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HB232 Relative to the rights of conscience for medical professionals.

Healthcare Dead Auto-scored

Relative to the rights of conscience for medical professionals.

Impact Score — How Does This Bill Affect You?

5

Overall Impact Score

Concerning

Scale: 1 (harmful) to 10 (beneficial)

5
💰

Your Wallet

Fiscal impact is less than $10,000 annually for AG reporting requirements, with no direct costs to taxpayers or healthcare consumers identified.

5
🏘️

Your Community

Bill establishes administrative reporting to state leadership but does not materially alter healthcare access or community services.

6
⚖️

Your Freedom

Provides healthcare workers explicit legal protections and notice of rights to refuse participation based on religious or moral beliefs, though scope is limited to direct abortion participation.

Status

Veto Sustained 08/19/2026: Regular Calendar 166-154 Lacking Necessary Two-Thirds Vote House Journal 16

Voted Yes

165 R + 1 D

Voted No

13 R + 141 D

R Yes D Yes R No D No

Sponsor

Mark Pearson (R)

The Short Version

This bill requires NH healthcare institutions that provide abortion services to annually notify employees of their right to request religious or moral exemptions from participating in abortions, and allows employees to file complaints with the attorney general if accommodations are denied. The bill creates a modest administrative burden on employers and establishes a new complaint process with minimal fiscal impact under $10,000 annually.

Who's Behind This Bill?

Who Benefits

  • ▲ Healthcare workers with religious or moral objections to abortion who may seek reasonable workplace accommodations
  • ▲ Employees seeking clarity on their rights through mandatory written notification

Who Pays the Price

  • ▼ Healthcare institutions providing abortion services, which must implement annual notification procedures and potential accommodation requests
  • ▼ Potentially abortion patients if staffing accommodations create service delays or access limitations, though bill does not address this

Roll Call Detail (3 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 3 recorded votes on this bill — counting each legislator's net direction and treating kill motions as opposing the bill — Republicans supported it ( 194 for , 6 against ) , Democrats opposed it ( 169 against ) , and Independents opposed it ( 1 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).

165R + 1D
Voted to Override (166)
13R + 141D
Voted to Sustain Veto (154)
26
Absent
38
Not voting
Show all 384 individual votes

Voted Yea (166)

Republicans (165)
Democrats (1)

Voted Nay (154)

Republicans (13)
Democrats (141)
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)

Concur with other chamber's amendments 2026-05-21
Passed

YES = Accept the other chamber's amendments. NO = Reject the other chamber's amendments.

177R + 2D
Voted to Concur (179)
5R + 148D + 1I
Voted to Not Concur (154)
29
Absent
31
Not voting
Show all 393 individual votes

Voted Yea (179)

Republicans (177)
Democrats (2)

Voted Nay (154)

Republicans (5)
Democrats (148)
Independents (1)
Absent (29)

Allan Howland (D) , Brian Sullivan (D) , Catherine Sofikitis (D) , Chris Muns (D) , Dale Swanson (D) , David Lundgren (R) , Eric Gallager (D) , Gaby Grossman (D) , Jeanine Notter (R) , Jeffrey Tenczar (R) , Jim Fedolfi (R) , John Leavitt (R) , Jonathan Smith (R) , Karen Hegner (D) , Kevin Verville (R) , Liz Barbour (R) , Lorie Ball (R) , Lucy Weber (D) , Marjorie Smith (D) , Mark McLean (R) , Matthew Coker (R) , Melissa Litchfield (R) , Nicholas Bridle (R) , Paige Beauchemin (D) , Peter Leishman (D) , Raymond Plante (R) , Robley Hall (R) , Stephen Pearson (R) , Thomas Buco (D)

Ought to Pass with Amendment 2026-01-08
Passed

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

183R + 1D
Voted to Pass (184)
6R + 157D + 1I
Voted Against (164)
29
Absent
18
Not voting
Show all 395 individual votes

Voted Yea (184)

Republicans (183)
Democrats (1)

Voted Nay (164)

Republicans (6)
Democrats (157)
Independents (1)
Absent (29)

Allison Knab (D) , Amy Malone (D) , Barbara Comtois (R) , Carrie Sorensen (D) , Charles Foote (R) , David Luneau (D) , Deborah Aylward (R) , Denise DeDe-Poulin (R) , Douglas Trottier (R) , Gaby Grossman (D) , Glen Aldrich (R) , Jeffrey Tenczar (R) , Jeremy Slottje (R) , Jim Creighton (R) , Jim Fedolfi (R) , John MacDonald (R) , Laurence Miner (R) , Mary Murphy (R) , Merryl Gibbs (D) , Michael Harrington (R) , Michael Murphy (R) , Myles England (D) , Nicole Leapley (D) , Peter Morency (R) , Peter Schmidt (D) , Sandra Panek (R) , Sanjeev Manohar (D) , Terry Roy (R) , Toni Weinstein (D)

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