Christopher "Chris" Herbert
Serving as: NH House Hillsborough County District 24
These objective, nonpartisan measures are used to show this legislator's activities at the Statehouse in 2025. The measures are not intended to present a ranking or rating of any kind. Average is that of all state elected officials in this chamber. Gov. Ayotte is still in the process of signing and vetoing 2025 bills, so the number of prime sponsored bills that became law may increase.
Session days attended
Party unity score/partisanship
Participated in official roll call votes
Bills sponsored (as prime sponsor)
Prime sponsored bills that became law
Voting Record
HB 1 (2025)
State budget bill. The governor presented her proposal for the next state budget February 13. Click here to read a summary of the budget process.
HB 10 (2025)
Establishes a Parental Bill of Rights. The bill requires schools to adopt a policy to promote parental involvement in the public school system. The bill also establishes a right to sue schools that violate the law.
The final version of this bill requires schools to respond to parental inquiries "regarding any and all matters related to their minor child," within ten days.
The final Senate version of this bill also does not require parents to give written consent to any medical procedure or treatment; that provision was removed after much debate.
HB 148 (2025)
Adds an exception to state anti-discrimination laws for bathrooms, locker rooms, sports, prisons, hospitals, and treatment centers to classify individuals based on biological sex.
HB 198 (2025)
Removes the legal penalties for possessing and using marijuana and cannabis-infused products for those over age twenty-one. This bill does not include any mechanism for legal sales or taxation.
HB 238 (2025)
Right-to-work bill that prohibits collective bargaining agreements that require employees to join or contribute to a labor union.
HB 282 (2025)
Increases the maximum compensation for first responders' critical injury benefits from $500,000 to $1,000,000.
HB 324 (2025)
Prohibits K-12 schools from making "any material that is harmful to minors" available to students. The bill defines this material to include various content related to sex. This bill also requires school boards to adopt complaint resolution policies to address complaints regarding harmful material by parents or guardians.
HB 357 (2025)
Removes the authority of the Department of Health and Human Services to require vaccinations beyond those in state law. This bill specifically notes that the requirements for chickenpox, Hepatitis B, and Hib vaccinations will expire in 2026.
The House added the text of this bill to SB 60.
HB 377 (2025)
Makes it a felony to provide hormone treatments and puberty blockers to a minor unless a minor is "born with a medically verifiable disorder of sex development."
The Senate amended the bill to allow doctors to continue hormone treatments and puberty blockers started prior to January 1, 2026.
The Senate amended the bill to also recognize Children's Environmental Health Day, similar to SB 184.
A conference committee of representatives and senators agreed to those Senate amendments.
HB 53 (2025)
Allows qualifying medical marijuana patients and caregivers to grow marijuana at home. There would be limits on the size of the growing operation.
The House added the text of this bill to SB 118.
HB 56 (2025)
Requires sales and transfers of firearms to take place through licensed dealers. Those dealers are required to perform background checks. This bill also establishes a 3-day waiting period for firearm transfers. The bill includes some exceptions, such as transfers between immediate family members.
HB 60 (2025)
After six months of renting, this bill adds the expiration of the term of the lease or tenancy as grounds for an eviction.
The Senate amended the bill so that it will only take effect if there is a 4% vacancy rate in the state. The amended bill also increases in the minimum lease term to twelve months before eviction.
A conference committee of representatives and senators agreed on a final version of the bill. Landlords could evict without cause after twelve months, and the law would take effect regardless of the vacancy rate.
HB 649 (2025)
Removes the requirement for physical safety inspections and on-board diagnostic tests for passenger vehicles and eliminates funding for the Motor Vehicle Air Pollution Abatement Fund.
SB 14 (2025)
Sets a mandatory minimum sentence for supplying fentanyl. The minimum starts at three years and six months and goes up for higher quantities.
The House amended the bill to also increase penalties for dealing fentanyl to a person who overdoses and dies, similar to SB 15. The amendment also decreases the penalty for possessing 3/4 of an ounce or less of psilocybin (magic mushrooms) to a misdemeanor.
SB 228 (2025)
Modifies the scope and capacity limits of community solar projects. Generally speaking, this bill increases the size of projects that can participate in net energy metering. The bill also allows nonprofit educational institutions and public housing authorities to operate as “municipal hosts” for net metering.
The Senate added some of this bill to HB 710.
SB 284 (2025)
Limits zoning laws to require no more than one parking spaces per residential unit, with exceptions for certain workforce housing and multi-family developments.
The House amended the bill to remove those exceptions.
SB 287 (2025)
If an absentee voter asks for a ballot to be mailed to an address other than the address shown on the voter checklist, this bill adds additional verification requirements. In particular, the voter must show a copy of their photo ID to the clerk or include a notarized signature on their absentee ballot application. If an absentee voter does not complete either step, "his or her signature on the application for an absentee ballot shall be compared to his or her signature on the absentee ballot affidavit on election day in the same manner as other voters."
SB 295 (2025)
Removes the household income limit to participate in the Education Freedom Account (EFA) program.
The Senate amended the bill, adding a 10,000 enrollment cap for the EFA program. If there are 9,000 EFA applicants in a year, the enrollment cap would increase by 25%.
SB 62 (2025)
Prohibits state and local government from blocking law enforcement participation in a federal 287(g) program. That program allows local law enforcement to perform some immigration enforcement duties.
The House amended the bill to add the text of SB 71, which prohibits state and local governments from adopting "sanctuary policies," which prohibit or impede law enforcement cooperating with federal immigration enforcement.
Completed our 2024 State Candidate Survey
Position on Issues
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Do you support the “Education Freedom Account” program, which gives students access to the per-pupil share of state school funding to spend on private school or home school expenses?
"The only way I'd vote for this 'sleight of hand' ruse would be if there was enough additional taxes raised to pay for the private use of public funds. Pay the bills, in other words."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire ban abortions during the first trimester (e.g. after 6 weeks gestation)?
"Stop using the government to force women to do what sometimes is not in their best interests. Restore their reproductive rights, in other words. When men start getting pregnant, we can have this discussion."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire ban abortions during the second trimester (e.g. after 15 weeks gestation)?
"Stop using the government to force women to do what sometimes is not in their best interests. Restore their reproductive rights, in other words. When men start getting pregnant, we can have this discussion."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should NH add an income tax on earned income?
"What is known as the 'rentier' class should pay a land tax. Our nation is smothering under the weight of the rentier class."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should NH add a broad-based sales tax?
"I think we should pay the bills. Were it not for federal subsidies the state would be bankrupt."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire lower business taxes?
"To repeat, I consider it my primary job in the House to pay the bills. We don't do that. We show a 100 million dollar "surplus" for a 15 plus billion dollar budget. That's irresponsible, in my view."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire add a tax on capital gains?
"Again, we do not tax enough to even come close to paying bills. Municipalities are struggling to pay their bills with high property taxes caused by an irresponsible state legislature. This failure to responsibly pay the public bills is a national problem, by the way. Purportedly we are the 'richest' nation on the planet. OK. Why do we have a massive population of poor people (over 40 % of the population)? What about the homeless problem? That's a private market failure caused by a massive allocation of wealth transferred up to a class of Oligarchs we've managed to create the past 3 decades. This even has an economics phrase (the 'allocative effect')."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire government do more to address climate change?
"We should do more. But everyone should do more. I have a relative who installed some solar panels about 10 years ago. His home is in the North Country. He has paid one electric bill in those 10 years, and that was only because he'd been out of the house on extended vacation. Anyone who thinks we can keep using limited fuels for ever, is either a madman or an economist."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Do you support giving voters who register without ID on Election Day a ballot that only counts if they return identifying documents to the state before a deadline?
"I thought we already did that. You can vote, but you need to provide proof of your eligibility. There should be a time certain, of course, beyond which the undocumented vote cannot count. I'm not sure the state should be handling all this. Municipalities already do the job."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should the state do more to encourage municipalities to remove zoning barriers to housing development?
"The cities are doing their job. The suburbs don't. They have descriminatory zoning, with 2,3, even 4 acre plot zoning for single family homes. A joke. We also need to invest in our transportation infrastructure, which is inadequate."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Do you support legislation to expand the net energy metering system capacity cap from 1 MW to 5 MW for all residential and commercial customers in New Hampshire?
"Why not? Especially if we can increase our use of sustainable energy sources."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire guarantee the right to access abortion before 24 weeks?
"Stop using the government to force women to do what sometimes is not in their best interests. Restore their reproductive rights, in other words. When men start getting pregnant, we can have this discussion."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should the state increase funding for child care providers?
"This is where the federal government should spend more money. And, per usual, the NH Legislature fails its primary responsibility--to adequately fund a government."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Do you support New Hampshire’s current system of public school funding, with about two-thirds of total funding coming from local property taxes?
"A rogue Supreme Court ruled that public education money can be used for private education schools, IF the state hired a non-profit administrator to dole out the cash. Same Court eliminated state restrictions on campaign finances, again if a non profit trust (PAC) doled out the cash. Thus, the wealthiest Americans can anonymously donate as much money as they want. Campaign bribery is legitimate in America. Boss Tweed must be laughing in his grave."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire legalize the recreational use of marijuana by allowing home-growing and private use without sales?
"We manage liquor stores quite nicely. There's four or five 'good' strains of cannabis that should be allowed sold to the public. All the rest of it is, to put it bluntly, 'crap.' I know someone who grows the 'good' stuff in Maine."
Other| Read My Position
Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire legalize the recreational use of marijuana by licensing growers and private retail locations?
"We manage liquor stores quite nicely. There's four or five 'good' strains of cannabis that should be allowed sold to the public. All the rest of it is, to put it bluntly, 'crap.' I know someone who grows the 'good' stuff in Maine."
For| Read My Position
Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire legalize the recreational use of marijuana by establishing state-run cannabis stores?
"We manage liquor stores quite nicely. There's four or five 'good' strains of cannabis that should be allowed sold to the public. All the rest of it is, to put it bluntly, 'crap.' I know someone who grows the 'good' stuff in Maine."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire raise the minimum wage?
"Yes, Just another cause of our failure to distribute income fairly."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire add legal protections for residents of other states who travel here for health care related to abortion or gender transition?
"Of course."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire repeal the ban on abortion after 24 weeks gestation?
"Stop using the government to force women to do what sometimes is not in their best interests. Restore their reproductive rights, in other words. When men start getting pregnant, we can have this discussion."
Other| Read My Position
Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2025
Should NH require local law enforcement to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement?
When asked this question on the 2024 Citizens Count survey Rep. Herbert marked "For" and wrote, "Why would they not cooperate?" However, in 2025 Herbert voted against ban on "sanctuary policies" and against requiring local law enforcement to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement (HB 511 and SB 62).
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should NH pass stricter gun control laws?
"You need a license to drive a car. Gun owners should have proof of their knowledge and ability to own lethal weapons. And as with cars, there should be a legitimate 'paper trail' of who sells or buys what."
