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HB1097 Requiring legislative approval of the amendment or permanent removal of historical markers.

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Requiring legislative approval of the amendment or permanent removal of historical markers.

Impact Score — How Does This Bill Affect You?

4

Overall Impact Score

Concerning

Scale: 1 (harmful) to 10 (beneficial)

5
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Your Wallet

No direct financial cost or benefit to taxpayers is apparent from the bill's text.

4
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Your Community

Communities seeking to correct or update historical markers will face bureaucratic delays and higher barriers, potentially freezing marker content regardless of historical accuracy or community concerns.

3
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Your Freedom

The bill reduces local and agency discretion by centralizing marker decisions in the Legislature, limiting the ability of communities and preservation officials to respond to new historical evidence or community needs.

Status

Veto Sustained 08/19/2026: Regular Calendar 193-125 Lacking Necessary Two-Thirds Vote House Journal 16

Voted Yes

169 R + 24 D

Voted No

7 R + 118 D

R Yes D Yes R No D No

Sponsor

Gregory Hill (R)

The Short Version

This bill requires the New Hampshire Legislature to approve any changes to or removal of historical markers, rather than allowing the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources to make these decisions. The practical effect is to slow or potentially prevent updates to historical markers that residents or communities believe contain inaccurate or incomplete information.

Who's Behind This Bill?

Who Benefits

  • ▲ Legislators gain procedural control over historical marker content
  • ▲ Those who prefer historical marker language to remain static

Who Pays the Price

  • ▼ Communities seeking to correct inaccurate or incomplete historical markers
  • ▼ The Department of Natural and Cultural Resources' ability to manage markers efficiently
  • ▼ State historic preservation office's professional judgment on historical accuracy

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 ( 169 for , 7 against ) , and Democrats opposed it ( 24 for , 118 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).

169R + 24D
Voted to Override (193)
7R + 118D
Voted to Sustain Veto (125)
25
Absent
41
Not voting
Show all 384 individual votes

Voted Yea (193)

Republicans (169)
Democrats (24)

Voted Nay (125)

Republicans (7)
Democrats (118)
Absent (25)

Alicia Gregg (D) , Charlie St. Clair (D) , Cindy Bennett (R) , Darrell Louis (R) , Debra DeSimone (R) , 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 (41)

Aidan Ankarberg (I) , Amy Malone (D) , 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) , Ellen Read (D) , Erica deVries (D) , Gaby Grossman (D) , James MacKay (D) , James Summers (R) , Jared Sullivan (D) , Jennifer Mandelbaum (D) , Jim Creighton (R) , John Leavitt (R) , John Stone (D) , John Suiter (R) , Loren Foxx (D) , Mark Vallone (D) , Michael Vose (R) , Peter Morency (R) , Peter Varney (R) , Phyllis Katsakiores (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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