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SB481 Relative to the sale of the Sununu youth services center property.

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Relative to the sale of the Sununu youth services center property.

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

Proper management of the sale could generate revenue for the state and ensure taxpayers get fair value for a significant state asset.

7
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Your Community

Responsible redevelopment of this property could benefit the surrounding community while acknowledging the facility's troubled history of youth abuse.

5
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Your Freedom

Primarily a government asset management decision with limited direct impact on individual freedoms.

Status

Conference Committee Report # 2026-2029c, Adopted, Voice Vote; 06/04/2026; Senate Journal 14

Voted Yes

0 R

Voted No

0 R

R Yes D Yes R No D No

Sponsor

Cindy Rosenwald (D)

The Short Version

Addresses the sale of the former Sununu Youth Services Center property, a facility with a troubled history of abuse. Establishes terms for how the state should handle the sale of this significant state-owned property.

Who's Behind This Bill?

Who Benefits

  • ▲ NH taxpayers through proper asset management
  • ▲ Surrounding community through potential redevelopment
  • ▲ Survivors of abuse at the facility seeking accountability

Who Pays the Price

  • ▼ Developers if sale terms include restrictive conditions

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 ( 185 for , 4 against ) , and Democrats opposed it ( 1 for , 153 against ) .

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

Adopt CofC Report 2026-06-04
Passed

YES = Yes. NO = No.

188R + 1D
Voted Yea (189)
6R + 151D + 1I
Voted Nay (158)
19
Absent
25
Not voting
Show all 391 individual votes

Voted Yea (189)

Republicans (188)
Democrats (1)

Voted Nay (158)

Republicans (6)
Democrats (151)
Independents (1)
Absent (19)

Beth Richards (D) , Catherine Sofikitis (D) , Chris Muns (D) , Darrell Louis (R) , Donald McFarlane (R) , Gaby Grossman (D) , Geoff Smith (D) , Jay Markell (R) , Jennifer Mandelbaum (D) , John Leavitt (R) , Laurence Miner (R) , Marjorie Smith (D) , Mark Pearson (R) , Maureen Mooney (R) , Richard Tripp (R) , Sheri Minor (R) , Stephen Pearson (R) , Terry Spahr (D) , Thomas Buco (D)

Ought to Pass with Amendment 2026-05-07
Passed

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

185R + 1D
Voted to Pass (186)
4R + 153D
Voted Against (157)
28
Absent
22
Not voting
Show all 393 individual votes

Voted Yea (186)

Republicans (185)
Democrats (1)

Voted Nay (157)

Republicans (4)
Democrats (153)
Absent (28)

Alicia Gregg (D) , Amy Malone (D) , Arnold Davis (R) , Buzz Scherr (D) , Catherine Sofikitis (D) , Christal Lloyd (D) , Cindy Bennett (R) , Donald McFarlane (R) , Ellen Read (D) , Gaby Grossman (D) , Gregory Hill (R) , Jim Fedolfi (R) , John Janigian (R) , John Leavitt (R) , John MacDonald (R) , John Sellers (R) , Juliet Harvey-Bolia (R) , Kevin Scully (R) , Kimberly Rice (R) , Mark MacKenzie (D) , Mark Vallone (D) , Matthew Wilhelm (D) , Merryl Gibbs (D) , Ned Raynolds (D) , Paul Berch (D) , Peter Varney (R) , Thomas Buco (D) , Vanessa Sheehan (R)

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