HB314: Prohibiting the use of federal, state, or local funds for lobbying activities.
Introduced
House
Summary
Prohibiting the use of federal, state, or local funds for lobbying activities.
Sponsors
Kelley Potenza
R - HD-19-STR
Primary
Glenn Bailey
R - HD-02-STR
Co-sponsor
JD Bernardy
R - HD-36-ROC
Co-sponsor
Claudine Burnham
R - HD-02-STR
Co-sponsor
Jose Cambrils
R - HD-04-MER
Co-sponsor
Susan Deroy
R - HD-03-STR
Co-sponsor
Tom Mannion
R - HD-01-HIL
Co-sponsor
Matt Sabourin
R - HD-30-ROC
Co-sponsor
Julius Soti
R - HD-35-ROC
Co-sponsor
Marie Bjelobrk
R - HD-05-GRA
Co-sponsor
History
- 2025-01-08 Introduced 01/08/2025 and referred to Legislative Administration House Journal 2 P. 14
- 2025-01-22 ==RESCHEDULED== Public Hearing: 02/19/2025 01:00 pm Legislative Office Building 203
- 2025-02-25 Retained in Committee
- 2025-09-10 Full Committee Work Session: 10/08/2025 01:20 pm GP 234
- 2025-10-08 ==RECESSED== Executive Session: 10/08/2025 01:20 pm GP 234
- 2025-10-20 ==CONTINUED== Executive Session: 10/29/2025 01:00 pm GP 234
- 2025-11-20 Majority Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2025-3026h 10/29/2025 (Vote 7-4; Regular Calendar) House Calendar 51 P. 41
- 2025-11-20 Minority Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate
- 2026-01-08 Amendment # 2025-3026h: Amendment Adopted DV 176-160 01/08/2026 House Journal 2 P. 53
- 2026-01-08 Ought to Pass with Amendment 2025-3026h: Motion Failed Regular Calendar 152-198 01/08/2026 House Journal 2 P. 54
- 2026-01-08 Inexpedient to Legislate: Motion Adopted DV 203-147 01/08/2026 House Journal 2 P. 56
Committee Referrals
2025-01-08
Legislative Administration
House
Calendar Events
Past Events (4)
2025-02-19
Hearing - Legislative Office Building 203
2025-10-08
Hearing - GP 234
2025-10-08
Hearing - GP 234
2025-10-29
Hearing - GP 234
Votes
OTPA
2026-01-08
Failed
Yea: 152
Nay: 198
NV: 16
Absent: 29
Individual Votes (395)
| Democrats | Vote | Republicans | Vote |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alexis Simpson | Nay | Aboul Khan | Nay |
| Alice Wade | Nay | Adam Presa | Yea |
| Alicia Gregg | Nay | Alvin See | Yea |
| Alissandra Murray | Nay | Andrew Prout | Yea |
| Allan Howland | Nay | Arnold Davis | Nay |
| Allison Knab | Absent | Barbara Comtois | Absent |
| Amy Malone | Absent | Bill Boyd | Nay |
| Anita Burroughs | Nay | Bill Ohm | Yea |
| Barry Faulkner | Nay | Bob Lynn | Yea |
| Beth Richards | NV | 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 | Nay |
| Carrie Sorensen | Absent | Bryan Morse | NV |
| Carry Spier | Nay | Calvin Beaulier | Yea |
| Cassandra Levesque | Nay | Carol McGuire | Yea |
| Catherine Rombeau | Nay | Cathy Kenny | Yea |
| Catherine Sofikitis | Nay | Charles Foote | Absent |
| Cathryn Harvey | Nay | Charles McMahon | Yea |
| Charlie St. Clair | Nay | Charles Melvin | Nay |
| 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 | NV | Dan McGuire | Yea |
| Connie Lane | Nay | Daniel Popovici-Muller | Yea |
| Dale Girard | Nay | Darrell Louis | Yea |
| Dale Swanson | Nay | David Love | Yea |
| Dan Bergeron | NV | David Lundgren | Nay |
| Daniel LeClerc | Nay | David Milz | Nay |
| Daniel Veilleux | Nay | David Nagel | Nay |
| David Fracht | Nay | David Walker | Nay |
| David Luneau | Absent | Deborah Aylward | Absent |
| David Meuse | Nay | Debra DeSimone | Yea |
| David Paige | Nay | Denis Murphy | Nay |
| David Preece | Nay | Denise DeDe-Poulin | Absent |
| Dennis Malloy | Nay | Dennis Mannion | Yea |
| Dru Fox | Nay | Diane Kelley | Yea |
| Dylan Germana | Nay | Diane Pauer | Yea |
| Efstathia Booras | Nay | Dick Thackston | Nay |
| Eileen Kelly | Nay | Dillon Dumont | Yea |
| Eleana Colby | Nay | Donald McFarlane | Yea |
| Ellen Read | Yea | Donald Selby | Yea |
| Ellen Rockmore | Nay | Douglas Thomas | Yea |
| Eric Gallager | Nay | Douglas Trottier | Absent |
| Eric Turer | Nay | Erica Layon | Yea |
| Erica deVries | Nay | Ernesto Gonzalez | Yea |
| Erik Johnson | Nay | Gary Daniels | Yea |
| Erin Kerwin | Nay | George Grant | Yea |
| Fred Davis | Nay | Gerald Griffin | Yea |
| Gaby Grossman | Absent | Glen Aldrich | Absent |
| Gary Gilmore | Yea | Glenn Bailey | Yea |
| Gary Woods | Nay | Gregory Hill | Yea |
| Geoff Smith | NV | Harry Bean | Yea |
| George Sykes | Nay | Henry Giasson | Yea |
| Gerald Ward | Nay | Jack Flanagan | Nay |
| Gregory Sargent | Nay | James Guzofski | Yea |
| Heath Howard | Nay | James Spillane | Yea |
| Heather Baldwin | Nay | James Summers | NV |
| Heather Raymond | Nay | James Thibault | Yea |
| Hope Damon | Nay | James Tierney | Nay |
| Jaci Grote | Nay | Jason Osborne | Yea |
| James Gruber | Nay | Jay Markell | Yea |
| James MacKay | NV | JD Bernardy | Yea |
| James Newsom | Nay | Jeanine Notter | Yea |
| James Roesener | Nay | Jeffrey Tenczar | Absent |
| Janet Lucas | Nay | Jennifer Rhodes | Nay |
| Janet Wall | Nay | Jeremy Slottje | Absent |
| Jared Sullivan | Nay | Jess Edwards | Yea |
| Jean Jeudy | Nay | Jim Creighton | Absent |
| Jennifer Mandelbaum | Nay | Jim Fedolfi | Absent |
| Jerry Stringham | Nay | Jim Kofalt | Yea |
| Jessica Grill | Nay | Jim Qualey | Yea |
| Jessica LaMontagne | Nay | Jodi Nelson | Nay |
| Jim Maggiore | Nay | Joe Alexander | Yea |
| Jim Snodgrass | Nay | Joe Sweeney | Yea |
| Jodi Newell | Nay | John Hunt | NV |
| John Cloutier | Nay | John Janigian | Yea |
| John Larochelle | Nay | John Leavitt | NV |
| John Stone | Nay | John MacDonald | Absent |
| Jonah Wheeler | Nay | John Potucek | Yea |
| Julie Gilman | Nay | John Schneller | Yea |
| Karen Ebel | Nay | John Sellers | Yea |
| Karen Hegner | Nay | John Suiter | Yea |
| Kat McGhee | Nay | John Sytek | Nay |
| Kate Murray | Nay | Jonathan Morton | Yea |
| Kathy Staub | Nay | Jonathan Smith | Yea |
| Kristina Schultz | Nay | Jordan Ulery | Yea |
| Laura Telerski | Nay | Jose Cambrils | Yea |
| Laurel Stavis | Nay | Joseph Barton | Yea |
| Lee Ann Kluger | Nay | Joseph Guthrie | Nay |
| Lily Foss | Nay | Joseph Hamblen | Yea |
| Linda DiSilvestro | Nay | Judy Aron | Yea |
| Linda Harriott-Gathright | Nay | Julie Miles | Yea |
| Linda Haskins | Nay | Juliet Harvey-Bolia | Yea |
| Linda Ryan | Nay | Julius Soti | Yea |
| Loren Foxx | Nay | Karel Crawford | Nay |
| Loren Selig | Nay | Katelyn Kuttab | Yea |
| Louis Juris | Nay | Katherine Prudhomme-O'Brien | Yea |
| Lucius Parshall | Nay | Kathleen Paquette | Yea |
| Lucy Weber | Nay | Katy Peternel | Yea |
| Luz Bay | Nay | Keith Ammon | Yea |
| Manoj Chourasia | Nay | Keith Erf | Yea |
| Marc Plamondon | Nay | Kelley Potenza | Yea |
| Marjorie Smith | Nay | Kenneth Weyler | Nay |
| Mark MacKenzie | Nay | Kevin Scully | Yea |
| Mark Paige | Nay | Kevin Verville | Yea |
| Mark Vallone | Nay | Kimberly Rice | Yea |
| Martin Jack | Nay | Kristin Noble | Yea |
| Mary Georges | Nay | Kristine Perez | Nay |
| Mary Hakken-Phillips | Nay | Larry Gagne | Yea |
| Mary Wallner | Nay | Laurence Miner | Absent |
| Matthew Hicks | Nay | Leonard Turcotte | Yea |
| Matthew Wilhelm | Nay | Lex Berezhny | Absent |
| Megan Murray | Nay | Lilli Walsh | Nay |
| Merryl Gibbs | Absent | Linda Franz | Nay |
| Michael Cahill | Nay | Linda Gould | Yea |
| Michael Edgar | Nay | Linda McGrath | Yea |
| Molly Howard | Nay | Lino Avellani | Yea |
| Muriel Hall | Nay | Lisa Freeman | Yea |
| Myles England | Absent | Lisa Mazur | Yea |
| Nancy Murphy | Nay | Lisa Post | Yea |
| Ned Raynolds | NV | Liz Barbour | Yea |
| Nicholas Germana | Nay | Lori Korzen | Nay |
| Nicole Leapley | Nay | Lorie Ball | Yea |
| Paige Beauchemin | Nay | Louise Andrus | Yea |
| Patricia Cornell | Nay | Marc Tremblay | Nay |
| Patrick Long | Yea | Margaret Drye | Yea |
| Paul Berch | Nay | Marie Bjelobrk | Yea |
| Paul Dargie | Nay | Mark McLean | Yea |
| Peggy Balboni | Nay | Mark Pearson | Nay |
| Peter Bixby | Nay | Mark Proulx | Nay |
| Peter Leishman | Nay | Mark Warden | Yea |
| Peter Lovett | Nay | Mary Ford | Yea |
| Peter Petrigno | Nay | Mary Murphy | Absent |
| Peter Schmidt | Absent | Matt Drew | Yea |
| Philip Jones | Nay | Matt Sabourin | Yea |
| Ray Newman | Nay | Matthew Coker | Nay |
| Richard Ames | Nay | Matthew Pitaro | Yea |
| Rosemarie Rung | Nay | Maureen Mooney | Yea |
| Russell Muirhead | Nay | Melissa Litchfield | Yea |
| Sallie Fellows | Nay | Michael Aron | Yea |
| Samantha Jacobs | Nay | Michael Granger | Yea |
| Sanjeev Manohar | Absent | Michael Harrington | Absent |
| Santosh Salvi | Nay | Michael Moffett | Yea |
| Seth Miller | Nay | Michael Murphy | Absent |
| Stephanie Grund | Nay | Michael Vose | Yea |
| Stephanie Payeur | Nay | Mike Belcher | Yea |
| Stephen Woodcock | Nay | Mike Bordes | Nay |
| Sue Newman | Nay | Mike Drago | Yea |
| Suraj Budathoki | Nay | Mike Ouellet | Nay |
| Susan Almy | Nay | Nicholas Bridle | Nay |
| Susan Elberger | Nay | Pamela Brown | Yea |
| Suzanne Chretien | Nay | Paul Terry | Yea |
| Suzanne Vail | Nay | Paul Tudor | Yea |
| Teresa O'Rorke | Nay | Peter Mehegan | Yea |
| Terry Spahr | Nay | Peter Morency | Absent |
| Thomas Buco | NV | Peter Varney | NV |
| Thomas Cormen | Nay | Phyllis Katsakiores | NV |
| Thomas Oppel | Nay | Pierre Dupont | Yea |
| Thomas Schamberg | Nay | Ralph Boehm | Yea |
| Thomas Southworth | Nay | Raymond Peeples | Yea |
| Tim Hartnett | Nay | Raymond Plante | Yea |
| Timothy Horrigan | Nay | Richard Brown | Yea |
| Timothy Soucy | Nay | Richard Lascelles | Yea |
| Toni Weinstein | Absent | Richard Nalevanko | Nay |
| Tony Caplan | Nay | Richard Tripp | Nay |
| Tracy Bricchi | Nay | Riche Colcombe | Yea |
| Trinidad Tellez | Nay | Ricky Devoid | Yea |
| Wayne Burton | Nay | Rita Mattson | Yea |
| Wayne Pearson | Nay | Robert Harb | Yea |
| Wendy Thomas | Nay | Robert Wherry | Yea |
| William Darby | Nay | Robley Hall | Yea |
| William Dolan | Nay | Roderick Ladd | Yea |
| William Palmer | Nay | Ron Dunn | Yea |
| Zoe Manos | Nay | Ross Berry | Yea |
| Russell Dumais | NV | ||
| Samuel Farrington | Yea | ||
| Sandra Panek | Absent | ||
| Sayra Devito | Yea | ||
| Scott Bryer | Nay | ||
| Sean Durkin | Yea | ||
| Seth King | Nay | ||
| Shane Sirois | Yea | ||
| Sheri Minor | Yea | ||
| Sherman Packard | NV | ||
| Sherri Reinfurt | Yea | ||
| Skip Rollins | Nay | ||
| Sly Karasinski | Yea | ||
| Stephen Boyd | Yea | ||
| Stephen Pearson | Nay | ||
| 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 | Absent | ||
| Thomas Kaczynski | Yea | ||
| Thomas Walsh | Yea | ||
| Tim Mannion | Yea | ||
| Tom Dolan | Nay | ||
| Tom Mannion | Yea | ||
| Tom Ploszaj | Nay | ||
| Travis Corcoran | Yea | ||
| Travis Toner | Yea | ||
| Valerie McDonnell | Nay | ||
| Vanessa Sheehan | Yea | ||
| Vicki Wilson | Yea | ||
| Walter Spilsbury | Yea | ||
| Wayne Hemingway | Yea | ||
| Wayne MacDonald | Nay | ||
| Yury Polozov | Yea |
Other
- Aidan Ankarberg — NV