NH CACR 25

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relative to the right to marry. Providing that the right to marry is a fundamental civil right and that the state shall protect the right of every individual, regardless of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, or race, to marry and to have their marriage legally recognized.

New Hampshire · 2026 Regular Session · lower

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Quick answers

Did NH CACR 25 pass?

No. NH CACR 25 did not pass — it was defeated or died in the legislative process. Latest recorded action (2026-03-13): Inexpedient to Legislate: MA RC 176-162 03/12/2026 HJ 8 P. 105

What is NH CACR 25 about?

NH CACR 25 is a constitutional amendment in the 2026 Regular Session titled “relative to the right to marry. Providing that the right to marry is a fundamental civil right and that the state shall protect the right of every individual, regardless of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, or race, to marry and to have their marriage legally recognized.”.

Who sponsors NH CACR 25?

Alice Wade is the primary sponsor of NH CACR 25, joined by 7 cosponsors.

Introduced: 2025-12-01
Latest action: 2026-03-13 — Inexpedient to Legislate: MA RC 176-162 03/12/2026 HJ 8 P. 105
Bill type: constitutional amendment
Last updated: —

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Action timeline

Newest first

2026-03-13
Inexpedient to Legislate: MA RC 176-162 03/12/2026 HJ 8 P. 105
failure
2026-03-13
Special Order to the next order of business (Rep. Weber): MA VV 03/12/2026 HJ 8 P. 104
2026-02-02
Minority Committee Report: Ought to Pass
committee-passage-favorable
2026-02-02
Majority Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate 01/28/2026 (Vote 11-7; RC) HC 10 P. 98
committee-failure
2026-02-02
Executive Session: 01/21/2026 11:30 am GP 230
2026-01-08
Public Hearing: 01/21/2026 11:30 am GP 230
2025-12-01
Introduced 01/07/2026 and referred to Judiciary HJ 1 P. 41
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Votes

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2026-03-12 · pass · 176-162
Member-level votes (386)
- Phyllis M Katsakiores: yes
- Mary Jane Wallner: no
- John B. Hunt: yes
- Janet G Wall: no
- Wayne M. Burton: no
- Gary R Gilmore: no
- Kenneth L Weyler: yes
- Gary L. Daniels: yes
- Sherman A. Packard: other
- John J Sytek: yes
- John R Cloutier: no
- James R MacKay: other
- Susan W Almy: no
- Joseph A. Guthrie: yes
- Peter R Leishman: no
- Marjorie K. Smith: no
- Michael D Harrington: yes
- Charles E McMahon: yes
- Maureen C. Mooney: yes
- Peter B Schmidt: no
- Ralph G Boehm: yes
- Jordan G. Ulery: yes
- Thomas L Buco: other
- Jean L. Jeudy: no
- Lucy McVitty Weber: no
- Debra L DeSimone: yes
- Larry G Gagne: yes
- Timothy O. Horrigan: no
- Rick M Ladd: yes
- Carol M McGuire: yes
- Timothy A. Soucy: no
- Susan C DeLemus: yes
- Jack B. Flanagan: yes
- Gregory G. Hill: yes
- David C Lundgren: yes
- Dan McGuire: yes
- Jeanine M Notter: other
- Bill H Ohm: yes
- Mark L Proulx: yes
- Brian Seaworth: other
- Steven D Smith: other
- Marc D Tremblay: yes
- Mark Warden: other
- Dick Ames: no
- Paul S. Berch: no
- Peter W Bixby: no
- Efstathia S Booras: other
- Michael D Cahill: no
- Karel A. Crawford: yes
- Linda A. DiSilvestro: no
- Karen E Ebel: no
- Linda C Harriott-Gathright: other
- Martin L. Jack: no
- Aboul B Khan: yes
- Dennis J Malloy: no
- David E Milz: yes
- Chris Muns: no
- Skip A. Rollins: yes
- Thomas C Schamberg: no
- Joe Sweeney: yes
- George E Sykes: no
- Thomas C Walsh: yes
- Gerald W.R. Ward: no
- Glen C Aldrich: yes
- Keith Michael Ammon: yes
- Lino M Avellani: yes
- Russell Dumais: other
- Thomas L Kaczynski: yes
- Mark McLean: yes
- Jason M. Osborne: yes
- John Michael Potucek: yes
- Katherine J. Prudhomme-O'Brien: yes
- Kimberly A Rice: other
- James A Spillane: other
- Douglas W. Thomas: yes
- Len P Turcotte: yes
- Peter R. Varney: other
- Michael Vose: yes
- Patricia Cornell: other
- Linda R Gould: yes
- Christopher J. Herbert: no
- David J. Luneau: no
- Alexis H Simpson: no
- Thomas L Southworth: no
- Michael A Edgar: no
- Michael I Moffett: yes
- Barry Faulkner: no
- Barbara Comtois: yes
- Jim L Fedolfi: other
- Gerald Griffin: yes
- Lisa M Freeman: yes
- Richard W. Lascelles: yes
- Kevin J Scully: yes
- Andrew J. Prout: yes
- John A Leavitt: other
- Kevin G. Verville: yes
- Jess Edwards: other
- Richard P Tripp: yes
- John C Janigian: other
- Cathryn A Harvey: no
- Mark S MacKenzie: no
- Sue A Newman: no
- Catherine M Sofikitis: no
- Beth S. Richards: other
- Ellen D Read: other
- Julie D Gilman: no
- Kate Rushford Murray: no
- Mark A Pearson: yes
- Kris Schultz: no
- Charlie G. St. Clair: no
- Brian M Sullivan: no
- Anita D Burroughs: no
- Stephen L Woodcock: no
- John T MacDonald: yes
- Jerry M. Stringham: no
- Sallie D Fellows: no
- Laurel Stavis: no
- Keith Erf: yes
- Nancy A Murphy: no
- Rosemarie Rung: no
- Wendy Ellen N Thomas: no
- Ray E Newman: no
- Fred E Davis: no
- Laura Damphousse Telerski: no
- Matthew B. Wilhelm: no
- Connie Boyles Lane: no
- Gary L Woods: no
- Tom Dolan: yes
- David C Love: yes
- Stephen C. Pearson: yes
- Mark A Vallone: no
- Robert D Harb: other
- Charles R Melvin: yes
- Gaby M Grossman: other
- Jim V. Maggiore: no
- David James Meuse: no
- Terry W Roy: yes
- Cassandra N Levesque: no
- Judy F. Aron: yes
- Megan A Murray: no
- Kat McGhee: no
- Joe H. Alexander: yes
- Paul P Dargie: no
- Peter Petrigno: no
- Tom Ploszaj: yes
- Mike Bordes: other
- Juliet Harvey-Bolia: yes
- Douglas R. Trottier: other
- Jonathan H Smith: other
- Chris R McAleer: no
- Dru Fox: no
- Lucius Parshall: no
- James R Qualey: yes
- Jennifer M Rhodes: other
- Arnold G Davis: yes
- Lex Berezhny: yes
- Mary A Hakken-Phillips: no
- Russell Muirhead: other
- Jim A Kofalt: yes
- Lisa C.M. Post: yes
- Ted Gorski: yes
- Daniel T. Veilleux: no
- Vanessa L Sheehan: yes
- Diane E. Kelley: yes
- Diane Pauer: yes
- James L Creighton: yes
- Ross Berry: yes
- Louise Andrus: yes
- Tony M Caplan: no
- Jose E Cambrils: yes
- Eric B Gallager: no
- Matthew Pitaro: yes
- Stephen E. Boyd: yes
- Paul D Tudor: yes
- Erica J Layon: yes
- Julius F Soti: yes
- Bob J. Lynn: yes
- Susan J Vandecasteele: other
- Melissa A. Litchfield: yes
- JD Bernardy: yes
- Mark Paige: no
- Glenn Bailey: yes
- Aidan Ankarberg: other
- Walter Spilsbury: yes
- Wayne D. MacDonald: yes
- Paul A Terry: yes
- Bill Boyd: yes
- Muriel C Hall: no
- Catherine A Rombeau: no
- Jodi L Nelson: yes
- Cyril Nicholas Aures: yes
- Deborah Aylward: yes
- Peggy Balboni: no
- Heather P Baldwin: no
- Lorie Ball: other
- Luz Bay: no
- Steven T Bogert: yes
- Bill R Bolton: no
- Richard R Brown: yes
- Claudine R Burnham: yes
- Matthew Coker: no
- Riché Colcombe: yes
- Travis James Corcoran: yes
- Thomas H Cormen: no
- Hope E Damon: no
- Will Darby: no
- William Dolan: other
- Tanya Donnelly: other
- Mike Drago: yes
- Margaret M Drye: yes
- Ron C Dunn: yes
- Susan A Elberger: no
- Charles H Foote: yes
- Loren E Foxx: no
- Nicholas A Germana: no
- Merryl Gibbs: no
- Michael E Granger: yes
- Alicia C Gregg: no
- Jessica Grill: no
- Matthew S Hicks: other
- Molly C Howard: other
- Heath Howard: no
- Allan Howland: no
- Philip M Jones: no
- Louis C Juris: no
- Catherine M Kenny: yes
- Seth King: yes
- Allison Knab: no
- Katelyn T Kuttab: yes
- Jessica Finn LaMontagne: no
- Nicole M Leapley: no
- Daniel J LeClerc: no
- Christal R Lloyd: no
- Peter Lovett: other
- Tom D Mannion: yes
- Dennis Mannion: yes
- Zoe R Manos: no
- Lisa R Mazur: yes
- Valerie E McDonnell: no
- Alissandra Murray: no
- David J Nagel: no
- Jodi K Newell: no
- Kristin Noble: yes
- Mike Ouellet: other
- David Paige: no
- William S Palmer: no
- Stephanie R Payeur: other
- Kristine Perez: yes
- Katy Peternel: yes
- Yury Polozov: yes
- Daniel Popovici-Muller: no
- Susan M Porcelli: yes
- Kelley L Potenza: yes
- Heather Raymond: no
- Ned Raynolds: no
- James Leon Roesener: no
- Linda V Ryan: no
- Alvin B See: yes
- Christine Seibert: no
- Loren Selig: no
- John Sellers: yes
- Shane A Sirois: yes
- Geoffrey Smith: other
- Carry Spier: no
- Kathy Staub: no
- Jared Sullivan: no
- James Summers: yes
- Trinidad Tellez: no
- Jeffrey Tenczar: yes
- Eric S Turer: no
- David E Walker: yes
- Lilli M Walsh: yes
- Jonah Orion Wheeler: no
- Robert J Wherry: yes
- Clayton D Wood: yes
- Dick H Thackston: other
- James W Tierney: yes
- Brian D Cole: yes
- Mike S Belcher: yes
- Marc W Plamondon: no
- David Fracht: no
- Paige Beauchemin: no
- Sean C Durkin: yes
- Erik R Johnson: no
- Jennifer Mandelbaum: no
- Michael Aron: yes
- Liz F Barbour: yes
- Joseph J Barton: yes
- Calvin Beaulier: yes
- Cindy Lynn Bennett: yes
- Dan H Bergeron: no
- Marie Louise Bjelobrk: yes
- Tracy Anne Bricchi: no
- Nicholas D. Bridle: yes
- Pam Brown: yes
- Scott R Bryer: yes
- Manoj Chourasia: no
- Suzanne L Chretien: no
- Eleana Marie Colby: other
- Erica R de Vries: no
- Denise DeDe-Poulin: yes
- Susan G DeRoy: yes
- Sayra Lynn DeVito: other
- Ricky J Devoid: yes
- Matt Drew: yes
- Dillon J Dumont: yes
- Pierre M Dupont: yes
- Myles England: no
- Samuel G Farrington: yes
- Mary J Ford: other
- Lily M Foss: no
- Linda Franz: yes
- Mary Ngwanda Georges: no
- Henry R Giasson: yes
- Dale R Girard: no
- Ernesto L Gonzalez: yes
- George C Grant: yes
- James Gruber: no
- Stephanie Grund: no
- James H Guzofski: yes
- Robley Hall: other
- Joseph Hamblen: other
- Tim Hartnett: no
- Karen A Hegner: no
- Wayne J Hemingway: yes
- Samantha Jacobs: no
- Sly Karasinski: yes
- Eileen S Kelly: no
- Erin Kerwin: no
- Steven Kesselring: yes
- Lee Ann Kluger: no
- Lori E Korzen: yes
- Brian H Labrie: yes
- John H Larochelle: no
- Patrick N Long: no
- Darrell A Louis: yes
- Janet Marie Lucas: no
- Amy L Malone: other
- Tim E Mannion: no
- Sanjeev K Manohar: no
- Jay D Markell: other
- Rita G Mattson: yes
- Donald S McFarlane: other
- Linda McGrath: yes
- Peter L. Mehegan: yes
- Julie Miles: yes
- Seth B Miller: no
- Laurence A Miner: yes
- Sheri Minor: yes
- Pete Morency: yes
- Bryan Morse: other
- Mary Murphy: yes
- Denis Vincent Murphy: yes
- Brian G Nadeau: yes
- Rich M Nalevanko: yes
- James Newsom: no
- Terri O'Rorke: no
- Thomas Oppel: no
- Kathleen Paquette: yes
- Wayne Pearson: no
- Raymond C. Peeples: yes
- Raymond S Plante: yes
- Adam Joseph Presa: other
- Sherri L Reinfurt: yes
- Ellen B Rockmore: no
- Matt R Sabourin dit Choinière: yes
- Santosh Salvi: no
- Gregory M Sargent: no
- Buzz Scherr: no
- John Schneller: yes
- Donald Evan Selby: no
- Jeremy Slottje: yes
- Jim Snodgrass: no
- Carrie Sorensen: no
- Terry Spahr: no
- John Joseph Stone: no
- John W. Suiter: other
- Dale Swanson: other
- Brian R. Taylor: yes
- James R Thibault: yes
- Travis J Toner: yes
- Alice Wade: no
- Toni Weinstein: no
- Vicki A Wilson: yes
- Billie Butler: no
- David John Preece: no

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