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HB1810 Relative to a road salt fee to support certified winter road maintenance practices.

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Relative to a road salt fee to support certified winter road maintenance practices.

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

A road salt fee adds costs, but reducing salt use protects wells and water systems from expensive contamination remediation.

7
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Your Community

Road salt is contaminating NH drinking water wells at alarming rates; certified maintenance practices can reduce salt use while maintaining safe roads.

5
⚖️

Your Freedom

No significant freedom implications; environmental protection fee.

Status

Inexpedient to Legislate: Motion Adopted Regular Calendar 177-156 02/12/2026 House Journal 4 P. 73

Voted Yes

0 R

Voted No

0 R

R Yes D Yes R No D No

Sponsor

William Darby (D)

The Short Version

Would impose a fee on road salt to fund certification programs for winter road maintenance, helping reduce salt contamination of NH's drinking water supplies. Killed ITL 177-156.

Who's Behind This Bill?

Who Benefits

  • ▲ Residents with private wells threatened by salt contamination
  • ▲ Lakes and ecosystems damaged by road salt
  • ▲ Drinking water quality

Who Pays the Price

  • ▼ Road maintenance operations paying the fee
  • ▼ Municipal budgets for winter road treatment

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 ( 6 for , 175 against ) , and Democrats supported it ( 150 for , 2 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) 2026-02-12
Passed

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

175R + 2D
Voted to Kill the Bill (177)
6R + 150D
Voted to Keep It Alive (156)
32
Absent
29
Not voting
Show all 394 individual votes

Voted Yea (177)

Republicans (175)
Democrats (2)

Voted Nay (156)

Republicans (6)
Democrats (150)
Absent (32)

Allison Knab (D) , Beth Richards (D) , Brian Cole (R) , Catherine Sofikitis (D) , Charles Foote (R) , David Lundgren (R) , David Meuse (D) , Dick Thackston (R) , Dillon Dumont (R) , Gaby Grossman (D) , Harry Bean (R) , Jeffrey Tenczar (R) , John MacDonald (R) , John Suiter (R) , Julie Gilman (D) , Karel Crawford (R) , Louis Juris (D) , Lucius Parshall (D) , Mark MacKenzie (D) , Mary Murphy (R) , Michael Murphy (R) , Mike Bordes (R) , Myles England (D) , Peter Varney (R) , Richard Brown (R) , Sayra Devito (R) , Sean Durkin (R) , Susan Vandecasteele (R) , Terry Roy (R) , Thomas Buco (D) , Tim Mannion (R) , William Dolan (D)

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