Peter Bixby
Serving as: NH House Strafford County District 13
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
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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 current EFA program has no quality requirements for the education students receive, no monitoring to determine that the funds are even spent on legitimate educational expenses, and they can go to private schools who can reject the students who are more expensive to educate. The money that goes into the EFAs is money that is taken away from public schools, which in many towns are struggling to make ends meet, and are not allowed to turn away any student."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire ban abortions during the first trimester (e.g. after 6 weeks gestation)?
"Abortion is a personal health choice made by a woman based on her individual circumstances in consultation with medical, spiritual, and family advisors. The government should not interfere."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire ban abortions during the second trimester (e.g. after 15 weeks gestation)?
"Abortion is a personal health choice made by a woman based on her individual circumstances in consultation with medical, spiritual, and family advisors. The government should not interfere."
Undecided| Read My Position
Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should NH add an income tax on earned income?
"In order to reduce our excessive property taxes, the state needs to provide more revenue sharing with municipalities to help with schools and infrastructure. This can only happen if the state has more revenue.An income tax is one possibility, but it would need to have significant exemptions at the lower end so that it would not be a burden on people below the state median income."
Undecided| Read My Position
Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should NH add a broad-based sales tax?
"In order to reduce our excessive property taxes, the state needs to provide more revenue sharing with municipalities to help with schools and infrastructure. This can only happen if the state has more revenue. One option might be a sales tax, although I am not fond of them. The details of how it would be implemented would matter a lot. Sales tax on food or basic clothing is not acceptable."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire lower business taxes?
"The business profits tax in NH has a very high exemption at the low end, so the bulk of the tax is paid by a small number of large, very profitable companies, mostly based out of state. The greatest tax burden on most NH small businesses is local property tax. Higher business profits taxes that were used to offset local education and infrastructure costs could reduce the tax burden on most businesses."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire add a tax on capital gains?
"Investment income beyond a certain level is classified as unearned income. There should be a low end exemption to protect retirement income and there should be an exemption for business and farm property that is passed down to new generations or owners, but capital gains received through stock and bond market investment should be taxed to provide revenue to use for property tax relief."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire government do more to address climate change?
"For"
Undecided| Read My Position
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?
"Undecided"
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should the state do more to encourage municipalities to remove zoning barriers to housing development?
"For"
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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?
"For"
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire guarantee the right to access abortion before 24 weeks?
"Abortion is a personal health choice made by a woman based on her individual circumstances in consultation with medical, spiritual, and family advisors. The government should not interfere."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should the state increase funding for child care providers?
"For"
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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?
"Our state constitution requires public education. It also requires that taxes be fair and proportional. Having most of the funding for education come from property tax, when property values vary widely from town to town and city to city, means that people in municipalities with low property values pay a much a higher tax rate than those with high property values, often for a lower quality education. This is not fair or proportional, and therefore, not constitutional"
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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?
"Adults should be free to make their own choices about marijuana as long as they do not impinge on the rights of others. Home grow and licensed private providers allow for this. Making it a state run enterprise creates a state interest in increasing drug use, which is a moral hazard."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire legalize the recreational use of marijuana by licensing growers and private retail locations?
"Adults should be free to make their own choices about marijuana as long as they do not impinge on the rights of others. Home grow and licensed private providers allow for this. Making it a state run enterprise creates a state interest in increasing drug use, which is a moral hazard."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire legalize the recreational use of marijuana by establishing state-run cannabis stores?
"Adults should be free to make their own choices about marijuana as long as they do not impinge on the rights of others. Home grow and licensed private providers allow for this. Making it a state run enterprise creates a state interest in increasing drug use, which is a moral hazard."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire raise the minimum wage?
"The $7.25/hr federal minimum wage is impossible to live on. The exact amount of a minimum wage would need to be determine by study, but it should be enough to allow a person to pay for food and shelter."
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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?
"For"
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire repeal the ban on abortion after 24 weeks gestation?
"Abortion is a personal health choice made by a woman based on her individual circumstances in consultation with medical, spiritual, and family advisors. The government should not interfere."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should NH require local law enforcement to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement?
"Federal immigration enforcement is a federal issue, and should remain so."
Other| Read My Position
Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should NH pass stricter gun control laws?
"We used to have concealed carry permits. We should return to that system. We should have a red flag law that enables temporary restrictions on gun possession for persons adjudicated as safety risks to themselves or others, with clear provisions about how to remove the restrictions when the period of danger has passed. The baseline right to possession exists in the NH Constitution, and the default is that citizens have a right to gun possession. That should remain in place. Hunting and target shooting are part of our state culture and should remain so."
