New Hampshire 2022 Regular Session Status: Enacted Bipartisan · 4 R · 2 D cosponsors

SB 381 — establishing an office of the advocate for special education.

Last action — Signed by the Governor on 07/01/2022; Chapter 0316; Effective 07/31/2022

  1. ✓
    Introduced
  2. ✓
    In Committee
  3. ✓
    Passed Senate
  4. ✓
    Passed House
  5. ✓
    To Executive
  6. 6
    Enacted

This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced December 21, 2021. Enacted.

Odds of enactment

High chance

Based on the sponsor, cosponsors, and committee posture, this bill has a high chance of becoming law.

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Prognosis

Likely to advance 98% · high confidence
  • Enacted

    Current position in the legislative process.

  • 9 sponsors

    1 primary, 8 co-sponsors signed on.

  • Bipartisan support

    Sponsored across 2 parties (4 R · 2 D) — cross-party backing.

  • Cleared a recorded vote

    Passed 1 recorded vote so far.

Based on stage, sponsorship breadth, committee status, recorded votes, and cross-state momentum — a description of the observable signals, not a prediction.

Bill Text

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Amendments

1 amendment

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Action History

  1. Signed by the Governor on 07/01/2022; Chapter 0316; Effective 07/31/2022

  2. Enrolled Adopted, VV, (In recess 05/26/2022); SJ 13

  3. Enrolled (in recess of) 05/26/2022 HJ 14

  4. Conference Committee Report # 2022-2011c, Adopted, VV; 05/26/2022; SJ 13

  5. Conference Committee Report 2022-2011c: Adopted, VV 05/26/2022 HJ 14

  6. Conference Committee Report # 2022-2011c Filed 05/16/2022; House Amendment

  7. Committee of Conference Meeting: 05/16/2022, 9:00 a.m., Room 100, SH

  8. Speaker Appoints: Reps. Cordelli, Hobson, Litchfield 05/12/2022 HJ 13

  9. House Accedes to Senate Request for CofC (Rep. Ladd): MA VV 05/12/2022 HJ 13

  10. President Appoints: Senators Ward, Hennessey, Prentiss; 05/12/2022; SJ 12

  11. Sen. Ward Moved Nonconcur with the House Amendment; Requests C of C, MA, VV; 05/12/2022; SJ 12

  12. Ought to Pass with Amendment 1857h: MA RC 170-155 05/04/2022 HJ 11

  13. Amendment # 1857h: AA DV 163-152 05/04/2022 HJ 11

  14. Minority Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate

  15. Majority Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2022-1857h (Vote 15-6; RC)

  16. Division Work Session: 04/27/2022 11:00 am LOB 209

  17. Division Work Session: 04/25/2022 10:00 am LOB 209

  18. Executive Session: 04/27/2022 03:00 pm LOB 210-211

  19. Referred to Finance 04/21/2022 HJ 10

  20. Ought to Pass: MA VV 04/21/2022 HJ 10

  21. Minority Committee Report: Refer for Interim Study

  22. Majority Committee Report: Ought to Pass (Vote 10-9; RC) HC 15 P. 13

  23. Executive Session: 04/13/2022 10:00 am LOB 205-207

  24. Public Hearing: 04/11/2022 09:30 am LOB 205-207

  25. Introduced 03/28/2022 and referred to Education

  26. Ought to Pass: MA, VV; OT3rdg; 03/24/2022; SJ 6

  27. Committee Report: Ought to Pass, 03/24/2022; SC 12

  28. Ought to Pass: MA, VV; Refer to Finance Rule 4-5; 02/16/2022; SJ 3

  29. Committee Report: Ought to Pass, 02/16/2022; Vote 5-0; CC; SC 7

  30. Hearing: 01/25/2022, Room 101, LOB, 09:00 am; SC 2

  31. To Be Introduced 01/05/2022 and Referred to Education; SJ 1

Sponsors

Sponsorship breakdown

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1 sponsors · 8 co-sponsors · 406 not signed on · 149 voted No

Sponsors (1)

Co-sponsors (8)

Not signed on (406)

406 members have not signed on to this bill.

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"Not signed on" means a member has not sponsored or co-sponsored this bill — it does not imply opposition. Members flagged Voted No have a recorded No vote on this bill.

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Votes

OTPA

Passed 170 Yea · 155 Nay · 62 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 8280045
Republican 828010
Democrat 36306
Independent 0001
Total 167151062
% of votes cast 44%40%0%16%
How each member voted (380)
Member Party Vote
Amanda Elizabeth Elizabeth Toll — Nay
Andrew Maneval — Nay
Alan Bershtein — Yea
Alfred P. Baldasaro — Yea
Alicia D. Lekas — Yea
Allison R. Nutting-Wong — Nay
Amanda Bouldin — Not Voting
Amanda Gourgue — Not Voting
Amy Bradley — Nay
Andrew Renzullo — Yea
Andrew S. O'Hearne — Not Voting
Ariel Oxaal — Not Voting
Arthur S. Ellison — Nay
Barbara J. Griffin — Yea
Ben M. Kilanski — Not Voting
Benjamin C. Baroody — Nay
Beth A. Folsom — Yea
Betsy McKinney — Not Voting
Betty I. Gay — Not Voting
Bill C. King — Not Voting
Bill G. Nelson — Yea
Bonnie D. Ham — Yea
Brodie S. Deshaies — Yea
Bruce L. Cohen — Nay
Cam E. Kenney — Nay
Caroletta C. Alicea — Nay
Casey M. Conley — Not Voting
Catt Sandler — Nay
Cecilia Rich — Nay
Charlotte I. DiLorenzo — Nay
Chris True — Yea
Christy D. Bartlett — Nay
Chuck Grassie — Nay
Claire A. Rouillard — Yea
Clifford A. Newton — Yea
Cody M. Belanger — Not Voting
Connie Van Houten — Nay
Dan Toomey — Nay
Dan Wolf — Yea
Daniel A. Eaton — Nay
Dave Testerman — Yea
David A. Welch — Yea
David E. Cote — Not Voting
David W. Binford — Not Voting
Dawn M. Johnson — Yea
Deb Stevens — Yea
Deborah L. Hobson — Yea
Denise M. Smith — Not Voting
Dennis F. Acton — Yea
Dennis Green — Yea
Dennis J. Thompson — Not Voting
Diane M. Langley — Not Voting
Dianne E. Schuett — Nay
Dick Marston — Yea
Donald J. Bouchard — Nay
Donna Ellis — Not Voting
Dustin Dodge — Yea
Eamon P. Kelley — Nay
Edith Tucker — Nay
Edward M. Gordon — Yea
Erika F. Connors — Nay
Everett P. McBride — Not Voting
Fenton Groen — Yea
Frances E. Nutter-Upham — Nay
Fred G. Doucette — Yea
Fred R. Plett — Yea
Gail E. Sanborn — Nay
Gary Merchant — Nay
Gary S. Hopper — Yea
Gerri D. Cannon — Nay
Glenn Cordelli — Yea
Gregg Hough — Yea
Harry H. Bean — Yea
Heidi M. Hamer — Nay
Israel F. Piedra — Yea
Ivy C. Vann — Nay
Jaci L. Grote — Nay
Jacqueline A. Cali-Pitts — Yea
Jacqueline H. Chretien — Nay
James C. Allard — Nay
James F. Horgan — Yea
James L. Mason — Yea
James Michael Murphy — Not Voting
Jane E. Beaulieu — Nay
Janice E. Schmidt — Not Voting
Jeffrey C. Salloway — Nay
Jeffrey Greeson — Yea
Jeffrey P. Goley — Nay
Jennie R. Gomarlo — Nay
Jerry Knirk — Nay
Joan L. Hamblet — Nay
Joe Schapiro — Nay
John A. Burt — Yea
John A. Graham — Yea
John Bordenet — Nay
John E. Mann — Yea
John F. Klose — Yea
John Lewicke — Yea
John M. Callum — Yea
Jonathan D. Mackie — Yea
Joseph A. Pitre — Yea
Joseph Depalma IV — Yea
Josh S. Yokela — Nay
Joshua Adjutant — Yea
Joshua F. Query — Nay
Joyce Weston — Nay
Judith T. Spang — Yea
Karen C. Umberger — Yea
Kendall A. Snow — Not Voting
Kenna E. Cross — Yea
Kenneth S. Vincent — Not Voting
Kevin B. Craig — Yea
Kevin M. Pratt — Yea
Kimberly A. Rice — Not Voting
Kristina M. Fargo — Not Voting
Kurt F. Wuelper — Yea
Larry L. Laflamme — Nay
Latha D. Mangipudi — Nay
Laura C. Pantelakos — Nay
Laurie J. Sanborn — Yea
Lawrence Welkowitz — Nay
Leah P. Cushman — Not Voting
Lee Walker Oxenham — Nay
Linda A. Massimilla — Nay
Linda L. Tanner — Not Voting
Mac Kittredge — Yea
Manny Espitia — Nay
Margaret Anne Kennedy — Yea
Maria Perez — Nay
Marjorie A. Porter — Not Voting
Mark C. Alliegro — Yea
Mark King — Nay
Mary Ann Kimball — Not Voting
Mary Beth Walz — Nay
Mary C. Freitas — Not Voting
Mary Heath — Nay
Mary L. Mayville — Yea
Matthew J. Simon — Nay
Matthew Santonastaso — Yea
Max Abramson — Yea
Mel Myler — Nay
Melbourne R. Moran — Not Voting
Melissa Blasek — Yea
Michael B. O'Brien — Nay
Michael D. Abbott — Nay
Michael J. Sylvia — Not Voting
Michael P. Pedersen — Nay
Michael Yakubovich — Yea
Natalie J. Wells — Yea
Nick D. White — Not Voting
Nicole Klein-Knight — Nay
Niki Kelsey — Not Voting
Norman J. Silber — Yea
Norman L. Major — Not Voting
Oliver J. Ford — Yea
Patricia S. Klee — Nay
Patrick F. Abrami — Yea
Paul F. Ayer — Not Voting
Paul R. Bergeron — Nay
Paul Somero — Yea
Peter E. Torosian — Yea
Peter F. Somssich — Not Voting
Peter T. Hayward — Yea
Rebecca J. McWilliams — Nay
Rebecca McBeath — Not Voting
Richard Littlefield — Yea
Richard M. Abel — Nay
Robert J. Elliott — Not Voting
Robert L. Theberge — Nay
Robert V. Healey — Yea
Roderick L. Pimentel — Nay
Roger W. Dontonville — Nay
Safiya Wazir — Nay
Scott Wallace — Yea
Sharon Nordgren — Nay
Sherry Dutzy — Not Voting
Sherry Frost — Not Voting
Sparky Von Plinsky — Nay
Stacie-Marie Laughton — Not Voting
Stephen J. Shurtleff — Nay
Sue M. Mullen — Nay
Susan C. DeLemus — Yea
Susan GS Treleaven — Nay
Susan Homola — Yea
Suzanne H. Gottling — Nay
Suzanne J. Smith — Not Voting
Suzanne M. Vail — Nay
Tim Baxter — Yea
Timothy Fontneau — Not Voting
Timothy J. Smith — Not Voting
Timothy P. Lang — Yea
Timothy T. Egan — Nay
Tina L. Harley — Not Voting
Tom E. Lanzara — Yea
Tom J. Loughman — Nay
Tony Lekas — Yea
Tony Piemonte — Not Voting
Tracy Emerick — Yea
Travis J. O'Hara — Yea
Troy Merner — Yea
Walter A. Stapleton — Yea
Wendy Chase — Nay
William A. Hatch — Nay
William J. Infantine — Yea
William M. Marsh — Nay
William S. Foster — Yea
Willis T. Griffith — Nay
Alexis Simpson Democrat Nay
Anita Burroughs Democrat Nay
Barry Faulkner Democrat Nay
Beth Richards Democrat Not Voting
Brian Sullivan Democrat Nay
Cassandra Levesque Democrat Nay
Catherine Rombeau Democrat Nay
Catherine Sofikitis Democrat Nay
Cathryn Harvey Democrat Nay
Chris McAleer Democrat Nay
Christopher Herbert Democrat Not Voting
Connie Lane Democrat Nay
Daniel Veilleux Democrat Yea
David Luneau Democrat Nay
David Meuse Democrat Nay
Debra Altschiller Democrat Nay
Dennis Malloy Democrat Nay
Dick Ames Democrat Nay
Donovan Fenton Democrat Nay
Dru Fox Democrat Nay
Efstathia Booras Democrat Not Voting
Ellen Read Democrat Nay
Eric Gallager Democrat Nay
Gaby Grossman Democrat Nay
George Sykes Democrat Nay
Gerald Ward Democrat Nay
James MacKay Democrat Nay
Janet Wall Democrat Nay
Jean Jeudy Democrat Nay
Jim Maggiore Democrat Yea
John Cloutier Democrat Nay
Julie Gilman Democrat Nay
Karen Ebel Democrat Nay
Kat McGhee Democrat Nay
Kate Murray Democrat Nay
Kris Schultz Democrat Nay
Laura Telerski Democrat Nay
Laurel Stavis Democrat Nay
Linda DiSilvestro Democrat Nay
Linda Harriott-Gathright Democrat Nay
Lucius Parshall Democrat Nay
Lucy Weber Democrat Nay
Marjorie Smith Democrat Nay
Mark Paige Democrat Nay
Martin Jack Democrat Nay
Mary Hakken-Phillips Democrat Nay
Mary Jane Wallner Democrat Nay
Matthew Wilhelm Democrat Nay
Megan Murray Democrat Nay
Michael Cahill Democrat Not Voting
Michael Edgar Democrat Nay
Muriel Hall Democrat Nay
Pat Long Democrat Nay
Patricia Cornell Democrat Not Voting
Paul Berch Democrat Not Voting
Peter Bixby Democrat Nay
Peter Leishman Democrat Nay
Peter Petrigno Democrat Nay
Peter Schmidt Democrat Nay
Ray Newman Democrat Nay
Rosemarie Rung Democrat Nay
Russell Muirhead Democrat Nay
Sallie Fellows Democrat Nay
Stephen Woodcock Democrat Nay
Sue Newman Democrat Nay
Susan Almy Democrat Nay
Thomas Buco Democrat Nay
Thomas Schamberg Democrat Yea
Thomas Southworth Democrat Nay
Timothy Horrigan Democrat Nay
Timothy Soucy Democrat Nay
Tony Caplan Democrat Nay
Aidan Ankarberg Independent Not Voting
Aboul Khan Republican Yea
Andrew Prout Republican Yea
Arnold Davis Republican Yea
Barbara Comtois Republican Nay
Bill Boyd Republican Yea
Bob Lynn Republican Yea
Brian Seaworth Republican Yea
Carol McGuire Republican Yea
Charles McMahon Republican Yea
Charles Melvin Republican Yea
Daryl Abbas Republican Yea
David Love Republican Yea
David Lundgren Republican Not Voting
David Milz Republican Yea
Debra DeSimone Republican Yea
Diane Kelley Republican Yea
Diane Pauer Republican Yea
Douglas Thomas Republican Yea
Douglas Trottier Republican Not Voting
Erica Layon Republican Yea
Gerald Griffin Republican Yea
Glen Aldrich Republican Not Voting
Glenn Bailey Republican Yea
Gregory Hill Republican Yea
Howard Pearl Republican Yea
JD Bernardy Republican Yea
James Creighton Republican Yea
James Qualey Republican Yea
James Spillane Republican Yea
Jason Osborne Republican Yea
Jeanine Notter Republican Yea
Jennifer Rhodes Republican Yea
Jess Edwards Republican Yea
Jim Fedolfi Republican Yea
Jim Kofalt Republican Nay
Jodi Nelson Republican Yea
Joe Alexander Republican Yea
Joe Sweeney Republican Yea
John Hunt Republican Yea
John Janigian Republican Yea
John Leavitt Republican Yea
John MacDonald Republican Yea
John Potucek Republican Yea
John Sytek Republican Yea
Jonathan Smith Republican Yea
Jordan Ulery Republican Yea
Jose Cambrils Republican Nay
Joseph Guthrie Republican Nay
Judy Aron Republican Yea
Juliet Harvey-Bolia Republican Yea
Julius Soti Republican Yea
Karel Crawford Republican Not Voting
Katherine Prudhomme-O'Brien Republican Yea
Keith Ammon Republican Not Voting
Keith Erf Republican Nay
Kenneth Weyler Republican Yea
Kevin Verville Republican Not Voting
Larry Gagne Republican Yea
Len Turcotte Republican Yea
Lex Berezhny Republican Nay
Linda Gould Republican Yea
Lino Avellani Republican Yea
Lisa Post Republican Yea
Louise Andrus Republican Nay
Mark McConkey Republican Yea
Mark McLean Republican Yea
Mark Pearson Republican Yea
Mark Warden Republican Yea
Matthew Pitaro Republican Yea
Maureen Mooney Republican Yea
Melissa Litchfield Republican Yea
Michael Harrington Republican Yea
Michael Moffett Republican Yea
Michael Vose Republican Yea
Mike Bordes Republican Not Voting
Paul Terry Republican Yea
Paul Tudor Republican Yea
Peter Varney Republican Not Voting
Phyllis Katsakiores Republican Yea
Ralph Boehm Republican Yea
Richard Lascelles Republican Yea
Richard Tripp Republican Yea
Rick Ladd Republican Yea
Robert Harb Republican Yea
Ross Berry Republican Yea
Sherman Packard Republican Not Voting
Skip Rollins Republican Yea
Stephen Boyd Republican Yea
Stephen Pearson Republican Yea
Steven Smith Republican Yea
Susan Vandecasteele Republican Not Voting
Ted Gorski Republican Yea
Terry Roy Republican Nay
Thomas Kaczynski Republican Yea
Thomas Walsh Republican Yea
Tom Dolan Republican Yea
Tom Ploszaj Republican Yea
Vanessa Sheehan Republican Yea
Walter Spilsbury Republican Yea
Wayne MacDonald Republican Yea

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Frequently asked questions

Who sponsors SB 381?
SB 381 is sponsored by Cindy Rosenwald (Democrat), Bill Gannon (Republican), Ruth Ward (Republican), Kevin Avard (Republican), James Spillane (Republican), David Watters (Democrat), Jeb Bradley, John Reagan, and Tom Sherman.
What is the current status of SB 381?
This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced December 21, 2021. Enacted.
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