HB1176: Relative to the display of license plates on vehicles.
Introduced
House
Summary
Relative to the display of license plates on vehicles.
Sponsors
Jeanine Notter
R - HD-12-HIL
Primary
Joe Alexander
R - HD-29-HIL
Co-sponsor
Brian Labrie
R - HD-02-HIL
Co-sponsor
Cyril Aures
R - HD-13-MER
Co-sponsor
Glen Aldrich
R - HD-06-BEL
Co-sponsor
James Spillane
R - HD-02-ROC
Co-sponsor
Keith Ammon
R - HD-42-HIL
Co-sponsor
Keith Murphy
R - SD-016
Co-sponsor
History
- 2025-12-01 Introduced 01/07/2026 and referred to Transportation House Journal 1 P. 9
- 2026-01-08 Public Hearing: 01/13/2026 11:00 am GP 234
- 2026-01-14 ==RECESSED== Executive Session: 01/20/2026 02:45 pm GP 234
- 2026-01-21 ==CONTINUED== Executive Session: 01/27/2026 01:00 pm GP 232
- 2026-02-02 Majority Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2026-0197h 01/27/2026 (Vote 9-7; Regular Calendar) House Calendar 6 P. 20
- 2026-02-02 Minority Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate
- 2026-02-12 Amendment # 2026-0197h: Amendment Adopted Voice Vote 02/12/2026 House Journal 4
- 2026-02-12 Ought to Pass with Amendment 2026-0197h: Motion Failed DV 159-188 02/12/2026 House Journal 4
- 2026-02-12 Lay HB1176 on Table (Rep. S. Smith): Motion Adopted Regular Calendar 321-27 02/12/2026 House Journal 4
Committee Referrals
2025-12-01
Transportation
House
Calendar Events
Past Events (3)
2026-01-13
Hearing - GP 234
2026-01-20
Hearing - GP 234
2026-01-27
Hearing - GP 232
Votes
Table
2026-02-12
Passed
Yea: 321
Nay: 27
NV: 19
Absent: 27
Individual Votes (394)
| Democrats | Vote | Republicans | Vote |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alexis Simpson | Yea | Aboul Khan | Yea |
| Alice Wade | Yea | Adam Presa | Yea |
| Alicia Gregg | Yea | Alvin See | Yea |
| Alissandra Murray | Yea | Andrew Prout | Yea |
| Allan Howland | Yea | Arnold Davis | Yea |
| Allison Knab | Yea | Barbara Comtois | Yea |
| Amy Malone | NV | Bill Boyd | Yea |
| Anita Burroughs | Yea | Bill Ohm | Yea |
| Barry Faulkner | Yea | Bob Lynn | Yea |
| Beth Richards | Absent | Brian Cole | Absent |
| Bill Bolton | Yea | Brian Labrie | Yea |
| Billie Butler | Yea | Brian Nadeau | Yea |
| Brian Sullivan | Yea | Brian Seaworth | Yea |
| Buzz Scherr | Nay | Brian Taylor | Yea |
| Carrie Sorensen | Yea | Bryan Morse | NV |
| Carry Spier | Yea | Calvin Beaulier | Yea |
| Cassandra Levesque | Yea | Carol McGuire | Yea |
| Catherine Rombeau | Yea | Cathy Kenny | Yea |
| Catherine Sofikitis | Absent | Charles Foote | Absent |
| Cathryn Harvey | Nay | Charles McMahon | Yea |
| Charlie St. Clair | Yea | Charles Melvin | Yea |
| Chris McAleer | Yea | Cindy Bennett | Yea |
| Chris Muns | Yea | Claudine Burnham | Yea |
| Christal Lloyd | Yea | Clayton Wood | Yea |
| Christine Seibert | Yea | Cyril Aures | Yea |
| Christopher Herbert | Yea | Dan McGuire | Yea |
| Connie Lane | Yea | Daniel Popovici-Muller | Yea |
| Dale Girard | Yea | Darrell Louis | Yea |
| Dale Swanson | Yea | David Love | Yea |
| Dan Bergeron | Nay | David Lundgren | Nay |
| Daniel LeClerc | Nay | David Milz | Yea |
| Daniel Veilleux | Yea | David Nagel | Yea |
| David Fracht | Nay | David Walker | Yea |
| David Luneau | Yea | Deborah Aylward | Yea |
| David Meuse | Absent | Debra DeSimone | Yea |
| David Paige | Yea | Denis Murphy | Yea |
| David Preece | Yea | Denise DeDe-Poulin | Yea |
| Dennis Malloy | Yea | Dennis Mannion | Yea |
| Dru Fox | NV | Diane Kelley | Yea |
| Efstathia Booras | Yea | Diane Pauer | Yea |
| Eileen Kelly | Yea | Dick Thackston | Yea |
| Eleana Colby | Yea | Dillon Dumont | Absent |
| Ellen Read | Yea | Donald McFarlane | Yea |
| Ellen Rockmore | Yea | Donald Selby | Yea |
| Eric Gallager | Yea | Douglas Thomas | Yea |
| Eric Turer | Yea | Douglas Trottier | NV |
| Erica deVries | Yea | Erica Layon | Yea |
| Erik Johnson | Yea | Ernesto Gonzalez | Yea |
| Erin Kerwin | Yea | Gary Daniels | Yea |
| Fred Davis | Yea | George Grant | Yea |
| Gaby Grossman | Absent | Gerald Griffin | Yea |
| Gary Gilmore | Yea | Glen Aldrich | Yea |
| Gary Woods | Yea | Glenn Bailey | Yea |
| Geoff Smith | Yea | Gregory Hill | Yea |
| George Sykes | Yea | Harry Bean | Absent |
| Gerald Ward | Yea | Henry Giasson | Yea |
| Gregory Sargent | Yea | Jack Flanagan | Yea |
| Heath Howard | Nay | James Guzofski | Yea |
| Heather Baldwin | Yea | James Spillane | Yea |
| Heather Raymond | Nay | James Summers | Yea |
| Hope Damon | Yea | James Thibault | Yea |
| Jaci Grote | Yea | James Tierney | Yea |
| James Gruber | Yea | Jason Osborne | Yea |
| James MacKay | NV | Jay Markell | Nay |
| James Newsom | Yea | JD Bernardy | Yea |
| James Roesener | NV | Jeanine Notter | Yea |
| Janet Lucas | Yea | Jeffrey Tenczar | Absent |
| Janet Wall | Yea | Jennifer Rhodes | Yea |
| Jared Sullivan | Yea | Jeremy Slottje | Yea |
| Jean Jeudy | Yea | Jess Edwards | Yea |
| Jennifer Mandelbaum | Nay | Jim Creighton | Yea |
| Jerry Stringham | Nay | Jim Fedolfi | NV |
| Jessica Grill | NV | Jim Kofalt | Yea |
| Jessica LaMontagne | Yea | Jim Qualey | Yea |
| Jim Maggiore | Yea | Jodi Nelson | Yea |
| Jim Snodgrass | Yea | Joe Alexander | Yea |
| Jodi Newell | Yea | Joe Sweeney | Yea |
| John Cloutier | Yea | John Hunt | Yea |
| John Larochelle | Yea | John Janigian | Yea |
| John Stone | Yea | John Leavitt | Yea |
| Jonah Wheeler | Yea | John MacDonald | Absent |
| Julie Gilman | Absent | John Potucek | Yea |
| Karen Ebel | Yea | John Schneller | Yea |
| Karen Hegner | Yea | John Sellers | Yea |
| Kat McGhee | Yea | John Suiter | Absent |
| Kate Murray | Yea | John Sytek | Yea |
| Kathy Staub | Yea | Jonathan Morton | Yea |
| Kristina Schultz | Yea | Jonathan Smith | Yea |
| Laura Telerski | Yea | Jordan Ulery | Yea |
| Laurel Stavis | Yea | Jose Cambrils | Yea |
| Lee Ann Kluger | Yea | Joseph Barton | Yea |
| Lily Foss | Yea | Joseph Guthrie | Yea |
| Linda DiSilvestro | NV | Joseph Hamblen | Yea |
| Linda Harriott-Gathright | Yea | Judy Aron | Yea |
| Linda Haskins | Yea | Julie Miles | Yea |
| Linda Ryan | Yea | Juliet Harvey-Bolia | NV |
| Loren Foxx | Nay | Julius Soti | Yea |
| Loren Selig | Nay | Karel Crawford | Yea |
| Louis Juris | Absent | Katelyn Kuttab | Yea |
| Lucius Parshall | Yea | Katherine Prudhomme-O'Brien | Yea |
| Lucy Weber | Yea | Kathleen Paquette | Nay |
| Luz Bay | Yea | Katy Peternel | Yea |
| Manoj Chourasia | Yea | Keith Ammon | Yea |
| Marc Plamondon | Nay | Keith Erf | Yea |
| Marjorie Smith | Yea | Kelley Potenza | NV |
| Mark MacKenzie | Absent | Kenneth Weyler | Yea |
| Mark Paige | Yea | Kevin Scully | Yea |
| Mark Vallone | Yea | Kevin Verville | Yea |
| Martin Jack | Yea | Kimberly Rice | Yea |
| Mary Georges | Yea | Kristin Noble | Yea |
| Mary Hakken-Phillips | Yea | Kristine Perez | Yea |
| Mary Wallner | Yea | Larry Gagne | Yea |
| Matthew Hicks | Yea | Laurence Miner | Yea |
| Matthew Wilhelm | Nay | Leonard Turcotte | Yea |
| Megan Murray | Yea | Lex Berezhny | Yea |
| Merryl Gibbs | NV | Lilli Walsh | Yea |
| Michael Cahill | Nay | Linda Franz | Yea |
| Michael Edgar | Yea | Linda Gould | Nay |
| Molly Howard | NV | Linda McGrath | Yea |
| Muriel Hall | Yea | Lino Avellani | Yea |
| Myles England | Absent | Lisa Freeman | Yea |
| Nancy Murphy | Nay | Lisa Mazur | Yea |
| Ned Raynolds | Yea | Lisa Post | Yea |
| Nicholas Germana | Yea | Liz Barbour | Yea |
| Nicole Leapley | NV | Lori Korzen | Yea |
| Paige Beauchemin | Yea | Lorie Ball | Yea |
| Patricia Cornell | Yea | Louise Andrus | Yea |
| Patrick Long | Yea | Marc Tremblay | Yea |
| Paul Berch | Yea | Margaret Drye | Yea |
| Paul Dargie | Yea | Marie Bjelobrk | Yea |
| Peggy Balboni | Yea | Mark McLean | Yea |
| Peter Bixby | Yea | Mark Pearson | Yea |
| Peter Leishman | Yea | Mark Proulx | Nay |
| Peter Lovett | Yea | Mark Warden | Yea |
| Peter Petrigno | Yea | Mary Ford | NV |
| Peter Schmidt | Yea | Mary Murphy | Absent |
| Philip Jones | Yea | Matt Drew | Yea |
| Ray Newman | Yea | Matt Sabourin | Yea |
| Richard Ames | Yea | Matthew Coker | Yea |
| Rosemarie Rung | Yea | Matthew Pitaro | Yea |
| Russell Muirhead | Yea | Maureen Mooney | Yea |
| Sallie Fellows | Yea | Melissa Litchfield | Yea |
| Samantha Jacobs | Yea | Michael Aron | Yea |
| Sanjeev Manohar | Yea | Michael Granger | Yea |
| Santosh Salvi | Yea | Michael Harrington | Nay |
| Seth Miller | Yea | Michael Moffett | Yea |
| Stephanie Grund | Yea | Michael Murphy | Absent |
| Stephanie Payeur | Yea | Michael Vose | Yea |
| Stephen Woodcock | Yea | Mike Belcher | Yea |
| Sue Newman | Yea | Mike Bordes | Absent |
| Suraj Budathoki | Yea | Mike Drago | Yea |
| Susan Almy | Yea | Mike Ouellet | Yea |
| Susan Elberger | Yea | Nicholas Bridle | Yea |
| Suzanne Chretien | Yea | Pamela Brown | Yea |
| Suzanne Vail | Yea | Paul Terry | Yea |
| Teresa O'Rorke | Yea | Paul Tudor | Yea |
| Terry Spahr | Yea | Peter Mehegan | Yea |
| Thomas Buco | Absent | Peter Morency | Nay |
| Thomas Cormen | Yea | Peter Varney | Absent |
| Thomas Oppel | Yea | Phyllis Katsakiores | Yea |
| Thomas Schamberg | Yea | Pierre Dupont | Yea |
| Thomas Southworth | Yea | Ralph Boehm | Yea |
| Tim Hartnett | Nay | Raymond Peeples | Yea |
| Timothy Horrigan | Yea | Raymond Plante | Yea |
| Timothy Soucy | Yea | Richard Brown | Absent |
| Toni Weinstein | Yea | Richard Lascelles | Yea |
| Tony Caplan | Yea | Richard Nalevanko | Yea |
| Tracy Bricchi | Yea | Richard Tripp | Yea |
| Trinidad Tellez | Yea | Riche Colcombe | Yea |
| Wayne Burton | Yea | Ricky Devoid | Yea |
| Wayne Pearson | Yea | Rita Mattson | Yea |
| Wendy Thomas | Nay | Robert Harb | Yea |
| William Darby | Yea | Robert Wherry | Yea |
| William Dolan | Absent | Robley Hall | Yea |
| William Palmer | Yea | Roderick Ladd | Yea |
| Zoe Manos | Yea | Ron Dunn | Yea |
| Ross Berry | Yea | ||
| Russell Dumais | NV | ||
| Samuel Farrington | Yea | ||
| Sandra Panek | Nay | ||
| Sayra Devito | Absent | ||
| Scott Bryer | Yea | ||
| Sean Durkin | Absent | ||
| Seth King | Yea | ||
| Shane Sirois | Yea | ||
| Sheri Minor | Yea | ||
| Sherman Packard | NV | ||
| Sherri Reinfurt | Yea | ||
| Skip Rollins | Yea | ||
| Sly Karasinski | Yea | ||
| Stephen Boyd | Yea | ||
| Stephen Pearson | Yea | ||
| Steven Bogert | Yea | ||
| Steven Kesselring | Yea | ||
| Steven Smith | Yea | ||
| Susan DeLemus | Yea | ||
| Susan Deroy | Yea | ||
| Susan Porcelli | Nay | ||
| Susan Vandecasteele | Absent | ||
| Tanya Donnelly | Yea | ||
| Ted Gorski | Yea | ||
| Terry Roy | Absent | ||
| Thomas Kaczynski | Yea | ||
| Thomas Walsh | Yea | ||
| Tim Mannion | Absent | ||
| Tom Dolan | Yea | ||
| Tom Mannion | Yea | ||
| Tom Ploszaj | Nay | ||
| Travis Corcoran | Yea | ||
| Travis Toner | NV | ||
| Valerie McDonnell | Yea | ||
| Vanessa Sheehan | Yea | ||
| Vicki Wilson | Yea | ||
| Walter Spilsbury | Yea | ||
| Wayne Hemingway | Yea | ||
| Wayne MacDonald | Yea | ||
| Yury Polozov | Yea |
Other
- Aidan Ankarberg — NV