William "Bill" Gannon
Room 124
107 North Main Street
Concord, NH 03301
United States
Serving as: NH Senate District 23
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 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 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 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 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.
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 144 (2025)
Establishes a system to report to the firearm background check system if a person is found not guilty by reason of insanity, not competent to stand trial, or involuntarily committed to a mental health facility. This bill also allows the court to order a person to surrender their firearms in these circumstances. This bill also establishes a process for a person to have their record removed from the background check system after six months, if they are no longer a danger to themselves or others.
SB 176 (2025)
Gradually raises the minimum wage to $15 per hour.
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.
SB 84 (2025)
Sets maximum lot size requirements for single-family homes, depending on the availability of municipal or community sewer and water infrastructure. The bill would generally block zoning laws that require lot sizes larger than 66,000 square feet, which is about 1.5 acres.
The Senate amended the bill, raising the limit to 88,000 square feet, which is about 2 acres.
SB 96 (2025)
Requires teachers to respond "honestly and completely" to written requests by parents regarding information relating to their children, within 10 days of receiving the request. If the teacher believes a response would put a child at risk, the teacher must file a report.
The House amended the bill to also establish penalties for violation of parental rights by school districts and school employees, including lawsuits, disciplinary action, and potential fines.
A conference committee of representatives and senators failed to agree on a final version of this bill.
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?
"Parents know the needs of their child best and should have full access to the per pupil share for education that lets their child be in private, charter, at home."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire ban abortions during the first trimester (e.g. after 6 weeks gestation)?
"While I as a Christian believe life starts at conception it is not a belief held by the majority and we should aim for a 15 to 20 week ban on abortions. "
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire ban abortions during the second trimester (e.g. after 15 weeks gestation)?
"While I as a Christian believe life starts at conception it is not a belief held by the majority and we should aim for a 15 to 20 week ban on abortions. "
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should NH add an income tax on earned income?
"I believe in the NH advantage, I believe in small limited government. Low taxes result in low spending. Not a broad-based income tax. "
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should NH add a broad-based sales tax?
"NH does more business because without a sales tax the state brings in out of state residents to spend at our businesses and increase and grow our local businesses. "
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire lower business taxes?
"I have voted for lower business taxes in the house and 6 years in the Senate. The result is NH business has grown and brought in more and more business and yearly we continue to lower business taxes. "
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire add a tax on capital gains?
"The capital gains tax taxes income you have already paid taxes on, discourages capital formation, taxes capital gains that are due to inflation and doesn't raise as much revenue as a static analysis would predict. "
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire government do more to address climate change?
"We are doing enough. Energy efficiency incentives for better insulating fforts. UNH students should be about using fossil fuels more efficiently. "
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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 believe we should eliminate the use of affadavits and mandate all voters be required to bring proof of identity with them to the polling place. "
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should the state do more to encourage municipalities to remove zoning barriers to housing development?
"NH believes in local control when possible. I lowered the parking space limit of a 10 plus unit apartment building to 1 or 2 spaces per unit. "
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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?
"Expanded net metering is a great idea, It makes large scale renewable energy financially viable. This will create a significant injection of renewable energy in to the NH city infrastructure. "
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire guarantee the right to access abortion before 24 weeks?
"While I as a Christian believe life starts at conception it is not a belief held by the majority and we should aim for a 15 to 20 week ban on abortions. "
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should the state increase funding for child care providers?
"Against"
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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?
"Current funding makes towns more accountable for their spending and encourages less spending."
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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?
"NH currently has decriminalized possession of small amounts and has legalized medical use. I have served on the two marijuana commissions in the last decade. Recreational pot will send the signal pot is no big deal. Wide spread use will be bad for NH, bad for families, bad for students and bad for society. It has terrible effects on brain development. "
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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?
"NH currently has decriminalized possession of small amounts and has legalized medical use. I have served on the two marijuana commissions in the last decade. Recreational pot will send the signal pot is no big deal. Wide spread use will be bad for NH, bad for families, bad for students and bad for society. It has terrible effects on brain development. "
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire legalize the recreational use of marijuana by establishing state-run cannabis stores?
"NH currently has decriminalized possession of small amounts and has legalized medical use. I have served on the two marijuana commissions in the last decade. Recreational pot will send the signal pot is no big deal. Wide spread use will be bad for NH, bad for families, bad for students and bad for society. It has terrible effects on brain development. "
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire raise the minimum wage?
"A higher minimum wage would cause businesses to pass the cost onto consumers in the form of higher prices and also results in layoffs of workers and higher costs of the good or service. "
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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?
"We do not want to become a destination abortion state or a gender transition state. "
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire repeal the ban on abortion after 24 weeks gestation?
"While I as a Christian believe life starts at conception it is not a belief held by the majority and we should aim for a 15 to 20 week ban on abortions. "
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should NH require local law enforcement to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement?
"Yes I wrote the NH Senate anti-sanctuary city bill. It requires police to cooperate with security and ICE when they pull over an illegal alien for a state offense. Call immigration and then deport dangerous illegal aliens. "
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should NH pass stricter gun control laws?
"The right to bear arms is a critical right as guaranteed in the 2nd Amendment. Also gun control doesn't work as criminals don't obey gun laws and gun laws do not reduce crime, actually states with the toughest gun laws have the highest crime rates."
