Ralph
- Bogert, Steven
- Bordes, Mike
- Boyd, Bill
- Boyd, Stephen
- Bridle, Nicholas
- Brown, Pam
- Brown, Richard
- Bryer, Scott
- Burnham, Claudine
- Burroughs, Anita
- Cambrils, Jose
- Colcombe, Riché
- Cole, Brian
- Comtois, Barbara
- Corcoran, Travis
- Creighton, James
- Daniels, Gary
- DeDe-Poulin, Denise
- DeLemus, Susan
- DeRoy, Susan
- DeSimone, Debra
- DeVito, Sayra
- Devoid, Ricky
- Dolan, Tom
- Donnelly, Tanya
- Drago, Mike
- Drew, Matt
- Drye, Margaret
- Dumont, Dillon
- Dunn, Ron
- Dupont, Pierre
- Edwards, Jess
- Erf, Keith
- Farrington, Samuel
- Flanagan, Jack
- Foote, Charles
- Ford, Mary
- Franz, Linda
- Freeman, Lisa
- Gagne, Larry
- Giasson, Henry
- Girard, Dale
- Gorski, Ted
- Gould, Linda
- Granger, Michael
- Grant, George
- Griffin, Gerald
- Guthrie, Joseph
- Guzofski, James
- Hamblen, Joseph
- Harb, Robert
- Harrington, Michael
- Harvey, Cathryn
- Hemingway, Wayne
- 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, Wayne
- Mannion, Dennis
- Mannion, Tom
- Markell, Jay
- 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
- Moffett, Michael
- Mooney, Maureen
- Morency, Pete
- Morton, Jonathan
- Murphy, Denis
- Murphy, Mary
- Murphy, Michael
- Nadeau, Brian
- Nalevanko, Rich
- Noble, Kristin
- Notter, Jeanine
- Ohm, Bill
- Osborne, Jason
- Ouellet, Mike
- Packard, Sherman
- Paquette, Kathleen
- Pauer, Diane
- Pearson, Stephen
- Perez, Kristine
- Peternel, Katy
- Pitaro, Matthew
- Plante, Raymond
- Ploszaj, Tom
- Polozov, Yury
- Popovici-Muller, Daniel
- Porcelli, Susan
- Post, Lisa
- Potenza, Kelley
- Potucek, John
- Presa, Adam
- Prout, Andrew
- Prudhomme-O'Brien, Katherine
- Qualey, James
- Reinfurt, Sherri
- Rhodes, Jennifer
- Rollins, Skip
- Roy, Terry
- Sabourin dit Choinière, Matt
- Schneller, John
- Seaworth, Brian
- See, Alvin
- Selby, Donald
- Sirois, Shane
- Slottje, Jeremy
- Smith, Jonathan
- Soti, Julius
- Spier, Carry
- Spillane, James
- Spilsbury, Walter
- Suiter, John
- Sweeney, Joe
- Sytek, John
- Taylor, Brian
- Tenczar, Jeffrey
- Terry, Paul
- Thackston, Dick
- Thibault, James
- Thomas, Douglas
- Tierney, James
- Toner, Travis
- Tremblay, Marc
- Tripp, Richard
- Tudor, Paul
- Turcotte, Len
- Ulery, Jordan
- Vandecasteele, Susan
- Verville, Kevin
- Vose, Michael
- Walker, David
- Walsh, Lilli
- Walsh, Thomas
- Warden, Mark
- Weyler, Kenneth
- Wherry, Robert
- Wilson, Vicki
- Wood, Clayton
NO: 154
- Almy, Susan
- Ames, Dick
- Balboni, Peggy
- Baldwin, Heather
- Bay, Luz
- Beauchemin, Paige
- Bixby, Peter
- Bolton, Bill
- Booras, Efstathia
- Boudman, Bobbi
- Bricchi, Tracy
- Budathoki, Suraj
- Burton, Wayne
- Cahill, Michael
- Caplan, Tony
- Chourasia, Manoj
- Chretien, Suzanne
- Cloutier, John
- Coker, Matthew
- Colby, Eleana
- Cormen, Thomas
- Cornell, Patricia
- Damon, Hope
- Darby, Will
- Dargie, Paul
- Davis, Fred
- de Vries, Erica
- DiSilvestro, Linda
- Dolan, William
- 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
- Gilman, Julie
- Gilmore, Gary
- Grill, Jessica
- Gruber, James
- Grund, Stephanie
- Hakken-Phillips, Mary
- Hall, Muriel
- Hartnett, Tim
- Haskins, Linda
- Hegner, Karen
- Herbert, Christopher
- Hicks, Matthew
- Horrigan, Timothy
- Howard, Heath
- Howard, Molly
- 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
- LeClerc, Daniel
- Leishman, Peter
- Levesque, Cassandra
- Long, Patrick
- Lucas, Janet
- Luneau, David
- Maggiore, Jim
- Malloy, Dennis
- Mandelbaum, Jennifer
- Manohar, Sanjeev
- Manos, Zoe
- McAleer, Chris
- McGhee, Kat
- Meuse, David
- Minor, Sheri
- Muirhead, Russell
- Muns, Chris
- Murphy, Nancy
- Murray, Alissandra
- Murray, Kate
- Murray, Megan
- Nelson, Jodi
- Newell, Jodi
- Newman, Ray
- Newman, Sue
- Newsom, James
- O'Rorke, Terri
- Oppel, Thomas
- Paige, David
- Paige, Mark
- Palmer, William
- Parshall, Lucius
- Payeur, Stephanie
- Pearson, Mark
- Pearson, Wayne
- Petrigno, Peter
- Plamondon, Marc
- Preece, David
- Proulx, Mark
- Raymond, Heather
- Richards, Beth
- Rockmore, Ellen
- Roesener, James
- Rombeau, Catherine
- Rung, Rosemarie
- Ryan, Linda
- Salvi, Santosh
- Sargent, Gregory
- Schamberg, Thomas
- Schmidt, Peter
- Schultz, Kris
- Seibert, Christine
- Selig, Loren
- Simpson, Alexis
- Smith, Geoffrey
- Smith, Marjorie
- Snodgrass, Jim
- Sorensen, Carrie
- Soucy, Timothy
- Southworth, Thomas
- Spahr, Terry
- St. Clair, Charlie
- Staub, Kathy
- Stavis, Laurel
- Stringham, Jerry
- Sullivan, Brian
- Sullivan, Jared
- Swanson, Dale
- Sykes, George
- Telerski, Laura
- Tellez, Trinidad
- Thomas, Wendy
- Vail, Suzanne
- Veilleux, Daniel
- Wade, Alice
- Wall, Janet
- Wallner, Mary Jane
- Ward, Gerald
- Weber, Lucy
- Weinstein, Toni
- Wheeler, Jonah
- Woodcock, Stephen
- Woods, Gary
EXCUSED: 29
- Bennett, Cindy
- Berch, Paul
- Buco, Thomas
- Davis, Arnold
- Durkin, Sean
- Fedolfi, Jim
- Gibbs, Merryl
- Gregg, Alicia
- Grossman, Gaby
- Harvey-Bolia, Juliet
- Hill, Gregory
- Janigian, John
- Leavitt, John
- Lloyd, Christal
- MacDonald, John
- MacKenzie, Mark
- Malone, Amy
- McFarlane, Donald
- Raynolds, Ned
- Read, Ellen
- Rice, Kimberly
- Scherr, Buzz
- Scully, Kevin
- Sellers, John
- Sheehan, Vanessa
- Sofikitis, Catherine
- Vallone, Mark
- Varney, Peter
- Wilhelm, Matthew
OTHER: 22
- Ankarberg, Aidan
- Bergeron, Dan
- Butler, Billie
- Crawford, Karel
- Dumais, Russell
- Gonzalez, Ernesto
- Grote, Jaci
- Hall, Robley
- Harriott-Gathright, Linda
- Leapley, Nicole
- Lovett, Peter
- MacKay, James
- Mannion, Tim
- Miller, Seth
- Morse, Bryan
- Nagel, David
- Peeples, Raymond
- Smith, Steven
- Stone, John
- Summers, James
- Trottier, Douglas
- Turer, Eric
Actions
- May 07, 2026 | House
- Lay SB501 on Table (Rep. W. MacDonald): MA RC 188-154 05/07/2026 HJ 12
- Apr 22, 2026 | House
- Minority Committee Report: Ought to Pass
- Majority Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate 04/15/2026 (Vote 10-8; RC) HC 18 P. 14
- Apr 07, 2026 | House
- Executive Session: 04/15/2026 10:00 am GP 158
- Apr 01, 2026 | House
- Public Hearing: 04/08/2026 11:00 am GP 158
- Feb 26, 2026 | House
- Introduced (in recess of) 02/19/2026 and referred to Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs HJ 5 P. 124
- Feb 12, 2026 | Senate
- Committee Report: Ought to Pass, 02/19/2026; Vote 5-0; CC; SC 6
- Ought to Pass: MA, VV; OT3rdg; 02/19/2026; SJ 4
- Feb 05, 2026 | Senate
- Hearing: 02/11/2026, Room 100, SH, 01:15 pm; SC 5
- Nov 21, 2025 | Senate
- Introduced 01/07/2026 and Referred to Health and Human Services; SJ 1
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