HB1446: Providing that an individual's use of therapeutic cannabis shall not disqualify the individual from the purchase, ownership, or possession of a firearm.
Introduced
House
Summary
Providing that an individual's use of therapeutic cannabis shall not disqualify the individual from the purchase, ownership, or possession of a firearm.
Sponsors
Tom Mannion
R - HD-01-HIL
Primary
Henry Giasson
R - HD-29-HIL
Co-sponsor
Erica Layon
R - HD-13-ROC
Co-sponsor
Heath Howard
D - HD-04-STR
Co-sponsor
Matt Drew
R - HD-19-HIL
Co-sponsor
Tim Mannion
R - HD-01-HIL
Co-sponsor
Yury Polozov
R - HD-10-MER
Co-sponsor
History
- 2025-12-04 Introduced 01/07/2026 and referred to Criminal Justice and Public Safety House Journal 1 P. 20
- 2026-01-08 Public Hearing: 01/14/2026 12:00 pm GP 159
- 2026-01-27 Executive Session: 01/23/2026 12:00 pm GP 159
- 2026-01-29 Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate 01/23/2026 (Vote 12-0; Consent Calendar) House Calendar 5 P. 3
- 2026-02-05 Removed from Consent (Reps. H. Howard, Wheeler, Butler, Alexander Jr., Nagel, Roesener, Prout, Bailey, Ammon, Giasson) 02/05/2026 House Journal 3
- 2026-02-05 Lay HB1446 on Table (Rep. H. Howard): Motion Adopted DV 318-8 02/05/2026 House Journal 3
- 2026-03-26 Remove from Table (Rep. Butler): Motion Failed Regular Calendar 81-270 03/26/2026 House Journal 9
Committee Referrals
2025-12-04
Criminal Justice and Public Safety
House
Calendar Events
Past Events (2)
2026-01-14
Hearing - GP 159
2026-01-23
Hearing - GP 159
Votes
Remove From Table
2026-03-26
Failed
Yea: 81
Nay: 270
NV: 15
Absent: 27
Individual Votes (393)
| Democrats | Vote | Republicans | Vote |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alexis Simpson | Nay | Aboul Khan | Nay |
| Alice Wade | Yea | Adam Presa | Nay |
| Alicia Gregg | Yea | Alvin See | Nay |
| Alissandra Murray | Yea | Andrew Prout | Yea |
| Allan Howland | Nay | Arnold Davis | Nay |
| Allison Knab | Nay | Barbara Comtois | Absent |
| Amy Malone | NV | Bill Boyd | Nay |
| Anita Burroughs | Nay | Bill Ohm | Nay |
| Barry Faulkner | Nay | Bob Lynn | Nay |
| Beth Richards | Nay | Brian Cole | Nay |
| Bill Bolton | Yea | Brian Labrie | Nay |
| Billie Butler | Yea | Brian Nadeau | Nay |
| Bobbi Boudman | Yea | Brian Seaworth | Nay |
| Brian Sullivan | Nay | Brian Taylor | Nay |
| Buzz Scherr | Nay | Bryan Morse | NV |
| Carrie Sorensen | Nay | Calvin Beaulier | Yea |
| Carry Spier | Nay | Carol McGuire | Yea |
| Cassandra Levesque | Nay | Cathy Kenny | Nay |
| Catherine Rombeau | Nay | Charles Foote | Nay |
| Catherine Sofikitis | Yea | Charles McMahon | Nay |
| Cathryn Harvey | Absent | Charles Melvin | Nay |
| Charlie St. Clair | Yea | Cindy Bennett | Nay |
| Chris McAleer | Nay | Claudine Burnham | Nay |
| Chris Muns | Nay | Clayton Wood | Nay |
| Christal Lloyd | Yea | Cyril Aures | Nay |
| Christine Seibert | Yea | Dan McGuire | Yea |
| Christopher Herbert | Yea | Daniel Popovici-Muller | Yea |
| Connie Lane | Nay | Darrell Louis | Nay |
| Dale Girard | Nay | David Love | Nay |
| Dale Swanson | Yea | David Lundgren | Nay |
| Dan Bergeron | Nay | David Milz | Nay |
| Daniel LeClerc | Yea | David Nagel | Yea |
| Daniel Veilleux | Nay | David Walker | Nay |
| David Fracht | Nay | Deborah Aylward | Nay |
| David Luneau | Nay | Debra DeSimone | Nay |
| David Meuse | Nay | Denis Murphy | Nay |
| David Paige | Yea | Denise DeDe-Poulin | Nay |
| David Preece | Nay | Dennis Mannion | Nay |
| Dennis Malloy | Nay | Diane Kelley | Yea |
| Dru Fox | Nay | Diane Pauer | Nay |
| Efstathia Booras | Nay | Dick Thackston | Absent |
| Eileen Kelly | Nay | Dillon Dumont | Nay |
| Eleana Colby | Yea | Donald McFarlane | Absent |
| Ellen Read | Yea | Donald Selby | Yea |
| Ellen Rockmore | Nay | Douglas Thomas | Nay |
| Eric Gallager | Yea | Douglas Trottier | NV |
| Eric Turer | Nay | Erica Layon | Yea |
| Erica deVries | Yea | Ernesto Gonzalez | NV |
| Erik Johnson | Yea | Gary Daniels | Nay |
| Erin Kerwin | Nay | George Grant | Nay |
| Fred Davis | Nay | Gerald Griffin | Nay |
| Gaby Grossman | NV | Glen Aldrich | Yea |
| Gary Gilmore | NV | Glenn Bailey | Yea |
| Gary Woods | Nay | Gregory Hill | Nay |
| Geoff Smith | Nay | Henry Giasson | Yea |
| George Sykes | Nay | Jack Flanagan | Nay |
| Gerald Ward | Nay | James Guzofski | Nay |
| Gregory Sargent | Yea | James Spillane | Nay |
| Heath Howard | Yea | James Summers | Absent |
| Heather Baldwin | Nay | James Thibault | Nay |
| Heather Raymond | Yea | James Tierney | Nay |
| Hope Damon | Nay | Jason Osborne | Nay |
| Jaci Grote | Nay | Jay Markell | Nay |
| James Gruber | Nay | JD Bernardy | Nay |
| James MacKay | NV | Jeanine Notter | Nay |
| James Newsom | Nay | Jeffrey Tenczar | Nay |
| James Roesener | Yea | Jennifer Rhodes | Nay |
| Janet Lucas | Nay | Jeremy Slottje | Nay |
| Janet Wall | Nay | Jess Edwards | Nay |
| Jared Sullivan | Yea | Jim Creighton | Nay |
| Jean Jeudy | Nay | Jim Fedolfi | Absent |
| Jennifer Mandelbaum | Nay | Jim Kofalt | Yea |
| Jerry Stringham | Nay | Jim Qualey | Nay |
| Jessica Grill | Yea | Jodi Nelson | Nay |
| Jessica LaMontagne | Nay | Joe Alexander | Yea |
| Jim Maggiore | Nay | Joe Sweeney | Nay |
| Jim Snodgrass | Nay | John Hunt | Nay |
| Jodi Newell | Yea | John Janigian | Nay |
| John Cloutier | Nay | John Leavitt | Absent |
| John Larochelle | Nay | John MacDonald | Nay |
| John Stone | Nay | John Potucek | Nay |
| Jonah Wheeler | Yea | John Schneller | Nay |
| Julie Gilman | Absent | John Sellers | Nay |
| Karen Ebel | Nay | John Suiter | Yea |
| Karen Hegner | Absent | John Sytek | Nay |
| Kat McGhee | Nay | Jonathan Morton | Nay |
| Kate Murray | Nay | Jonathan Smith | Nay |
| Kathy Staub | Nay | Jordan Ulery | Nay |
| Kristina Schultz | Yea | Jose Cambrils | Absent |
| Laura Telerski | Nay | Joseph Barton | Nay |
| Laurel Stavis | Nay | Joseph Guthrie | Nay |
| Lee Ann Kluger | Nay | Joseph Hamblen | Nay |
| Lily Foss | Yea | Judy Aron | Nay |
| Linda DiSilvestro | NV | Julie Miles | Nay |
| Linda Harriott-Gathright | Nay | Juliet Harvey-Bolia | Nay |
| Linda Haskins | Nay | Julius Soti | Yea |
| Linda Ryan | Yea | Karel Crawford | Nay |
| Loren Foxx | Nay | Katelyn Kuttab | Nay |
| Loren Selig | Yea | Katherine Prudhomme-O'Brien | Nay |
| Louis Juris | Yea | Kathleen Paquette | Nay |
| Lucius Parshall | Nay | Katy Peternel | Absent |
| Lucy Weber | Nay | Keith Ammon | Nay |
| Luz Bay | Nay | Keith Erf | Nay |
| Manoj Chourasia | Nay | Kelley Potenza | Yea |
| Marc Plamondon | Yea | Kenneth Weyler | Nay |
| Marjorie Smith | Nay | Kevin Scully | Nay |
| Mark MacKenzie | Nay | Kevin Verville | Absent |
| Mark Paige | Nay | Kimberly Rice | Nay |
| Mark Vallone | Nay | Kristin Noble | Yea |
| Martin Jack | Nay | Kristine Perez | Nay |
| Mary Georges | Yea | Larry Gagne | Nay |
| Mary Hakken-Phillips | Nay | Laurence Miner | Nay |
| Mary Wallner | Nay | Leonard Turcotte | Nay |
| Matthew Hicks | Nay | Lex Berezhny | Yea |
| Matthew Wilhelm | NV | Lilli Walsh | Nay |
| Megan Murray | Nay | Linda Franz | Nay |
| Merryl Gibbs | Absent | Linda Gould | Nay |
| Michael Cahill | Nay | Linda McGrath | Nay |
| Michael Edgar | Nay | Lino Avellani | Nay |
| Molly Howard | Nay | Lisa Freeman | Absent |
| Muriel Hall | Nay | Lisa Mazur | Nay |
| Myles England | Absent | Lisa Post | Nay |
| Nancy Murphy | Nay | Liz Barbour | Nay |
| Ned Raynolds | Nay | Lori Korzen | Nay |
| Nicholas Germana | Nay | Lorie Ball | Nay |
| Nicole Leapley | Nay | Louise Andrus | Nay |
| Paige Beauchemin | Absent | Marc Tremblay | Nay |
| Patricia Cornell | Nay | Margaret Drye | Nay |
| Patrick Long | Nay | Marie Bjelobrk | Nay |
| Paul Berch | Nay | Mark McLean | Absent |
| Paul Dargie | Nay | Mark Pearson | Nay |
| Peggy Balboni | Nay | Mark Proulx | Nay |
| Peter Bixby | Nay | Mark Warden | Yea |
| Peter Leishman | Nay | Mary Ford | Nay |
| Peter Lovett | Nay | Mary Murphy | Nay |
| Peter Petrigno | Nay | Matt Drew | Yea |
| Peter Schmidt | Nay | Matt Sabourin | Yea |
| Philip Jones | Nay | Matthew Coker | Nay |
| Ray Newman | Nay | Matthew Pitaro | Yea |
| Richard Ames | Nay | Maureen Mooney | Nay |
| Rosemarie Rung | Nay | Melissa Litchfield | Nay |
| Russell Muirhead | Absent | Michael Aron | Nay |
| Sallie Fellows | Nay | Michael Granger | Yea |
| Samantha Jacobs | Yea | Michael Harrington | Yea |
| Sanjeev Manohar | Absent | Michael Moffett | Nay |
| Santosh Salvi | Nay | Michael Murphy | Absent |
| Seth Miller | Yea | Michael Vose | Nay |
| Stephanie Grund | Nay | Mike Belcher | Nay |
| Stephanie Payeur | Nay | Mike Bordes | Nay |
| Stephen Woodcock | Yea | Mike Drago | Nay |
| Sue Newman | Nay | Mike Ouellet | Nay |
| Suraj Budathoki | Yea | Nicholas Bridle | Yea |
| Susan Almy | Nay | Pamela Brown | Nay |
| Susan Elberger | Nay | Paul Terry | Nay |
| Suzanne Chretien | Nay | Paul Tudor | Yea |
| Suzanne Vail | Nay | Peter Mehegan | Yea |
| Teresa O'Rorke | Nay | Peter Morency | Nay |
| Terry Spahr | Nay | Peter Varney | NV |
| Thomas Buco | Absent | Phyllis Katsakiores | NV |
| Thomas Cormen | Nay | Pierre Dupont | Yea |
| Thomas Oppel | Nay | Ralph Boehm | Nay |
| Thomas Schamberg | Nay | Raymond Peeples | Nay |
| Thomas Southworth | Nay | Raymond Plante | Absent |
| Tim Hartnett | Nay | Richard Brown | Yea |
| Timothy Horrigan | Yea | Richard Lascelles | Nay |
| Timothy Soucy | Nay | Richard Nalevanko | Nay |
| Toni Weinstein | Nay | Richard Tripp | Nay |
| Tony Caplan | Nay | Riche Colcombe | Nay |
| Tracy Bricchi | Yea | Ricky Devoid | Nay |
| Trinidad Tellez | Yea | Rita Mattson | Nay |
| Wayne Burton | Nay | Robert Harb | Nay |
| Wayne Pearson | Yea | Robert Wherry | Nay |
| Wendy Thomas | Yea | Robley Hall | Absent |
| William Darby | Yea | Roderick Ladd | Nay |
| William Dolan | Nay | Ron Dunn | Nay |
| William Palmer | Yea | Ross Berry | Yea |
| Zoe Manos | Nay | Russell Dumais | NV |
| Samuel Farrington | Yea | ||
| Sayra Devito | Nay | ||
| Scott Bryer | Nay | ||
| Sean Durkin | Nay | ||
| Seth King | Yea | ||
| Shane Sirois | Nay | ||
| Sheri Minor | Nay | ||
| Sherman Packard | Absent | ||
| Sherri Reinfurt | Nay | ||
| Skip Rollins | Nay | ||
| Sly Karasinski | Nay | ||
| Stephen Boyd | Nay | ||
| Stephen Pearson | Nay | ||
| Steven Bogert | Nay | ||
| Steven Kesselring | Absent | ||
| Steven Smith | NV | ||
| Susan DeLemus | Nay | ||
| Susan Deroy | Nay | ||
| Susan Porcelli | Nay | ||
| Susan Vandecasteele | Yea | ||
| Tanya Donnelly | Nay | ||
| Ted Gorski | Nay | ||
| Terry Roy | Absent | ||
| Thomas Kaczynski | Nay | ||
| Thomas Walsh | Nay | ||
| Tim Mannion | Absent | ||
| Tom Dolan | Nay | ||
| Tom Mannion | Yea | ||
| Tom Ploszaj | Nay | ||
| Travis Corcoran | Nay | ||
| Travis Toner | NV | ||
| Valerie McDonnell | Nay | ||
| Vanessa Sheehan | Nay | ||
| Vicki Wilson | Nay | ||
| Walter Spilsbury | Nay | ||
| Wayne Hemingway | Nay | ||
| Wayne MacDonald | Nay | ||
| Yury Polozov | Yea |
Other
- Aidan Ankarberg — NV