HB221: Enabling electric utilities to own, operate, and offer advanced nuclear resources, and relative to purchased power agreements for electric distribution utilities and limitations on community customer generators.
Dead/Failed
House
Summary
Enabling electric utilities to own, operate, and offer advanced nuclear resources, and relative to purchased power agreements for electric distribution utilities and limitations on community customer generators.
Sponsors
Michael Harrington
R - HD-18-STR
Primary
JD Bernardy
R - HD-36-ROC
Co-sponsor
Jeanine Notter
R - HD-12-HIL
Co-sponsor
James Summers
R - HD-20-ROC
Co-sponsor
Douglas Thomas
R - HD-16-ROC
Co-sponsor
Michael Vose
R - HD-05-ROC
Co-sponsor
History
- 2025-01-07 Introduced 01/08/2025 and referred to Science, Technology and Energy House Journal 2 P. 11
- 2025-01-23 Public Hearing: 01/27/2025 09:30 am Legislative Office Building 302-304
- 2025-02-25 Full Committee Work Session: 03/04/2025 10:30 am Legislative Office Building 302-304
- 2025-02-25 Executive Session: 03/04/2025 01:00 pm Legislative Office Building 302-304
- 2025-03-10 Majority Committee Report: Ought to Pass 03/04/2025 (Vote 9-8; Regular Calendar)
- 2025-03-10 Minority Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate
- 2025-03-20 Lay HB221 on Table (Rep. N. Germana): Motion Failed Regular Calendar 151-193 03/20/2025 House Journal 9 P. 82
- 2025-03-20 Ought to Pass: Motion Adopted Regular Calendar 195-151 03/20/2025 House Journal 9 P. 84
- 2025-03-24 Introduced 03/20/2025 and Referred to Energy and Natural Resources; Senate Journal 9
- 2025-03-25 Hearing: 04/01/2025, Room 103, State House, 09:20 am; Senate Calendar 15
- 2025-05-13 Committee Report: Rereferred to Committee, 05/15/2025; Vote 5-0; Consent Calendar; Senate Calendar 21A
- 2025-05-15 Rereferred to Committee, Motion Adopted, Voice Vote; 05/15/2025; Senate Journal 13
- 2025-11-04 Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2025-3044s, 01/07/2026; Vote 4-1; Consent Calendar; Senate Calendar 46
- 2026-01-07 Committee Amendment # 2025-3044s, Amendment Adopted, Voice Vote; 01/07/2026; Senate Journal 1
- 2026-01-07 Ought to Pass with Amendment #2025-3044s, Motion Adopted, Voice Vote; OT3rdg; 01/07/2026; Senate Journal 1
- 2026-04-28 House Non-Concurs with Senate Amendment 2025-3044s and Requests CofC (Rep. Vose): Motion Adopted Voice Vote 04/23/2026 House Journal 11 P. 82
- 2026-04-28 Speaker Appoints: Reps. Vose, D. Thomas, Bernardy, Notter 04/23/2026 House Journal 11 P. 82
- 2026-04-28 Sen. Carson Accedes to House Request for Committee of Conference, Motion Adopted, Voice Vote; (In recess 04/23/2026); Senate Journal 10
- 2026-04-28 President Appoints: Senators Avard, Pearl, Watters; (In Recess 04/23/2026); Senate Journal 10
- 2026-04-30 Conference Committee Meeting: 04/30/2026 10:00 am GP 229
- 2026-05-12 Conference Committee Report Filed, # 2026-1774c; 05/14/2026
- 2026-05-14 Conference Committee Report # 2026-1774c, Adopted, Voice Vote; 05/14/2026; Senate Journal 12
- 2026-05-14 Conference Committee Report 2026-1774c: Adopted, Voice Vote 05/14/2026 House Journal 13 P. 43
- 2026-05-18 Enrolled Adopted, Voice Vote, (In recess 05/14/2026); Senate Journal 13
- 2026-05-18 Enrolled (in recess of) 05/14/2026 House Journal 13 P. 147
- 2026-05-28 Vetoed by Governor Ayotte 05/22/2026
- 2026-08-19 Veto Sustained 08/19/2026: Regular Calendar 152-167 Lacking Necessary Two-Thirds Vote House Journal 16
Committee Referrals
2025-01-07
Science, Technology and Energy
House
2025-03-24
Energy and Natural Resources
Senate
Calendar Events
Past Events (4)
2025-01-27
Hearing - Legislative Office Building 302-304
2025-03-04
Hearing - Legislative Office Building 302-304
2025-03-04
Hearing - Legislative Office Building 302-304
2025-04-01
Hearing - Room 103, State House
Votes
Veto Override
2026-08-19
Failed
Yea: 152
Nay: 167
NV: 39
Absent: 26
Individual Votes (384)
| Democrats | Vote | Republicans | Vote |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alexis Simpson | Nay | Aboul Khan | Yea |
| Alice Wade | Nay | Adam Presa | Yea |
| Alicia Gregg | Absent | Alvin See | Yea |
| Alissandra Murray | Nay | Andrew Prout | Yea |
| Allan Howland | Nay | Arnold Davis | Yea |
| Allison Knab | Nay | Barbara Comtois | Yea |
| Amy Malone | Nay | Bill Boyd | Yea |
| Anita Burroughs | Nay | Bill Ohm | NV |
| Barry Faulkner | Nay | Bob Lynn | Yea |
| Beth Richards | NV | Brian Cole | Yea |
| Bill Bolton | Nay | Brian Labrie | Yea |
| Billie Butler | Nay | Brian Nadeau | Yea |
| Bobbi Boudman | Nay | Brian Seaworth | Yea |
| Brian Sullivan | Nay | Brian Taylor | Yea |
| Buzz Scherr | Nay | Bryan Morse | NV |
| Carrie Sorensen | Nay | Calvin Beaulier | Yea |
| Carry Spier | Nay | Carol McGuire | Yea |
| Cassandra Levesque | Nay | Cathy Kenny | Yea |
| Catherine Rombeau | Nay | Charles Foote | Yea |
| Catherine Sofikitis | NV | Charles McMahon | Yea |
| Cathryn Harvey | Nay | Charles Melvin | Yea |
| Charlie St. Clair | Absent | Cindy Bennett | Absent |
| Chris McAleer | Nay | Claudine Burnham | Yea |
| Chris Muns | Nay | Clayton Wood | Yea |
| Christal Lloyd | Nay | Cyril Aures | Yea |
| Christine Seibert | Nay | Dan McGuire | Nay |
| Christopher Herbert | Nay | Daniel Popovici-Muller | Nay |
| Connie Lane | Nay | Darrell Louis | Absent |
| Dale Girard | Yea | David Love | Yea |
| Dale Swanson | Nay | David Lundgren | Yea |
| Dan Bergeron | NV | David Milz | Yea |
| Daniel LeClerc | NV | David Nagel | Nay |
| Daniel Veilleux | Nay | David Walker | Yea |
| David Fracht | Nay | Deborah Aylward | Yea |
| David Luneau | Nay | Debra DeSimone | Absent |
| David Meuse | Nay | Denis Murphy | Yea |
| David Paige | Nay | Denise DeDe-Poulin | Yea |
| David Preece | Nay | Dennis Mannion | Yea |
| Dennis Malloy | Nay | Diane Kelley | Yea |
| Dru Fox | Nay | Diane Pauer | Yea |
| Efstathia Booras | Nay | Dick Thackston | Yea |
| Eileen Kelly | Nay | Dillon Dumont | Yea |
| Eleana Colby | Nay | Donald McFarlane | NV |
| Ellen Read | Absent | Donald Selby | Yea |
| Ellen Rockmore | Absent | Douglas Thomas | Nay |
| Eric Gallager | Nay | Douglas Trottier | NV |
| Eric Turer | Nay | Erica Layon | Yea |
| Erica deVries | NV | Ernesto Gonzalez | Yea |
| Erik Johnson | Nay | Gary Daniels | Absent |
| Erin Kerwin | Nay | George Grant | Yea |
| Fred Davis | Nay | Gerald Griffin | Yea |
| Gaby Grossman | NV | Glen Aldrich | Yea |
| Gary Gilmore | Nay | Glenn Bailey | Yea |
| Gary Woods | Nay | Gregory Hill | Yea |
| Geoff Smith | Nay | Henry Giasson | Yea |
| George Sykes | Nay | Jack Flanagan | Yea |
| Gerald Ward | Nay | James Guzofski | Yea |
| Gregory Sargent | Nay | James Spillane | Yea |
| Heath Howard | Nay | James Summers | NV |
| Heather Baldwin | Nay | James Thibault | Yea |
| Heather Raymond | Nay | James Tierney | Yea |
| Hope Damon | Nay | Jason Osborne | NV |
| James Gruber | Nay | Jay Markell | Yea |
| James MacKay | NV | JD Bernardy | Nay |
| James Newsom | Nay | Jeanine Notter | Yea |
| James Roesener | Nay | Jeffrey Tenczar | Yea |
| Janet Lucas | Nay | Jennifer Rhodes | Yea |
| Janet Wall | Nay | Jeremy Slottje | Yea |
| Jared Sullivan | NV | Jess Edwards | Nay |
| Jean Jeudy | Nay | Jim Creighton | NV |
| Jennifer Mandelbaum | NV | Jim Fedolfi | NV |
| Jerry Stringham | Nay | Jim Kofalt | Absent |
| Jessica Grill | Nay | Jim Qualey | Yea |
| Jessica LaMontagne | Nay | Jodi Nelson | Yea |
| Jim Maggiore | Nay | Joe Alexander | Yea |
| Jim Snodgrass | Nay | Joe Sweeney | Yea |
| Jodi Newell | Nay | John Hunt | Yea |
| John Cloutier | Nay | John Janigian | Nay |
| John Larochelle | Nay | John Leavitt | NV |
| John Stone | NV | John MacDonald | Yea |
| Jonah Wheeler | Nay | John Potucek | Absent |
| Julie Gilman | Nay | John Schneller | Nay |
| Karen Ebel | Absent | John Sellers | Yea |
| Karen Hegner | Nay | John Suiter | NV |
| Kat McGhee | Nay | John Sytek | Nay |
| Kathy Staub | Nay | Jonathan Smith | Yea |
| Kristina Schultz | Nay | Jordan Ulery | Yea |
| Laura Telerski | Nay | Jose Cambrils | Absent |
| Laurel Stavis | Nay | Joseph Barton | Yea |
| Lee Ann Kluger | Nay | Joseph Guthrie | Yea |
| Lily Foss | Nay | Joseph Hamblen | Yea |
| Linda DiSilvestro | Nay | Judy Aron | Yea |
| Linda Harriott-Gathright | Absent | Julie Miles | Yea |
| Linda Ryan | Nay | Juliet Harvey-Bolia | Yea |
| Loren Foxx | Nay | Julius Soti | Yea |
| Loren Selig | Absent | Karel Crawford | Nay |
| 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 | Nay |
| Marjorie Smith | Absent | Kelley Potenza | Nay |
| Mark MacKenzie | Nay | Kenneth Weyler | Yea |
| Mark Paige | Nay | Kevin Scully | Yea |
| Mark Vallone | NV | Kevin Verville | Absent |
| Martin Jack | Nay | Kimberly Rice | Absent |
| Mary Georges | Nay | Kristin Noble | Absent |
| Mary Hakken-Phillips | Nay | Kristine Perez | Yea |
| Mary Wallner | Nay | Larry Gagne | Yea |
| Matthew Hicks | Nay | Laurence Miner | Yea |
| Matthew Wilhelm | Nay | Leonard Turcotte | Absent |
| Megan Murray | Nay | Lex Berezhny | Yea |
| Merryl Gibbs | Absent | Lilli Walsh | Yea |
| Michael Cahill | Nay | Linda Franz | Yea |
| Michael Edgar | Nay | Linda Gould | Nay |
| Molly Howard | NV | Linda McGrath | Yea |
| Muriel Hall | Nay | Lino Avellani | Yea |
| Myles England | Nay | Lisa Freeman | Nay |
| 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 | Absent | 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 | Yea |
| Peter Schmidt | Nay | Mary Murphy | Yea |
| Philip Jones | Nay | Matt Drew | Nay |
| Ray Newman | Nay | Matt Sabourin | Yea |
| Richard Ames | Nay | Matthew Coker | Yea |
| Rosemarie Rung | Nay | Matthew Pitaro | Yea |
| Russell Muirhead | NV | Maureen Mooney | Nay |
| Sallie Fellows | Nay | Melissa Litchfield | Yea |
| Samantha Jacobs | NV | Michael Aron | Yea |
| Sanjeev Manohar | Nay | Michael Granger | Yea |
| Santosh Salvi | Nay | Michael Harrington | Nay |
| Seth Miller | Nay | Michael Moffett | Yea |
| Stephanie Grund | NV | Michael Vose | NV |
| Stephanie Payeur | Nay | Mike Belcher | Yea |
| Stephen Woodcock | Nay | Mike Bordes | Nay |
| Sue Newman | Nay | Mike Drago | Yea |
| Susan Almy | Nay | Mike Ouellet | Absent |
| Susan Elberger | Nay | Nicholas Bridle | Nay |
| Suzanne Chretien | Nay | Pamela Brown | Nay |
| Teresa O'Rorke | Nay | Paul Terry | Yea |
| Terry Spahr | Nay | Paul Tudor | Yea |
| Thomas Buco | Absent | Peter Mehegan | Yea |
| Thomas Cormen | Nay | Peter Morency | NV |
| Thomas Schamberg | Yea | Peter Varney | NV |
| Thomas Southworth | Nay | Phyllis Katsakiores | Yea |
| Timothy Horrigan | Nay | Pierre Dupont | Yea |
| Timothy Soucy | Nay | Ralph Boehm | Yea |
| Toni Weinstein | Nay | Raymond Peeples | Yea |
| Tony Caplan | Nay | Raymond Plante | Yea |
| Tracy Bricchi | Nay | Richard Brown | Yea |
| Trinidad Tellez | Nay | Richard Lascelles | Yea |
| Wayne Burton | Nay | Richard Nalevanko | Yea |
| Wayne Pearson | Nay | Richard Tripp | Yea |
| Wendy Thomas | Nay | Riche Colcombe | NV |
| William Darby | Nay | Ricky Devoid | Yea |
| William Dolan | NV | Rita Mattson | Yea |
| William Palmer | Nay | Robert Harb | Yea |
| Zoe Manos | Nay | Robert Wherry | Yea |
| Robley Hall | NV | ||
| Roderick Ladd | Yea | ||
| Ron Dunn | Absent | ||
| Ross Berry | Yea | ||
| Russell Dumais | Nay | ||
| Samuel Farrington | Yea | ||
| Sayra Devito | NV | ||
| Scott Bryer | Yea | ||
| Sean Durkin | NV | ||
| Seth King | Yea | ||
| Shane Sirois | Nay | ||
| Sheri Minor | Yea | ||
| Sherman Packard | NV | ||
| Sherri Reinfurt | Yea | ||
| 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 | Nay | ||
| Susan Porcelli | Yea | ||
| Susan Vandecasteele | Yea | ||
| Tanya Donnelly | Nay | ||
| Ted Gorski | Yea | ||
| Terry Roy | Yea | ||
| Thomas Kaczynski | Yea | ||
| Thomas Walsh | Yea | ||
| Tim Mannion | Yea | ||
| Tom Dolan | Yea | ||
| Tom Mannion | Yea | ||
| Tom Ploszaj | Yea | ||
| Travis Corcoran | NV | ||
| Travis Toner | NV | ||
| Valerie McDonnell | NV | ||
| Vanessa Sheehan | Absent | ||
| Vicki Wilson | Yea | ||
| Walter Spilsbury | Absent | ||
| Wayne Hemingway | Nay | ||
| Wayne MacDonald | Yea | ||
| Yury Polozov | Yea |
Other
- Aidan Ankarberg — NV