HB1766: Relative to cruelty to livestock.
Dead/Failed
House
Summary
Relative to cruelty to livestock.
Sponsors
Barbara Comtois
R - HD-07-BEL
Primary
Judy Aron
R - HD-04-SUL
Co-sponsor
Peter Bixby
D - HD-13-STR
Co-sponsor
History
- 2025-12-17 Introduced 01/07/2026 and referred to Environment and Agriculture House Journal 1 P. 35
- 2026-01-28 Public Hearing: 02/03/2026 03:00 pm GP 153
- 2026-02-04 Full Committee Work Session: 02/10/2026 10:00 am GP 153
- 2026-02-11 Subcommittee Work Session: 02/17/2026 09:00 am GP 153
- 2026-02-11 Full Committee Work Session: 02/17/2026 10:00 am GP 153
- 2026-02-12 Subcommittee Work Session: 02/18/2026 09:30 am GP 153
- 2026-02-18 Full Committee Work Session: 02/24/2026 10:00 am GP 153
- 2026-02-18 Subcommittee Work Session: 03/03/2026 09:30 am GP 153
- 2026-02-25 Full Committee Work Session: 03/03/2026 10:15 am GP 153
- 2026-03-04 Executive Session: 03/03/2026 10:15 am GP 153
- 2026-03-04 Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2026-0985h 03/03/2026 (Vote 12-1; Consent Calendar) House Calendar 10 P. 17
- 2026-03-11 Amendment # 2026-0985h: Amendment Adopted Voice Vote 03/11/2026 House Journal 7 P. 36
- 2026-03-11 Ought to Pass with Amendment 2026-0985h: Motion Adopted Voice Vote 03/11/2026 House Journal 7 P. 36
- 2026-03-17 Introduced 03/12/2026 and Referred to Energy and Natural Resources; Senate Journal 7
- 2026-03-26 Hearing: 04/02/2026, Room 103, State House, 09:30 am; Senate Calendar 12
- 2026-04-13 Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2026-1432s, 04/23/2026, Vote 5-0; Senate Calendar 15
- 2026-04-16 HB 1766 was Removed from the Consent Calendar; 04/16/2026; Senate Journal 9
- 2026-04-16 Special Order to the Next Session, Without Objection, Motion Adopted; 04/16/2026; Senate Journal 9
- 2026-04-16 Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2026-1432s, 04/23/2026, Vote 5-0; Senate Calendar 15
- 2026-04-23 Sen. Fenton Moved Laid on Table, Motion Failed, Voice Vote; 04/23/2026; Senate Journal 10
- 2026-04-23 Committee Amendment # 2026-1432s, Amendment Adopted, Voice Vote; 04/23/2026; Senate Journal 10
- 2026-04-23 Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2026-1432s, Motion Adopted, Voice Vote; OT3rdg; 04/23/2026; Senate Journal 10
- 2026-05-07 House Concurs with Senate Amendment 2026-1432s (Rep. J. Aron): Motion Adopted Voice Vote 05/07/2026 House Journal 12 P. 4
- 2026-06-03 Enrolled Bill Amendment # 2026-2129e Adopted, Voice Vote, (In recess of 05/21/2026); Senate Journal 14
- 2026-06-03 Enrolled Bill Amendment # 2026-2129e: Amendment Adopted Voice Vote (in recess of) 05/21/2026 House Journal 14 P. 40
- 2026-06-10 Enrolled Adopted, Voice Vote, (In recess 06/04/2026); Senate Journal 14
- 2026-06-10 Enrolled (in recess of) 06/04/2026 House Journal 15
- 2026-06-24 Vetoed by Governor Ayotte 06/19/2026
- 2026-08-19 Veto Overridden 08/19/2026: Regular Calendar 249-56 by Required Two-Thirds Vote House Journal 16
- 2026-08-19 Notwithstanding the Governor's Veto, Shall HB 1766 Become Law: Regular Calendar 11Y-13N, Veto Sustained, lacking the necessary two-thirds vote; 08/19/2026; Senate Journal 15
Committee Referrals
2025-12-17
Environment and Agriculture
House
2026-03-17
Energy and Natural Resources
Senate
Calendar Events
Past Events (10)
2026-02-03
Hearing - GP 153
2026-02-10
Hearing - GP 153
2026-02-17
Hearing - GP 153
2026-02-17
Hearing - GP 153
2026-02-18
Hearing - GP 153
2026-02-24
Hearing - GP 153
2026-03-03
Hearing - GP 153
2026-03-03
Hearing - GP 153
2026-03-03
Hearing - GP 153
2026-04-02
Hearing - Room 103, State House
Votes
Veto Override
2026-08-19
Passed
Yea: 249
Nay: 56
NV: 47
Absent: 32
Individual Votes (384)
| Democrats | Vote | Republicans | Vote |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alexis Simpson | Yea | Aboul Khan | Yea |
| Alice Wade | Nay | Adam Presa | Yea |
| Alicia Gregg | Absent | Alvin See | Yea |
| Alissandra Murray | Yea | Andrew Prout | Yea |
| Allan Howland | Yea | Arnold Davis | Nay |
| Allison Knab | Yea | Barbara Comtois | Yea |
| Amy Malone | Yea | Bill Boyd | Nay |
| Anita Burroughs | Yea | Bill Ohm | NV |
| Barry Faulkner | Yea | Bob Lynn | Yea |
| Beth Richards | NV | Brian Cole | Yea |
| Bill Bolton | Yea | Brian Labrie | Yea |
| Billie Butler | Yea | Brian Nadeau | Yea |
| Bobbi Boudman | Nay | Brian Seaworth | Yea |
| Brian Sullivan | Yea | Brian Taylor | Nay |
| Buzz Scherr | Yea | Bryan Morse | NV |
| Carrie Sorensen | Yea | Calvin Beaulier | Yea |
| Carry Spier | Yea | Carol McGuire | Yea |
| Cassandra Levesque | Yea | Cathy Kenny | Yea |
| Catherine Rombeau | Nay | Charles Foote | Nay |
| Catherine Sofikitis | NV | Charles McMahon | Yea |
| Cathryn Harvey | Nay | Charles Melvin | Yea |
| Charlie St. Clair | Absent | Cindy Bennett | Absent |
| Chris McAleer | Yea | Claudine Burnham | Yea |
| Chris Muns | Nay | Clayton Wood | Yea |
| Christal Lloyd | Nay | Cyril Aures | Yea |
| Christine Seibert | NV | Dan McGuire | Yea |
| Christopher Herbert | NV | Daniel Popovici-Muller | Yea |
| Connie Lane | Yea | Darrell Louis | Absent |
| Dale Girard | Yea | David Love | Yea |
| Dale Swanson | Nay | David Lundgren | Nay |
| Dan Bergeron | NV | David Milz | Yea |
| Daniel LeClerc | NV | David Nagel | Yea |
| Daniel Veilleux | Yea | David Walker | Yea |
| David Fracht | Yea | Deborah Aylward | Yea |
| David Luneau | Yea | Debra DeSimone | Absent |
| David Meuse | Yea | Denis Murphy | Yea |
| David Paige | Yea | Denise DeDe-Poulin | Yea |
| David Preece | Nay | Dennis Mannion | Yea |
| Dennis Malloy | Yea | Diane Kelley | Nay |
| Dru Fox | Nay | Diane Pauer | Yea |
| Efstathia Booras | Nay | Dick Thackston | Yea |
| Eileen Kelly | Yea | Dillon Dumont | Yea |
| Eleana Colby | Nay | Donald McFarlane | NV |
| Ellen Read | Absent | Donald Selby | Yea |
| Ellen Rockmore | Absent | Douglas Thomas | Yea |
| Eric Gallager | Yea | Douglas Trottier | NV |
| Eric Turer | Nay | Erica Layon | Yea |
| Erica deVries | NV | Ernesto Gonzalez | Yea |
| Erik Johnson | Yea | Gary Daniels | Absent |
| Erin Kerwin | Nay | George Grant | Yea |
| Fred Davis | Yea | Gerald Griffin | Yea |
| Gaby Grossman | NV | Glen Aldrich | Yea |
| Gary Gilmore | Yea | Glenn Bailey | Yea |
| Gary Woods | Yea | Gregory Hill | Yea |
| Geoff Smith | NV | Henry Giasson | Yea |
| George Sykes | Yea | Jack Flanagan | Yea |
| Gerald Ward | Yea | James Guzofski | Yea |
| Gregory Sargent | Yea | James Spillane | Yea |
| Heath Howard | Yea | James Summers | NV |
| Heather Baldwin | Yea | James Thibault | Yea |
| Heather Raymond | Nay | James Tierney | Yea |
| Hope Damon | Yea | Jason Osborne | NV |
| James Gruber | Yea | Jay Markell | Nay |
| James MacKay | NV | JD Bernardy | Yea |
| James Newsom | Yea | Jeanine Notter | Yea |
| James Roesener | Yea | Jeffrey Tenczar | Yea |
| Janet Lucas | Nay | Jennifer Rhodes | Yea |
| Janet Wall | Yea | Jeremy Slottje | Yea |
| Jared Sullivan | NV | Jess Edwards | Yea |
| Jean Jeudy | Yea | Jim Creighton | Yea |
| Jennifer Mandelbaum | NV | Jim Fedolfi | NV |
| Jerry Stringham | Nay | Jim Kofalt | Absent |
| Jessica Grill | Nay | Jim Qualey | Nay |
| Jessica LaMontagne | Yea | Jodi Nelson | Nay |
| Jim Maggiore | Nay | Joe Alexander | Nay |
| Jim Snodgrass | Yea | Joe Sweeney | Nay |
| Jodi Newell | Yea | John Hunt | Yea |
| John Cloutier | Yea | John Janigian | Yea |
| John Larochelle | Yea | John Leavitt | NV |
| John Stone | NV | John MacDonald | Yea |
| Jonah Wheeler | Yea | John Potucek | Absent |
| Julie Gilman | Yea | John Schneller | Yea |
| Karen Ebel | Absent | John Sellers | Nay |
| Karen Hegner | NV | John Suiter | NV |
| Kat McGhee | Nay | John Sytek | Nay |
| Kathy Staub | Yea | Jonathan Smith | Absent |
| Kristina Schultz | Nay | Jordan Ulery | Yea |
| Laura Telerski | Yea | Jose Cambrils | Absent |
| Laurel Stavis | Yea | Joseph Barton | NV |
| Lee Ann Kluger | Yea | Joseph Guthrie | Yea |
| Lily Foss | Yea | Joseph Hamblen | Yea |
| Linda DiSilvestro | NV | Judy Aron | Yea |
| Linda Harriott-Gathright | Absent | Julie Miles | Yea |
| Linda Ryan | Absent | Juliet Harvey-Bolia | Yea |
| Loren Foxx | Absent | Julius Soti | Yea |
| Loren Selig | Absent | Karel Crawford | Nay |
| Louis Juris | Yea | Katelyn Kuttab | Yea |
| Lucius Parshall | Yea | Katherine Prudhomme-O'Brien | Nay |
| Lucy Weber | Yea | Kathleen Paquette | Yea |
| Luz Bay | Yea | Katy Peternel | Yea |
| Manoj Chourasia | Yea | Keith Ammon | NV |
| Marc Plamondon | Yea | Keith Erf | Yea |
| Marjorie Smith | Absent | Kelley Potenza | Yea |
| Mark MacKenzie | Yea | Kenneth Weyler | Yea |
| Mark Paige | Yea | Kevin Scully | Absent |
| Mark Vallone | NV | Kevin Verville | Absent |
| Martin Jack | Nay | Kimberly Rice | Absent |
| Mary Georges | Yea | Kristin Noble | Absent |
| Mary Hakken-Phillips | Yea | Kristine Perez | Yea |
| Mary Wallner | Yea | Larry Gagne | Yea |
| Matthew Hicks | Yea | Laurence Miner | Yea |
| Matthew Wilhelm | Yea | Leonard Turcotte | Absent |
| Megan Murray | Yea | Lex Berezhny | Yea |
| Merryl Gibbs | Absent | Lilli Walsh | Yea |
| Michael Cahill | Yea | Linda Franz | Yea |
| Michael Edgar | Yea | Linda Gould | Yea |
| Molly Howard | Yea | Linda McGrath | Yea |
| Muriel Hall | Yea | Lino Avellani | Yea |
| Myles England | Yea | Lisa Freeman | Yea |
| Nancy Murphy | Yea | Lisa Mazur | Yea |
| Ned Raynolds | Yea | Lisa Post | Yea |
| Nicholas Germana | Yea | Liz Barbour | Yea |
| Nicole Leapley | Yea | Lori Korzen | Yea |
| Paige Beauchemin | Yea | Lorie Ball | Yea |
| Patricia Cornell | Yea | Louise Andrus | Yea |
| Patrick Long | Nay | Marc Tremblay | Nay |
| Paul Berch | Absent | Margaret Drye | Yea |
| Paul Dargie | Yea | Marie Bjelobrk | Yea |
| Peggy Balboni | Nay | 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 | Yea |
| Peter Schmidt | Yea | Mary Murphy | Yea |
| Philip Jones | Nay | Matt Drew | Yea |
| Ray Newman | Yea | Matt Sabourin | Yea |
| Richard Ames | Yea | Matthew Coker | Absent |
| Rosemarie Rung | Yea | Matthew Pitaro | Yea |
| Russell Muirhead | NV | Maureen Mooney | Nay |
| Sallie Fellows | Yea | Melissa Litchfield | Yea |
| Samantha Jacobs | NV | Michael Aron | Yea |
| Sanjeev Manohar | Yea | Michael Granger | Yea |
| Santosh Salvi | Yea | Michael Harrington | Yea |
| Seth Miller | NV | Michael Moffett | Yea |
| Stephanie Grund | NV | Michael Vose | NV |
| Stephanie Payeur | Yea | Mike Belcher | Yea |
| Stephen Woodcock | Yea | Mike Bordes | Nay |
| Sue Newman | Yea | Mike Drago | Yea |
| Susan Almy | Yea | Mike Ouellet | Absent |
| Susan Elberger | Yea | Nicholas Bridle | Nay |
| Suzanne Chretien | Yea | Pamela Brown | Yea |
| Teresa O'Rorke | Yea | Paul Terry | Yea |
| Terry Spahr | Yea | Paul Tudor | Yea |
| Thomas Buco | Absent | Peter Mehegan | Yea |
| Thomas Cormen | Nay | Peter Morency | NV |
| Thomas Schamberg | Yea | Peter Varney | NV |
| Thomas Southworth | Yea | Phyllis Katsakiores | Nay |
| Timothy Horrigan | Nay | Pierre Dupont | Yea |
| Timothy Soucy | Nay | Ralph Boehm | Yea |
| Toni Weinstein | Yea | Raymond Peeples | Yea |
| Tony Caplan | Yea | Raymond Plante | Yea |
| Tracy Bricchi | Yea | Richard Brown | Yea |
| Trinidad Tellez | Nay | Richard Lascelles | Yea |
| Wayne Burton | Yea | Richard Nalevanko | Yea |
| Wayne Pearson | Nay | Richard Tripp | Yea |
| Wendy Thomas | Yea | Riche Colcombe | NV |
| William Darby | Nay | Ricky Devoid | Yea |
| William Dolan | NV | Rita Mattson | Yea |
| William Palmer | Yea | Robert Harb | Nay |
| Zoe Manos | Nay | Robert Wherry | Yea |
| Robley Hall | NV | ||
| Roderick Ladd | Yea | ||
| Ron Dunn | Absent | ||
| Ross Berry | Nay | ||
| Russell Dumais | NV | ||
| Samuel Farrington | Yea | ||
| Sayra Devito | NV | ||
| Scott Bryer | Yea | ||
| Sean Durkin | NV | ||
| Seth King | Yea | ||
| Shane Sirois | Yea | ||
| Sheri Minor | NV | ||
| Sherman Packard | NV | ||
| Sherri Reinfurt | Nay | ||
| Skip Rollins | Yea | ||
| Sly Karasinski | Yea | ||
| Stephen Boyd | Yea | ||
| Stephen Pearson | Yea | ||
| Steven Bogert | NV | ||
| Steven Kesselring | Yea | ||
| Steven Smith | Yea | ||
| Susan DeLemus | Yea | ||
| Susan Deroy | Yea | ||
| Susan Porcelli | Yea | ||
| Susan Vandecasteele | Yea | ||
| Tanya Donnelly | Yea | ||
| Ted Gorski | Yea | ||
| Terry Roy | Absent | ||
| Thomas Kaczynski | Yea | ||
| Thomas Walsh | Yea | ||
| Tim Mannion | Yea | ||
| Tom Dolan | Yea | ||
| Tom Mannion | Yea | ||
| Tom Ploszaj | Nay | ||
| Travis Corcoran | NV | ||
| Travis Toner | NV | ||
| Valerie McDonnell | NV | ||
| Vanessa Sheehan | Absent | ||
| Vicki Wilson | Yea | ||
| Walter Spilsbury | Absent | ||
| Wayne Hemingway | Yea | ||
| Wayne MacDonald | Yea | ||
| Yury Polozov | Yea |
Other
- Aidan Ankarberg — NV
VETO MESSAGE - Roll Call Required
2026-08-19
Failed
Yea: 11
Nay: 13
NV: 0
Absent: 0
Individual Votes (24)
| Democrats | Vote | Republicans | Vote |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cindy Rosenwald | Nay | Daniel Innis | Yea |
| David Watters | Nay | Daryl Abbas | Nay |
| Debra Altschiller | Nay | David Rochefort | Yea |
| Donovan Fenton | Nay | Denise Ricciardi | Nay |
| Patrick Long | Nay | Howard Pearl | Yea |
| Rebecca Perkins Kwoka | Nay | James Gray | Yea |
| Suzanne Prentiss | Nay | Keith Murphy | Yea |
| Tara Reardon | Nay | Kevin Avard | Yea |
| Mark McConkey | Yea | ||
| Regina Birdsell | Nay | ||
| Ruth Ward | Yea | ||
| Sharon Carson | Nay | ||
| Tim McGough | Yea | ||
| Timothy Lang | Yea | ||
| Victoria Sullivan | Yea | ||
| William Gannon | Nay |