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NH SB 15

died on adjournment

relative to incorporating hard labor as a sentencing option for capital murder and serious sexual assaults on children, defining hard labor, establishing medical exemptions and penalties for abuse thereof, providing alternative punitive measures for legitimate medical exemptions, and authorizing jury determination of hard labor in qualifying cases.

New Hampshire · 2026 Regular Session · upper

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Quick answers

Did NH SB 15 pass?

No. NH SB 15 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 (2026-02-05): Special Order to the Present Time, Without Objection, MA; 02/05/2026; SJ 3

What is NH SB 15 about?

NH SB 15 is a bill in the 2026 Regular Session titled “relative to incorporating hard labor as a sentencing option for capital murder and serious sexual assaults on children, defining hard labor, establishing medical exemptions and penalties for abuse thereof, providing alternative punitive measures for legitimate medical exemptions, and authorizing jury determination of hard labor in qualifying cases.”.

Who sponsors NH SB 15?

Bill M. Gannon is the primary sponsor of NH SB 15, joined by 10 cosponsors.

Introduced
2024-12-19
Latest action
2026-02-05 — Special Order to the Present Time, Without Objection, MA; 02/05/2026; SJ 3
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Sponsors

  • Bill M. Gannonprimary
  • Daryl Abbascosponsor
  • Timothy Langcosponsor
  • JD Bernardycosponsor
  • Melissa A. Litchfieldcosponsor
  • James P. Graycosponsor
  • Kevin A. Avardcosponsor
  • Regina Birdsellcosponsor
  • Michael Vosecosponsor
  • Lilli M Walshcosponsor
  • Aboul B Khancosponsor

Committees

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Action timeline

Newest first

  1. 2026-02-05

    Special Order to the Present Time, Without Objection, MA; 02/05/2026; SJ 3

  2. 2026-02-05

    Sen. Gannon Moved Nonconcur with the House Amendment, MA, VV; 02/05/2026; SJ 3

  3. 2026-01-07

    Ought to Pass with Amendment 2025-3096h: MA RC 179-159 01/07/2026 HJ 1 P. 94

    committee-passage-favorable,passage

  4. 2026-01-07

    Amendment # 2025-3096h: AA VV 01/07/2026 HJ 1 P. 92

  5. 2025-11-17

    Minority Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate

  6. 2025-11-17

    Majority Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2025-3096h (NT) 11/13/2025 (Vote 9-7; RC) HC 51 P. 22

    committee-passage-favorable

  7. 2025-10-23

    Executive Session: 11/13/2025 10:00 am GP 159

  8. 2025-10-15

    Public Hearing on non-germane Amendment # 2025-3012h: 10/23/2025 10:00 am GP159

  9. 2025-10-03

    ==RESCHEDULED== Full Committee Work Session: 10/22/2025 10:00 am GP 230

  10. 2025-10-03

    ==RESCHEDULED== Executive Session: 10/22/2025 01:00 am GP 230

  11. 2025-05-12

    Retained in Committee

  12. 2025-04-30

    ==CONTINUED== Executive Session: 05/09/2025 11:01 am LOB 202-204

  13. 2025-04-14

    ==CANCELLED== Executive Session: 04/25/2025 10:00 am LOB 202-204

  14. 2025-04-14

    ==RECESSED== Executive Session: 04/23/2025 11:00 am LOB 202-204

  15. 2025-04-01

    Public Hearing: 04/09/2025 10:30 am LOB 202-204

  16. 2025-03-28

    Introduced (in recess of) 03/27/2025 and referred to Criminal Justice and Public Safety HJ 11 P. 109

    introduction,referral-committee

  17. 2025-01-30

    Ought to Pass with Amendment #2025-0165s, RC 14Y-9N, MA; OT3rdg; 01/30/2025; SJ 4

    committee-passage-favorable,passage

  18. 2025-01-30

    Sen. Rochefort Floor Amendment # 2025-0165s, AA, VV; 01/30/2025; SJ 4

  19. 2025-01-30

    Committee Amendment # 2025-0142s, AF, VV; 01/30/2025; SJ 4

  20. 2025-01-28

    Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2025-0142s, 01/30/2025, Vote 3-2; SC 7A

    committee-passage-favorable

  21. 2025-01-09

    Hearing: 01/14/2025, Room 100, SH, 01:15 pm; SC 5

  22. 2024-12-19

    Introduced 01/08/2025 and Referred to Judiciary; SJ 2

    introduction,referral-committee

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Votes

  • OTPA

    2026-01-07 · pass · 179-159

    Member-level votes (386)
    • Phyllis M Katsakiores: other
    • 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: 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: no
    • Lucy McVitty Weber: no
    • Debra L DeSimone: yes
    • Larry G Gagne: other
    • Timothy O. Horrigan: no
    • Rick M Ladd: yes
    • Carol M McGuire: yes
    • Timothy A. Soucy: no
    • Susan C DeLemus: yes
    • Jack B. Flanagan: other
    • Gregory G. Hill: yes
    • David C Lundgren: yes
    • Dan McGuire: yes
    • Jeanine M Notter: yes
    • Bill H Ohm: yes
    • Mark L Proulx: yes
    • Brian Seaworth: yes
    • Steven D Smith: other
    • Marc D Tremblay: yes
    • Mark Warden: no
    • Dick Ames: no
    • Paul S. Berch: no
    • Peter W Bixby: no
    • Efstathia S Booras: other
    • Michael D Cahill: other
    • 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: other
    • Joe Sweeney: yes
    • George E Sykes: no
    • Thomas C Walsh: yes
    • Gerald W.R. Ward: no
    • Glen C Aldrich: other
    • Keith Michael Ammon: no
    • 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: yes
    • 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: yes
    • Gerald Griffin: yes
    • Lisa M Freeman: yes
    • Richard W. Lascelles: yes
    • Kevin J Scully: yes
    • Andrew J. Prout: no
    • John A Leavitt: yes
    • Kevin G. Verville: yes
    • Jess Edwards: yes
    • Richard P Tripp: other
    • 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: other
    • Julie D Gilman: no
    • 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: 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: other
    • 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: yes
    • Charles R Melvin: yes
    • 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: no
    • Paul P Dargie: no
    • 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: no
    • 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: other
    • 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: no
    • Aidan Ankarberg: other
    • Walter Spilsbury: no
    • Wayne D. MacDonald: yes
    • Paul A Terry: yes
    • Bill Boyd: yes
    • 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: no
    • 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: no
    • Nicholas A Germana: no
    • Merryl Gibbs: other
    • Michael E Granger: yes
    • Alicia C Gregg: no
    • Jessica Grill: no
    • Matthew S Hicks: no
    • Molly C Howard: no
    • Heath Howard: other
    • Allan Howland: no
    • Philip M Jones: no
    • Louis C Juris: no
    • Catherine M Kenny: yes
    • Seth King: no
    • Allison Knab: other
    • Katelyn T Kuttab: yes
    • Jessica Finn LaMontagne: no
    • Nicole M Leapley: no
    • 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: yes
    • Valerie E McDonnell: yes
    • Alissandra Murray: no
    • David J Nagel: other
    • Jodi K Newell: no
    • Kristin Noble: no
    • 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: yes
    • Kelley L Potenza: yes
    • Heather Raymond: no
    • Ned Raynolds: other
    • James Leon Roesener: no
    • Linda V Ryan: other
    • Alvin B See: yes
    • Christine Seibert: other
    • Loren Selig: no
    • John Sellers: yes
    • Shane A Sirois: other
    • Geoffrey Smith: other
    • Carry Spier: no
    • Kathy Staub: no
    • Jared Sullivan: no
    • James Summers: yes
    • Trinidad Tellez: no
    • Jeffrey Tenczar: other
    • 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: yes
    • James W Tierney: yes
    • Brian D Cole: yes
    • Mike S Belcher: no
    • Marc W Plamondon: no
    • David Fracht: no
    • Paige Beauchemin: no
    • Sean C Durkin: other
    • 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: no
    • Pam Brown: yes
    • Scott R Bryer: yes
    • Manoj Chourasia: no
    • Suzanne L Chretien: other
    • Eleana Marie Colby: other
    • Erica R de Vries: no
    • Denise DeDe-Poulin: other
    • 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: other
    • Samuel G Farrington: yes
    • Mary J Ford: yes
    • Lily M Foss: no
    • Linda Franz: yes
    • Mary Ngwanda Georges: no
    • 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: other
    • 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: other
    • Sanjeev K Manohar: no
    • Jay D Markell: yes
    • Rita G Mattson: yes
    • Donald S McFarlane: other
    • Linda McGrath: yes
    • Peter L. Mehegan: yes
    • Julie Miles: no
    • 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: yes
    • Adam Joseph Presa: other
    • Sherri L Reinfurt: yes
    • Ellen B Rockmore: other
    • Matt R Sabourin dit Choinière: yes
    • Santosh Salvi: no
    • 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: yes
    • Dale Swanson: no
    • Brian R. Taylor: yes
    • James R Thibault: yes
    • Travis J Toner: other
    • Alice Wade: no
    • Toni Weinstein: no
    • Vicki A Wilson: yes
    • Billie Butler: no
    • David John Preece: no

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