NH HB 396

vetoed

relative to the processing of cattle, swine, sheep, and goats at facilities not certified by the United States Department of Agriculture.

New Hampshire · 2026 Regular Session · lower

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Quick answers

Did NH HB 396 pass?

No. NH HB 396 passed the legislature but was vetoed. Latest recorded action (2026-08-19): Veto Sustained 08/19/2026: RC 202-107 Lacking Necessary Two-Thirds Vote HJ 16 P. 42

What is NH HB 396 about?

NH HB 396 is a bill in the 2026 Regular Session titled “relative to the processing of cattle, swine, sheep, and goats at facilities not certified by the United States Department of Agriculture.”.

Who sponsors NH HB 396?

Barbara Comtois is the primary sponsor of NH HB 396, joined by 6 cosponsors.

Introduced: 2025-01-10
Latest action: 2026-08-19 — Veto Sustained 08/19/2026: RC 202-107 Lacking Necessary Two-Thirds Vote HJ 16 P. 42
Bill type: bill
Last updated: —

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Action timeline

Newest first

2026-08-19
Veto Sustained 08/19/2026: RC 202-107 Lacking Necessary Two-Thirds Vote HJ 16 P. 42
2026-08-19
Reconsider HB 396 (Rep. Flanagan): MA RC 187-120 08/19/2026 HJ 16 P. 38
2026-08-19
Veto Sustained 08/19/2026: RC 204-116 Lacking Necessary Two-Thirds Vote HJ 16 P. 12
2026-07-16
Vetoed by Governor Ayotte 07/10/2026
executive-veto
2026-07-01
Enrolled (in recess of) 06/04/2026
2026-07-01
Enrolled (in recess of) 06/04/2026 HJ 15 P. 56
2026-06-29
Enrolled Adopted, VV, (In recess 06/04/2026); SJ 15
enrolled
2026-06-17
Enrolled Bill Amendment # 2026-2155e: AA VV (in recess of) 06/04/2026 HJ 15
2026-06-17
Enrolled Bill Amendment # 2026-2155e: AA VV (in recess of) 06/04/2026 HJ 15 P. 46
2026-06-17
Enrolled Bill Amendment # 2026-2155e Adopted, VV, (In recess of 06/04/2026); SJ 14
amendment-passage
2026-05-21
House Concurs with Senate Amendment 2026-1719s (Rep. J. Aron): MA VV 05/21/2026 HJ 14
2026-05-21
House Concurs with Senate Amendment 2026-1719s (Rep. J. Aron): MA VV 05/21/2026 HJ 14 P. 10
2026-05-05
Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2026-1719s, MA, VV; OT3rdg; 05/07/2026; SJ 11
committee-passage-favorable,passage
2026-05-05
Committee Amendment # 2026-1719s, AA, VV; 05/07/2026; SJ 11
2026-04-29
Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2026-1719s, 05/07/2026; Vote 5-0; CC; SC 17
committee-passage-favorable
2026-02-05
Hearing: 02/10/2026, Room 100, SH, 10:30 am; SC 5
2026-01-30
Introduced 01/29/2026 and Referred to Commerce; SJ 3
introduction,referral-committee
2026-01-07
Ought to Pass with Amendment 2025-3090h: MA RC 214-119 01/07/2026 HJ 1 P. 166
committee-passage-favorable,passage
2026-01-07
Amendment # 2025-3090h (NT): AA VV 01/07/2026 HJ 1 P. 164
2025-11-17
Minority Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate
2025-11-17
Majority Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2025-3090h (NT) 11/12/2025 (Vote 9-3; RC) HC 51 P. 32
committee-passage-favorable
2025-11-05
Full Committee Work Session: 11/12/2025 11:00 am GP 153
2025-10-28
Full Committee Work Session: 11/05/2025 10:00 am GP153
2025-08-25
Full Committee Work Session: 09/09/2025 10:30 am GP 153
2025-03-10
Retained in Committee
2025-02-20
Full Committee Work Session: 03/04/2025 09:30 am LOB 301-303
2025-02-20
Executive Session: 03/04/2025 11:20 am LOB 301-303
2025-02-12
Full Committee Work Session: 02/19/2025 09:30 am LOB 301-303
2025-02-12
Public Hearing: 02/18/2025 02:00 pm LOB 301-303
2025-01-10
Introduced (in recess of) 01/09/2025 and referred to Environment and Agriculture HJ 3 P. 8
introduction,referral-committee

Versions

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Amendment: #2025-3090hCompare
Amendment: #2026-1719sCompare
Ought to Pass with AmendmentCompare
Amendment: #2026-2155eCompare

Documents

Votes

OTPA
2026-01-07 · pass · 214-119
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: yes
- Kenneth L Weyler: yes
- Gary L. Daniels: other
- Sherman A. Packard: other
- John J Sytek: yes
- John R Cloutier: yes
- James R MacKay: other
- Susan W Almy: yes
- Joseph A. Guthrie: yes
- Peter R Leishman: yes
- Marjorie K. Smith: no
- Michael D Harrington: other
- 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: other
- Lucy McVitty Weber: no
- Debra L DeSimone: yes
- Larry G Gagne: other
- Timothy O. Horrigan: no
- Rick M Ladd: no
- Carol M McGuire: yes
- Timothy A. Soucy: yes
- Susan C DeLemus: yes
- Jack B. Flanagan: other
- Gregory G. Hill: yes
- David C Lundgren: other
- Dan McGuire: yes
- Jeanine M Notter: yes
- Bill H Ohm: yes
- Mark L Proulx: yes
- Brian Seaworth: yes
- Steven D Smith: yes
- Marc D Tremblay: yes
- Mark Warden: yes
- Dick Ames: no
- Paul S. Berch: yes
- Peter W Bixby: no
- Efstathia S Booras: no
- Michael D Cahill: other
- Karel A. Crawford: other
- Linda A. DiSilvestro: yes
- 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: other
- Joe Sweeney: yes
- George E Sykes: no
- Thomas C Walsh: yes
- Gerald W.R. Ward: no
- Glen C Aldrich: other
- Keith Michael Ammon: yes
- Lino M Avellani: yes
- Russell Dumais: yes
- Thomas L Kaczynski: yes
- Mark McLean: yes
- Jason M. Osborne: yes
- John Michael Potucek: yes
- Katherine J. Prudhomme-O'Brien: yes
- Kimberly A Rice: yes
- James A Spillane: yes
- 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: other
- David J. Luneau: other
- 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: other
- John A Leavitt: yes
- Kevin G. Verville: yes
- Jess Edwards: yes
- Richard P Tripp: yes
- John C Janigian: yes
- 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: yes
- Kate Rushford Murray: no
- Mark A Pearson: yes
- Kris Schultz: no
- Charlie G. St. Clair: other
- Brian M Sullivan: no
- Anita D Burroughs: no
- Stephen L Woodcock: no
- John T MacDonald: yes
- Jerry M. Stringham: no
- Sallie D Fellows: other
- Laurel Stavis: yes
- Keith Erf: yes
- Nancy A Murphy: no
- Rosemarie Rung: yes
- Wendy Ellen N Thomas: no
- Ray E Newman: yes
- Fred E Davis: other
- Laura Damphousse Telerski: no
- Matthew B. Wilhelm: no
- Connie Boyles Lane: no
- Gary L Woods: no
- Tom Dolan: other
- David C Love: yes
- Stephen C. Pearson: yes
- Mark A Vallone: other
- Robert D Harb: yes
- Charles R Melvin: no
- Gaby M Grossman: other
- Jim V. Maggiore: yes
- David James Meuse: no
- Terry W Roy: yes
- Cassandra N Levesque: other
- Judy F. Aron: yes
- Megan A Murray: no
- Kat McGhee: no
- Joe H. Alexander: yes
- Paul P Dargie: yes
- Peter Petrigno: no
- Tom Ploszaj: yes
- Mike Bordes: other
- Juliet Harvey-Bolia: yes
- Douglas R. Trottier: other
- Jonathan H Smith: yes
- Chris R McAleer: no
- Dru Fox: no
- Lucius Parshall: no
- James R Qualey: yes
- Jennifer M Rhodes: yes
- 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: no
- Diane Pauer: yes
- James L Creighton: other
- Ross Berry: yes
- Louise Andrus: other
- Tony M Caplan: yes
- 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: no
- Paul A Terry: yes
- Bill Boyd: other
- Muriel C Hall: no
- Catherine A Rombeau: no
- Jodi L Nelson: other
- Cyril Nicholas Aures: yes
- Deborah Aylward: other
- 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: yes
- William Dolan: other
- Tanya Donnelly: yes
- Mike Drago: yes
- Margaret M Drye: yes
- Ron C Dunn: yes
- Susan A Elberger: no
- Charles H Foote: other
- Loren E Foxx: other
- Nicholas A Germana: no
- Merryl Gibbs: other
- Michael E Granger: yes
- Alicia C Gregg: no
- Jessica Grill: yes
- Matthew S Hicks: yes
- Molly C Howard: no
- Heath Howard: no
- Allan Howland: no
- Philip M Jones: no
- Louis C Juris: no
- Catherine M Kenny: yes
- Seth King: yes
- Allison Knab: other
- Katelyn T Kuttab: yes
- Jessica Finn LaMontagne: yes
- Nicole M Leapley: yes
- Daniel J LeClerc: yes
- Christal R Lloyd: no
- Peter Lovett: yes
- Tom D Mannion: yes
- Dennis Mannion: yes
- Zoe R Manos: no
- Lisa R Mazur: yes
- Valerie E McDonnell: other
- Alissandra Murray: yes
- David J Nagel: other
- Jodi K Newell: no
- Kristin Noble: yes
- Mike Ouellet: yes
- David Paige: no
- William S Palmer: no
- Stephanie R Payeur: no
- Kristine Perez: yes
- Katy Peternel: yes
- Yury Polozov: yes
- Daniel Popovici-Muller: yes
- Susan M Porcelli: no
- Kelley L Potenza: yes
- Heather Raymond: no
- Ned Raynolds: other
- James Leon Roesener: no
- Linda V Ryan: yes
- Alvin B See: yes
- Christine Seibert: no
- Loren Selig: no
- John Sellers: yes
- Shane A Sirois: other
- Geoffrey Smith: other
- 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: yes
- Lilli M Walsh: yes
- Jonah Orion Wheeler: yes
- Robert J Wherry: yes
- Clayton D Wood: yes
- Dick H Thackston: yes
- James W Tierney: yes
- Brian D Cole: yes
- Mike S Belcher: yes
- Marc W Plamondon: no
- David Fracht: other
- 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: other
- Marie Louise Bjelobrk: yes
- Tracy Anne Bricchi: no
- Nicholas D. Bridle: yes
- Pam Brown: yes
- Scott R Bryer: yes
- Manoj Chourasia: yes
- Suzanne L Chretien: no
- Eleana Marie Colby: yes
- Erica R de Vries: yes
- Denise DeDe-Poulin: other
- 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: other
- Samuel G Farrington: yes
- Mary J Ford: other
- Lily M Foss: no
- Linda Franz: yes
- Mary Ngwanda Georges: yes
- Henry R Giasson: yes
- Dale R Girard: yes
- Ernesto L Gonzalez: yes
- George C Grant: yes
- James Gruber: no
- Stephanie Grund: no
- James H Guzofski: yes
- Robley Hall: yes
- Joseph Hamblen: yes
- 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: yes
- Patrick N Long: no
- Darrell A Louis: yes
- Janet Marie Lucas: no
- Amy L Malone: other
- Tim E Mannion: other
- Sanjeev K Manohar: yes
- Jay D Markell: no
- Rita G Mattson: yes
- Donald S McFarlane: yes
- Linda McGrath: yes
- Peter L. Mehegan: yes
- Julie Miles: yes
- Seth B Miller: no
- Laurence A Miner: other
- Sheri Minor: other
- Pete Morency: yes
- Bryan Morse: yes
- Mary Murphy: other
- 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: other
- Adam Joseph Presa: other
- Sherri L Reinfurt: yes
- Ellen B Rockmore: yes
- Matt R Sabourin dit Choinière: yes
- Santosh Salvi: yes
- Gregory M Sargent: yes
- Buzz Scherr: no
- John Schneller: yes
- Donald Evan Selby: yes
- Jeremy Slottje: yes
- Jim Snodgrass: no
- Carrie Sorensen: yes
- Terry Spahr: yes
- John Joseph Stone: no
- John W. Suiter: yes
- Dale Swanson: no
- Brian R. Taylor: yes
- James R Thibault: yes
- Travis J Toner: other
- Alice Wade: no
- Toni Weinstein: yes
- Vicki A Wilson: yes
- Billie Butler: yes
- David John Preece: no

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