Terry Roy
Serving as: NH House Rockingham County District 31
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?
"A sales tax is regressive by nature, effecting the poor and least able to afford it, the most."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Should NH add an income tax on earned income?
"One of the great advantages to living in New Hampshire, is the ability of its people to keep more of what they earn. This also has the benefit of keeping the size and reach of government in check."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Should New Hampshire lower business taxes?
"Having run consistent revenue surpluses under responsible management via Republican control of the Legislature, the Executive Council and the Governor's office, it is clear that we have room to allow businesses to keep more of their own money. This makes New Hampshire more attractive to new businesses and the jobs that come with them."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Do you support the gradual phase-out of the Interests and Dividends tax?
"Most Americans have come to rely on their 401k as an important part of their retirement. The money was taxed once when they earned it and they absorbed all of the risk when they invested it. Peoples savings are theirs and not the Government's piggy bank."
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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?
"This is a good example of a public/private partnership that benefits everyone."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Should New Hampshire raise the minimum wage?
"Virtually no one is paid the minimum wage in New Hampshire. With one of the lowest unemployment rates in the country, business have to compete for workers. Even coffee shop employees and retail clerks start on average, earning double the current minimum wage. Government forcing an artificial wage increase for unskilled workers is a Democrat plan to help big unions. Forcing higher wages for unskilled and almost exclusively non-union jobs, gives unions an argument to demand higher wages for their workers. For example, if a coffee server makes $15 as a mandatory minimum, the unions can say their skilled workers should be paid much more. This would certainly translate to higher property taxes, as public sector unions are the largest in the state. The free market should always drive wages. The minimum wage protects unskilled workers from being taken advantage of while still being low enough to encourage workers to make themselves more successful via continued education and training for something even better. Contrary to Democrat arguments, not every job should pay enough to support a family. If it did, there would be no incentive for personal growth and the cost of goods and services would be priced so high as to make them unaffordable to the very people they claim to want to help."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Should the state do more to encourage municipalities to remove zoning barriers to housing development?
"While I believe in local control for the most part, municipalities cannot have it both ways. Three acre minimums for home building prohibits growing the tax base while Democrat run school boards continue to raise taxes. They then blame the state for not adequately funding their locally made education decisions and demand more funding. What they leave out is that the source for that funding it more property tax. It is nothing but a shell game being played on their own citizens. What's worse is their demands for so called "property rich" towns to pay for their decisions in "property poor towns while at the same time enforcing minimum zoning to ensure they stay that way. NIMBY is no way to live."
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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?
"Begging from Peter to pay Paul is no way to run a government. State revenue is not printed in the basement of the State House, it is confiscated from the people."
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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?
"I would support increasing state adequacy aid to towns who remove zoning designed to keep their tax base small. Complaining property tax revenues do not cover the costs of the education budget YOU created, while refusing to increase your tax base, is like financing a car you can't afford while working part-time, and refusing to work more hours to cover it and then demanding someone else pay to make up the difference."
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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?
"We cherish education and not buildings or unions. Allowing citizens to use their own money, that they paid in taxes, to find the best education setting for their child, fulfills that concept. If schools must compete for students, they will be forced to offer a better education."
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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"?
"When the law mandates education, it must ensure that what it teaches is in keeping with the Constition. Namely, that all people are created equal and that in our society equal opportunity is guaranteed but not equal outcome. What we make of the opportunity is equal to what we put into it. No one is inherently good or bad. Hard work is necessary to be successful regardless of sex, race or religious affiliation."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Should New Hampshire ban discussions about sexual orientation and gender identity in grades K-3?
"K-3 is actually not enough. K-12 is more appropriate. The teaching of issues related to morals and sexuality belongs exclusively to the parents. They and they alone know what and when their children are ready to learn about in this regard. This is especially true when current education is resulting in vast swaths of our children unable to read, write, and do arithmetic at their grade level. The schools need to focus on teaching real pronouns before it ventures into fictional ones."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Should New Hampshire repeal the ban on abortion after 24 weeks gestation?
"Abortion should be driven by science and personal morality. We have a duty to protect unborn children from painful torture. When modern science tells us that a fetus can feel pain, the government must protect them the same way it protects anyone else. Likewise, we have a duty to protect a child that is born at that moment, could survive without the mother. Prior to that, it is a personal moral decision and we cannot legislate morality. There should be exceptions for rape, incest and fatal fetal conditions up to a point but not without limitations. Modern science allows a woman to know she is pregnant long before viability and she obviously knows if that pregnancy is the result of rape or incest. With regard to fatal fetal anomalies, there should be no limit. Forcing a woman to carry an infant to term who cannot live once born or whose life cannot continue without artificial support, is equally cruel."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Should New Hampshire guarantee the right to access abortion before 24 weeks?
"Abortion should be driven by science and personal morality. We have a duty to protect unborn children from painful torture. When modern science tells us that a fetus can feel pain, the government must protect them the same way it protects anyone else. Likewise, we have a duty to protect a child that is born at that moment, could survive without the mother. Prior to that, it is a personal moral decision and we cannot legislate morality. There should be exceptions for rape, incest and fatal fetal conditions up to a point but not without limitations. Modern science allows a woman to know she is pregnant long before viability and she obviously knows if that pregnancy is the result of rape or incest. With regard to fatal fetal anomalies, there should be no limit. Forcing a woman to carry an infant to term who cannot live once born or whose life cannot continue without artificial support, is equally cruel."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Should New Hampshire ban abortions during the second trimester (e.g. after 15 weeks gestation)?
"Abortion should be driven by science and personal morality. We have a duty to protect unborn children from painful torture. When modern science tells us that a fetus can feel pain, the government must protect them the same way it protects anyone else. Likewise, we have a duty to protect a child that is born at that moment, could survive without the mother. Prior to that, it is a personal moral decision and we cannot legislate morality. There should be exceptions for rape, incest and fatal fetal conditions up to a point but not without limitations. Modern science allows a woman to know she is pregnant long before viability and she obviously knows if that pregnancy is the result of rape or incest. With regard to fatal fetal anomalies, there should be no limit. Forcing a woman to carry an infant to term who cannot live once born or whose life cannot continue without artificial support, is equally cruel."
Against| Read My Position
Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Should New Hampshire ban abortions during the first trimester (e.g. after 6 weeks gestation)?
"Abortion should be driven by science and personal morality. We have a duty to protect unborn children from painful torture. When modern science tells us that a fetus can feel pain, the government must protect them the same way it protects anyone else. Likewise, we have a duty to protect a child that is born at that moment, could survive without the mother. Prior to that, it is a personal moral decision and we cannot legislate morality. There should be exceptions for rape, incest and fatal fetal conditions up to a point but not without limitations. Modern science allows a woman to know she is pregnant long before viability and she obviously knows if that pregnancy is the result of rape or incest. With regard to fatal fetal anomalies, there should be no limit. Forcing a woman to carry an infant to term who cannot live once born or whose life cannot continue without artificial support, is equally cruel."
For| Read My Position
Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Should New Hampshire legalize the recreational use of marijuana by allowing home-growing and private use without sales?
"For"
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2023
Should New Hampshire legalize the recreational use of marijuana by licensing growers and private retail locations?
On the 2022 Citizens Count Issue Survey, Roy marked that he was "For" legalizing the recreational use of marijuana by licensing growers and private retail locations. However, in 2023 Roy voted against legalizing private marijuana sales with a 12.5% excise tax (HB 639).
For| Read My Position
Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Should New Hampshire legalize the recreational use of marijuana by establishing state-run cannabis stores?
"For"
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Should NH pass stricter gun control laws?
"New Hampshire is one of the safest states in the nation and we have the least restrictive gun laws. The results speak for themselves. Suicide is the leading cause of gun death in New Hampshire. That calls for more mental health treatment and not fewer guns."
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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?
"The government should not require anything that drives up the cost of energy for consumers. When and if renewable emery becomes efficient and cost effective, the free market will demand it just like every new innovation that has come before. No new innovation has ever come from government."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Should New Hampshire government do more to address climate change?
"For any environmental protection to be effective, it must be done on a national level, otherwise it does little to effect the environment and does much to disadvantage a state economically."
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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?
"All vehicles should pay for the upkeep of the roads they use."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Do you support the option of mail-in ballots for all voters, not just absentees?
"As we have seen, unfettered access to our election system leads to fraud. The right to vote should be easy to exercise but it must also be protected. Every fraudulent votes negates the vote of a legal voter. If you can leave your home for any reason, you can vote in person. If you cannot, the absentee system has you covered."
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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?
"As I have said, the vote of every lawful voter must be protected and every fraudulent vote steals the voice of a lawful voter. If you know you are going to vote and you know you are not registered, you certainly know to bring your identification. You would not expect to be able to go to a bank and open an account without bringing an ID, so why should we expect any less for something even more important? The Constitution does not guarantee a right to a bank account, but it does to vote, therefore the security of voting should be AT LEAST as tight as that required to bank."
