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HB1066 Relative to warrant articles authorizing lease agreements.

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Relative to warrant articles authorizing lease agreements.

Impact Score — How Does This Bill Affect You?

5

Overall Impact Score

Concerning

Scale: 1 (harmful) to 10 (beneficial)

5
💰

Your Wallet

Procedural change to lease authorization that could affect how efficiently municipalities manage their finances.

5
🏘️

Your Community

Changes to warrant article procedures affect how voters participate in municipal leasing decisions.

5
⚖️

Your Freedom

Municipal governance procedure change with limited direct impact on individual freedoms.

Status

Refer to Interim Study, Motion Adopted, Voice Vote; 04/16/2026; Senate Journal 9

Voted Yes

0 R

Voted No

0 R

R Yes D Yes R No D No

Sponsor

Diane Pauer (R)

The Short Version

Would modify how municipalities handle warrant articles that authorize lease agreements, potentially changing the voter approval process for municipal leasing decisions. Affects local government fiscal management procedures.

Who's Behind This Bill?

Who Benefits

  • ▲ Municipal administrators
  • ▲ Voters seeking clarity on lease authorization

Who Pays the Price

  • ▼ No meaningful costs

Roll Call Detail (1 vote)

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 1 recorded vote on this bill — counting each legislator's net direction and treating kill motions as opposing the bill — Republicans supported it ( 175 for , 16 against ) , and Democrats opposed it ( 151 against ) .

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

Table 2026-03-12
Failed

YES = Kill the bill. NO = Keep the bill alive.

16R + 151D
Voted to Kill the Bill (167)
175R
Voted to Keep It Alive (175)
21
Absent
29
Not voting
Show all 392 individual votes

Voted Yea (167)

Republicans (16)
Democrats (151)

Voted Nay (175)

Republicans (175)
Absent (21)

Dale Swanson (D) , Gaby Grossman (D) , Geoff Smith (D) , Jaci Grote (D) , James Spillane (R) , Jay Markell (R) , Jeanine Notter (R) , Jennifer Rhodes (R) , John Janigian (R) , Jonathan Smith (R) , Joseph Hamblen (R) , Kevin Verville (R) , Linda Haskins (D) , Mark Warden (R) , Mary Ford (R) , Matthew Hicks (D) , Peter Lovett (D) , Peter Varney (R) , Robert Harb (R) , Stephen Pearson (R) , Thomas Buco (D)

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Bill statuses as of May 2026. Check LegiScan or NH General Court for the latest.

This bill was auto-scored using AI analysis of the bill text and legislative data. Scores may be refined as we review more bills.