HB 123 — defining pre-sequestration timber tax revenue, establishing a moratorium on carbon sequestration and establishing a commission to study the effects of carbon sequestration in New Hampshire forests upon state and local tax revenue, effective forest management, and the health of New Hampshire’s logging industry.
Last action — Signed by Governor Ayotte 07/15/2025; Chapter 164; eff. I. Sec 4 eff 11/01/2027 II. Rem eff 07/01/2025 HJ 18
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6Enacted
This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced January 06, 2025. Enacted.
Signed by Governor Kelly Ayotte (Republican) on July 22, 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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Single-party support
Sponsorship is currently within one party (6 R).
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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 07/15/2025; Chapter 164; eff. I. Sec 4 eff 11/01/2027 II. Rem eff 07/01/2025 HJ 18
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Enrolled (in recess of) 06/26/2025 HJ 18 P. 59
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Enrolled Adopted, VV, (In recess 06/26/2025); SJ 18
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House Concurs with Senate Amendment 2025-2133s (Rep. Pauer): MA DV 268-74 06/12/2025 HJ 17 P. 14
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Ought to Pass: MA, VV; OT3rdg; 05/22/2025; SJ 14
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Committee Report: Ought to Pass, 05/22/2025; Vote 3-0; CC; SC 22A
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Hearing: 05/21/2025, Room 100, SH, 09:00 am, on proposed amendment # 2025-2214s; SC 22
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Referred to Ways and Means, 05/15/2025; SJ 13
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Ought to Pass with Amendment #2025-2133s, MA, VV; 05/15/2025; SJ 13
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Committee Amendment # 2025-2133s, AA, VV; 05/15/2025; SJ 13
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Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2025-2133s, 05/15/2025; Vote 4-1; CC; SC 21A
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Hearing: 05/06/2025, Room 103, SH, 09:00 am; SC 20
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Introduced 03/20/2025 and Referred to Energy and Natural Resources; SJ 9
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Referral Waived by Committee Chair per House Rule 47(f) 03/20/2025 HJ 9 P. 18
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Lay HB123 on Table (Rep. Osborne): MF DV 171-185 03/13/2025 HJ 8 P. 93
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Referred to Ways and Means 03/13/2025 HJ 8 P. 95
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Ought to Pass with Amendment 2025-0654h: MA RC 197-158 03/13/2025 HJ 8 P. 95
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Amendment # 2025-0654h (NT): AA VV 03/13/2025 HJ 8 P. 92
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Removed from Consent (Reps. Kuttab, Popovici-Muller, Boehm, Turcotte, Scully, Perez, D. Kelley, Tom Mannion, Seaworth, Granger) 03/06/2025 HJ 8 P. 2
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Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2025-0654h (NT) 03/03/2025 (Vote 18-0; CC)
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Executive Session: 03/03/2025 01:00 pm LOB 301-303
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Public Hearing on non-germane Amendment # 2025-0153h: 02/18/2025 09:50 am LOB 201
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Public Hearing: 02/10/2025 01:00 pm LOB 301-303
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Introduced 01/08/2025 and referred to Municipal and County Government HJ 2 P. 6
Sponsors
- Brian Cole · Cosponsor
- James Tierney · Cosponsor
- Howard Pearl · Cosponsor
- Mike Ouellet · Cosponsor
- Sean Durkin · Cosponsor
- Michael P Murphy · Cosponsor
- Arnold Davis · Primary
Sponsorship breakdown
Export CSV (upgrade) →1 sponsors · 6 co-sponsors · 408 not signed on · 151 voted No
Sponsors (1)
- Arnold Davis Republican
Co-sponsors (6)
- Brian Cole Republican
- James Tierney Republican
- Howard Pearl Republican
- Mike Ouellet Republican
- Sean Durkin Republican
- Michael P Murphy
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 | 59 | 121 | 0 | 26 |
| Democrat | 131 | 24 | 0 | 15 |
| Unaffiliated | 4 | 11 | 0 | 1 |
| Independent | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 194 | 157 | 0 | 42 |
| % of votes cast | 49% | 40% | 0% | 11% |
How each member voted (393)
| Member | Party | Vote |
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| Susan C DeLemus | — | Nay |
| Thomas L Kaczynski | — | Nay |
| Kimberly A Rice | — | Nay |
| Lisa M Freeman | — | Nay |
| Paul P Dargie | — | Yea |
| Patrick N Long | — | Nay |
| 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 | — | Not Voting |
| Sandra L Panek | — | Nay |
| Suraj Budathoki | — | Yea |
| Suzanne M. Vail | — | Nay |
| Tom D Mannion | — | Nay |
| Alexis Simpson | Democrat | Yea |
| Alice Wade | Democrat | Yea |
| Alicia Gregg | Democrat | Yea |
| Alissandra Murray | Democrat | Yea |
| Allan Howland | Democrat | Yea |
| Allison Knab | Democrat | Yea |
| Amy Malone | Democrat | Yea |
| Anita Burroughs | Democrat | Yea |
| Barry Faulkner | Democrat | Yea |
| Beth Richards | Democrat | Yea |
| Bill Bolton | Democrat | Yea |
| Brian Sullivan | Democrat | Yea |
| Buzz Scherr | Democrat | Yea |
| Carrie Sorensen | Democrat | Yea |
| Carry Spier | Democrat | Yea |
| Cassandra Levesque | Democrat | Nay |
| Catherine Rombeau | Democrat | Nay |
| Catherine Sofikitis | Democrat | Yea |
| Cathryn Harvey | Democrat | Nay |
| Chris McAleer | Democrat | Yea |
| Chris Muns | Democrat | Yea |
| Christal Lloyd | Democrat | Yea |
| Christine Seibert | Democrat | Yea |
| Christopher Herbert | Democrat | Not Voting |
| 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 | Not Voting |
| David Paige | Democrat | Yea |
| David Preece | Democrat | Nay |
| 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 | Not Voting |
| 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 | 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 | Nay |
| Janet Wall | Democrat | Yea |
| Jared Sullivan | Democrat | Yea |
| Jean Jeudy | Democrat | Yea |
| Jennifer Mandelbaum | Democrat | Yea |
| Jerry Stringham | Democrat | Yea |
| Jessica Grill | Democrat | Not Voting |
| Jessica LaMontagne | Democrat | Yea |
| Jim Maggiore | Democrat | Yea |
| Jim Snodgrass | Democrat | Not Voting |
| Jodi Newell | Democrat | Yea |
| John Cloutier | Democrat | Yea |
| John Larochelle | Democrat | Yea |
| John Stone | Democrat | Not Voting |
| Jonah Wheeler | Democrat | Yea |
| Julie Gilman | Democrat | Yea |
| Karen Ebel | Democrat | Not Voting |
| Karen Hegner | Democrat | Yea |
| Kat McGhee | Democrat | Nay |
| 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 | Nay |
| Linda Ryan | Democrat | Yea |
| Loren Foxx | Democrat | Nay |
| Loren Selig | Democrat | Not Voting |
| Louis Juris | Democrat | Yea |
| Lucius Parshall | Democrat | Nay |
| Lucy Weber | Democrat | Yea |
| Luz Bay | Democrat | Yea |
| Manoj Chourasia | Democrat | Yea |
| Marc Plamondon | Democrat | Yea |
| Marjorie Smith | Democrat | Yea |
| Mark MacKenzie | Democrat | Not Voting |
| Mark Paige | Democrat | Not Voting |
| Mark Vallone | Democrat | Yea |
| Martin Jack | Democrat | Nay |
| Mary Georges | Democrat | Not Voting |
| 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 | 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 | Nay |
| 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 | Nay |
| Peter Lovett | Democrat | Yea |
| Peter Petrigno | Democrat | Yea |
| Peter Schmidt | Democrat | Yea |
| Philip Jones | Democrat | Yea |
| Ray Newman | Democrat | Yea |
| Rosemarie Rung | Democrat | Nay |
| Russell Muirhead | Democrat | Nay |
| 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 | Nay |
| Sue Newman | Democrat | Yea |
| Susan Almy | Democrat | Yea |
| Susan Elberger | Democrat | Yea |
| Suzanne Chretien | Democrat | Yea |
| Terri O'Rorke | Democrat | Yea |
| Terry Spahr | Democrat | Not Voting |
| Thomas Buco | Democrat | Not Voting |
| Thomas Cormen | Democrat | Nay |
| Thomas Oppel | Democrat | Yea |
| Thomas Schamberg | Democrat | Nay |
| Thomas Southworth | Democrat | Yea |
| Tim Hartnett | Democrat | Yea |
| Timothy Horrigan | Democrat | Nay |
| Timothy Soucy | Democrat | Yea |
| Toni Weinstein | Democrat | Yea |
| Tony Caplan | Democrat | Nay |
| Tracy Bricchi | Democrat | Yea |
| Trinidad Tellez | Democrat | Nay |
| Wayne Burton | Democrat | Yea |
| Wayne Pearson | Democrat | Yea |
| Wendy Thomas | Democrat | Nay |
| Will Darby | Democrat | Yea |
| William Dolan | Democrat | Nay |
| William Palmer | Democrat | Yea |
| Zoe Manos | Democrat | Nay |
| Aidan Ankarberg | Independent | Nay |
| Aboul Khan | Republican | Nay |
| Adam Presa | Republican | Nay |
| Alvin See | Republican | Nay |
| Andrew Prout | Republican | Not Voting |
| Arnold Davis | Republican | Yea |
| Barbara Comtois | Republican | Nay |
| Bill Boyd | Republican | Nay |
| Bill Ohm | Republican | Yea |
| Bob Lynn | Republican | Yea |
| Brian Cole | Republican | Yea |
| Brian Labrie | Republican | Nay |
| Brian Nadeau | Republican | Nay |
| Brian Seaworth | Republican | Nay |
| Brian Taylor | Republican | Yea |
| Bryan Morse | Republican | Yea |
| Calvin Beaulier | Republican | Nay |
| Carol McGuire | Republican | Nay |
| Catherine Kenny | Republican | Yea |
| Charles Foote | Republican | Yea |
| Charles McMahon | Republican | Not Voting |
| 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 | Yea |
| Daniel Popovici-Muller | Republican | Not Voting |
| Darrell Louis | Republican | Nay |
| David Love | Republican | Nay |
| David Lundgren | Republican | Not Voting |
| David Milz | Republican | Yea |
| David Walker | Republican | Yea |
| Deborah Aylward | Republican | Yea |
| Debra DeSimone | Republican | Not Voting |
| Denis Murphy | Republican | Yea |
| Denise DeDe-Poulin | Republican | Nay |
| Dennis Mannion | Republican | Yea |
| Diane Kelley | Republican | Nay |
| Diane Pauer | Republican | Nay |
| Dick Thackston | Republican | Yea |
| Dillon Dumont | Republican | Nay |
| Donald McFarlane | Republican | Nay |
| Donald Selby | Republican | Nay |
| Douglas Thomas | Republican | Yea |
| Douglas Trottier | Republican | Not Voting |
| Erica Layon | Republican | Nay |
| Ernesto Gonzalez | Republican | Yea |
| George Grant | Republican | Nay |
| Gerald Griffin | Republican | Nay |
| Glen Aldrich | Republican | Yea |
| Glenn Bailey | Republican | Nay |
| Gregory Hill | Republican | Nay |
| Henry Giasson | Republican | Nay |
| JD Bernardy | Republican | Nay |
| Jack Flanagan | Republican | Yea |
| James Creighton | Republican | Yea |
| James Guzofski | Republican | Nay |
| 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 | Nay |
| Jennifer Rhodes | Republican | Not Voting |
| Jeremy Slottje | Republican | Nay |
| Jess Edwards | Republican | Nay |
| Jim Fedolfi | Republican | Not Voting |
| Jim Kofalt | Republican | Nay |
| Jodi Nelson | Republican | Yea |
| Joe Alexander | Republican | Nay |
| Joe Sweeney | Republican | Nay |
| John Hunt | Republican | Nay |
| John Janigian | Republican | Nay |
| John Leavitt | Republican | Not Voting |
| John MacDonald | Republican | Yea |
| John Potucek | Republican | Nay |
| John Schneller | Republican | Nay |
| John Sellers | Republican | Yea |
| John Suiter | Republican | Not Voting |
| John Sytek | Republican | Nay |
| Jonathan Morton | Republican | Yea |
| Jonathan Smith | Republican | Not Voting |
| Jordan Ulery | Republican | Nay |
| Jose Cambrils | Republican | Nay |
| Joseph Barton | Republican | Yea |
| Joseph Guthrie | Republican | Not Voting |
| Joseph Hamblen | Republican | Nay |
| Judy Aron | Republican | Nay |
| Julie Miles | Republican | Nay |
| Juliet Harvey-Bolia | Republican | Nay |
| Julius Soti | Republican | Nay |
| 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 | Not Voting |
| Kenneth Weyler | Republican | Nay |
| Kevin Scully | Republican | Nay |
| Kevin Verville | Republican | Nay |
| Kristin Noble | Republican | Nay |
| Kristine Perez | Republican | Nay |
| Larry Gagne | Republican | Yea |
| Laurence Miner | Republican | Nay |
| Len Turcotte | Republican | Nay |
| Lex Berezhny | Republican | Nay |
| Lilli Walsh | Republican | Nay |
| Linda Franz | Republican | Yea |
| Linda Gould | Republican | Yea |
| Linda McGrath | Republican | Yea |
| Lino Avellani | Republican | Nay |
| Lisa Mazur | Republican | Nay |
| Lisa Post | Republican | Nay |
| Liz Barbour | Republican | Nay |
| Lori Korzen | Republican | Yea |
| Lorie Ball | Republican | Not Voting |
| Louise Andrus | Republican | Nay |
| 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 | Yea |
| Maureen Mooney | Republican | Nay |
| Melissa Litchfield | Republican | Nay |
| Michael Aron | Republican | Nay |
| Michael Granger | Republican | Nay |
| Michael Harrington | Republican | Nay |
| Michael Moffett | Republican | Yea |
| Michael Vose | Republican | Not Voting |
| Mike Belcher | Republican | Nay |
| Mike Bordes | Republican | Not Voting |
| Mike Drago | Republican | Nay |
| Mike Ouellet | Republican | Yea |
| Nicholas Bridle | Republican | Yea |
| Pam Brown | Republican | Nay |
| Paul Terry | Republican | Nay |
| Paul Tudor | Republican | Nay |
| Pete Morency | Republican | Yea |
| Peter Mehegan | Republican | Yea |
| Peter Varney | Republican | Not Voting |
| Phyllis Katsakiores | Republican | Not Voting |
| Pierre Dupont | Republican | Yea |
| Ralph Boehm | Republican | Not Voting |
| Raymond Peeples | Republican | Nay |
| Raymond Plante | Republican | Nay |
| Rich Nalevanko | Republican | Nay |
| Richard Brown | Republican | Nay |
| Richard Lascelles | Republican | Yea |
| Richard Tripp | Republican | Yea |
| Riché Colcombe | Republican | Nay |
| Rick Ladd | Republican | Yea |
| Ricky Devoid | Republican | Nay |
| Rita Mattson | Republican | Yea |
| Robert Harb | Republican | Nay |
| Robert Wherry | Republican | Nay |
| Robley Hall | Republican | Not Voting |
| Ron Dunn | Republican | Nay |
| Ross Berry | Republican | Nay |
| Russell Dumais | Republican | Not Voting |
| Samuel Farrington | Republican | Nay |
| Sayra DeVito | Republican | Nay |
| Scott Bryer | Republican | Yea |
| Sean Durkin | Republican | Yea |
| Seth King | Republican | Yea |
| Shane Sirois | Republican | Nay |
| Sheri Minor | Republican | Nay |
| Sherman Packard | Republican | Not Voting |
| Sherri Reinfurt | Republican | Nay |
| Skip Rollins | Republican | Yea |
| Sly Karasinski | Republican | Not Voting |
| Stephen Boyd | Republican | Nay |
| Stephen Pearson | Republican | Yea |
| Steven Bogert | Republican | Nay |
| Steven Kesselring | Republican | Nay |
| Steven Smith | Republican | Not Voting |
| Susan DeRoy | Republican | Nay |
| Susan Porcelli | Republican | Nay |
| Susan Vandecasteele | Republican | Nay |
| Tanya Donnelly | Republican | Yea |
| Ted Gorski | Republican | Nay |
| Terry Roy | Republican | Not Voting |
| Thomas Walsh | Republican | Nay |
| Tim Mannion | Republican | Nay |
| Tom Dolan | Republican | Yea |
| Tom Ploszaj | Republican | Nay |
| Travis Corcoran | Republican | Nay |
| Travis Toner | Republican | Yea |
| Valerie McDonnell | Republican | Nay |
| Vanessa Sheehan | Republican | Nay |
| Vicki Wilson | Republican | Nay |
| Walter Spilsbury | Republican | Yea |
| Wayne Hemingway | Republican | Nay |
| Wayne MacDonald | Republican | Yea |
| Yury Polozov | Republican | Nay |
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Frequently asked questions
- Who sponsors HB 123?
- HB 123 is sponsored by Brian Cole (Republican), James Tierney (Republican), Howard Pearl (Republican), Mike Ouellet (Republican), Sean Durkin (Republican), Michael P Murphy, and Arnold Davis (Republican).
- What is the current status of HB 123?
- This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced January 06, 2025. Enacted.
- Where can I track HB 123?
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