SB661: Relative to pooled risk management programs.
Dead/Failed
Senate
Summary
Relative to pooled risk management programs.
Sponsors
Sharon Carson
R - SD-014
Primary
James Gray
R - SD-006
Co-sponsor
History
- 2026-02-04 Introduced 01/29/2026 and Referred to Finance; Senate Journal 3
- 2026-02-05 Hearing: 02/10/2026, Room 103, State House, 02:30 pm; Senate Calendar 5
- 2026-03-19 Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2026-1208s, 03/26/2026; Vote 5-0; Consent Calendar; Senate Calendar 11
- 2026-03-26 SB 661 was Removed from the Consent Calendar; 03/26/2026; Senate Journal 7
- 2026-03-26 Committee Amendment # 2026-1208s, Amendment Adopted, Voice Vote; 03/26/2026; Senate Journal 7
- 2026-03-26 Ought to Pass with Amendment #2026-1208s, Motion Adopted, Voice Vote; OT3rdg; 03/26/2026; Senate Journal 7
- 2026-03-27 Introduced (in recess of) 03/26/2026 and referred to Commerce and Consumer Affairs House Journal 9 P. 55
- 2026-04-08 Public Hearing: 04/14/2026 01:15 pm GP 229
- 2026-04-16 Subcommittee Work Session: 04/22/2026 10:00 am GP 229
- 2026-04-29 Executive Session: 05/06/2026 10:30 am GP 229
- 2026-04-29 Subcommittee Work Session: 05/06/2026 10:00 am GP 229
- 2026-05-07 Committee Report: Ought to Pass 05/06/2026 (Vote 18-0; Consent Calendar) House Calendar 19 P. 11
- 2026-05-14 Ought to Pass: Motion Adopted Voice Vote 05/14/2026 House Journal 13 P. 11
- 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 06/19/2026
- 2026-08-19 Notwithstanding the Governor's Veto, Shall SB 661 Become Law: Regular Calendar 23Y-1N, Veto Overridden by necessary two-thirds vote; 08/19/2026; Senate Journal 15
- 2026-08-19 Veto Sustained 08/19/2026: Regular Calendar 84-216 Lacking Necessary Two-Thirds Vote House Journal 16
Committee Referrals
2026-02-04
Finance
Senate
2026-03-27
Commerce and Consumer Affairs
House
Calendar Events
Past Events (5)
2026-02-10
Hearing - Room 103, State House
2026-04-14
Hearing - GP 229
2026-04-22
Hearing - GP 229
2026-05-06
Hearing - GP 229
2026-05-06
Hearing - GP 229
Votes
Veto Override
2026-08-19
Failed
Yea: 84
Nay: 216
NV: 50
Absent: 34
Individual Votes (384)
| Democrats | Vote | Republicans | Vote |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alexis Simpson | Nay | Aboul Khan | Yea |
| Alice Wade | Nay | Adam Presa | Nay |
| Alicia Gregg | Absent | Alvin See | Yea |
| Alissandra Murray | Nay | Andrew Prout | Nay |
| Allan Howland | NV | Arnold Davis | Nay |
| Allison Knab | Nay | Barbara Comtois | Nay |
| Amy Malone | Nay | Bill Boyd | Nay |
| Anita Burroughs | Nay | Bill Ohm | NV |
| Barry Faulkner | Nay | Bob Lynn | Yea |
| Beth Richards | NV | Brian Cole | Nay |
| Bill Bolton | Nay | Brian Labrie | Nay |
| Billie Butler | Nay | Brian Nadeau | Yea |
| Bobbi Boudman | Nay | Brian Seaworth | Nay |
| Brian Sullivan | Nay | Brian Taylor | Nay |
| 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 | Nay |
| 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 | Nay |
| Christal Lloyd | Nay | Cyril Aures | Yea |
| Christine Seibert | Nay | Dan McGuire | Nay |
| Christopher Herbert | NV | Daniel Popovici-Muller | Nay |
| Connie Lane | Nay | Darrell Louis | Absent |
| Dale Girard | Nay | David Love | Nay |
| Dale Swanson | Nay | David Lundgren | NV |
| 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 | Nay |
| David Paige | Nay | Denise DeDe-Poulin | Yea |
| David Preece | Nay | Dennis Mannion | Yea |
| Dennis Malloy | Nay | Diane Kelley | Yea |
| Dru Fox | Nay | Diane Pauer | Nay |
| 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 | Nay |
| Gary Woods | Nay | Gregory Hill | Nay |
| Geoff Smith | NV | Henry Giasson | Yea |
| George Sykes | Nay | Jack Flanagan | Yea |
| Gerald Ward | Nay | James Guzofski | Nay |
| Gregory Sargent | Nay | James Spillane | Nay |
| Heath Howard | Nay | James Summers | NV |
| Heather Baldwin | Nay | James Thibault | Nay |
| Heather Raymond | Nay | James Tierney | Nay |
| Hope Damon | Nay | Jason Osborne | NV |
| James Gruber | Nay | Jay Markell | Nay |
| James MacKay | NV | JD Bernardy | Nay |
| James Newsom | Nay | Jeanine Notter | Yea |
| James Roesener | Nay | Jeffrey Tenczar | Nay |
| Janet Lucas | Nay | Jennifer Rhodes | Nay |
| Janet Wall | Nay | Jeremy Slottje | Yea |
| Jared Sullivan | NV | Jess Edwards | Yea |
| Jean Jeudy | Nay | Jim Creighton | Nay |
| Jennifer Mandelbaum | NV | Jim Fedolfi | NV |
| Jerry Stringham | Nay | Jim Kofalt | Absent |
| Jessica Grill | Nay | Jim Qualey | Nay |
| Jessica LaMontagne | Nay | Jodi Nelson | Nay |
| Jim Maggiore | Nay | Joe Alexander | Nay |
| Jim Snodgrass | Nay | Joe Sweeney | Nay |
| Jodi Newell | Nay | John Hunt | Nay |
| John Cloutier | Nay | John Janigian | Nay |
| John Larochelle | Nay | John Leavitt | NV |
| John Stone | NV | John MacDonald | Nay |
| Jonah Wheeler | Nay | John Potucek | Absent |
| Julie Gilman | Nay | John Schneller | Yea |
| Karen Ebel | Absent | John Sellers | Yea |
| Karen Hegner | NV | John Suiter | NV |
| Kat McGhee | Nay | John Sytek | Nay |
| Kathy Staub | Nay | Jonathan Smith | Absent |
| Kristina Schultz | Nay | Jordan Ulery | Nay |
| Laura Telerski | Nay | Jose Cambrils | Absent |
| Laurel Stavis | Nay | Joseph Barton | NV |
| Lee Ann Kluger | Nay | Joseph Guthrie | Yea |
| Lily Foss | Nay | Joseph Hamblen | Yea |
| Linda DiSilvestro | NV | Judy Aron | Nay |
| Linda Harriott-Gathright | Absent | Julie Miles | Yea |
| Linda Ryan | Absent | Juliet Harvey-Bolia | Yea |
| Loren Foxx | Absent | Julius Soti | Nay |
| Loren Selig | Absent | Karel Crawford | Nay |
| Louis Juris | Nay | Katelyn Kuttab | Nay |
| Lucius Parshall | Nay | Katherine Prudhomme-O'Brien | Yea |
| Lucy Weber | Nay | Kathleen Paquette | Nay |
| Luz Bay | Nay | Katy Peternel | NV |
| Manoj Chourasia | Nay | Keith Ammon | NV |
| Marc Plamondon | Nay | Keith Erf | Nay |
| Marjorie Smith | Absent | Kelley Potenza | Yea |
| Mark MacKenzie | Nay | Kenneth Weyler | Yea |
| Mark Paige | Nay | Kevin Scully | Absent |
| 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 | Nay |
| Matthew Hicks | Nay | Laurence Miner | Yea |
| Matthew Wilhelm | Nay | Leonard Turcotte | Absent |
| Megan Murray | Nay | Lex Berezhny | Yea |
| Merryl Gibbs | Absent | Lilli Walsh | NV |
| Michael Cahill | Nay | Linda Franz | Yea |
| Michael Edgar | Nay | Linda Gould | Nay |
| Molly Howard | Nay | Linda McGrath | Yea |
| Muriel Hall | Nay | Lino Avellani | Nay |
| Myles England | Nay | Lisa Freeman | Nay |
| Nancy Murphy | Nay | Lisa Mazur | Yea |
| Ned Raynolds | Nay | Lisa Post | Nay |
| Nicholas Germana | Nay | Liz Barbour | Nay |
| Nicole Leapley | Nay | Lori Korzen | Yea |
| Paige Beauchemin | Nay | Lorie Ball | NV |
| Patricia Cornell | Nay | Louise Andrus | Absent |
| Patrick Long | Nay | Marc Tremblay | Yea |
| Paul Berch | Absent | Margaret Drye | Yea |
| Paul Dargie | Nay | Marie Bjelobrk | Nay |
| Peggy Balboni | Nay | Mark McLean | Nay |
| Peter Bixby | Nay | Mark Pearson | Yea |
| Peter Leishman | Nay | Mark Proulx | Yea |
| 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 | Absent |
| Rosemarie Rung | Nay | Matthew Pitaro | Yea |
| Russell Muirhead | NV | Maureen Mooney | Nay |
| Sallie Fellows | Nay | Melissa Litchfield | Nay |
| Samantha Jacobs | NV | Michael Aron | Nay |
| 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 | Nay |
| Terry Spahr | Nay | Paul Tudor | Nay |
| Thomas Buco | Absent | Peter Mehegan | Yea |
| Thomas Cormen | Nay | Peter Morency | NV |
| Thomas Schamberg | Nay | Peter Varney | NV |
| Thomas Southworth | Nay | Phyllis Katsakiores | Yea |
| Timothy Horrigan | Nay | Pierre Dupont | NV |
| Timothy Soucy | Nay | Ralph Boehm | Yea |
| Toni Weinstein | Nay | Raymond Peeples | Nay |
| 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 | Nay |
| Wendy Thomas | Nay | Riche Colcombe | Absent |
| William Darby | Nay | Ricky Devoid | Yea |
| William Dolan | NV | Rita Mattson | Yea |
| William Palmer | Nay | Robert Harb | Nay |
| Zoe Manos | Nay | Robert Wherry | Nay |
| Robley Hall | NV | ||
| Roderick Ladd | Yea | ||
| Ron Dunn | Absent | ||
| Ross Berry | Nay | ||
| Russell Dumais | NV | ||
| Samuel Farrington | Nay | ||
| 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 | Nay | ||
| Steven Bogert | NV | ||
| Steven Kesselring | Nay | ||
| Steven Smith | Yea | ||
| Susan DeLemus | Yea | ||
| Susan Deroy | Yea | ||
| Susan Porcelli | Nay | ||
| Susan Vandecasteele | Nay | ||
| Tanya Donnelly | Yea | ||
| Ted Gorski | Nay | ||
| Terry Roy | Absent | ||
| Thomas Kaczynski | Yea | ||
| Thomas Walsh | Nay | ||
| Tim Mannion | Yea | ||
| Tom Dolan | Nay | ||
| Tom Mannion | Nay | ||
| Tom Ploszaj | Yea | ||
| Travis Corcoran | NV | ||
| Travis Toner | NV | ||
| Valerie McDonnell | NV | ||
| Vanessa Sheehan | Absent | ||
| Vicki Wilson | Nay | ||
| Walter Spilsbury | Absent | ||
| Wayne Hemingway | Nay | ||
| Wayne MacDonald | Yea | ||
| Yury Polozov | Yea |
Other
- Aidan Ankarberg — NV
VETO MESSAGE - Roll Call Required
2026-08-19
Passed
Yea: 23
Nay: 1
NV: 0
Absent: 0
Individual Votes (24)
| Democrats | Vote | Republicans | Vote |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cindy Rosenwald | Yea | Daniel Innis | Yea |
| David Watters | Yea | Daryl Abbas | Yea |
| Debra Altschiller | Yea | David Rochefort | Yea |
| Donovan Fenton | Yea | Denise Ricciardi | Yea |
| Patrick Long | Yea | Howard Pearl | Yea |
| Rebecca Perkins Kwoka | Yea | James Gray | Yea |
| Suzanne Prentiss | Yea | Keith Murphy | Yea |
| Tara Reardon | Yea | Kevin Avard | Nay |
| Mark McConkey | Yea | ||
| Regina Birdsell | Yea | ||
| Ruth Ward | Yea | ||
| Sharon Carson | Yea | ||
| Tim McGough | Yea | ||
| Timothy Lang | Yea | ||
| Victoria Sullivan | Yea | ||
| William Gannon | Yea |