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HB1072 Relative to employer notice of department of labor investigations.

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Relative to employer notice of department of labor investigations.

Impact Score — How Does This Bill Affect You?

3

Overall Impact Score

Harmful

Scale: 1 (harmful) to 10 (beneficial)

3
💰

Your Wallet

Delayed inspections may allow wage theft, safety violations, and workplace hazards to persist longer, potentially costing workers earnings and healthcare expenses while reducing state enforcement costs.

3
🏘️

Your Community

Slower investigation timelines may result in more sustained workplace safety and labor violations in local communities before they are discovered and corrected.

7
⚖️

Your Freedom

Employers gain procedural predictability and ability to prepare for inspections, though this reduces investigative surprise that serves worker protection.

Status

Veto Sustained 08/19/2026: Regular Calendar 160-159 Lacking Necessary Two-Thirds Vote House Journal 16

Voted Yes

159 R + 1 D

Voted No

16 R + 143 D

R Yes D Yes R No D No

Sponsor

Brian Labrie (R)

The Short Version

This bill requires the NH Department of Labor to give employers at least 30 days' advance notice before workplace inspections and document requests, with limited exceptions for repeat violators, imminent safety risks, or evidence destruction concerns. The change makes labor investigations slower and more predictable for employers but reduces the agency's ability to conduct surprise inspections that might uncover violations.

Who's Behind This Bill?

Who Benefits

  • ▲ Employers seeking predictability and time to prepare for labor investigations
  • ▲ Employers with no recent violations who want advance notice before inspections
  • ▲ Establishments subject to boiler, elevator, youth labor, or OSHA-related inspections (which retain existing exemptions)

Who Pays the Price

  • ▼ Workers who rely on surprise inspections to document ongoing wage theft or safety violations
  • ▼ Employees in repeat-violating establishments who may experience longer periods of dangerous conditions
  • ▼ NH Department of Labor's investigative capacity and effectiveness
  • ▼ Public health and safety if imminent violations go undetected during notice periods

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 ( 159 for , 16 against ) , and Democrats opposed it ( 1 for , 143 against ) .

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

Veto Override 2026-08-19
Passed

YES = Override the veto (keep the bill alive). NO = Let the veto stand (kill the bill).

159R + 1D
Voted to Override (160)
16R + 143D
Voted to Sustain Veto (159)
26
Absent
39
Not voting
Show all 384 individual votes

Voted Yea (160)

Republicans (159)
Democrats (1)

Voted Nay (159)

Republicans (16)
Democrats (143)
Absent (26)

Alicia Gregg (D) , Charlie St. Clair (D) , Cindy Bennett (R) , Darrell Louis (R) , Debra DeSimone (R) , Ellen Read (D) , Ellen Rockmore (D) , Gary Daniels (R) , Jim Kofalt (R) , John Potucek (R) , Jose Cambrils (R) , Karen Ebel (D) , Kevin Verville (R) , Kimberly Rice (R) , Kristin Noble (R) , Leonard Turcotte (R) , Linda Harriott-Gathright (D) , Loren Selig (D) , Marjorie Smith (D) , Merryl Gibbs (D) , Mike Ouellet (R) , Paul Berch (D) , Ron Dunn (R) , Thomas Buco (D) , Vanessa Sheehan (R) , Walter Spilsbury (R)

Did not vote (39)

Aidan Ankarberg (I) , Beth Richards (D) , Bill Ohm (R) , Bryan Morse (R) , Catherine Sofikitis (D) , Dan Bergeron (D) , Daniel LeClerc (D) , David Love (R) , Donald McFarlane (R) , Douglas Trottier (R) , Erica deVries (D) , Gaby Grossman (D) , James MacKay (D) , James Summers (R) , Jared Sullivan (D) , Jennifer Mandelbaum (D) , Jim Creighton (R) , Jim Fedolfi (R) , John Leavitt (R) , John Stone (D) , John Suiter (R) , Lex Berezhny (R) , Mark Vallone (D) , Michael Vose (R) , Peter Morency (R) , Peter Varney (R) , Riche Colcombe (R) , Robley Hall (R) , Russell Muirhead (D) , Samantha Jacobs (D) , Sayra Devito (R) , Sean Durkin (R) , Sherman Packard (R) , Stephanie Grund (D) , Steven Bogert (R) , Travis Corcoran (R) , Travis Toner (R) , Valerie McDonnell (R) , William Dolan (D)

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