HB1584: Directing the department of health and human services to provide notice of medical and religious exemptions from immunization requirements and relative to the form of such exemption.
Engrossed
House
Summary
Directing the department of health and human services to provide notice of medical and religious exemptions from immunization requirements and relative to the form of such exemption.
Sponsors
Kelley Potenza
R - HD-19-STR
Primary
Jim Kofalt
R - HD-32-HIL
Co-sponsor
Erica Layon
R - HD-13-ROC
Co-sponsor
Lisa Mazur
R - HD-44-HIL
Co-sponsor
History
- 2025-12-10 Introduced 01/07/2026 and referred to Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs House Journal 1 P. 27
- 2026-01-08 Public Hearing: 01/14/2026 09:30 am GP 158
- 2026-01-21 Executive Session: 01/28/2026 02:30 pm GP 158
- 2026-02-03 Majority Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2026-0324h 01/28/2026 (Vote 10-8; Regular Calendar) House Calendar 6 P. 14
- 2026-02-03 Minority Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate
- 2026-02-12 Amendment # 2026-0324h: Amendment Adopted Voice Vote 02/12/2026 House Journal 4
- 2026-02-12 Ought to Pass with Amendment 2026-0324h: Motion Adopted Regular Calendar 197-163 02/12/2026 House Journal 4
- 2026-02-12 Referred to Finance 02/12/2026 House Journal 4
- 2026-02-13 Introduced 02/05/2026 and Referred to Health and Human Services; Senate Journal 4
- 2026-03-10 Referral Waived by Committee Chair per House Rule 47(f) 02/12/2026 House Journal 4
- 2026-04-10 Hearing: 04/02/2026, Room 103, State House, 01:20 pm; Senate Calendar 12
- 2026-04-10 Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2026-1427s, 04/16/2026; Vote 4-0; Consent Calendar; Senate Calendar 14A
Committee Referrals
2025-12-10
Health, Human Services & Elderly Affairs
House
2026-02-12
Finance
House
2026-02-13
Health and Human Services
Senate
Calendar Events
Past Events (3)
2026-01-14
Hearing - GP 158
2026-01-28
Hearing - GP 158
2026-04-02
Hearing - Room 103, State House
Votes
OTPA
2026-02-12
Passed
Yea: 197
Nay: 163
NV: 15
Absent: 19
Individual Votes (394)
| Democrats | Vote | Republicans | Vote |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alexis Simpson | Nay | Aboul Khan | Yea |
| Alice Wade | Nay | Adam Presa | Yea |
| Alicia Gregg | Nay | Alvin See | Yea |
| Alissandra Murray | Nay | Andrew Prout | Yea |
| Allan Howland | Nay | Arnold Davis | Yea |
| Allison Knab | Nay | Barbara Comtois | Yea |
| Amy Malone | NV | Bill Boyd | Yea |
| Anita Burroughs | Nay | Bill Ohm | Yea |
| Barry Faulkner | Nay | Bob Lynn | Yea |
| Beth Richards | Absent | Brian Cole | Yea |
| Bill Bolton | Nay | Brian Labrie | Yea |
| Billie Butler | Nay | Brian Nadeau | Yea |
| Brian Sullivan | Nay | Brian Seaworth | Yea |
| Buzz Scherr | Nay | Brian Taylor | Yea |
| Carrie Sorensen | Nay | Bryan Morse | NV |
| Carry Spier | Nay | Calvin Beaulier | Yea |
| Cassandra Levesque | Nay | Carol McGuire | Yea |
| Catherine Rombeau | Nay | Cathy Kenny | Yea |
| Catherine Sofikitis | Absent | Charles Foote | Absent |
| Cathryn Harvey | Nay | Charles McMahon | Yea |
| Charlie St. Clair | Nay | Charles Melvin | Yea |
| Chris McAleer | Nay | Cindy Bennett | Yea |
| Chris Muns | Nay | Claudine Burnham | Yea |
| Christal Lloyd | Nay | Clayton Wood | Yea |
| Christine Seibert | Nay | Cyril Aures | Yea |
| Christopher Herbert | Nay | Dan McGuire | Yea |
| Connie Lane | Nay | Daniel Popovici-Muller | Yea |
| Dale Girard | Nay | Darrell Louis | Yea |
| Dale Swanson | Nay | David Love | Yea |
| Dan Bergeron | Nay | David Lundgren | Yea |
| Daniel LeClerc | Nay | David Milz | Yea |
| Daniel Veilleux | Nay | David Nagel | Nay |
| David Fracht | Nay | David Walker | Yea |
| David Luneau | Nay | Deborah Aylward | Yea |
| David Meuse | Absent | Debra DeSimone | Yea |
| David Paige | Nay | Denis Murphy | Yea |
| David Preece | Nay | Denise DeDe-Poulin | Yea |
| Dennis Malloy | Nay | Dennis Mannion | Yea |
| Dru Fox | Nay | Diane Kelley | Yea |
| Efstathia Booras | Nay | Diane Pauer | Yea |
| Eileen Kelly | Nay | Dick Thackston | Yea |
| Eleana Colby | Nay | Dillon Dumont | Yea |
| Ellen Read | Nay | Donald McFarlane | Yea |
| Ellen Rockmore | Nay | Donald Selby | Yea |
| Eric Gallager | Nay | Douglas Thomas | Yea |
| Eric Turer | Nay | Douglas Trottier | NV |
| Erica deVries | Nay | Erica Layon | Yea |
| Erik Johnson | Nay | Ernesto Gonzalez | Yea |
| Erin Kerwin | Nay | Gary Daniels | Yea |
| Fred Davis | Nay | George Grant | Yea |
| Gaby Grossman | Absent | Gerald Griffin | Yea |
| Gary Gilmore | Nay | Glen Aldrich | Yea |
| Gary Woods | Nay | Glenn Bailey | Yea |
| Geoff Smith | Nay | Gregory Hill | Yea |
| George Sykes | Nay | Harry Bean | Absent |
| Gerald Ward | Nay | Henry Giasson | Yea |
| Gregory Sargent | Nay | Jack Flanagan | Yea |
| Heath Howard | Nay | James Guzofski | Yea |
| Heather Baldwin | Nay | James Spillane | Yea |
| Heather Raymond | Nay | James Summers | Yea |
| Hope Damon | Nay | James Thibault | Yea |
| Jaci Grote | Nay | James Tierney | Yea |
| James Gruber | Nay | Jason Osborne | NV |
| James MacKay | NV | Jay Markell | Yea |
| James Newsom | Nay | JD Bernardy | Yea |
| James Roesener | NV | Jeanine Notter | Yea |
| Janet Lucas | Nay | Jeffrey Tenczar | Absent |
| Janet Wall | Nay | Jennifer Rhodes | Yea |
| Jared Sullivan | Nay | Jeremy Slottje | Yea |
| Jean Jeudy | Nay | Jess Edwards | Yea |
| Jennifer Mandelbaum | Nay | Jim Creighton | Yea |
| Jerry Stringham | Nay | Jim Fedolfi | Yea |
| Jessica Grill | Nay | Jim Kofalt | Yea |
| Jessica LaMontagne | Nay | Jim Qualey | Yea |
| Jim Maggiore | Nay | Jodi Nelson | Yea |
| Jim Snodgrass | Nay | Joe Alexander | NV |
| Jodi Newell | Nay | Joe Sweeney | Yea |
| John Cloutier | Nay | John Hunt | Yea |
| John Larochelle | Yea | John Janigian | Yea |
| John Stone | Nay | John Leavitt | Yea |
| Jonah Wheeler | Yea | John MacDonald | Absent |
| Julie Gilman | Absent | John Potucek | Yea |
| Karen Ebel | Nay | John Schneller | Yea |
| Karen Hegner | Nay | John Sellers | Yea |
| Kat McGhee | Nay | John Suiter | Yea |
| Kate Murray | Nay | John Sytek | Yea |
| Kathy Staub | Nay | Jonathan Morton | Yea |
| Kristina Schultz | Nay | Jonathan Smith | Yea |
| Laura Telerski | Nay | Jordan Ulery | Yea |
| Laurel Stavis | Nay | Jose Cambrils | Yea |
| Lee Ann Kluger | Nay | Joseph Barton | Yea |
| Lily Foss | Nay | Joseph Guthrie | Yea |
| Linda DiSilvestro | NV | Joseph Hamblen | Yea |
| Linda Harriott-Gathright | Nay | Judy Aron | Yea |
| Linda Haskins | Nay | Julie Miles | Yea |
| Linda Ryan | Nay | Juliet Harvey-Bolia | Yea |
| Loren Foxx | Nay | Julius Soti | Yea |
| Loren Selig | Nay | Karel Crawford | Yea |
| Louis Juris | Nay | Katelyn Kuttab | Yea |
| Lucius Parshall | Nay | Katherine Prudhomme-O'Brien | Yea |
| Lucy Weber | Nay | Kathleen Paquette | Yea |
| Luz Bay | Nay | Katy Peternel | Yea |
| Manoj Chourasia | Nay | Keith Ammon | Yea |
| Marc Plamondon | Nay | Keith Erf | Yea |
| Marjorie Smith | Nay | Kelley Potenza | Yea |
| Mark MacKenzie | Absent | Kenneth Weyler | Yea |
| Mark Paige | Nay | Kevin Scully | Yea |
| Mark Vallone | Nay | Kevin Verville | Yea |
| Martin Jack | Nay | Kimberly Rice | Yea |
| Mary Georges | Nay | Kristin Noble | Yea |
| Mary Hakken-Phillips | Nay | Kristine Perez | Yea |
| Mary Wallner | Nay | Larry Gagne | Yea |
| Matthew Hicks | Nay | Laurence Miner | Yea |
| Matthew Wilhelm | Nay | Leonard Turcotte | Yea |
| Megan Murray | Nay | Lex Berezhny | Yea |
| Merryl Gibbs | NV | Lilli Walsh | Yea |
| Michael Cahill | Nay | Linda Franz | Yea |
| Michael Edgar | Nay | Linda Gould | Yea |
| Molly Howard | NV | Linda McGrath | Yea |
| Muriel Hall | Nay | Lino Avellani | Yea |
| Myles England | Absent | Lisa Freeman | Yea |
| Nancy Murphy | Nay | Lisa Mazur | Yea |
| Ned Raynolds | Nay | Lisa Post | Yea |
| Nicholas Germana | Nay | Liz Barbour | Yea |
| Nicole Leapley | Nay | Lori Korzen | Yea |
| Paige Beauchemin | Nay | Lorie Ball | Yea |
| Patricia Cornell | Nay | Louise Andrus | Yea |
| Patrick Long | Nay | Marc Tremblay | Yea |
| Paul Berch | Nay | Margaret Drye | Yea |
| Paul Dargie | Nay | Marie Bjelobrk | Yea |
| Peggy Balboni | Nay | Mark McLean | Yea |
| Peter Bixby | Nay | Mark Pearson | Yea |
| Peter Leishman | Nay | Mark Proulx | Nay |
| Peter Lovett | Nay | Mark Warden | Yea |
| Peter Petrigno | Nay | Mary Ford | NV |
| Peter Schmidt | Nay | Mary Murphy | Absent |
| Philip Jones | Nay | Matt Drew | Yea |
| Ray Newman | Nay | Matt Sabourin | Yea |
| Richard Ames | Nay | Matthew Coker | Nay |
| Rosemarie Rung | Nay | Matthew Pitaro | Yea |
| Russell Muirhead | Nay | Maureen Mooney | Yea |
| Sallie Fellows | Nay | Melissa Litchfield | Yea |
| Samantha Jacobs | Nay | Michael Aron | Yea |
| Sanjeev Manohar | Nay | Michael Granger | Yea |
| Santosh Salvi | Nay | Michael Harrington | Yea |
| Seth Miller | Nay | Michael Moffett | Yea |
| Stephanie Grund | Nay | Michael Murphy | Absent |
| Stephanie Payeur | Nay | Michael Vose | Yea |
| Stephen Woodcock | Nay | Mike Belcher | Yea |
| Sue Newman | Nay | Mike Bordes | Yea |
| Suraj Budathoki | Nay | Mike Drago | Yea |
| Susan Almy | Nay | Mike Ouellet | Yea |
| Susan Elberger | Nay | Nicholas Bridle | Yea |
| Suzanne Chretien | Nay | Pamela Brown | Yea |
| Suzanne Vail | Nay | Paul Terry | Yea |
| Teresa O'Rorke | Nay | Paul Tudor | Yea |
| Terry Spahr | Nay | Peter Mehegan | Yea |
| Thomas Buco | Absent | Peter Morency | Yea |
| Thomas Cormen | Nay | Peter Varney | Absent |
| Thomas Oppel | Nay | Phyllis Katsakiores | Yea |
| Thomas Schamberg | Nay | Pierre Dupont | Yea |
| Thomas Southworth | Nay | Ralph Boehm | Yea |
| Tim Hartnett | Nay | Raymond Peeples | Yea |
| Timothy Horrigan | Nay | Raymond Plante | Yea |
| Timothy Soucy | Nay | Richard Brown | Absent |
| Toni Weinstein | Nay | Richard Lascelles | Yea |
| Tony Caplan | Nay | Richard Nalevanko | Yea |
| Tracy Bricchi | Nay | Richard Tripp | Yea |
| Trinidad Tellez | Nay | Riche Colcombe | Yea |
| Wayne Burton | Nay | Ricky Devoid | Yea |
| Wayne Pearson | Nay | Rita Mattson | Yea |
| Wendy Thomas | Nay | Robert Harb | Yea |
| William Darby | Nay | Robert Wherry | Yea |
| William Dolan | Absent | Robley Hall | Yea |
| William Palmer | Nay | Roderick Ladd | Yea |
| Zoe Manos | Nay | Ron Dunn | Yea |
| Ross Berry | Yea | ||
| Russell Dumais | NV | ||
| Samuel Farrington | Yea | ||
| Sandra Panek | Yea | ||
| Sayra Devito | Yea | ||
| 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 | Yea | ||
| Susan Vandecasteele | Yea | ||
| Tanya Donnelly | Nay | ||
| Ted Gorski | Yea | ||
| Terry Roy | Yea | ||
| Thomas Kaczynski | Yea | ||
| Thomas Walsh | Yea | ||
| Tim Mannion | Absent | ||
| Tom Dolan | Yea | ||
| Tom Mannion | Yea | ||
| Tom Ploszaj | Yea | ||
| 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