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Votes at a glance: House acts on vetoes, concurrences and several public-safety bills
Summary
The House considered multiple veto messages and Senate concurrence requests and took roll-call votes on several public-safety and procedural bills, including failed and successful votes noted below.
The New Hampshire House on April 6 considered a slate of veto messages, concurrence requests from the Senate and several public-safety measures. Key floor outcomes included:
- HB 349 (governor's veto on optometry/laser procedures): The House considered the governor’s veto message and debated patient-safety concerns and scope-of-practice questions. The motion to override the veto failed to meet the two‑thirds constitutional threshold and did not pass.
- HB 451 (paint product stewardship): An override effort received 186 yeas and 169 nays but failed because a two-thirds majority is required; the bill remains vetoed.
- HB 59 (assault on firefighters, EMS, law enforcement): The House concurred with the Senate amendment by division vote, 199 in the affirmative and 155 in the negative, and adopted the motion to concur.
- HB 1689 (extension of county officers' terms for Belknap and Merrimack counties): The motion to concur with the Senate amendment was defeated on a roll call, 65 in the affirmative and 287 in the negative.
- SB 620 (refusal-to-test / administrative suspension and related DWI penalties): After debate on constitutional protections and public-safety tradeoffs, the House adopted the committee motion on a roll-call vote, 259–94.
- SB 649 (increasing fines for handheld mobile-device use while driving): After debate over redundancy with reckless-driving statutes and safety concerns, the House adopted the motion of 'ought to pass' by division, 232–123.
The House also considered and largely concurred with numerous Senate amendments on bills ranging from building-code updates to real-estate appraiser licensing; many of those concurrence motions were adopted by voice vote. Several bills were referred to committee for final consideration or placed on the consent calendar.
