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Committee roll calls: summary of actions on bills in session
Summary
A summary of roll-call outcomes and formal actions taken by the House Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee during the meeting, including retained bills, bills recommended for passage (often on consent), and motions to make bills inexpedient to legislate or not pass.
The House Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee considered a series of bills during the session and recorded the following formal actions (motions, tallies, and outcomes are taken from committee roll calls in the transcript).
Votes at a glance
- HB 257 — Motion to retain. Tally: 16-0. Outcome: bill retained in committee. - HB 369 — Motion “ought to pass.” Tally: 14-1. Outcome: recommended for passage; placed on consent. - HB 240 — Motion “ought to pass.” Tally: 15-0. Outcome: recommended for passage; placed on consent (discussion noted it changes language in RSA referenced in the hearing from “shall” to “may”). - HB 597 — Motion “ought to pass.” Tally: 16-0. Outcome: recommended for passage; placed on consent. (Bill would allow 911 centers to transfer nonemergency behavioral-health calls to 988 or mobile crisis resources.) - HB 602 — Amendment 1096h adopted (13-3); final motion “ought to pass as amended” Tally: 16-0. Outcome: recommended for passage as amended. - HB 609 — Motion to retain. Tally: 9-7. Outcome: bill retained in committee. - HB 638 — Motion “inexpedient to legislate” (ITL). Tally: 9-7. Outcome: committee recorded ITL (bill will not proceed from committee in this form). - HB 670 — Amendment adopted; final motion “ought to pass with amendment.” Tally: 16-0. Outcome: recommended for passage as amended. - HB 700 — Motion to make the bill inexpedient to legislate (ITL). Tally: 16-0. Outcome: ITL; bill will not proceed from committee. - HB 767 — Motion to retain. Tally: 14-2. Outcome: bill retained in committee. - HB 776 — Motion recorded as “not to pass.” Tally: 16-0. Outcome: motion carried; item placed on consent with result recorded as ‘not to pass’.
Several items were explicitly placed on the consent calendar following unanimous or near‑unanimous committee votes. Where debate occurred, the transcript records concerns or supportive arguments (for example, statutory protections for defendants in HB 369; fee burdens and court payment procedures in HB 602; victims’ family trauma and parole policy in HB 638).
