NH HB 1689

died on adjournment

relative to the term of office for county officers in Belknap and Merrimack counties.

New Hampshire · 2026 Regular Session · lower

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Did NH HB 1689 pass?

No. NH HB 1689 died when the 2026 Regular Session adjourned without final action on it. Bills that die this way are sometimes reintroduced in a later session. Latest recorded action (2026-04-09): House Non-Concurs with Senate Amendment 2026-1204s (Rep. Sweeney): MA VV 04/09/2026 HJ 10 P. 10

What is NH HB 1689 about?

NH HB 1689 is a bill in the 2026 Regular Session titled “relative to the term of office for county officers in Belknap and Merrimack counties.”.

Who sponsors NH HB 1689?

Bryan Morse is the primary sponsor of NH HB 1689.

Introduced: 2025-12-12
Latest action: 2026-04-09 — House Non-Concurs with Senate Amendment 2026-1204s (Rep. Sweeney): MA VV 04/09/2026 HJ 10 P. 10
Bill type: bill
Last updated: —

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Action timeline

Newest first

2026-04-09
House Non-Concurs with Senate Amendment 2026-1204s (Rep. Sweeney): MA VV 04/09/2026 HJ 10 P. 10
2026-04-09
House Concurs with Senate Amendment 2026-1204s (Rep. Pauer): MF RC 65-287 04/09/2026 HJ 10 P. 8
2026-03-23
Ought to Pass with Amendment #2026-1204s, MA, VV; OT3rdg; 03/26/2026; SJ 7
committee-passage-favorable,passage
2026-03-20
Committee Amendment # 2026-1204s, AA, VV; 03/26/2026; SJ 7
2026-03-18
Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2026-1204s, 03/26/2026; Vote 5-0; CC; SC 11
committee-passage-favorable
2026-03-11
Hearing: 03/17/2026, Room 122-123, SH, 09:15 am; SC 10
2026-02-09
Introduced 02/05/2026 and Referred to Election Law and Municipal Affairs; SJ 4
introduction,referral-committee
2026-02-05
Ought to Pass: MA VV 02/05/2026 HJ 3 P. 17
committee-passage-favorable,passage
2026-01-27
Committee Report: Ought to Pass 01/16/2026 (Vote 15-1; CC) HC 5 P. 14
committee-passage-favorable
2026-01-20
Executive Session: 01/13/2026 09:50 am GP 154
2026-01-08
Public Hearing: 01/13/2026 09:50 am GP 154
2025-12-12
Introduced 01/07/2026 and referred to Municipal and County Government HJ 1 P. 31
introduction,referral-committee

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Votes

Concur
2026-04-09 · fail · 65-287
Member-level votes (387)
- Phyllis M Katsakiores: other
- Mary Jane Wallner: no
- John B. Hunt: no
- Janet G Wall: yes
- Wayne M. Burton: no
- Gary R Gilmore: no
- Kenneth L Weyler: yes
- Gary L. Daniels: no
- Sherman A. Packard: other
- John J Sytek: yes
- John R Cloutier: no
- James R MacKay: other
- Susan W Almy: no
- Joseph A. Guthrie: no
- Peter R Leishman: other
- Marjorie K. Smith: no
- Michael D Harrington: no
- Charles E McMahon: yes
- Maureen C. Mooney: no
- Peter B Schmidt: no
- Ralph G Boehm: no
- Jordan G. Ulery: no
- Thomas L Buco: other
- Jean L. Jeudy: other
- Lucy McVitty Weber: no
- Debra L DeSimone: yes
- Larry G Gagne: no
- Timothy O. Horrigan: no
- Rick M Ladd: no
- Carol M McGuire: no
- Timothy A. Soucy: no
- Susan C DeLemus: no
- Jack B. Flanagan: no
- Gregory G. Hill: no
- David C Lundgren: other
- Dan McGuire: no
- Jeanine M Notter: no
- Bill H Ohm: no
- Mark L Proulx: yes
- Brian Seaworth: no
- Steven D Smith: other
- Marc D Tremblay: no
- 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: no
- Linda A. DiSilvestro: no
- Karen E Ebel: no
- Linda C Harriott-Gathright: no
- Martin L. Jack: no
- Aboul B Khan: no
- Dennis J Malloy: no
- David E Milz: yes
- Chris Muns: no
- Skip A. Rollins: no
- Thomas C Schamberg: yes
- Joe Sweeney: yes
- George E Sykes: no
- Thomas C Walsh: no
- Gerald W.R. Ward: no
- Glen C Aldrich: no
- Keith Michael Ammon: no
- Lino M Avellani: no
- Russell Dumais: no
- Thomas L Kaczynski: no
- Mark McLean: no
- Jason M. Osborne: no
- John Michael Potucek: no
- Katherine J. Prudhomme-O'Brien: no
- Kimberly A Rice: yes
- James A Spillane: yes
- Douglas W. Thomas: no
- Len P Turcotte: no
- Peter R. Varney: other
- Michael Vose: no
- Patricia Cornell: no
- Linda R Gould: no
- Christopher J. Herbert: yes
- David J. Luneau: no
- Alexis H Simpson: yes
- Thomas L Southworth: no
- Michael A Edgar: no
- Michael I Moffett: no
- Barry Faulkner: no
- Barbara Comtois: no
- Jim L Fedolfi: no
- Gerald Griffin: yes
- Lisa M Freeman: yes
- Richard W. Lascelles: yes
- Kevin J Scully: no
- Andrew J. Prout: no
- John A Leavitt: other
- Kevin G. Verville: no
- Jess Edwards: no
- Richard P Tripp: no
- John C Janigian: yes
- Cathryn A Harvey: no
- Mark S MacKenzie: no
- Sue A Newman: no
- Catherine M Sofikitis: other
- Beth S. Richards: yes
- Ellen D Read: no
- Julie D Gilman: yes
- Kate Rushford Murray: no
- Mark A Pearson: yes
- Kris Schultz: no
- Charlie G. St. Clair: no
- Brian M Sullivan: no
- Anita D Burroughs: yes
- Stephen L Woodcock: no
- John T MacDonald: yes
- Jerry M. Stringham: no
- Sallie D Fellows: no
- Laurel Stavis: yes
- 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: yes
- Matthew B. Wilhelm: yes
- Connie Boyles Lane: no
- Gary L Woods: no
- Tom Dolan: yes
- David C Love: no
- Stephen C. Pearson: yes
- Mark A Vallone: no
- Robert D Harb: no
- Charles R Melvin: yes
- Gaby M Grossman: other
- Jim V. Maggiore: yes
- David James Meuse: no
- Terry W Roy: yes
- Cassandra N Levesque: no
- Judy F. Aron: no
- Megan A Murray: no
- Kat McGhee: no
- Joe H. Alexander: yes
- Paul P Dargie: no
- Peter Petrigno: no
- Tom Ploszaj: no
- Mike Bordes: yes
- Juliet Harvey-Bolia: yes
- Douglas R. Trottier: other
- Jonathan H Smith: no
- Chris R McAleer: no
- Dru Fox: no
- Lucius Parshall: no
- James R Qualey: no
- Jennifer M Rhodes: yes
- Arnold G Davis: yes
- Lex Berezhny: no
- Mary A Hakken-Phillips: no
- Russell Muirhead: no
- Jim A Kofalt: no
- Lisa C.M. Post: other
- Ted Gorski: no
- Daniel T. Veilleux: no
- Vanessa L Sheehan: no
- Diane E. Kelley: no
- Diane Pauer: yes
- James L Creighton: no
- Ross Berry: yes
- Louise Andrus: no
- Tony M Caplan: no
- Jose E Cambrils: no
- Eric B Gallager: no
- Matthew Pitaro: yes
- Stephen E. Boyd: no
- Paul D Tudor: no
- Erica J Layon: no
- Julius F Soti: no
- Bob J. Lynn: no
- Susan J Vandecasteele: no
- Melissa A. Litchfield: no
- JD Bernardy: no
- Mark Paige: no
- Glenn Bailey: no
- Aidan Ankarberg: other
- Walter Spilsbury: no
- Wayne D. MacDonald: yes
- Paul A Terry: no
- Bill Boyd: yes
- Muriel C Hall: no
- Catherine A Rombeau: no
- Jodi L Nelson: other
- Cyril Nicholas Aures: no
- 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: no
- Claudine R Burnham: no
- Matthew Coker: other
- Riché Colcombe: no
- Travis James Corcoran: no
- Thomas H Cormen: no
- Hope E Damon: no
- Will Darby: no
- William Dolan: other
- Tanya Donnelly: yes
- Mike Drago: no
- Margaret M Drye: no
- Ron C Dunn: no
- Susan A Elberger: no
- Charles H Foote: no
- Loren E Foxx: no
- Nicholas A Germana: no
- Merryl Gibbs: yes
- Michael E Granger: no
- Alicia C Gregg: no
- Jessica Grill: no
- Matthew S Hicks: yes
- Molly C Howard: no
- Heath Howard: other
- Allan Howland: yes
- Philip M Jones: no
- Louis C Juris: no
- Catherine M Kenny: no
- Seth King: no
- Allison Knab: other
- Katelyn T Kuttab: yes
- Jessica Finn LaMontagne: no
- Nicole M Leapley: other
- Daniel J LeClerc: no
- Christal R Lloyd: no
- Peter Lovett: no
- Tom D Mannion: no
- Dennis Mannion: yes
- Zoe R Manos: no
- Lisa R Mazur: no
- Valerie E McDonnell: no
- Alissandra Murray: no
- David J Nagel: no
- Jodi K Newell: yes
- Kristin Noble: no
- Mike Ouellet: yes
- David Paige: no
- William S Palmer: no
- Stephanie R Payeur: no
- Kristine Perez: no
- Katy Peternel: no
- Yury Polozov: no
- Daniel Popovici-Muller: yes
- Susan M Porcelli: no
- Kelley L Potenza: no
- Heather Raymond: no
- Ned Raynolds: other
- James Leon Roesener: no
- Linda V Ryan: no
- Alvin B See: no
- Christine Seibert: no
- Loren Selig: no
- John Sellers: no
- Shane A Sirois: no
- Geoffrey Smith: no
- Carry Spier: no
- Kathy Staub: no
- Jared Sullivan: yes
- James Summers: no
- Trinidad Tellez: no
- Jeffrey Tenczar: other
- Eric S Turer: no
- David E Walker: no
- Lilli M Walsh: no
- Jonah Orion Wheeler: no
- Robert J Wherry: yes
- Clayton D Wood: no
- Dick H Thackston: no
- James W Tierney: no
- Brian D Cole: yes
- Mike S Belcher: no
- Marc W Plamondon: no
- David Fracht: no
- Paige Beauchemin: other
- Sean C Durkin: yes
- Erik R Johnson: no
- Jennifer Mandelbaum: yes
- Michael Aron: no
- Liz F Barbour: no
- Joseph J Barton: other
- Calvin Beaulier: no
- Cindy Lynn Bennett: no
- Dan H Bergeron: no
- Marie Louise Bjelobrk: no
- Tracy Anne Bricchi: other
- Nicholas D. Bridle: yes
- Pam Brown: no
- Scott R Bryer: other
- Manoj Chourasia: no
- Suzanne L Chretien: no
- Eleana Marie Colby: no
- Erica R de Vries: no
- Denise DeDe-Poulin: no
- Susan G DeRoy: no
- Sayra Lynn DeVito: no
- Ricky J Devoid: no
- Matt Drew: no
- Dillon J Dumont: no
- Pierre M Dupont: no
- Myles England: no
- Samuel G Farrington: no
- Mary J Ford: no
- Lily M Foss: no
- Linda Franz: no
- Mary Ngwanda Georges: yes
- Henry R Giasson: no
- Dale R Girard: other
- Ernesto L Gonzalez: other
- George C Grant: no
- James Gruber: no
- Stephanie Grund: no
- James H Guzofski: no
- Robley Hall: no
- Joseph Hamblen: no
- Tim Hartnett: no
- Karen A Hegner: no
- Wayne J Hemingway: no
- Samantha Jacobs: no
- Sly Karasinski: yes
- Eileen S Kelly: no
- Erin Kerwin: no
- Steven Kesselring: no
- Lee Ann Kluger: other
- Lori E Korzen: yes
- Brian H Labrie: no
- John H Larochelle: no
- Patrick N Long: no
- Darrell A Louis: no
- Janet Marie Lucas: no
- Amy L Malone: other
- Tim E Mannion: other
- Sanjeev K Manohar: no
- Jay D Markell: no
- Rita G Mattson: no
- Donald S McFarlane: yes
- Linda McGrath: no
- Peter L. Mehegan: no
- Julie Miles: no
- Seth B Miller: no
- Laurence A Miner: no
- Sheri Minor: other
- Pete Morency: yes
- Bryan Morse: other
- Mary Murphy: no
- Denis Vincent Murphy: no
- Brian G Nadeau: no
- Rich M Nalevanko: no
- James Newsom: no
- Terri O'Rorke: no
- Thomas Oppel: other
- Kathleen Paquette: no
- Wayne Pearson: no
- Raymond C. Peeples: no
- Raymond S Plante: no
- Adam Joseph Presa: no
- Sherri L Reinfurt: no
- Ellen B Rockmore: no
- Matt R Sabourin dit Choinière: no
- Santosh Salvi: no
- Gregory M Sargent: other
- Buzz Scherr: no
- John Schneller: no
- Donald Evan Selby: other
- Jeremy Slottje: no
- Jim Snodgrass: no
- Carrie Sorensen: no
- Terry Spahr: no
- John Joseph Stone: no
- John W. Suiter: no
- Dale Swanson: no
- Brian R. Taylor: no
- James R Thibault: no
- Travis J Toner: no
- Alice Wade: other
- Toni Weinstein: no
- Vicki A Wilson: no
- Billie Butler: no
- Bobbi Boudman: no
- David John Preece: no

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