Fred Plett
Serving as: NH House Hillsborough County District 29
These objective, nonpartisan measures are used to show this legislator's activities at the Statehouse in 2023. 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. Sununu is still in the process of signing and vetoing 2023 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 10 (2023)
Establishes a parental bill of rights. Some of the parental rights in this bill include:
"The right to direct the education and care of his or her minor child"
"The right to be physically present at any health care facility ... at which their minor child is receiving hospital care"
"The right to consent in writing before a biometric scan of his or her minor child is made, shared, or stored"
HB 106 (2023)
Establishes a procedure for issuing "extreme risk protection orders" to protect against persons who pose an immediate risk of harm to themselves or others. An extreme risk protection order would restrict a person's access to firearms, and is also known as a "red flag law."
HB 2 (2023)
State budget bill (part 2). The governor presented his proposal for the next state budget February 14. The House and Senate both made changes to that proposal. Click here to read a summary of the 2023 budget process.
HB 208 (2023)
Establishes greenhouse gas emission reduction goals for the state, to net zero by 2050. This bill also requires the Department of Environmental Services to develop a climate action plan by July 1, 2024, that includes evaluation of best available information, considers inclusion of strategies, programs and compliance mechanisms with measurable goals and targets, considers opportunities to encourage investment in low/moderate income, rural and minority communities, makes recommendations on retraining and apprenticeship opportunities, and coordinates with other state agencies.
HB 224 (2023)
Repeals the civil and criminal penalties for health care providers who violate the state's ban on abortion after 24 weeks.
HB 367 (2023)
Increases the maximum household income limit for participation in the Education Freedom Account program, from 300% to 500% of the federal poverty guidelines. The Education Freedom Account program allows families to spend the state's per-pupil share of education funding on private or home school expenses.
The House amended the bill to only increase the income limit to 350% of the federal poverty guidelines.
HB 523 (2023)
Increases the maximum electric generating capacity to participate in net energy metering, from one to five megawatts. This bill also modifies the transition of tariffs applicable to some customer-generators.
HB 557 (2023)
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.
HB 567 (2023)
Requires at least 30 days written notice for a rent increase. Large, multi-unit rental owners must provide at least 60 days notice. If the rent increase is over 15%, large multi-unit landlords must provide at least 6 months notice.
HB 57 (2023)
Gradually raises the minimum wage to $15 per hour over the next three years, with future adjustments based on the consumer price index. This bill also raises the tipped minimum wage from 45% to 50% of the regular minimum wage. Lastly, this bill allows a minimum wage of $8 per hour for youth under age 18 for the first six months of employment.
HB 59 (2023)
Requires commercial sales and transfers of firearms to take place through licensed dealers. Those dealers are required to perform background checks.
HB 624 (2023)
Requires state and local law enforcement to notify the public before an immigration checkpoint.
HB 639 (2023)
Legalizes marijuana for adults over age twenty-one. The bill allows limited home-growing of marijuana. A new Cannabis Commission would oversee licensing and regulations related to the manufacture, testing, and sale of legal marijuana. Cannabis sales would be taxed under the Meals and Rooms tax system. Alternative Treatment Centers, which currently serve the state's medical marijuana patients, would be allowed to apply for a "dual use certificate" that allows them to participate in recreational marijuana business. Towns could limit marijuana businesses.
SB 263 (2023)
Permanently reauthorizes the New Hampshire Granite Advantage Health Care Program, commonly known as expanded Medicaid. Previous law ended the program on December 31, 2023. This bill also reestablishes and revises the commission to evaluate the New Hampshire Granite Advantage Health Care Program, commonly known as expanded Medicaid.
SB 272 (2023)
Establishes a parental bill of rights in education. Some of the parental rights in this bill include:
"The right to access and review all medical records of a child maintained by a school or school personnel"
"The right to inquire of the school or school personnel and to be truthfully and completely informed if the child is being identified or referred to by school district staff, as being of a gender other than that of which the child was identified or referred when enrolled"
Completed our 2022 State Candidate Survey
Position on Issues
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Should NH add a broad-based sales tax?
"It would be too easy to spend that revenue - instead of lowering property taxes, it would increase state government. Other Northeastern states have gone down that path."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Should NH add an income tax on earned income?
"It would be too easy to spend that revenue - instead of lowering property taxes, it would increase state government. Other Northeastern states have gone down that path."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Should New Hampshire lower business taxes?
"Lowering business tax rates have increased revenues - as we become more business friendly, we attract businesses,===."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Do you support the gradual phase-out of the Interests and Dividends tax?
"NH purports itself to have no income tax, but the interest and dividends tax is an income tax, by definition. The revenues from it are not large."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Should New Hampshire add a tax credit for businesses that contribute to student loan repayment for employees?
"Undecided"
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Should New Hampshire raise the minimum wage?
"The market will decide minimum wages without government interference."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Should the state do more to encourage municipalities to remove zoning barriers to housing development?
"We have a severe housing crisis, and towns and cities ought to look at their zoning to remove / reduce restrictive zoning. However, this should be encouraged by state government, not mandated."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Should the state permanently increase how much tax revenue it shares with towns and cities every year, beyond public school funding?
"The state has not lived up to its promises for local shares of the rooms and meals taxes. This was understandable during the 2008 great recession but is no longer so."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Do you support the state’s current system of public school funding, with each district’s total funding primarily dependent on local property tax revenue?
"This has worked, with revenue sharing from the state through SWEPT to even out funding for property poor and property rich towns and cities."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
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?
"Most of our public schools are superb, so there will be little appetite for mass shifting to alternative education programs, but the public school system may not fit all students and parents all the time, and there are towns where it could make sense to contract out education. If some schools provide an inferior product, they should yield to alternatives."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Do you support the state law that bans teaching certain concepts, such as the idea that people may be "inherently racist, sexist, or oppressive, whether consciously or unconsciously"?
"Our country's history hasn't been perfect, and the good and the bad should be taught. We as a nation continue to strive to reach the ideals upon which the country was founded. But some concepts deliberately emphasize only the bad, dividing people unnecessarily. People simply not inherently racist, sexist or oppressive."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Should New Hampshire ban discussions about sexual orientation and gender identity in grades K-3?
"This is another insidious invasion of our school systems with horrible concepts. A third grader isn't at all thinking about sex. Let them be kids. Don't groom them. Even in High School, no such emphasis should be promulgated, but instead an inclusive, let people be, approach is appropriate."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Should New Hampshire repeal the ban on abortion after 24 weeks gestation?
"NH Law now reflects the broad will of the people. It should not be disturbed. There are constituents who don't like any ban and there are others who would outlaw abortion in its entirety. Neither should have its way. As a practicing Catholic, find abortion abhorrent, though I am representing the people, not my own views."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Should New Hampshire guarantee the right to access abortion before 24 weeks?
"NH Law now reflects the broad will of the people. It should not be disturbed. There are constituents who don't like any ban and there are others who would outlaw abortion in its entirety. Neither should have its way. As a practicing Catholic, find abortion abhorrent, though I am representing the people, not my own views."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Should New Hampshire ban abortions during the second trimester (e.g. after 15 weeks gestation)?
"NH Law now reflects the broad will of the people. It should not be disturbed. There are constituents who don't like any ban and there are others who would outlaw abortion in its entirety. Neither should have its way. As a practicing Catholic, find abortion abhorrent, though I am representing the people, not my own views."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Should New Hampshire ban abortions during the first trimester (e.g. after 6 weeks gestation)?
"NH Law now reflects the broad will of the people. It should not be disturbed. There are constituents who don't like any ban and there are others who would outlaw abortion in its entirety. Neither should have its way. As a practicing Catholic, find abortion abhorrent, though I am representing the people, not my own views."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Should New Hampshire legalize the recreational use of marijuana by allowing home-growing and private use without sales?
"States around us have legaliyed marijuana. My concern is the knock-on effects of this. In this case it is smart not to be first. Marijuana today is much more potent than 60 years ago."
Undecided| Read My Position
Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Should New Hampshire legalize the recreational use of marijuana by licensing growers and private retail locations?
"States around us have legaliyed marijuana. My concern is the knock-on effects of this. In this case it is smart not to be first. Marijuana today is much more potent than 60 years ago."
Undecided| Read My Position
Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Should New Hampshire legalize the recreational use of marijuana by establishing state-run cannabis stores?
"States around us have legaliyed marijuana. My concern is the knock-on effects of this. In this case it is smart not to be first. Marijuana today is much more potent than 60 years ago."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Should NH pass stricter gun control laws?
"The right of the people .... Shall not be infringed. That being said, there are laws on the books to stop people from buying weapons if they are mentally unstable. Without creating a weapon by people who don't want gun ownership, period, there are ways to improve reporting of such individuals. Red flag laws can be crafted with sufficient protections built in to avoid capricious application, with mechanisms to restore rights upon showing of rehabilitation."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Should New Hampshire extend the renewable portfolio standard past 2025, requiring public utilities to obtain more than 25% of electricity from renewable energy sources?
"I have nothing against renewable power, but I am against subsidies for it, through net metering or other means. I believe in keeping rates and taxes low. Renewable power also must fit in with a portfolio of other generation sources to keep an electric grid functioning."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Should New Hampshire government do more to address climate change?
"'Climate change', at least anthropogenic, is a hoax. The 'science' has been corrupted. There hasn't been warming in over 20 years, and the sun is going into a maunder minimum, probably leading to temperature drops. Even if you believe the models, which I don't, the likely outcome is very benign and easily adapted to."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Should New Hampshire add a fee or mileage charge for electric vehicle owners to help pay for transportation and/or electric infrastructure?
"The gas tax revenues are decreasing, not only due to EVs but to hybrids and much more efficient petrol technologies. The gas tax should be replaced with a system that would provide sufficient revenues to maintain our roads and bridges. So I would not have a fee or mileage charge singling out EVs but one that applies to all vehicles, by reporting of mileage at state inspection and with affidavit exceptions for out of state travel."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Do you support the option of mail-in ballots for all voters, not just absentees?
"This leads to widespread abuse, Voter rolls are imperfect. Dead people could get ballots. The impact on towns and cities counting them is significant. Proce"
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
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?
"This is a short-term solution. I would replace it with a system requiring showing of ID, period."
