SB 206 — requiring school districts and chartered public schools to adopt policies establishing a cell phone-free education.
Last action — Conference Committee Report: Not Filed HJ 17
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✓Introduced
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✓In Committee
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✓Passed Senate
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✓Passed House
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✓To Executive
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6Enacted
This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced January 23, 2025. Enacted.
Signed by Governor Kelly Ayotte (Republican) on June 19, 2025.
Odds of enactment
High chanceBased on the sponsor, cosponsors, and committee posture, this bill has a high chance of becoming law.
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Prognosis
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Enacted
Current position in the legislative process.
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7 sponsors
1 primary, 6 co-sponsors signed on.
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Bipartisan support
Sponsored across 2 parties (6 R · 1 D) — cross-party backing.
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Failed a recorded vote
Failed 1 recorded vote so far — a real headwind.
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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Read SB 206 on the official New Hampshire source →Amendments
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Action History
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Conference Committee Report: Not Filed HJ 17
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Conference Committee Report; Not Signed Off; SJ 16
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Conferee Change: Rep. Osborne Replaces Rep. Noble 06/17/2025 HJ 17 P. 25
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Committee of Conference Meeting: 06/19/2025, 02:00 pm, Room 100, SH
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Committee of Conference Meeting: 06/17/2025, 02:00 pm, Room 100, SH
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==CANCELLED== Committee of Conference Meeting: 06/16/2025, 10:30 am, Room 100, SH
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Speaker Appoints: Reps. Cordelli, Noble, Litchfield, Nadeau 06/05/2025 HJ 16 P. 171
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House Accedes to Senate Request for CofC (Rep. Kofalt): MA VV 06/05/2025 HJ 16 P. 171
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President Appoints: Senators Ward, Ricciardi, Fenton; (In Recess 06/05/2025); SJ 16
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Sen. Ward Moved Nonconcur with the House Amendment; Requests C of C, MA, VV; (In Recess 06/05/2025); SJ 16
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Ought to Pass with Amendment 2025-2249h: MA DV 314-42 06/05/2025 HJ 16 P. 113
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Amendment # 2025-2603h: AF RC 164-192 06/05/2025 HJ 16 P. 111
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Amendment # 2025-2249h (NT): AA DV 345-9 06/05/2025 HJ 16 P. 111
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Minority Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2025-2603h
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Majority Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2025-2249h (NT) 05/20/2025 (Vote 9-8; RC) HC 27 P. 18
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Executive Session: 05/20/2025 09:30 am LOB 206-208
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Public Hearing: 04/07/2025 10:15 am LOB 205-207
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Introduced (in recess of) 03/27/2025 and referred to Education Policy and Administration HJ 11 P. 112
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Ought to Pass with Amendment #2025-0742s, MA, VV; OT3rdg; 03/13/2025; SJ 7
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Committee Amendment # 2025-0742s, AA, VV; 03/13/2025; SJ 7
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Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2025-0742s, 03/13/2025; Vote 5-0; CC; SC 12
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Hearing: 02/04/2025, Room 101, LOB, 09:45 am; SC 8
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Introduced 01/09/2025 and Referred to Education; SJ 3
Sponsors
- Sharon Carson · Cosponsor
- Regina Birdsell · Cosponsor
- Bill Gannon · Cosponsor
- Daniel Innis · Cosponsor
- Denise Ricciardi · Primary
- Timothy Lang · Cosponsor
- Donovan Fenton · Cosponsor
Sponsorship breakdown
Export CSV (upgrade) →1 sponsors · 6 co-sponsors · 408 not signed on · 185 voted No
Sponsors (1)
- Denise Ricciardi Republican
Co-sponsors (6)
- Sharon Carson Republican
- Regina Birdsell Republican
- Bill Gannon Republican
- Daniel Innis Republican
- Timothy Lang Republican
- Donovan Fenton Democrat
Not signed on (408)
408 members have not signed on to this bill.
Show all 408 →"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.
Votes
| Party | Yea | Nay | Present | Not Voting |
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| Republican | 10 | 174 | 0 | 22 |
| Democrat | 147 | 6 | 0 | 17 |
| Unaffiliated | 6 | 9 | 0 | 1 |
| Independent | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Total | 163 | 189 | 0 | 41 |
| % of votes cast | 41% | 48% | 0% | 10% |
How each member voted (393)
| Member | Party | Vote |
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| Susan C DeLemus | — | Nay |
| Thomas L Kaczynski | — | Nay |
| Kimberly A Rice | — | Not Voting |
| Lisa M Freeman | — | Nay |
| Paul P Dargie | — | Yea |
| Patrick N Long | — | Yea |
| Matt R Sabourin dit Choinière | — | Nay |
| Charlie G. St. Clair | — | Yea |
| Gary L. Daniels | — | Nay |
| Harry H. Bean | — | Nay |
| Jaci L. Grote | — | Yea |
| Michael P Murphy | — | Nay |
| Sandra L Panek | — | Nay |
| Suraj Budathoki | — | Yea |
| Suzanne M. Vail | — | Yea |
| Tom D Mannion | — | Nay |
| Alexis Simpson | Democrat | Yea |
| Alice Wade | Democrat | Yea |
| Alicia Gregg | Democrat | Not Voting |
| Alissandra Murray | Democrat | Yea |
| Allan Howland | Democrat | Not Voting |
| Allison Knab | Democrat | Yea |
| Amy Malone | Democrat | Yea |
| Anita Burroughs | Democrat | Yea |
| Barry Faulkner | Democrat | Yea |
| Beth Richards | Democrat | Not Voting |
| Bill Bolton | Democrat | Yea |
| Brian Sullivan | Democrat | Yea |
| Buzz Scherr | Democrat | Yea |
| Carrie Sorensen | Democrat | Yea |
| Carry Spier | Democrat | Yea |
| Cassandra Levesque | Democrat | Not Voting |
| Catherine Rombeau | Democrat | Yea |
| Catherine Sofikitis | Democrat | Yea |
| Cathryn Harvey | Democrat | Yea |
| Chris McAleer | Democrat | Yea |
| Chris Muns | Democrat | Yea |
| Christal Lloyd | Democrat | Yea |
| Christine Seibert | Democrat | Yea |
| Christopher Herbert | Democrat | Yea |
| Connie Lane | Democrat | Yea |
| Dale Swanson | Democrat | Yea |
| Dan Bergeron | Democrat | Yea |
| Daniel LeClerc | Democrat | Yea |
| Daniel Veilleux | Democrat | Yea |
| David Fracht | Democrat | Yea |
| David Luneau | Democrat | Yea |
| David Meuse | Democrat | Yea |
| David Nagel | Democrat | Nay |
| David Paige | Democrat | Not Voting |
| David Preece | Democrat | Yea |
| Dennis Malloy | Democrat | Yea |
| Dick Ames | Democrat | Yea |
| Dru Fox | Democrat | Yea |
| Efstathia Booras | Democrat | Yea |
| Eileen Kelly | Democrat | Yea |
| Eleana Colby | Democrat | Yea |
| Ellen Read | Democrat | Not Voting |
| Ellen Rockmore | Democrat | Yea |
| Eric Gallager | Democrat | Yea |
| Eric Turer | Democrat | Yea |
| Erica de Vries | Democrat | Yea |
| Erik Johnson | Democrat | Yea |
| Erin Kerwin | Democrat | Yea |
| Fred Davis | Democrat | Yea |
| Gaby Grossman | Democrat | Not Voting |
| Gary Gilmore | Democrat | Yea |
| Gary Woods | Democrat | Yea |
| Geoffrey Smith | Democrat | Yea |
| George Sykes | Democrat | Yea |
| Gerald Ward | Democrat | Yea |
| Gregory Sargent | Democrat | Yea |
| Heath Howard | Democrat | Yea |
| Heather Baldwin | Democrat | Not Voting |
| Heather Raymond | Democrat | Yea |
| Hope Damon | Democrat | Yea |
| James Gruber | Democrat | Yea |
| James MacKay | Democrat | Yea |
| James Newsom | Democrat | Yea |
| James Roesener | Democrat | Yea |
| Janet Lucas | Democrat | Not Voting |
| Janet Wall | Democrat | Yea |
| Jared Sullivan | Democrat | Nay |
| Jean Jeudy | Democrat | Yea |
| Jennifer Mandelbaum | Democrat | Yea |
| Jerry Stringham | Democrat | Yea |
| Jessica Grill | Democrat | Yea |
| Jessica LaMontagne | Democrat | Yea |
| Jim Maggiore | Democrat | Yea |
| Jim Snodgrass | Democrat | Yea |
| Jodi Newell | Democrat | Yea |
| John Cloutier | Democrat | Yea |
| John Larochelle | Democrat | Yea |
| John Stone | Democrat | Yea |
| Jonah Wheeler | Democrat | Yea |
| Julie Gilman | Democrat | Nay |
| Karen Ebel | Democrat | Yea |
| Karen Hegner | Democrat | Yea |
| Kat McGhee | Democrat | Yea |
| Kate Murray | Democrat | Yea |
| Kathy Staub | Democrat | Yea |
| Kris Schultz | Democrat | Not Voting |
| Laura Telerski | Democrat | Yea |
| Laurel Stavis | Democrat | Nay |
| Lee Ann Kluger | Democrat | Yea |
| Lily Foss | Democrat | Yea |
| Linda DiSilvestro | Democrat | Yea |
| Linda Harriott-Gathright | Democrat | Yea |
| Linda Haskins | Democrat | Yea |
| Linda Ryan | Democrat | Yea |
| Loren Foxx | Democrat | Yea |
| Loren Selig | Democrat | Yea |
| Louis Juris | Democrat | Yea |
| Lucius Parshall | Democrat | Yea |
| Lucy Weber | Democrat | Yea |
| Luz Bay | Democrat | Yea |
| Manoj Chourasia | Democrat | Not Voting |
| Marc Plamondon | Democrat | Yea |
| Marjorie Smith | Democrat | Yea |
| Mark MacKenzie | Democrat | Yea |
| Mark Paige | Democrat | Yea |
| Mark Vallone | Democrat | Yea |
| Martin Jack | Democrat | Yea |
| Mary Georges | Democrat | Yea |
| Mary Hakken-Phillips | Democrat | Yea |
| Mary Jane Wallner | Democrat | Yea |
| Matthew Hicks | Democrat | Not Voting |
| Matthew Wilhelm | Democrat | Yea |
| Megan Murray | Democrat | Yea |
| Merryl Gibbs | Democrat | Yea |
| Michael Cahill | Democrat | Yea |
| Michael Edgar | Democrat | Yea |
| Molly Howard | Democrat | Not Voting |
| Muriel Hall | Democrat | Yea |
| Myles England | Democrat | Yea |
| Nancy Murphy | Democrat | Nay |
| Ned Raynolds | Democrat | Yea |
| Nicholas Germana | Democrat | Yea |
| Nicholas Germana | Democrat | Yea |
| Nicole Leapley | Democrat | Yea |
| Paige Beauchemin | Democrat | Yea |
| Patricia Cornell | Democrat | Yea |
| Paul Berch | Democrat | Yea |
| Peggy Balboni | Democrat | Yea |
| Peter Bixby | Democrat | Yea |
| Peter Leishman | Democrat | Yea |
| Peter Lovett | Democrat | Not Voting |
| Peter Petrigno | Democrat | Yea |
| Peter Schmidt | Democrat | Yea |
| Philip Jones | Democrat | Yea |
| Ray Newman | Democrat | Yea |
| Rosemarie Rung | Democrat | Nay |
| Russell Muirhead | Democrat | Not Voting |
| Sallie Fellows | Democrat | Yea |
| Samantha Jacobs | Democrat | Yea |
| Sanjeev Manohar | Democrat | Yea |
| Santosh Salvi | Democrat | Yea |
| Seth Miller | Democrat | Yea |
| Stephanie Grund | Democrat | Yea |
| Stephanie Payeur | Democrat | Yea |
| Stephen Woodcock | Democrat | Yea |
| Sue Newman | Democrat | Yea |
| Susan Almy | Democrat | Yea |
| Susan Elberger | Democrat | Yea |
| Suzanne Chretien | Democrat | Yea |
| Terri O'Rorke | Democrat | Yea |
| Terry Spahr | Democrat | Yea |
| Thomas Buco | Democrat | Not Voting |
| Thomas Cormen | Democrat | Yea |
| Thomas Oppel | Democrat | Yea |
| Thomas Schamberg | Democrat | Yea |
| Thomas Southworth | Democrat | Yea |
| Tim Hartnett | Democrat | Yea |
| Timothy Horrigan | Democrat | Yea |
| Timothy Soucy | Democrat | Yea |
| Toni Weinstein | Democrat | Yea |
| Tony Caplan | Democrat | Yea |
| Tracy Bricchi | Democrat | Yea |
| Trinidad Tellez | Democrat | Yea |
| Wayne Burton | Democrat | Yea |
| Wayne Pearson | Democrat | Yea |
| Wendy Thomas | Democrat | Yea |
| Will Darby | Democrat | Yea |
| William Dolan | Democrat | Not Voting |
| William Palmer | Democrat | Yea |
| Zoe Manos | Democrat | Yea |
| Aidan Ankarberg | Independent | Not Voting |
| Aboul Khan | Republican | Nay |
| Adam Presa | Republican | Nay |
| Alvin See | Republican | Nay |
| Andrew Prout | Republican | Nay |
| Arnold Davis | Republican | Nay |
| Barbara Comtois | Republican | Nay |
| Bill Boyd | Republican | Nay |
| Bill Ohm | Republican | Nay |
| Bob Lynn | Republican | Nay |
| Brian Cole | Republican | Nay |
| Brian Labrie | Republican | Nay |
| Brian Nadeau | Republican | Nay |
| Brian Seaworth | Republican | Nay |
| Brian Taylor | Republican | Nay |
| Bryan Morse | Republican | Nay |
| Calvin Beaulier | Republican | Yea |
| Carol McGuire | Republican | Nay |
| Catherine Kenny | Republican | Nay |
| Charles Foote | Republican | Yea |
| Charles McMahon | Republican | Nay |
| Charles Melvin | Republican | Nay |
| Cindy Bennett | Republican | Nay |
| Claudine Burnham | Republican | Nay |
| Clayton Wood | Republican | Nay |
| Cyril Aures | Republican | Nay |
| Dale Girard | Republican | Nay |
| Dan McGuire | Republican | Nay |
| Daniel Popovici-Muller | Republican | Nay |
| Darrell Louis | Republican | Nay |
| David Love | Republican | Nay |
| David Lundgren | Republican | Nay |
| David Milz | Republican | Not Voting |
| David Walker | Republican | Nay |
| Deborah Aylward | Republican | Nay |
| Debra DeSimone | Republican | Nay |
| Denis Murphy | Republican | Yea |
| Denise DeDe-Poulin | Republican | Nay |
| Dennis Mannion | Republican | Nay |
| Diane Kelley | Republican | Nay |
| Diane Pauer | Republican | Nay |
| Dick Thackston | Republican | Not Voting |
| Dillon Dumont | Republican | Nay |
| Donald McFarlane | Republican | Nay |
| Donald Selby | Republican | Not Voting |
| Douglas Thomas | Republican | Nay |
| Douglas Trottier | Republican | Not Voting |
| Erica Layon | Republican | Nay |
| Ernesto Gonzalez | Republican | Nay |
| George Grant | Republican | Nay |
| Gerald Griffin | Republican | Nay |
| Glen Aldrich | Republican | Nay |
| Glenn Bailey | Republican | Nay |
| Gregory Hill | Republican | Nay |
| Henry Giasson | Republican | Nay |
| JD Bernardy | Republican | Nay |
| Jack Flanagan | Republican | Nay |
| James Creighton | Republican | Nay |
| James Guzofski | Republican | Nay |
| James Qualey | Republican | Nay |
| James Spillane | Republican | Nay |
| James Summers | Republican | Not Voting |
| James Thibault | Republican | Nay |
| James Tierney | Republican | Nay |
| Jason Osborne | Republican | Nay |
| Jay Markell | Republican | Nay |
| Jeanine Notter | Republican | Nay |
| Jeffrey Tenczar | Republican | Not Voting |
| Jennifer Rhodes | Republican | Nay |
| Jeremy Slottje | Republican | Nay |
| Jess Edwards | Republican | Nay |
| Jim Fedolfi | Republican | Not Voting |
| Jim Kofalt | Republican | Nay |
| Jodi Nelson | Republican | Nay |
| Joe Alexander | Republican | Yea |
| Joe Sweeney | Republican | Nay |
| John Hunt | Republican | Nay |
| John Janigian | Republican | Nay |
| John Leavitt | Republican | Nay |
| John MacDonald | Republican | Nay |
| John Potucek | Republican | Nay |
| John Schneller | Republican | Nay |
| John Sellers | Republican | Nay |
| John Suiter | Republican | Nay |
| John Sytek | Republican | Nay |
| Jonathan Morton | Republican | Nay |
| Jonathan Smith | Republican | Nay |
| Jordan Ulery | Republican | Nay |
| Jose Cambrils | Republican | Nay |
| Joseph Barton | Republican | Nay |
| Joseph Guthrie | Republican | Not Voting |
| Joseph Hamblen | Republican | Yea |
| Judy Aron | Republican | Nay |
| Julie Miles | Republican | Nay |
| Juliet Harvey-Bolia | Republican | Not Voting |
| Julius Soti | Republican | Yea |
| Karel Crawford | Republican | Nay |
| Katelyn Kuttab | Republican | Nay |
| Katherine Prudhomme-O'Brien | Republican | Nay |
| Kathleen Paquette | Republican | Nay |
| Katy Peternel | Republican | Nay |
| Keith Ammon | Republican | Nay |
| Keith Erf | Republican | Nay |
| Kelley Potenza | Republican | Nay |
| Kenneth Weyler | Republican | Nay |
| Kevin Scully | Republican | Not Voting |
| Kevin Verville | Republican | Nay |
| Kristin Noble | Republican | Nay |
| Kristine Perez | Republican | Not Voting |
| Larry Gagne | Republican | Nay |
| Laurence Miner | Republican | Nay |
| Len Turcotte | Republican | Nay |
| Lex Berezhny | Republican | Nay |
| Lilli Walsh | Republican | Nay |
| Linda Franz | Republican | Nay |
| Linda Gould | Republican | Nay |
| Linda McGrath | Republican | Nay |
| Lino Avellani | Republican | Nay |
| Lisa Mazur | Republican | Nay |
| Lisa Post | Republican | Nay |
| Liz Barbour | Republican | Nay |
| Lori Korzen | Republican | Nay |
| Lorie Ball | Republican | Nay |
| Louise Andrus | Republican | Yea |
| Margaret Drye | Republican | Nay |
| Marie Louise Bjelobrk | Republican | Not Voting |
| Mark McLean | Republican | Nay |
| Mark Pearson | Republican | Nay |
| Mark Proulx | Republican | Nay |
| Mark Warden | Republican | Nay |
| Mary Ford | Republican | Nay |
| Mary Murphy | Republican | Nay |
| Matt Drew | Republican | Nay |
| Matthew Coker | Republican | Nay |
| Matthew Pitaro | Republican | Nay |
| Maureen Mooney | Republican | Nay |
| Melissa Litchfield | Republican | Nay |
| Michael Aron | Republican | Nay |
| Michael Granger | Republican | Nay |
| Michael Harrington | Republican | Nay |
| Michael Moffett | Republican | Nay |
| Michael Vose | Republican | Nay |
| Mike Belcher | Republican | Nay |
| Mike Bordes | Republican | Not Voting |
| Mike Drago | Republican | Nay |
| Mike Ouellet | Republican | Nay |
| Nicholas Bridle | Republican | Yea |
| Pam Brown | Republican | Nay |
| Paul Terry | Republican | Nay |
| Paul Tudor | Republican | Nay |
| Pete Morency | Republican | Nay |
| Peter Mehegan | Republican | Yea |
| Peter Varney | Republican | Not Voting |
| Phyllis Katsakiores | Republican | Not Voting |
| Pierre Dupont | Republican | Nay |
| Ralph Boehm | Republican | Nay |
| Raymond Peeples | Republican | Nay |
| Raymond Plante | Republican | Nay |
| Rich Nalevanko | Republican | Nay |
| Richard Brown | Republican | Nay |
| Richard Lascelles | Republican | Nay |
| Richard Tripp | Republican | Nay |
| Riché Colcombe | Republican | Nay |
| Rick Ladd | Republican | Nay |
| Ricky Devoid | Republican | Nay |
| Rita Mattson | Republican | Nay |
| Robert Harb | Republican | Nay |
| Robert Wherry | Republican | Nay |
| Robley Hall | Republican | Nay |
| Ron Dunn | Republican | Nay |
| Ross Berry | Republican | Nay |
| Russell Dumais | Republican | Nay |
| Samuel Farrington | Republican | Nay |
| Sayra DeVito | Republican | Not Voting |
| Scott Bryer | Republican | Nay |
| Sean Durkin | Republican | Nay |
| Seth King | Republican | Nay |
| Shane Sirois | Republican | Nay |
| Sheri Minor | Republican | Nay |
| Sherman Packard | Republican | Not Voting |
| Sherri Reinfurt | Republican | Nay |
| Skip Rollins | Republican | Nay |
| Sly Karasinski | Republican | Nay |
| Stephen Boyd | Republican | Nay |
| Stephen Pearson | Republican | Nay |
| Steven Bogert | Republican | Nay |
| Steven Kesselring | Republican | Nay |
| Steven Smith | Republican | Not Voting |
| Susan DeRoy | Republican | Nay |
| Susan Porcelli | Republican | Nay |
| Susan Vandecasteele | Republican | Not Voting |
| Tanya Donnelly | Republican | Not Voting |
| Ted Gorski | Republican | Nay |
| Terry Roy | Republican | Not Voting |
| Thomas Walsh | Republican | Nay |
| Tim Mannion | Republican | Nay |
| Tom Dolan | Republican | Nay |
| Tom Ploszaj | Republican | Nay |
| Travis Corcoran | Republican | Not Voting |
| Travis Toner | Republican | Nay |
| Valerie McDonnell | Republican | Nay |
| Vanessa Sheehan | Republican | Nay |
| Vicki Wilson | Republican | Nay |
| Walter Spilsbury | Republican | Nay |
| Wayne Hemingway | Republican | Nay |
| Wayne MacDonald | Republican | Nay |
| Yury Polozov | Republican | Yea |
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Frequently asked questions
- Who sponsors SB 206?
- SB 206 is sponsored by Sharon Carson (Republican), Regina Birdsell (Republican), Bill Gannon (Republican), Daniel Innis (Republican), Denise Ricciardi (Republican), Timothy Lang (Republican), and Donovan Fenton (Democrat).
- What is the current status of SB 206?
- This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced January 23, 2025. Enacted.
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