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HB624 Establishing a local river management advisory committee grant program and making an appropriation therefor.

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Establishing a local river management advisory committee grant program and making an appropriation therefor.

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

River management protects property values along waterways and prevents costly flood damage.

7
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Your Community

Healthy rivers support recreation, tourism, drinking water, and wildlife habitat that define NH's quality of life.

5
⚖️

Your Freedom

Grant program for local committees has no direct freedom implications.

Status

Inexpedient to Legislate: Motion Adopted Regular Calendar 187-164 01/08/2026 House Journal 2 P. 8

Voted Yes

0 R

Voted No

0 R

R Yes D Yes R No D No

Sponsor

Eric Turer (D)

The Short Version

Would have funded grants for local river management advisory committees to protect NH's rivers and waterways. Killed 187-164. River management protects drinking water, recreation, and property values along waterways.

Who's Behind This Bill?

Who Benefits

  • ▲ Communities along NH rivers
  • ▲ Recreational users
  • ▲ Property owners near waterways

Who Pays the Price

  • ▼ State budget for the grant program

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 ( 7 for , 185 against ) , Democrats supported it ( 156 for , 2 against ) , and Independents supported it ( 1 for ) .

"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) 2026-01-08
Passed

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

185R + 2D
Voted to Kill the Bill (187)
7R + 156D + 1I
Voted to Keep It Alive (164)
30
Absent
14
Not voting
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Voted Yea (187)

Republicans (185)
Democrats (2)

Voted Nay (164)

Republicans (7)
Democrats (156)
Independents (1)
Absent (30)

Allison Knab (D) , Amy Malone (D) , Barbara Comtois (R) , Carrie Sorensen (D) , Charles Foote (R) , David Luneau (D) , Deborah Aylward (R) , Denis Murphy (R) , Denise DeDe-Poulin (R) , Douglas Trottier (R) , Efstathia Booras (D) , Ellen Read (D) , Gaby Grossman (D) , Glen Aldrich (R) , Jeffrey Tenczar (R) , Jeremy Slottje (R) , Jim Creighton (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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Bill statuses as of May 2026. Check LegiScan or NH General Court for the latest.

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