HB1705: Establishing an employee assistance program for small town and volunteer first responders.
Engrossed
House
Summary
Establishing an employee assistance program for small town and volunteer first responders.
Sponsors
Loren Selig
D - HD-10-STR
Primary
Hope Damon
D - HD-08-SUL
Co-sponsor
Margaret Drye
R - HD-07-SUL
Co-sponsor
Jodi Newell
D - HD-04-CHE
Co-sponsor
Suzanne Prentiss
D - SD-005
Co-sponsor
History
- 2025-12-12 Introduced 01/07/2026 and referred to Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services House Journal 1 P. 32
- 2026-01-28 Public Hearing: 02/03/2026 01:30 pm GP 159
- 2026-02-05 Executive Session: 02/10/2026 10:00 am GP 159
- 2026-02-11 Majority Committee Report: Refer for Interim Study 02/10/2026 (Vote 11-9; Regular Calendar) House Calendar 7 P. 36
- 2026-02-11 Minority Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2026-0531h
- 2026-02-19 Refer for Interim Study: Motion Failed DV 167-174 02/19/2026 House Journal 5
- 2026-02-19 Amendment # 2026-0531h: Amendment Adopted Voice Vote 02/19/2026 House Journal 5
- 2026-02-19 Ought to Pass with Amendment 2026-0531h: Motion Adopted Regular Calendar 194-154 02/19/2026 House Journal 5
- 2026-02-19 Referred to Finance 02/19/2026 House Journal 5
- 2026-03-09 Division III Work Session: 03/13/2026 09:00 am GP 234
- 2026-03-13 Executive Session: 03/17/2026 10:00 am GP 230
- 2026-03-19 Majority Committee Report: Refer for Interim Study 03/17/2026 (Vote 14-10; Regular Calendar)
- 2026-03-19 Minority Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2026-1202h (NT)
- 2026-03-26 Refer for Interim Study: Motion Failed DV 167-181 03/26/2026 House Journal 9
- 2026-03-26 Amendment # 2026-1202h (NT): Amendment Adopted DV 299-49 03/26/2026 House Journal 9
- 2026-03-26 Ought to Pass with Amendment 2026-1202h: Motion Adopted Voice Vote 03/26/2026 House Journal 9
- 2026-03-30 Introduced 03/26/2026 and Referred to Executive Departments and Administration; Senate Journal 7
- 2026-04-01 Hearing: 04/08/2026, Room 103, State House, 09:30 am; Senate Calendar 13
Committee Referrals
2025-12-12
Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services
House
2026-02-19
Finance
House
2026-03-30
Executive Departments and Administration
Senate
Calendar Events
Past Events (5)
2026-02-03
Hearing - GP 159
2026-02-10
Hearing - GP 159
2026-03-13
Hearing - GP 234
2026-03-17
Hearing - GP 230
2026-04-08
Hearing - Room 103, State House
Votes
OTPA
2026-02-19
Passed
Yea: 194
Nay: 154
NV: 13
Absent: 32
Individual Votes (393)
| Democrats | Vote | Republicans | Vote |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alexis Simpson | Yea | Aboul Khan | Yea |
| Alice Wade | Yea | Adam Presa | Nay |
| Alicia Gregg | Absent | Alvin See | Nay |
| Alissandra Murray | Yea | Andrew Prout | Absent |
| Allan Howland | Yea | Arnold Davis | Nay |
| Allison Knab | Yea | Barbara Comtois | Absent |
| Amy Malone | NV | Bill Boyd | Yea |
| Anita Burroughs | Yea | Bill Ohm | Nay |
| Barry Faulkner | Yea | Bob Lynn | Nay |
| Beth Richards | Yea | Brian Cole | Absent |
| Bill Bolton | Yea | Brian Labrie | Nay |
| Billie Butler | Yea | Brian Nadeau | Nay |
| Brian Sullivan | Yea | Brian Seaworth | Nay |
| Buzz Scherr | Yea | Brian Taylor | Nay |
| Carrie Sorensen | Yea | Bryan Morse | NV |
| Carry Spier | Yea | Calvin Beaulier | Nay |
| Cassandra Levesque | Yea | Carol McGuire | Nay |
| Catherine Rombeau | Yea | Cathy Kenny | Nay |
| Catherine Sofikitis | Absent | Charles Foote | Yea |
| Cathryn Harvey | Absent | Charles McMahon | Absent |
| Charlie St. Clair | Yea | Charles Melvin | Nay |
| Chris McAleer | Yea | Cindy Bennett | Nay |
| Chris Muns | Yea | Claudine Burnham | Absent |
| Christal Lloyd | Yea | Clayton Wood | Nay |
| Christine Seibert | Yea | Cyril Aures | Nay |
| Christopher Herbert | Yea | Dan McGuire | Nay |
| Connie Lane | Yea | Daniel Popovici-Muller | Nay |
| Dale Girard | Yea | Darrell Louis | Nay |
| Dale Swanson | Yea | David Love | Nay |
| Dan Bergeron | Yea | David Lundgren | Nay |
| Daniel LeClerc | Yea | David Milz | Nay |
| Daniel Veilleux | Yea | David Nagel | Yea |
| David Fracht | Yea | David Walker | Nay |
| David Luneau | Yea | Deborah Aylward | Nay |
| David Meuse | Yea | Debra DeSimone | Nay |
| David Paige | Yea | Denis Murphy | Nay |
| David Preece | Yea | Denise DeDe-Poulin | Nay |
| Dennis Malloy | Yea | Dennis Mannion | Nay |
| Dru Fox | Yea | Diane Kelley | Nay |
| Efstathia Booras | Yea | Diane Pauer | Nay |
| Eileen Kelly | Yea | Dick Thackston | Yea |
| Eleana Colby | Absent | Dillon Dumont | Nay |
| Ellen Read | Absent | Donald McFarlane | Nay |
| Ellen Rockmore | Yea | Donald Selby | Nay |
| Eric Gallager | Yea | Douglas Thomas | Nay |
| Eric Turer | Yea | Douglas Trottier | NV |
| Erica deVries | Yea | Erica Layon | Nay |
| Erik Johnson | Yea | Ernesto Gonzalez | Nay |
| Erin Kerwin | Yea | Gary Daniels | Nay |
| Fred Davis | Yea | George Grant | Nay |
| Gaby Grossman | Absent | Gerald Griffin | Nay |
| Gary Gilmore | Yea | Glen Aldrich | Nay |
| Gary Woods | Yea | Glenn Bailey | Nay |
| Geoff Smith | Yea | Gregory Hill | Nay |
| George Sykes | Yea | Henry Giasson | Nay |
| Gerald Ward | Yea | Jack Flanagan | Absent |
| Gregory Sargent | Yea | James Guzofski | Nay |
| Heath Howard | Yea | James Spillane | NV |
| Heather Baldwin | Yea | James Summers | Nay |
| Heather Raymond | Yea | James Thibault | Nay |
| Hope Damon | Yea | James Tierney | Absent |
| Jaci Grote | Yea | Jason Osborne | Nay |
| James Gruber | Yea | Jay Markell | Absent |
| James MacKay | NV | JD Bernardy | Nay |
| James Newsom | Yea | Jeanine Notter | Nay |
| James Roesener | Yea | Jeffrey Tenczar | Nay |
| Janet Lucas | Yea | Jennifer Rhodes | Nay |
| Janet Wall | Yea | Jeremy Slottje | Nay |
| Jared Sullivan | Yea | Jess Edwards | Nay |
| Jean Jeudy | Yea | Jim Creighton | Nay |
| Jennifer Mandelbaum | Yea | Jim Fedolfi | Absent |
| Jerry Stringham | Yea | Jim Kofalt | Nay |
| Jessica Grill | Yea | Jim Qualey | Nay |
| Jessica LaMontagne | Yea | Jodi Nelson | Nay |
| Jim Maggiore | Yea | Joe Alexander | Nay |
| Jim Snodgrass | Yea | Joe Sweeney | Nay |
| Jodi Newell | Yea | John Hunt | Absent |
| John Cloutier | Yea | John Janigian | Nay |
| John Larochelle | Yea | John Leavitt | Absent |
| John Stone | Yea | John MacDonald | Yea |
| Jonah Wheeler | Yea | John Potucek | Nay |
| Julie Gilman | Yea | John Schneller | Nay |
| Karen Ebel | Yea | John Sellers | Nay |
| Karen Hegner | Yea | John Suiter | Absent |
| Kat McGhee | Yea | John Sytek | Nay |
| Kate Murray | Yea | Jonathan Morton | Nay |
| Kathy Staub | Yea | Jonathan Smith | Nay |
| Kristina Schultz | Absent | Jordan Ulery | Nay |
| Laura Telerski | Yea | Jose Cambrils | Nay |
| Laurel Stavis | Absent | Joseph Barton | Yea |
| Lee Ann Kluger | Yea | Joseph Guthrie | Yea |
| Lily Foss | Yea | Joseph Hamblen | Yea |
| Linda DiSilvestro | Yea | Judy Aron | Yea |
| Linda Harriott-Gathright | Yea | Julie Miles | Nay |
| Linda Haskins | Yea | Juliet Harvey-Bolia | NV |
| Linda Ryan | Yea | Julius Soti | Nay |
| Loren Foxx | Yea | Karel Crawford | Nay |
| Loren Selig | Yea | Katelyn Kuttab | Nay |
| Louis Juris | Yea | Katherine Prudhomme-O'Brien | Yea |
| Lucius Parshall | Yea | Kathleen Paquette | Nay |
| Lucy Weber | Yea | Katy Peternel | Nay |
| Luz Bay | Yea | Keith Ammon | Nay |
| Manoj Chourasia | Yea | Keith Erf | Nay |
| Marc Plamondon | Yea | Kelley Potenza | Nay |
| Marjorie Smith | Yea | Kenneth Weyler | Nay |
| Mark MacKenzie | Yea | Kevin Scully | Nay |
| Mark Paige | Yea | Kevin Verville | Nay |
| Mark Vallone | Yea | Kimberly Rice | Absent |
| Martin Jack | Yea | Kristin Noble | Nay |
| Mary Georges | Yea | Kristine Perez | Yea |
| Mary Hakken-Phillips | Yea | Larry Gagne | Nay |
| Mary Wallner | Yea | Laurence Miner | Nay |
| Matthew Hicks | Yea | Leonard Turcotte | Nay |
| Matthew Wilhelm | Yea | Lex Berezhny | Nay |
| Megan Murray | Yea | Lilli Walsh | Yea |
| Merryl Gibbs | Yea | Linda Franz | Yea |
| Michael Cahill | Yea | Linda Gould | Nay |
| Michael Edgar | Yea | Linda McGrath | Nay |
| Molly Howard | Yea | Lino Avellani | Nay |
| Muriel Hall | Yea | Lisa Freeman | Nay |
| Myles England | Absent | Lisa Mazur | Nay |
| Nancy Murphy | Yea | Lisa Post | Nay |
| Ned Raynolds | Yea | Liz Barbour | Nay |
| Nicholas Germana | Yea | Lori Korzen | Nay |
| Nicole Leapley | Yea | Lorie Ball | Yea |
| Paige Beauchemin | Yea | Louise Andrus | Nay |
| Patricia Cornell | Yea | Marc Tremblay | Nay |
| Patrick Long | Yea | Margaret Drye | Yea |
| Paul Berch | Yea | Marie Bjelobrk | Nay |
| Paul Dargie | Yea | Mark McLean | Nay |
| Peggy Balboni | Yea | Mark Pearson | Yea |
| Peter Bixby | Yea | Mark Proulx | Yea |
| Peter Leishman | Yea | Mark Warden | Nay |
| Peter Lovett | Yea | Mary Ford | Nay |
| Peter Petrigno | Yea | Mary Murphy | Nay |
| Peter Schmidt | Yea | Matt Drew | Nay |
| Philip Jones | Yea | Matt Sabourin | Nay |
| Ray Newman | Yea | Matthew Coker | Yea |
| Richard Ames | Yea | Matthew Pitaro | Nay |
| Rosemarie Rung | Yea | Maureen Mooney | Nay |
| Russell Muirhead | Yea | Melissa Litchfield | Nay |
| Sallie Fellows | Yea | Michael Aron | Yea |
| Samantha Jacobs | Absent | Michael Granger | Nay |
| Sanjeev Manohar | Yea | Michael Harrington | Absent |
| Santosh Salvi | Yea | Michael Moffett | Nay |
| Seth Miller | Yea | Michael Murphy | Absent |
| Stephanie Grund | Yea | Michael Vose | Yea |
| Stephanie Payeur | Yea | Mike Belcher | Absent |
| Stephen Woodcock | Yea | Mike Bordes | Yea |
| Sue Newman | Yea | Mike Drago | Nay |
| Suraj Budathoki | NV | Mike Ouellet | Nay |
| Susan Almy | Yea | Nicholas Bridle | Yea |
| Susan Elberger | Yea | Pamela Brown | Nay |
| Suzanne Chretien | Yea | Paul Terry | Nay |
| Suzanne Vail | Yea | Paul Tudor | Nay |
| Teresa O'Rorke | Yea | Peter Mehegan | Nay |
| Terry Spahr | Yea | Peter Morency | Nay |
| Thomas Buco | NV | Peter Varney | NV |
| Thomas Cormen | Yea | Phyllis Katsakiores | Yea |
| Thomas Oppel | Yea | Pierre Dupont | Nay |
| Thomas Schamberg | Yea | Ralph Boehm | Nay |
| Thomas Southworth | Yea | Raymond Peeples | Nay |
| Tim Hartnett | Yea | Raymond Plante | Nay |
| Timothy Horrigan | Yea | Richard Brown | Absent |
| Timothy Soucy | Absent | Richard Lascelles | Yea |
| Toni Weinstein | Yea | Richard Nalevanko | Yea |
| Tony Caplan | Yea | Richard Tripp | Nay |
| Tracy Bricchi | Yea | Riche Colcombe | Nay |
| Trinidad Tellez | Yea | Ricky Devoid | Nay |
| Wayne Burton | Yea | Rita Mattson | Nay |
| Wayne Pearson | Absent | Robert Harb | Nay |
| Wendy Thomas | Yea | Robert Wherry | Nay |
| William Darby | Yea | Robley Hall | Nay |
| William Dolan | Yea | Roderick Ladd | Nay |
| William Palmer | Yea | Ron Dunn | Yea |
| Zoe Manos | Yea | Ross Berry | Nay |
| Russell Dumais | NV | ||
| Samuel Farrington | Nay | ||
| Sandra Panek | Yea | ||
| Sayra Devito | Nay | ||
| Scott Bryer | Yea | ||
| Sean Durkin | Nay | ||
| Seth King | Nay | ||
| Shane Sirois | Nay | ||
| Sheri Minor | Yea | ||
| Sherman Packard | NV | ||
| Sherri Reinfurt | Nay | ||
| Skip Rollins | Yea | ||
| Sly Karasinski | Nay | ||
| Stephen Boyd | Nay | ||
| Stephen Pearson | Yea | ||
| Steven Bogert | Nay | ||
| Steven Kesselring | Nay | ||
| Steven Smith | NV | ||
| Susan DeLemus | Nay | ||
| Susan Deroy | Nay | ||
| Susan Porcelli | Yea | ||
| Susan Vandecasteele | Absent | ||
| Tanya Donnelly | Nay | ||
| Ted Gorski | Nay | ||
| Terry Roy | Absent | ||
| Thomas Kaczynski | Nay | ||
| Thomas Walsh | Nay | ||
| Tim Mannion | Absent | ||
| Tom Dolan | Nay | ||
| Tom Mannion | Nay | ||
| Tom Ploszaj | Yea | ||
| Travis Corcoran | Nay | ||
| Travis Toner | Nay | ||
| Valerie McDonnell | Nay | ||
| Vanessa Sheehan | Nay | ||
| Vicki Wilson | Nay | ||
| Walter Spilsbury | Nay | ||
| Wayne Hemingway | Nay | ||
| Wayne MacDonald | Nay | ||
| Yury Polozov | Nay |
Other
- Aidan Ankarberg — NV