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CACR12 The adoption of tax laws.

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The adoption of tax laws.

Impact Score — How Does This Bill Affect You?

7

Overall Impact Score

Mixed

Scale: 1 (harmful) to 10 (beneficial)

7
💰

Your Wallet

Residents would be protected from any future personal income tax, providing long-term tax certainty for wage earners, though this removes a revenue tool that could theoretically lower other taxes or fund services.

3
🏘️

Your Community

State and local funding for education, infrastructure, and services could face constraints if the state loses access to income tax revenue as an alternative funding source during fiscal pressures.

7
⚖️

Your Freedom

The amendment restricts the legislature's taxing authority, shifting that power choice to voters through constitutional amendment rather than allowing future legislatures flexibility in tax policy.

Status

Ought to Pass with Amendment 2026-1134h: Motion Failed Regular Calendar 193-148 Lacking Necessary Three-Fifths Vote 05/14/2026 House Journal 13 P. 63

Voted Yes

188 R + 5 D

Voted No

2 R + 146 D

R Yes D Yes R No D No

Sponsor

Timothy Lang (R)

The Short Version

This constitutional amendment would permanently prohibit the New Hampshire House of Representatives from adopting any tax on personal income, wages, or earned income. It would require voter approval in November 2026 and, if passed, would eliminate the legislature's ability to implement a personal income tax while preserving business and corporate taxation.

Who's Behind This Bill?

Who Benefits

  • ▲ Wage earners and individuals with personal income who would be protected from any future income tax
  • ▲ Residents favoring lower personal tax burdens and constrained government revenue

Who Pays the Price

  • ▼ State government funding mechanisms, which would lose a potential revenue option
  • ▼ Communities and school districts dependent on state aid if state revenues become constrained
  • ▼ Future legislatures, whose fiscal options would be constitutionally limited

Roll Call Detail (4 votes)

Every recorded floor vote on this bill, with each legislator's individual vote. Click a name to see that rep's full record.

Who actually supports this bill?

Across the 4 recorded votes on this bill — counting each legislator's net direction and treating kill motions as opposing the bill — Republicans supported it ( 204 for , 2 against ) , and Democrats opposed it ( 5 for , 154 against ) .

"Supporting" means voting for passage OR voting against a kill motion. "Opposing" is the inverse. Concurs and amendment-only votes don't count.

Adopt Amendment 2026-05-14
Passed

YES = Adopt this amendment. NO = Reject this amendment.

188R + 4D
Voted to Adopt Amendment (192)
1R + 147D
Voted Against Amendment (148)
32
Absent
21
Not voting
Show all 393 individual votes

Voted Yea (192)

Republicans (188)
Democrats (4)

Voted Nay (148)

Republicans (1)
Democrats (147)
Absent (32)

Alicia Gregg (D) , Arnold Davis (R) , Barbara Comtois (R) , Beth Richards (D) , Bill Bolton (D) , Catherine Sofikitis (D) , David Preece (D) , Denise DeDe-Poulin (R) , Donald McFarlane (R) , Gaby Grossman (D) , Heather Baldwin (D) , Jean Jeudy (D) , Jeffrey Tenczar (R) , Jim Fedolfi (R) , Jim Kofalt (R) , Jodi Nelson (R) , John Suiter (R) , Julie Gilman (D) , Kevin Verville (R) , Linda Haskins (D) , Matthew Hicks (D) , Myles England (D) , Peter Varney (R) , Raymond Peeples (R) , Richard Brown (R) , Robley Hall (R) , Sanjeev Manohar (D) , Sean Durkin (R) , Stephanie Grund (D) , Steven Bogert (R) , Thomas Buco (D) , Toni Weinstein (D)

Adopt Floor Amendment 2026-05-14
Failed

YES = Adopt this amendment. NO = Reject this amendment.

1R + 16D
Voted to Adopt Amendment (17)
188R + 134D
Voted Against Amendment (322)
33
Absent
21
Not voting
Show all 393 individual votes

Voted Nay (322)

Republicans (188)
Democrats (134)
Absent (33)

Alicia Gregg (D) , Arnold Davis (R) , Barbara Comtois (R) , Beth Richards (D) , Bill Bolton (D) , Catherine Sofikitis (D) , David Preece (D) , Denise DeDe-Poulin (R) , Donald McFarlane (R) , Gaby Grossman (D) , Heather Baldwin (D) , Jean Jeudy (D) , Jeffrey Tenczar (R) , Jim Fedolfi (R) , Jim Kofalt (R) , Jodi Nelson (R) , John Suiter (R) , Joseph Barton (R) , Julie Gilman (D) , Kevin Verville (R) , Linda Haskins (D) , Matthew Hicks (D) , Myles England (D) , Peter Varney (R) , Raymond Peeples (R) , Richard Brown (R) , Robley Hall (R) , Sanjeev Manohar (D) , Sean Durkin (R) , Stephanie Grund (D) , Steven Bogert (R) , Thomas Buco (D) , Toni Weinstein (D)

Ought to Pass with Amendment 2026-05-14
Passed

YES = Pass the bill with the attached amendment. NO = Reject the bill (as amended).

188R + 5D
Voted to Pass (193)
2R + 146D
Voted Against (148)
33
Absent
19
Not voting
Show all 393 individual votes

Voted Yea (193)

Republicans (188)
Democrats (5)

Voted Nay (148)

Republicans (2)
Democrats (146)
Absent (33)

Alicia Gregg (D) , Arnold Davis (R) , Barbara Comtois (R) , Beth Richards (D) , Bill Bolton (D) , Catherine Sofikitis (D) , David Preece (D) , Denise DeDe-Poulin (R) , Donald McFarlane (R) , Gaby Grossman (D) , Heather Baldwin (D) , Jean Jeudy (D) , Jeffrey Tenczar (R) , Jim Fedolfi (R) , Jim Kofalt (R) , Jodi Nelson (R) , John Suiter (R) , Joseph Barton (R) , Julie Gilman (D) , Kevin Verville (R) , Linda Haskins (D) , Matthew Hicks (D) , Myles England (D) , Peter Varney (R) , Raymond Peeples (R) , Richard Brown (R) , Robley Hall (R) , Sanjeev Manohar (D) , Sean Durkin (R) , Stephanie Grund (D) , Steven Bogert (R) , Thomas Buco (D) , Toni Weinstein (D)

Ought to Pass 2026-02-19
Passed

YES = Pass the bill. NO = Reject the bill.

16R
Voted to Pass (16)
0R + 8D
Voted Against (8)
0
Absent
0
Not voting
Show all 24 individual votes
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