SB501: Relative to authorization of seclusion or restraint during a personal safety emergency by a physician, physician associate, or advanced practice registered nurse.
Engrossed
Senate
Summary
Relative to authorization of seclusion or restraint during a personal safety emergency by a physician, physician associate, or advanced practice registered nurse.
Sponsors
Suzanne Prentiss
D - SD-005
Primary
Timothy Lang
R - SD-002
Co-sponsor
David Watters
D - SD-004
Co-sponsor
Howard Pearl
R - SD-017
Co-sponsor
Donovan Fenton
D - SD-010
Co-sponsor
Rebecca Perkins Kwoka
D - SD-021
Co-sponsor
Tim McGough
R - SD-011
Co-sponsor
Keith Murphy
R - SD-016
Co-sponsor
Kevin Avard
R - SD-012
Co-sponsor
Ruth Ward
R - SD-008
Co-sponsor
Regina Birdsell
R - SD-019
Co-sponsor
History
- 2025-11-21 Introduced 01/07/2026 and Referred to Health and Human Services; Senate Journal 1
- 2026-02-05 Hearing: 02/11/2026, Room 100, State House, 01:15 pm; Senate Calendar 5
- 2026-02-12 Ought to Pass: Motion Adopted, Voice Vote; OT3rdg; 02/19/2026; Senate Journal 4
- 2026-02-12 Committee Report: Ought to Pass, 02/19/2026; Vote 5-0; Consent Calendar; Senate Calendar 6
- 2026-02-26 Introduced (in recess of) 02/19/2026 and referred to Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs House Journal 5
- 2026-04-01 Public Hearing: 04/08/2026 11:00 am GP 158
- 2026-04-07 Executive Session: 04/15/2026 10:00 am GP 158
- 2026-04-22 Majority Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate 04/15/2026 (Vote 10-8; Regular Calendar) House Calendar 18 P. 14
- 2026-04-22 Minority Committee Report: Ought to Pass
- 2026-05-07 Lay SB501 on Table (Rep. W. MacDonald): Motion Adopted Regular Calendar 188-154 05/07/2026 House Journal 12
Committee Referrals
2025-11-21
Health and Human Services
Senate
2026-02-26
Health, Human Services & Elderly Affairs
House
Calendar Events
Past Events (3)
2026-02-11
Hearing - Room 100, State House
2026-04-08
Hearing - GP 158
2026-04-15
Hearing - GP 158
Votes
Table
2026-05-07
Passed
Yea: 188
Nay: 154
NV: 22
Absent: 29
Individual Votes (393)
| 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 | Absent |
| Allison Knab | Nay | Barbara Comtois | Yea |
| Amy Malone | Absent | Bill Boyd | Yea |
| Anita Burroughs | Yea | Bill Ohm | Yea |
| Barry Faulkner | Nay | Bob Lynn | Yea |
| Beth Richards | Nay | Brian Cole | Yea |
| Bill Bolton | Nay | Brian Labrie | Yea |
| Billie Butler | NV | Brian Nadeau | Yea |
| Bobbi Boudman | Nay | Brian Seaworth | Yea |
| Brian Sullivan | Nay | Brian Taylor | Yea |
| Buzz Scherr | Absent | Bryan Morse | NV |
| Carrie Sorensen | Nay | Calvin Beaulier | Yea |
| Carry Spier | Yea | Carol McGuire | Yea |
| Cassandra Levesque | Nay | Cathy Kenny | Yea |
| Catherine Rombeau | Nay | Charles Foote | Yea |
| Catherine Sofikitis | Absent | Charles McMahon | Yea |
| Cathryn Harvey | Yea | Charles Melvin | Yea |
| Charlie St. Clair | Nay | Cindy Bennett | Absent |
| Chris McAleer | Nay | Claudine Burnham | Yea |
| Chris Muns | Nay | Clayton Wood | Yea |
| Christal Lloyd | Absent | Cyril Aures | Yea |
| Christine Seibert | Nay | Dan McGuire | Yea |
| Christopher Herbert | Nay | Daniel Popovici-Muller | Yea |
| Connie Lane | Nay | Darrell Louis | Yea |
| Dale Girard | Yea | David Love | Yea |
| Dale Swanson | Nay | David Lundgren | Yea |
| Dan Bergeron | NV | David Milz | Yea |
| Daniel LeClerc | Nay | David Nagel | NV |
| Daniel Veilleux | Nay | David Walker | Yea |
| David Fracht | Nay | Deborah Aylward | Yea |
| David Luneau | Nay | Debra DeSimone | Yea |
| 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 | Absent |
| Ellen Read | Absent | Donald Selby | Yea |
| Ellen Rockmore | Nay | Douglas Thomas | Yea |
| Eric Gallager | Nay | Douglas Trottier | NV |
| Eric Turer | NV | Erica Layon | Yea |
| Erica deVries | Nay | Ernesto Gonzalez | NV |
| Erik Johnson | Nay | Gary Daniels | Yea |
| Erin Kerwin | Nay | George Grant | Yea |
| Fred Davis | Nay | Gerald Griffin | Yea |
| Gaby Grossman | Absent | Glen Aldrich | Yea |
| Gary Gilmore | Nay | Glenn Bailey | Yea |
| Gary Woods | Nay | Gregory Hill | Absent |
| 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 | Yea |
| Jaci Grote | NV | Jay Markell | Yea |
| James Gruber | Nay | JD Bernardy | Yea |
| James MacKay | NV | Jeanine Notter | Yea |
| James Newsom | Nay | Jeffrey Tenczar | Yea |
| James Roesener | Nay | Jennifer Rhodes | Yea |
| Janet Lucas | Nay | Jeremy Slottje | Yea |
| Janet Wall | Nay | Jess Edwards | Yea |
| Jared Sullivan | Nay | Jim Creighton | Yea |
| Jean Jeudy | Nay | Jim Fedolfi | Absent |
| Jennifer Mandelbaum | Nay | Jim Kofalt | Yea |
| Jerry Stringham | Nay | Jim Qualey | Yea |
| Jessica Grill | Nay | Jodi Nelson | Nay |
| Jessica LaMontagne | Nay | Joe Alexander | Yea |
| Jim Maggiore | Nay | Joe Sweeney | Yea |
| Jim Snodgrass | Nay | John Hunt | Yea |
| Jodi Newell | Nay | John Janigian | Absent |
| John Cloutier | Nay | John Leavitt | Absent |
| John Larochelle | Nay | John MacDonald | Absent |
| John Stone | NV | John Potucek | Yea |
| Jonah Wheeler | Nay | John Schneller | Yea |
| Julie Gilman | Nay | John Sellers | Absent |
| Karen Ebel | Nay | John Suiter | Yea |
| Karen Hegner | Nay | John Sytek | Yea |
| Kat McGhee | Nay | Jonathan Morton | Yea |
| Kate Murray | Nay | Jonathan Smith | Yea |
| Kathy Staub | Nay | Jordan Ulery | Yea |
| Kristina Schultz | Nay | Jose Cambrils | Yea |
| Laura Telerski | Nay | Joseph Barton | Yea |
| Laurel Stavis | Nay | Joseph Guthrie | Yea |
| Lee Ann Kluger | Nay | Joseph Hamblen | Yea |
| Lily Foss | Nay | Judy Aron | Yea |
| Linda DiSilvestro | Nay | Julie Miles | Yea |
| Linda Harriott-Gathright | NV | Juliet Harvey-Bolia | Absent |
| Linda Haskins | Nay | Julius Soti | Yea |
| Linda Ryan | Nay | Karel Crawford | NV |
| Loren Foxx | Nay | Katelyn Kuttab | Yea |
| Loren Selig | Nay | Katherine Prudhomme-O'Brien | Yea |
| Louis Juris | Nay | Kathleen Paquette | Yea |
| Lucius Parshall | Nay | Katy Peternel | Yea |
| Lucy Weber | Nay | Keith Ammon | Yea |
| Luz Bay | Nay | Keith Erf | Yea |
| Manoj Chourasia | Nay | Kelley Potenza | Yea |
| Marc Plamondon | Nay | Kenneth Weyler | Yea |
| Marjorie Smith | Nay | Kevin Scully | Absent |
| Mark MacKenzie | Absent | Kevin Verville | Yea |
| Mark Paige | Nay | Kimberly Rice | Absent |
| Mark Vallone | Absent | Kristin Noble | Yea |
| Martin Jack | Nay | Kristine Perez | Yea |
| Mary Georges | Nay | Larry Gagne | Yea |
| Mary Hakken-Phillips | Nay | Laurence Miner | Yea |
| Mary Wallner | Nay | Leonard Turcotte | Yea |
| Matthew Hicks | Nay | Lex Berezhny | Yea |
| Matthew Wilhelm | Absent | Lilli Walsh | Yea |
| Megan Murray | Nay | Linda Franz | Yea |
| Merryl Gibbs | Absent | Linda Gould | Yea |
| Michael Cahill | Nay | Linda McGrath | Yea |
| Michael Edgar | Nay | Lino Avellani | Yea |
| Molly Howard | Nay | Lisa Freeman | Yea |
| Muriel Hall | Nay | Lisa Mazur | Yea |
| Myles England | Nay | Lisa Post | Yea |
| Nancy Murphy | Nay | Liz Barbour | Yea |
| Ned Raynolds | Absent | Lori Korzen | Yea |
| Nicholas Germana | Nay | Lorie Ball | Yea |
| Nicole Leapley | NV | Louise Andrus | Yea |
| Paige Beauchemin | Nay | Marc Tremblay | Yea |
| Patricia Cornell | Nay | Margaret Drye | Yea |
| Patrick Long | Nay | Marie Bjelobrk | Yea |
| Paul Berch | Absent | Mark McLean | Yea |
| Paul Dargie | Nay | Mark Pearson | Nay |
| Peggy Balboni | Nay | Mark Proulx | Nay |
| Peter Bixby | Nay | Mark Warden | Yea |
| Peter Leishman | Nay | Mary Ford | Yea |
| Peter Lovett | NV | Mary Murphy | Yea |
| Peter Petrigno | Nay | Matt Drew | Yea |
| Peter Schmidt | Nay | Matt Sabourin | Yea |
| Philip Jones | Nay | Matthew Coker | Nay |
| Ray Newman | Nay | Matthew Pitaro | Yea |
| Richard Ames | Nay | Maureen Mooney | Yea |
| Rosemarie Rung | Nay | Melissa Litchfield | Yea |
| Russell Muirhead | Nay | Michael Aron | Yea |
| Sallie Fellows | Nay | Michael Granger | Yea |
| Samantha Jacobs | Nay | Michael Harrington | Yea |
| Sanjeev Manohar | Nay | Michael Moffett | Yea |
| Santosh Salvi | Nay | Michael Murphy | Yea |
| Seth Miller | NV | Michael Vose | Yea |
| Stephanie Grund | Nay | Mike Belcher | Yea |
| Stephanie Payeur | Nay | Mike Bordes | Yea |
| Stephen Woodcock | Nay | Mike Drago | Yea |
| Sue Newman | Nay | Mike Ouellet | Yea |
| Suraj Budathoki | Nay | Nicholas Bridle | Yea |
| Susan Almy | Nay | Pamela Brown | Yea |
| Susan Elberger | Nay | Paul Terry | Yea |
| Suzanne Chretien | Nay | Paul Tudor | Yea |
| Suzanne Vail | Nay | Peter Mehegan | Yea |
| Teresa O'Rorke | Nay | Peter Morency | Yea |
| Terry Spahr | Nay | Peter Varney | Absent |
| Thomas Buco | Absent | Phyllis Katsakiores | Yea |
| Thomas Cormen | Nay | Pierre Dupont | Yea |
| Thomas Oppel | Nay | Ralph Boehm | Yea |
| Thomas Schamberg | Nay | Raymond Peeples | NV |
| Thomas Southworth | Nay | Raymond Plante | Yea |
| Tim Hartnett | Nay | Richard Brown | Yea |
| Timothy Horrigan | Nay | Richard Lascelles | Yea |
| Timothy Soucy | Nay | Richard Nalevanko | Yea |
| Toni Weinstein | Nay | Richard Tripp | Yea |
| Tony Caplan | Nay | Riche Colcombe | Yea |
| Tracy Bricchi | Nay | Ricky Devoid | Yea |
| Trinidad Tellez | Nay | Rita Mattson | Yea |
| Wayne Burton | Nay | Robert Harb | Yea |
| Wayne Pearson | Nay | Robert Wherry | Yea |
| Wendy Thomas | Nay | Robley Hall | NV |
| William Darby | Nay | Roderick Ladd | Yea |
| William Dolan | Nay | Ron Dunn | Yea |
| William Palmer | Nay | Ross Berry | Yea |
| Zoe Manos | Nay | Russell Dumais | NV |
| Samuel Farrington | Yea | ||
| Sayra Devito | Yea | ||
| Scott Bryer | Yea | ||
| Sean Durkin | Absent | ||
| Seth King | Yea | ||
| Shane Sirois | Yea | ||
| Sheri Minor | Nay | ||
| Sherman Packard | Yea | ||
| Sherri Reinfurt | Yea | ||
| Skip Rollins | Yea | ||
| Sly Karasinski | Yea | ||
| Stephen Boyd | Yea | ||
| Stephen Pearson | Yea | ||
| Steven Bogert | Yea | ||
| Steven Kesselring | Yea | ||
| Steven Smith | NV | ||
| Susan DeLemus | Yea | ||
| Susan Deroy | Yea | ||
| Susan Porcelli | Yea | ||
| Susan Vandecasteele | Yea | ||
| Tanya Donnelly | Yea | ||
| Ted Gorski | Yea | ||
| Terry Roy | Yea | ||
| Thomas Kaczynski | Yea | ||
| Thomas Walsh | Yea | ||
| Tim Mannion | NV | ||
| Tom Dolan | Yea | ||
| Tom Mannion | Yea | ||
| Tom Ploszaj | Yea | ||
| Travis Corcoran | Yea | ||
| Travis Toner | Yea | ||
| Valerie McDonnell | Yea | ||
| Vanessa Sheehan | Absent | ||
| Vicki Wilson | Yea | ||
| Walter Spilsbury | Yea | ||
| Wayne Hemingway | Yea | ||
| Wayne MacDonald | Yea | ||
| Yury Polozov | Yea |
Other
- Aidan Ankarberg — NV