Lisa M. Freeman

HB 1580 (2026)

Imposes an annual 0.75% surcharge on the assessed value of residential properties classified as non-primary residences with a value over $500,000. There is an exemption for long-term rentals.

HB 1642 (2026)

Establishes a legal process for issuing extreme risk protection orders to temporarily restrict firearm access for individuals found to pose an immediate risk of harm to themselves or others. Family, household members, and law enforcement could petition the court for an order. An extreme risk protection order would restrict a person's access to firearms, and is also known as a "red flag law."

CACR 10 (2026)

Constitutional amendment requiring any new tax or tax increase to originate in the House of Representatives and pass by a two-thirds majority.

The House amended the bill to instead prohibit any tax on personal income that was not in effect on January 1, 2026.

HB 1792 (2026)

Titled the "Countering Hate And Revolutionary Leftist Indoctrination in Education Act" or the "CHARLIE Act." The bill prohibits teaching various concepts and theories. For example, the bill prohibits teachers from requiring "affirmation of LGBTQ+ sexuality as ethical or normative." As another example, the bill only allows instruction on critical race theory if is presented "as Marxian theories contrary to American tradition, law, and ethics." The bill would not apply to colleges and universities, private schools, or home schools. Individuals could sue under the law.

SB 101 (2025)

Allows parents to enroll their children in any public school in the state, regardless of what town or city they live in. A public school could reject a student's transfer for limited reasons, such as a "documented history of significant disciplinary issues."

The Senate amended the bill to also allow school events open to the general public, such as concerts and sports games, to be recorded without written consent from parents.

The Senate then added the substance of this bill to another bill, HB 751.

HB 1775 (2026)

Authorizes New Hampshire electric public utilities to invest in or own natural gas, hydrogen, and nuclear energy generation resources connected to their distribution system. The bill also expands the types of utility investments eligible for rate recovery (passing costs onto customers through monthly bills) to include those resources.

HB 1793 (2026)

Prohibits public colleges and universities from regulating the possession or carrying of firearms and non-lethal weapons (such as pepper spray) on campus. Individuals could sue under the law.

The Senate rewrote the bill. Their version of the bill prohibits public colleges and universities from regulating non-lethal weapons students; faculty would be allowed to possess and carry firearms. The amended bill also establishes a committee to study allowing guns on campus.

HB 1706 (2026)

Terminates the refugee resettlement program administered through the state Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), and prohibits public spending to assist refugee resettlement.

The House added the substance of this bill to SB 625.

HB 232 (2025)

Creates a right for health care providers to conscientiously object to participating in providing abortion, sterilization, or artificial contraception services. A health care employer could not act against a provider who refuses to participate.

The House amended the bill to only protect the right to conscientiously object to participating in abortion.

The Senate amended the bill to more narrowly protect the right for health care employees to request a reasonable accommodation of a sincerely held religious belief or moral conviction against abortion.

HB 155 (2025)

Reduces the Business Enterprise Tax (BET) rate from 0.55% to 0.50% starting in 2027.

The House amended the bill so that it would start in 2028.

The Senate amended the bill to instead raise the threshold for business before they must file taxes, from $250,000 to $375,000. The Senate amendment also sends $2.5 million to the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) for nursing home Medicaid per diem rate stabilization.

HB 1815 (2026)

Redefines what educational content the state must fund to satisfy an "adequate education" in state law. For example, the bill removes references to the minimum standards for public school approval. Notably, this bill states, "How the state and its local governmental entities choose to raise, allocate, and spend financial resources to implement this integrated public education system is a political policy matter reserved to legislative and executive judgment and control." This pushes back against New Hampshire Supreme Court rulings on what the state must fund for an adequate education.

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. 

HB 1268 (2026)

Modifies home education laws to remove the requirement for parents to notify the state unless participating in public school activities and makes annual evaluations optional. 

The House amended the bill to add other protections for parents who choose to home educate. For example, the amended bill allows families to seek damages if a person knowingly makes a report that alleges abuse or neglect predominantly on the basis that a child is home educated. However, the Senate removed some of those provisions.

HB 1811 (2026)

Repeals statutory immunization requirements for school and child care enrollment and prohibits vaccine mandates for public services.

HB 1196 (2026)

Repeals the Housing Champion designation and grant program, along with its associated fund and advisory committee.

HB 1300 (2026)

Redraws the boundaries for the state's two United States Congressional districts.

The House rewrote the bill. The new bill requires voters to vote on a school district local tax cap at each general election. The bill then limits central office administrative expenses in school districts.

The Senate amended the bill to only require a local tax cap vote only at the 2026 general election.

A conference committee of representatives and senators agreed to require a local tax cap vote at both the 2026 and 2028 general elections.

HB 323 (2025)

Requires a voter to present government-issued photographic ID to vote. Student identification, for example, would no longer satisfy voter ID laws.

HB 1442 (2026)

Defines sex based on biology for statutory purposes and requires public schools and government buildings to designate bathrooms and locker rooms based on biological sex, while allowing private entities to do the same.

The Senate rewrote the bill to allow, but not require, separation based on biological sex in bathrooms, locker rooms, sports, prisons, and treatment centers.

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.

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.

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 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 282 (2025)

Increases the maximum compensation for first responders' critical injury benefits from $500,000 to $1,000,000. 

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 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 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 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 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 238 (2025)

Right-to-work bill that prohibits collective bargaining agreements that require employees to join or contribute to a labor union.

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 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.

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.

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 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 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.

HB 1319 (2018)

Prohibits discrimination based on gender identity.

HB 587 (2017)

Prohibits conversion therapy for anyone under age eighteen. Conversion therapy attempts to change a person's sexual orientation.

CACR 22 (2018)

Constitutional amendment establishing various rights for crime victims.

HB 628 (2017)

Establishes a social insurance program that would be operated by New Hampshire Employment Security to provide for paid family and medical leave insurance. Employers would pay 0.5% of wages per employee as premium payments. The House amended the bill to increase the employee contribution to 0.67%, to allow employees to opt out, and to limit benefits to six weeks of paid leave.

SB 313 (2018)

Continues New Hampshire's expanded Medicaid program. This bill makes several significant changes to the program. First, it moves participants off private insurance and into managed care, similar to traditional Medicaid enrollees. Second, it adds a work requirement for participants. Third, it removes funding from voluntary contributions by health care providers, which the federal government said is illegal.

HB 1264 (2018)

Redefines "resident" and "inhabitant" to remove the phrase "for the indefinite future." This bill would potentially require all voters domiciled in New Hampshire to follow residency laws, such as the requirement to register any car in New Hampshire.

HB 1680 (2018)

Prohibits abortion after viability, unless the mother's life is in danger, "in cases of Twin to Twin Transfusion Syndrome, or to remove a fetus with severe anomalies incompatible with life."

SB 193 (2017)

Establishes the "education freedom savings account program." This allows a parent to contract with a scholarship organization so that state education funding is transferred to the student's scholarship account rather than to the municipality in which the student resides.  The House amended the bill to limit the scholarships to certain students, particularly low income students, students in underperforming schools, and special education students.  The amended version also requires any student receiving a scholarship to complete an annual assessment to ensure academic progress.

HB 592 (2017)

Repeals the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). The House amended the bill to instead end energy efficiency grants, and send all the proceeds from RGGI to commercial and residential ratepayer rebates.

SB 593 (2018)

Changes the penalty for any offense eligible for the death penalty to life imprisonment without parole.

HB 656 (2017)

Legalizes and taxes marijuana for adults over age twenty-one. The bill outlines various regulations, from the ability of municipalities to control the location of marijuana establishments, to labels disclosing the THC in each serving of a marijuana product. The bill also legalizes hemp. The House amended the bill to instead legalize possession and homegrowing of marijuana without allowing sales.

SB 500 (2018)

Removes the prohibition of carrying a loaded rifle or shotgun in or on a stationary motor vehicle, OHRV, snowmobile, or aircraft. This bill also changes some legal references to firearms, and allows licensed bow hunters to carry firearms. Lastly, this bill removes the ability to deny or revoke a hunting license if a person "is not a suitable person to carry firearms." The Senate amended the bill to also allow carrying a loaded firearm on a moving vehicle if the person is protecting livestock or crops. The Senate amendment also allows hunting with an air rifle.

HB 115 (2017)

Raises the minimum wage to $9.50 in 2018 and $12 in 2019, with annual cost of living adjustments starting in 2020. The bill also establishes a training wage that is one dollar less than the minimum wage for the first three months of employment for someone sixteen or seventeen years-old.

SB 131 (2017)

Appropriates $1,155,000 to hire five state troopers assigned to drug enforcement on the state border. This bill also appropriates $3,340,000 for state and local law enforcement and the state lab for overtime related to drug enforcement.

SB 242 (2017)

Authorizes one smaller and one larger casino with video lottery and table gaming. The smaller casino would pay an initial ten-year license fee of $40 million, and the larger casino would pay an initial ten-year license fee of $80 million. The casinos would pay a tax of 35% on gross slot machine revenue and 18% on gross table game revenue. The Legislature would choose how to distribute this revenue, provided that some of the revenue goes to towns hosting or neighboring the casino, and some of the revenue goes to treat problem gambling.

HB 478 (2017)

Prohibits discrimination based on gender identity.

HB 144 (2017)

Changes the annual county budget procedures for Rockingham County to match those used in Hillsborough County. Since the House failed to pass the 2018-2019 budget bill HB 1, the Senate amended this bill into a new budget bill.

SB 10 (2017)

Creates a program to repay licensed milk producers from losses during the 2016 drought. The bill appropriates $2 million to the Milk Producers Emergency Relief Fund.

SB 66 (2017)

Includes fetuses as potential victims under murder statutes. The Senate amended the bill to include only fetuses twenty weeks and older, not just "viable" fetuses.

SB 191 (2017)

Increases state funding for full-day kindergarten programs, with adjustments based on the number of English language learners and free and reduced lunch students in each district. The House amended the bill to simply provide full funding for full-day kindergarten programs, and half funding for half-day kindergarten programs. The House also added keno legalization to the bill to create the revenue for kindergarten funding.

HB 103 (2017)

Requires school districts to provide advance notice to parents and legal guardians of course material involving discussion of human sexuality or human sexual education.

SB 3 (2017)

Changes the definition of domicile for voting purposes to make it more restrictive. This bill explicitly excludes anyone who comes to the state "for temporary purposes," such as volunteering or working on political campaigns. Out-of-state college students are still allowed to claim a domicile in New Hampshire. However, if someone moves to a new New Hampshire address within 30 days of voting, he or she must present proof of intent to stay in New Hampshire. This proof could include a lease, driver's license, a child's enrollment at a public school, etc.

SB 8 (2017)

Allows a school district to assign a child to a non-sectarian private school if there is no public school for the child's grade in the child's resident district. The bill was amended to also require the non-sectarian private school to administer an annual assessment.

HB 157 (2017)

Adds chronic pain to the qualifying medical conditions for medical marijuana.

SB 11 (2017)

Right-to-Work bill that prohibits collective bargaining agreements that require employees to join or contribute to a labor union.

HB 640 (2017)

Decriminalizes possession of 3/4 ounce or less of marijuana, with additional penalties for violators under age twenty-one.

SB 12 (2017)

Increases the length of time for which a license to carry a concealed firearm is valid, and repeals the requirement to obtain a license to carry a concealed firearm.