HB 468 — establishing the crime of and penalties for unlawful use of unmanned aircraft systems and changing the reckless driving minimum penalties.
Last action — Signed by Governor Ayotte 08/01/2025; Chapter 278; eff.01/01/2026
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✓Introduced
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✓In Committee
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✓Passed House
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✓Passed Senate
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✓To Executive
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6Enacted
This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced January 13, 2025. Enacted.
Signed by Governor Kelly Ayotte (Republican) on August 11, 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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3 sponsors
1 primary, 2 co-sponsors signed on.
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Bipartisan support
Sponsored across 2 parties (2 R · 1 D) — cross-party backing.
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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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Action History
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Signed by Governor Ayotte 08/01/2025; Chapter 278; eff.01/01/2026
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Enrolled (in recess of) 06/26/2025 HJ 18 P. 63
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Enrolled Adopted, VV, (In recess 06/26/2025); SJ 18
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Enrolled Bill Amendment # 2025-2903e: AA VV (in recess of) 06/26/2025 HJ 18 P. 60
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Enrolled Bill Amendment # 2025-2903e Adopted, VV, (In recess of 06/26/2025); SJ 18
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Lay HB468 on Table (Rep. McFarlane): MF DV 66-279 06/12/2025 HJ 17 P. 2
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House Concurs with Senate Amendment 2025-2484s (Rep. Roy): MA RC 265-83 06/12/2025 HJ 17 P. 2
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Ought to Pass with Amendment #2025-2484s, MA, VV; OT3rdg; 06/05/2025; SJ 15
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Sen. Birdsell Floor Amendment # 2025-2484s, AA, VV; 06/05/2025; SJ 15
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Sen. Birdsell Moved to Remove From Table, MA, VV; 06/05/2025; SJ 15
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Pending Motion Ought to Pass; 05/01/2025; SJ 11
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HB 468 was Removed from the Consent Calendar; 05/01/2025; SJ 11
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Sen. Birdsell Moved Laid on Table, MA, VV; 05/01/2025; SJ 11
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Committee Report: Ought to Pass, 05/01/2025; Vote 5-0; CC; SC 19
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Hearing: 04/01/2025, Room 100, SH, 02:00 pm; SC 15
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Hearing: 03/18/2025, Room 100, SH, 02:30 pm; SC 13
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Introduced 03/06/2025 and Referred to Judiciary; SJ 7
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Ought to Pass with Amendment 2025-0290h: MA VV 02/20/2025 HJ 6 P. 3
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Amendment # 2025-0290h: AA VV 02/20/2025 HJ 6 P. 3
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Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2025-0290h 02/05/2025 (Vote 13-0; CC) HC 12 P. 4
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Executive Session: 01/31/2025 02:30 pm LOB 202-204
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Public Hearing: 01/31/2025 02:30 pm LOB 202-204
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Introduced (in recess of) 01/09/2025 and referred to Criminal Justice and Public Safety HJ 3 P. 12
Sponsors
- Regina Birdsell · Cosponsor
- Jonah Wheeler · Cosponsor
- Terry Roy · Primary
Sponsorship breakdown
Export CSV (upgrade) →1 sponsors · 2 co-sponsors · 412 not signed on · 81 voted No
Sponsors (1)
- Terry Roy Republican
Co-sponsors (2)
- Regina Birdsell Republican
- Jonah Wheeler Democrat
Not signed on (412)
412 members have not signed on to this bill.
Show all 412 →"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 | 106 | 77 | 0 | 23 |
| Democrat | 147 | 2 | 0 | 21 |
| Unaffiliated | 9 | 4 | 0 | 3 |
| Independent | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Total | 262 | 83 | 0 | 48 |
| % of votes cast | 67% | 21% | 0% | 12% |
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 | — | Yea |
| Paul P Dargie | — | Yea |
| Patrick N Long | — | Yea |
| Matt R Sabourin dit Choinière | — | Yea |
| Charlie G. St. Clair | — | Not Voting |
| Gary L. Daniels | — | Yea |
| Harry H. Bean | — | Yea |
| Jaci L. Grote | — | Yea |
| Michael P Murphy | — | Nay |
| Sandra L Panek | — | Not Voting |
| 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 | Yea |
| Allison Knab | Democrat | Not Voting |
| 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 | Yea |
| Catherine Rombeau | Democrat | Yea |
| Catherine Sofikitis | Democrat | Yea |
| Cathryn Harvey | Democrat | Yea |
| Chris McAleer | Democrat | Yea |
| Chris Muns | Democrat | Not Voting |
| Christal Lloyd | Democrat | Yea |
| Christine Seibert | Democrat | Yea |
| Christopher Herbert | Democrat | Yea |
| Connie Lane | Democrat | Yea |
| Dale Swanson | Democrat | Nay |
| Dan Bergeron | Democrat | Yea |
| Daniel LeClerc | Democrat | Not Voting |
| Daniel Veilleux | Democrat | Yea |
| David Fracht | Democrat | Yea |
| David Luneau | Democrat | Yea |
| David Meuse | Democrat | Yea |
| David Nagel | Democrat | Not Voting |
| David Paige | Democrat | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| 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 | Not Voting |
| George Sykes | Democrat | Yea |
| Gerald Ward | Democrat | Yea |
| Gregory Sargent | Democrat | Yea |
| Heath Howard | Democrat | Yea |
| Heather Baldwin | Democrat | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| Janet Wall | Democrat | Yea |
| Jared Sullivan | Democrat | Yea |
| Jean Jeudy | Democrat | Yea |
| Jennifer Mandelbaum | Democrat | Not Voting |
| Jerry Stringham | Democrat | Yea |
| Jessica Grill | Democrat | Not Voting |
| 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 | Yea |
| Karen Ebel | Democrat | Yea |
| Karen Hegner | Democrat | Yea |
| Kat McGhee | Democrat | Yea |
| Kate Murray | Democrat | Yea |
| Kathy Staub | Democrat | Yea |
| Kris Schultz | Democrat | Yea |
| Laura Telerski | Democrat | Yea |
| Laurel Stavis | Democrat | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| Matthew Wilhelm | Democrat | Yea |
| Megan Murray | Democrat | Yea |
| Merryl Gibbs | Democrat | Not Voting |
| Michael Cahill | Democrat | Yea |
| Michael Edgar | Democrat | Yea |
| Molly Howard | Democrat | Yea |
| Muriel Hall | Democrat | Yea |
| Myles England | Democrat | Not Voting |
| Nancy Murphy | Democrat | Yea |
| Ned Raynolds | Democrat | Yea |
| Nicholas Germana | Democrat | Yea |
| Nicholas Germana | Democrat | Yea |
| Nicole Leapley | Democrat | Not Voting |
| Paige Beauchemin | Democrat | Yea |
| Patricia Cornell | Democrat | Yea |
| Paul Berch | Democrat | Yea |
| Peggy Balboni | Democrat | Yea |
| Peter Bixby | Democrat | Yea |
| Peter Leishman | Democrat | Not Voting |
| Peter Lovett | Democrat | Yea |
| Peter Petrigno | Democrat | Yea |
| Peter Schmidt | Democrat | Not Voting |
| Philip Jones | Democrat | Yea |
| Ray Newman | Democrat | Yea |
| Rosemarie Rung | Democrat | Yea |
| 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 | Not Voting |
| 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 | Not Voting |
| Thomas Southworth | Democrat | Yea |
| Tim Hartnett | Democrat | Not Voting |
| Timothy Horrigan | Democrat | Nay |
| Timothy Soucy | Democrat | Yea |
| Toni Weinstein | Democrat | Yea |
| Tony Caplan | Democrat | Not Voting |
| 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 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| Barbara Comtois | Republican | Nay |
| Bill Boyd | Republican | Yea |
| Bill Ohm | Republican | Yea |
| Bob Lynn | Republican | Yea |
| Brian Cole | Republican | Nay |
| Brian Labrie | Republican | Yea |
| Brian Nadeau | Republican | Yea |
| Brian Seaworth | Republican | Nay |
| Brian Taylor | Republican | Yea |
| Bryan Morse | Republican | Nay |
| Calvin Beaulier | Republican | Nay |
| Carol McGuire | Republican | Nay |
| Catherine Kenny | Republican | Nay |
| Charles Foote | Republican | Yea |
| Charles McMahon | Republican | Yea |
| Charles Melvin | Republican | Yea |
| Cindy Bennett | Republican | Yea |
| Claudine Burnham | Republican | Yea |
| Clayton Wood | Republican | Yea |
| Cyril Aures | Republican | Yea |
| Dale Girard | Republican | Yea |
| Dan McGuire | Republican | Nay |
| Daniel Popovici-Muller | Republican | Nay |
| Darrell Louis | Republican | Nay |
| David Love | Republican | Yea |
| David Lundgren | Republican | Yea |
| David Milz | Republican | Yea |
| David Walker | Republican | Yea |
| Deborah Aylward | Republican | Yea |
| Debra DeSimone | Republican | Yea |
| Denis Murphy | Republican | Yea |
| Denise DeDe-Poulin | Republican | Not Voting |
| Dennis Mannion | Republican | Yea |
| Diane Kelley | Republican | Nay |
| Diane Pauer | Republican | Yea |
| Dick Thackston | Republican | Yea |
| Dillon Dumont | Republican | Nay |
| Donald McFarlane | Republican | Nay |
| Donald Selby | Republican | Not Voting |
| Douglas Thomas | Republican | Yea |
| Douglas Trottier | Republican | Not Voting |
| Erica Layon | Republican | Nay |
| Ernesto Gonzalez | Republican | Yea |
| George Grant | Republican | Yea |
| Gerald Griffin | Republican | Yea |
| Glen Aldrich | Republican | Nay |
| Glenn Bailey | Republican | Nay |
| Gregory Hill | Republican | Yea |
| Henry Giasson | Republican | Nay |
| JD Bernardy | Republican | Yea |
| Jack Flanagan | Republican | Yea |
| James Creighton | Republican | Not Voting |
| James Guzofski | Republican | Yea |
| James Qualey | Republican | Nay |
| James Spillane | Republican | Nay |
| James Summers | Republican | Not Voting |
| James Thibault | Republican | Nay |
| James Tierney | Republican | Yea |
| Jason Osborne | Republican | Nay |
| Jay Markell | Republican | Yea |
| Jeanine Notter | Republican | Nay |
| Jeffrey Tenczar | Republican | Yea |
| Jennifer Rhodes | Republican | Yea |
| Jeremy Slottje | Republican | Nay |
| Jess Edwards | Republican | Not Voting |
| Jim Fedolfi | Republican | Yea |
| Jim Kofalt | Republican | Not Voting |
| Jodi Nelson | Republican | Yea |
| Joe Alexander | Republican | Nay |
| Joe Sweeney | Republican | Yea |
| John Hunt | Republican | Yea |
| John Janigian | Republican | Yea |
| John Leavitt | Republican | Not Voting |
| John MacDonald | Republican | Yea |
| John Potucek | Republican | Yea |
| John Schneller | Republican | Yea |
| John Sellers | Republican | Nay |
| John Suiter | Republican | Not Voting |
| John Sytek | Republican | Nay |
| Jonathan Morton | Republican | Yea |
| Jonathan Smith | Republican | Nay |
| Jordan Ulery | Republican | Yea |
| Jose Cambrils | Republican | Yea |
| Joseph Barton | Republican | Nay |
| Joseph Guthrie | Republican | Nay |
| Joseph Hamblen | Republican | Yea |
| Judy Aron | Republican | Nay |
| Julie Miles | Republican | Yea |
| Juliet Harvey-Bolia | Republican | Yea |
| Julius Soti | Republican | Nay |
| Karel Crawford | Republican | Not Voting |
| Katelyn Kuttab | Republican | Yea |
| Katherine Prudhomme-O'Brien | Republican | Not Voting |
| Kathleen Paquette | Republican | Yea |
| Katy Peternel | Republican | Yea |
| Keith Ammon | Republican | Not Voting |
| Keith Erf | Republican | Nay |
| Kelley Potenza | Republican | Not Voting |
| Kenneth Weyler | Republican | Yea |
| Kevin Scully | Republican | Yea |
| Kevin Verville | Republican | Nay |
| Kristin Noble | Republican | Nay |
| Kristine Perez | Republican | Yea |
| Larry Gagne | Republican | Not Voting |
| Laurence Miner | Republican | Yea |
| Len Turcotte | Republican | Nay |
| Lex Berezhny | Republican | Nay |
| Lilli Walsh | Republican | Yea |
| Linda Franz | Republican | Yea |
| Linda Gould | Republican | Yea |
| Linda McGrath | Republican | Yea |
| Lino Avellani | Republican | Yea |
| Lisa Mazur | Republican | Nay |
| Lisa Post | Republican | Nay |
| Liz Barbour | Republican | Yea |
| Lori Korzen | Republican | Yea |
| Lorie Ball | Republican | Yea |
| Louise Andrus | Republican | Yea |
| Margaret Drye | Republican | Yea |
| Marie Louise Bjelobrk | Republican | Yea |
| Mark McLean | Republican | Nay |
| Mark Pearson | Republican | Yea |
| Mark Proulx | Republican | Yea |
| Mark Warden | Republican | Nay |
| Mary Ford | Republican | Yea |
| Mary Murphy | Republican | Nay |
| Matt Drew | Republican | Nay |
| Matthew Coker | Republican | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| Mike Belcher | Republican | Not Voting |
| Mike Bordes | Republican | Not Voting |
| Mike Drago | Republican | Yea |
| Mike Ouellet | Republican | Not Voting |
| Nicholas Bridle | Republican | Yea |
| Pam Brown | Republican | Yea |
| Paul Terry | Republican | Yea |
| Paul Tudor | Republican | Nay |
| Pete Morency | Republican | Yea |
| Peter Mehegan | Republican | Nay |
| Peter Varney | Republican | Nay |
| Phyllis Katsakiores | Republican | Yea |
| Pierre Dupont | Republican | Yea |
| Ralph Boehm | Republican | Yea |
| Raymond Peeples | Republican | Yea |
| Raymond Plante | Republican | Nay |
| Rich Nalevanko | Republican | Yea |
| Richard Brown | Republican | Not Voting |
| Richard Lascelles | Republican | Yea |
| Richard Tripp | Republican | Nay |
| Riché Colcombe | Republican | Nay |
| Rick Ladd | Republican | Yea |
| Ricky Devoid | Republican | Yea |
| Rita Mattson | Republican | Yea |
| Robert Harb | Republican | Yea |
| 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 | Nay |
| Scott Bryer | Republican | Yea |
| Sean Durkin | Republican | Nay |
| Seth King | Republican | Nay |
| Shane Sirois | Republican | Nay |
| Sheri Minor | Republican | Not Voting |
| Sherman Packard | Republican | Not Voting |
| Sherri Reinfurt | Republican | Yea |
| Skip Rollins | Republican | Yea |
| Sly Karasinski | Republican | Yea |
| Stephen Boyd | Republican | Yea |
| Stephen Pearson | Republican | Yea |
| Steven Bogert | Republican | Yea |
| Steven Kesselring | Republican | Nay |
| Steven Smith | Republican | Not Voting |
| Susan DeRoy | Republican | Nay |
| Susan Porcelli | Republican | Yea |
| Susan Vandecasteele | Republican | Nay |
| Tanya Donnelly | Republican | Yea |
| Ted Gorski | Republican | Yea |
| Terry Roy | Republican | Yea |
| Thomas Walsh | Republican | Yea |
| Tim Mannion | Republican | Not Voting |
| Tom Dolan | Republican | Yea |
| Tom Ploszaj | Republican | Nay |
| Travis Corcoran | Republican | Nay |
| Travis Toner | Republican | Not Voting |
| Valerie McDonnell | Republican | Yea |
| Vanessa Sheehan | Republican | Nay |
| Vicki Wilson | Republican | Nay |
| Walter Spilsbury | Republican | Yea |
| Wayne Hemingway | Republican | Yea |
| Wayne MacDonald | Republican | Yea |
| Yury Polozov | Republican | Nay |
Subjects
Frequently asked questions
- Who sponsors HB 468?
- HB 468 is sponsored by Regina Birdsell (Republican), Jonah Wheeler (Democrat), and Terry Roy (Republican).
- What is the current status of HB 468?
- This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced January 13, 2025. Enacted.
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