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HB1735 Permitting treatment of certain severe illness under the right to try act.

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Permitting treatment of certain severe illness under the right to try act.

Impact Score — How Does This Bill Affect You?

6

Overall Impact Score

Mixed

Scale: 1 (harmful) to 10 (beneficial)

5
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Your Wallet

Experimental treatments are often expensive and out-of-pocket, but may be a patient's only remaining option.

6
🏘️

Your Community

Provides hope and options for patients with severe conditions, while maintaining some regulatory safeguards.

8
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Your Freedom

Significantly expands patient autonomy to make their own medical decisions when facing severe illness with limited options.

Status

House Concurs with Senate Amendment 2026-2134s (Rep. Roy): Motion Adopted Voice Vote 06/04/2026 House Journal 15

Voted Yes

0 R

Voted No

0 R

R Yes D Yes R No D No

Sponsor

Brian Cole (R)

The Short Version

Expands NH's Right to Try Act to allow patients with severe illnesses to access experimental treatments not yet FDA-approved. Passed House 181-151 with amendment, advancing through Senate.

Who's Behind This Bill?

Who Benefits

  • ▲ Terminally or severely ill patients
  • ▲ Families seeking treatment options
  • ▲ Medical freedom advocates

Who Pays the Price

  • ▼ Patients potentially exposed to unproven treatments
  • ▼ Healthcare system managing novel treatment risks

Roll Call Detail (2 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 2 recorded votes on this bill — counting each legislator's net direction and treating kill motions as opposing the bill — Republicans supported it ( 178 for , 1 against ) , and Democrats opposed it ( 3 for , 150 against ) .

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

Ought To Pass w/ Amendment - Remainder 2026-06-04
Passed

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

14R
Voted to Pass (14)
1R + 8D
Voted Against (9)
1
Absent
0
Not voting
Show all 24 individual votes
Absent (1)

Denise Ricciardi (R)

Ought to Pass with Amendment 2026-03-11
Passed

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

178R + 3D
Voted to Pass (181)
1R + 150D
Voted Against (151)
39
Absent
21
Not voting
Show all 392 individual votes

Voted Yea (181)

Republicans (178)
Democrats (3)

Voted Nay (151)

Republicans (1)
Democrats (150)
Absent (39)

Brian Seaworth (R) , Catherine Sofikitis (D) , Charles Melvin (R) , Cindy Bennett (R) , Dale Girard (D) , Dale Swanson (D) , David Lundgren (R) , Denise DeDe-Poulin (R) , Dick Thackston (R) , Gaby Grossman (D) , Geoff Smith (D) , Jaci Grote (D) , James Gruber (D) , Jay Markell (R) , Jeanine Notter (R) , Jennifer Rhodes (R) , Jim Fedolfi (R) , John Janigian (R) , Jonathan Smith (R) , Jose Cambrils (R) , Karel Crawford (R) , Kristine Perez (R) , Louise Andrus (R) , Marc Plamondon (D) , Mark Warden (R) , Mary Ford (R) , Matthew Hicks (D) , Mike Bordes (R) , Mike Drago (R) , Molly Howard (D) , Myles England (D) , Paul Terry (R) , Peggy Balboni (D) , Peter Lovett (D) , Peter Varney (R) , Terry Roy (R) , Thomas Buco (D) , Tom Dolan (R) , Wayne Hemingway (R)

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