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HB1609 Limiting the use of state, county, and municipal funds and property for construction and operation of certain immigrant detention facilities.

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Limiting the use of state, county, and municipal funds and property for construction and operation of certain immigrant detention facilities.

Impact Score — How Does This Bill Affect You?

6

Overall Impact Score

Mixed

Scale: 1 (harmful) to 10 (beneficial)

6
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Your Wallet

Would have protected local taxpayers from bearing the costs of federal immigration detention, which can be expensive for host communities.

5
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Your Community

Detention facilities affect host communities through increased costs and social impacts; this would have prevented involuntary local involvement.

6
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Your Freedom

Would have protected local self-determination by preventing the state from committing local resources to federal detention operations.

Status

Inexpedient to Legislate: Motion Adopted Regular Calendar 185-154 03/12/2026 House Journal 8

Voted Yes

0 R

Voted No

0 R

R Yes D Yes R No D No

Sponsor

David Meuse (D)

The Short Version

Would have prohibited state and local government funds and property from being used to build or operate immigrant detention facilities. Killed on a party-line vote (185-154).

Who's Behind This Bill?

Who Benefits

  • ▲ Local taxpayers who don't want to fund detention facilities
  • ▲ Communities that don't want detention operations in their area
  • ▲ Immigrant rights advocates

Who Pays the Price

  • ▼ Federal immigration enforcement seeking local cooperation and facilities

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 opposed it ( 1 for , 182 against ) , and Democrats supported it ( 153 for , 3 against ) .

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

Inexpedient to Legislate (kill motion) 2026-03-12
Passed

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

182R + 3D
Voted to Kill the Bill (185)
1R + 153D
Voted to Keep It Alive (154)
32
Absent
21
Not voting
Show all 392 individual votes

Voted Yea (185)

Republicans (182)
Democrats (3)

Voted Nay (154)

Republicans (1)
Democrats (153)
Absent (32)

Beth Richards (D) , Brian Seaworth (R) , Dale Swanson (D) , Donald McFarlane (R) , Efstathia Booras (D) , Gaby Grossman (D) , Geoff Smith (D) , Jaci Grote (D) , James Spillane (R) , Jay Markell (R) , Jeanine Notter (R) , Jennifer Rhodes (R) , Jess Edwards (R) , Jim Fedolfi (R) , John Janigian (R) , Jonathan Smith (R) , Joseph Hamblen (R) , Kimberly Rice (R) , Linda Haskins (D) , Lorie Ball (R) , Mark Warden (R) , Mary Ford (R) , Matthew Hicks (D) , Mike Bordes (R) , Patricia Cornell (D) , Peter Lovett (D) , Peter Varney (R) , Robert Harb (R) , Russell Muirhead (D) , Sayra Devito (R) , Susan Vandecasteele (R) , Thomas Buco (D)

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

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