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SB545 Relative to financial eligibility for the Medicare savings program.

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Relative to financial eligibility for the Medicare savings program.

Impact Score — How Does This Bill Affect You?

7

Overall Impact Score

Mixed

Scale: 1 (harmful) to 10 (beneficial)

8
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Your Wallet

Expanding Medicare Savings Program eligibility directly reduces out-of-pocket healthcare costs for seniors and disabled individuals living on fixed incomes.

8
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Your Community

Helps NH's growing senior population afford Medicare costs, keeping more elderly residents healthy and reducing the financial devastation of healthcare expenses in retirement.

6
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Your Freedom

Expands access to a program that helps seniors afford healthcare, giving them more financial freedom in retirement.

Status

Inexpedient to Legislate: Motion Adopted Regular Calendar 182-153 04/23/2026 House Journal 11

Voted Yes

0 R

Voted No

0 R

R Yes D Yes R No D No

Sponsor

Cindy Rosenwald (D)

The Short Version

Adjusts financial eligibility thresholds for the Medicare Savings Program, which helps low-income seniors and disabled individuals pay Medicare premiums, deductibles, and copays. Could expand access to more NH seniors.

Who's Behind This Bill?

Who Benefits

  • ▲ Low-income seniors on Medicare
  • ▲ Disabled individuals on Medicare
  • ▲ Seniors on fixed incomes struggling with healthcare costs

Who Pays the Price

  • ▼ State Medicaid budget
  • ▼ Taxpayers funding expanded eligibility

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 ( 3 for , 182 against ) , and Democrats supported it ( 150 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) 2026-04-23
Passed

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

182R
Voted to Kill the Bill (182)
3R + 150D
Voted to Keep It Alive (153)
32
Absent
26
Not voting
Show all 393 individual votes

Voted Yea (182)

Republicans (182)

Voted Nay (153)

Republicans (3)
Democrats (150)
Absent (32)

Allan Howland (D) , Amy Malone (D) , Catherine Sofikitis (D) , Cathy Kenny (R) , Charles Foote (R) , Charlie St. Clair (D) , Denise DeDe-Poulin (R) , Dennis Malloy (D) , Fred Davis (D) , Gaby Grossman (D) , Gregory Sargent (D) , Jodi Nelson (R) , Joe Sweeney (R) , John Sellers (R) , Jose Cambrils (R) , Karen Hegner (D) , Kate Murray (D) , Laura Telerski (D) , Laurel Stavis (D) , Laurence Miner (R) , Leonard Turcotte (R) , Mark Pearson (R) , Peter Morency (R) , Raymond Plante (R) , Sayra Devito (R) , Sheri Minor (R) , Stephanie Grund (D) , Ted Gorski (R) , Terry Roy (R) , Thomas Buco (D) , Tim Mannion (R) , Wayne Pearson (D)

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