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NH SB 268

vetoed

permitting classification of individuals based on biological sex under certain limited circumstances.

New Hampshire · 2026 Regular Session · upper

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Quick answers

Did NH SB 268 pass?

No. NH SB 268 passed the legislature but was vetoed. Latest recorded action (2026-08-19): Notwithstanding the Governor's Veto, Shall SB 268 Become Law: RC 0Y-24N, Veto Sustained, lacking the necessary two-thirds vote; 08/19/2026; SJ 15

What is NH SB 268 about?

NH SB 268 is a bill in the 2026 Regular Session titled “permitting classification of individuals based on biological sex under certain limited circumstances.”.

Who sponsors NH SB 268?

Kevin A. Avard is the primary sponsor of NH SB 268, joined by 1 cosponsor.

Introduced
2025-01-23
Latest action
2026-08-19 — Notwithstanding the Governor's Veto, Shall SB 268 Become Law: RC 0Y-24N, Veto Sustained, lacking the necessary two-thirds vote; 08/19/2026; SJ 15
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Sponsors

  • Kevin A. Avardprimary
  • Timothy Langcosponsor

Committees

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Action timeline

Newest first

  1. 2026-08-19

    Notwithstanding the Governor's Veto, Shall SB 268 Become Law: RC 0Y-24N, Veto Sustained, lacking the necessary two-thirds vote; 08/19/2026; SJ 15

  2. 2026-02-17

    Vetoed by Governor 02/06/2026

    executive-veto

  3. 2026-01-27

    Enrolled (in recess of) 01/08/2026 HJ 3

  4. 2026-01-21

    Enrolled Adopted, VV, (In recess 01/07/2026); SJ 2

    enrolled

  5. 2026-01-08

    Ought to Pass: MA RC 185-159 01/08/2026 HJ 2 P. 49

    committee-passage-favorable,passage

  6. 2025-11-19

    Minority Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate

  7. 2025-11-19

    Majority Committee Report: Ought to Pass 11/12/2025 (Vote 10-7; RC) HC 51 P. 40

    committee-passage-favorable

  8. 2025-09-26

    Executive Session: 11/12/2025 10:00 am GP 230

  9. 2025-08-25

    Full Committee Work Session: 09/10/2025 10:00 am GP 230

  10. 2025-04-24

    Retained in Committee

  11. 2025-04-16

    Executive Session: 04/23/2025 10:00 am LOB 206-208

  12. 2025-04-03

    Public Hearing: 04/16/2025 10:30 am LOB 206-208

  13. 2025-03-28

    Introduced (in recess of) 03/27/2025 and referred to Judiciary HJ 11 P. 113

    introduction,referral-committee

  14. 2025-03-27

    Without Objection, Sen. Birdsell Moved the Question; 03/27/2025; SJ 9

  15. 2025-03-27

    Special Order to the Beginning of the Regular Calendar, Without Objection; 03/27/2025; SJ 9

  16. 2025-03-27

    Ought to Pass with Amendment #2025-1118s, RC 16Y-8N, MA; OT3rdg; 03/27/2025; SJ 9

    committee-passage-favorable,passage

  17. 2025-03-27

    Committee Amendment # 2025-1118s, AA, VV; 03/27/2025; SJ 9

  18. 2025-03-20

    Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2025-1118s, 03/27/2025, Vote 3-2; SC 14

    committee-passage-favorable

  19. 2025-02-07

    Hearing: 02/13/2025, Room 100, SH, 02:30 pm; SC 9A

  20. 2025-01-23

    Introduced 01/09/2025 and Referred to Judiciary; SJ 3

    introduction,referral-committee

Versions

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Documents

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Votes

  • OTP

    2026-01-08 · pass · 185-159

    Member-level votes (386)
    • Phyllis M Katsakiores: other
    • Mary Jane Wallner: no
    • John B. Hunt: other
    • 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: other
    • 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: 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: no
    • Peter W Bixby: no
    • Efstathia S Booras: no
    • Michael D Cahill: no
    • Karel A. Crawford: other
    • 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: no
    • Joe Sweeney: yes
    • George E Sykes: no
    • Thomas C Walsh: other
    • Gerald W.R. Ward: no
    • Glen C Aldrich: other
    • 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: 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: no
    • 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: other
    • 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: yes
    • Cathryn A Harvey: no
    • Mark S MacKenzie: no
    • Sue A Newman: no
    • Catherine M Sofikitis: no
    • Beth S. Richards: other
    • 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: other
    • 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: other
    • David C Love: yes
    • Stephen C. Pearson: yes
    • Mark A Vallone: other
    • Robert D Harb: yes
    • Charles R Melvin: yes
    • Gaby M Grossman: other
    • Jim V. Maggiore: no
    • David James Meuse: no
    • Terry W Roy: other
    • 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: 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: yes
    • Melissa A. Litchfield: yes
    • JD Bernardy: yes
    • Mark Paige: no
    • Glenn Bailey: yes
    • Aidan Ankarberg: no
    • 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: 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: other
    • Thomas H Cormen: no
    • Hope E Damon: no
    • Will Darby: no
    • William Dolan: no
    • 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: 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: no
    • Nicole M Leapley: other
    • Daniel J LeClerc: no
    • Christal R Lloyd: no
    • Peter Lovett: no
    • 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: 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: yes
    • Kelley L Potenza: yes
    • Heather Raymond: no
    • Ned Raynolds: other
    • 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: other
    • 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: 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: 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: no
    • Eleana Marie Colby: no
    • 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: no
    • 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: no
    • Patrick N Long: no
    • Darrell A Louis: yes
    • Janet Marie Lucas: no
    • Amy L Malone: other
    • Tim E Mannion: yes
    • Sanjeev K Manohar: other
    • Jay D Markell: yes
    • 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: yes
    • Pete Morency: other
    • Bryan Morse: other
    • 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: yes
    • Sherri L Reinfurt: yes
    • Ellen B Rockmore: no
    • Matt R Sabourin dit Choinière: yes
    • Santosh Salvi: no
    • Gregory M Sargent: no
    • Buzz Scherr: other
    • John Schneller: yes
    • Donald Evan Selby: yes
    • Jeremy Slottje: other
    • Jim Snodgrass: no
    • Carrie Sorensen: other
    • 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: yes
    • Alice Wade: no
    • Toni Weinstein: other
    • Vicki A Wilson: yes
    • Billie Butler: no
    • David John Preece: no

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