NH HB 1252

enacted

requiring the department of safety to only administer tests for commercial driver's licenses in English and prohibiting the assistance of an interpreter during such tests.

New Hampshire · 2026 Regular Session · lower

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Quick answers

Did NH HB 1252 pass?

Yes. NH HB 1252 has been enacted into law. Latest recorded action (2026-07-10): Signed by Governor Ayotte 07/02/2026; Chapter 221; eff. 8/31/2026

What is NH HB 1252 about?

NH HB 1252 is a bill in the 2026 Regular Session titled “requiring the department of safety to only administer tests for commercial driver's licenses in English and prohibiting the assistance of an interpreter during such tests.”.

Who sponsors NH HB 1252?

Ted Gorski is the primary sponsor of NH HB 1252, joined by 11 cosponsors.

Introduced: 2025-12-01
Latest action: 2026-07-10 — Signed by Governor Ayotte 07/02/2026; Chapter 221; eff. 8/31/2026
Bill type: bill
Last updated: —

Committees

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Action timeline

Newest first

2026-07-10
Signed by Governor Ayotte 07/02/2026; Chapter 221; eff. 8/31/2026
2026-06-23
Enrolled (in recess of) 06/04/2026 HJ 15
2026-06-23
Enrolled (in recess of) 06/04/2026 HJ 15 P. 52
2026-06-23
Enrolled Adopted, VV, (In recess 06/04/2026); SJ 14
enrolled
2026-05-21
House Concurs with Senate Amendment 2026-1736s (Rep. T. Walsh): MA VV 05/21/2026
2026-05-21
House Concurs with Senate Amendment 2026-1736s (Rep. T. Walsh): MA VV 05/21/2026 HJ 14 P. 22
2026-05-07
Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2026-1736s, RC 14Y-8N, MA; OT3rdg; 05/07/2026; SJ 11
committee-passage-favorable,passage
2026-05-07
Committee Amendment # 2026-1736s, AA, VV; 05/07/2026; SJ 11
2026-04-30
Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2026-1736s, 05/07/2026, Vote 3-2; SC 17
committee-passage-favorable
2026-04-08
Hearing: 04/14/2026, Room 122-123, SH, 01:40 pm; SC 14
2026-03-17
Introduced 03/12/2026 and Referred to Transportation; SJ 7
introduction,referral-committee
2026-03-12
Ought to Pass with Amendment 2026-1010h: MA RC 194-156 03/12/2026 HJ 8 P. 76
committee-passage-favorable,passage
2026-03-12
FLAM # 2026-1104h (NT) (Rep. Coker): AF DV 169-177 03/12/2026 HJ 8 P. 74
2026-03-12
Amendment # 2026-1010h (NT): AA DV 184-158 03/12/2026 HJ 8 P. 74
2026-03-04
Minority Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate
2026-03-04
Majority Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2026-1010h (NT) 03/03/2026 (Vote 9-7; RC) HC 10 P. 74
committee-passage-favorable
2026-02-18
Executive Session: 03/03/2026 11:00 am GP 234
2026-02-18
Public Hearing: 03/03/2026 10:20 am GP 234
2025-12-01
Introduced 01/07/2026 and referred to Transportation HJ 1 P. 12
introduction,referral-committee

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Votes

OTPA
2026-03-12 · pass · 194-156
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: yes
- 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: yes
- Steven D Smith: yes
- Marc D Tremblay: yes
- Mark Warden: other
- Dick Ames: no
- Paul S. Berch: no
- Peter W Bixby: no
- Efstathia S Booras: no
- Michael D Cahill: no
- Karel A. Crawford: yes
- Linda A. DiSilvestro: no
- Karen E Ebel: no
- Linda C Harriott-Gathright: no
- 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: yes
- 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: no
- 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: yes
- 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: no
- Ellen D Read: no
- 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: yes
- 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: yes
- 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: other
- 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: yes
- 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: yes
- Luz Bay: no
- Steven T Bogert: yes
- Bill R Bolton: no
- Richard R Brown: yes
- Claudine R Burnham: yes
- Matthew Coker: yes
- Riché Colcombe: yes
- Travis James Corcoran: yes
- Thomas H Cormen: no
- Hope E Damon: no
- Will Darby: no
- William Dolan: other
- Tanya Donnelly: no
- 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: yes
- 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: yes
- 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: other
- 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: yes
- 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: yes
- 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: yes
- 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: yes
- 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: yes
- 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: yes
- Gregory M Sargent: no
- Buzz Scherr: no
- John Schneller: yes
- Donald Evan Selby: yes
- 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
Ought to Pass w/Amendment
2026-05-07 · pass · 14-8
Member-level votes (24)
- Sharon M. Carson: yes
- David H. Watters: no
- Kevin A. Avard: other
- Regina Birdsell: yes
- Cindy Rosenwald: no
- James P. Gray: yes
- Ruth Ward: yes
- Bill M. Gannon: yes
- Daniel E. Innis: yes
- Suzanne M. Prentiss: no
- Denise Ricciardi: other
- Rebecca Perkins Kwoka: no
- Timothy Lang: yes
- Donovan Fenton: no
- Keith R. Murphy: yes
- Howard Pearl: yes
- Daryl Abbas: yes
- Debra Altschiller: no
- David Rochefort: yes
- Mark McConkey: yes
- Tim McGough: yes
- Tara Reardon: no
- Victoria Sullivan: yes
- Pat Long: no

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