Jack Flanagan

On June 5, 2025, Jack Flanagan voted Nay on tabling SB 263; the motion failed 179–193. He voted Yea on Ought to Pass with Amendment, adopted 202–168 and ordered to third reading. The four-section House version criminalized an AI-only communication service operator knowingly directing communications intended to encourage a child imminently to engage in specified sexual conduct, illegal substance use, self-harm or violence. Civil enforcement belonged solely to the attorney general, following notice and 90 days to cure, with damages of at least $1,000 per violation. Third-party cloud or telecommunications content and AI incidental to interactive entertainment were exempt. Adopted2567h added lease expiration as an eviction ground for original or renewed terms totaling at least six months, with 60 days written notice. January 1, 2026 was the effective date. The 2567h and failed 2639h divisions did not establish his individual casts.

June 5, 2025Supports AI Regulation

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Opposed reconsidering HB1565's earlier passage; reconsideration failed, 18–311. Later supported overriding its veto. The final bill penalized knowingly false child-abuse reports, preserved good-faith immunity and allowed anonymous reporting. It raised a school-building project-management threshold from $1.25 million to $1.5 million. It created provisional Medicaid nursing-facility eligibility and a $1 appropriation. The override failed, 168–140.

August 19, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability

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On May 14, 2026, Flanagan voted for amendment 1951h to SB 504, authorizing experimental treatment centers and expanding right-to-try access for severe chronic illness. The proposal included scientific review, consent, fee and record requirements, liability protections, and a 2 percent net-profit allocation for free care or public-benefit funds. The amendment passed, 188–153. On May 14, 2026, Flanagan voted for SB 504 as amended, expanding pharmacy practice, oral anticancer dispensing, remote processing and supervised vaccine administration, revising testing and labeling requirements, and adding experimental-treatment centers and severe-illness right-to-try provisions. The passage motion passed, 197–145.

May 14, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability

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On April 23, 2026, Flanagan voted to reject SB 543, establishing provisional Medicaid nursing-facility eligibility, state payments pending decisions, reimbursement obligations, a $1 program appropriation, and necessary funding for two positions. Rejection passed, 182–154.

April 23, 2026Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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On April 23, 2026, Flanagan voted to reject SB 545, requiring Medicare Part D low-income subsidy availability subject to federal approval. Rejection passed, 182–153.

April 23, 2026Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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On January 7, 2026, Flanagan voted to indefinitely postpone and table carried2025 HB349; both motions failed 133–205 and94–242. He voted against amended passage, adopted 193–143, and on April 9 voted against overriding its veto, which failed 145–206. The2969h/0032h version authorized certified optometrists to perform laser capsulotomy, trabeculoplasty and peripheral iridotomy, with board-approved training, supervised living-eye proficiency and5/5/4 procedure requirements, separate certification and out-of-state endorsement rules, outcome reporting and credential identification. It required patient-signed informed consent covering benefits, risks, alternatives, prognosis and provider credentials, retained in the medical record, and an effective date60 days after passage.

April 9, 2026Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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On March 26, 2026, Flanagan voted for HB1633. Its four sections expanded sexual-assault survivors' definitions to include asserted nonpenetrative or drug-facilitated assault, qualifying attempted-rape contact without requiring correct legal terminology, and deceased victims. It protected access without charge to medical examinations and individual evidence-kit elements, required prominent Attorney General information about survivor rights, collection windows, clothing evidence and out-of-state assaults, and required providers, officers and listed entities to supply equivalent written information. DOJ prepared the notice and summarized protocols; effectiveness was 60 days after passage. The bill provided no funding or new positions despite estimated implementation costs. The House adopted passage 340–1.

March 26, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability

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On March 12, 2026, Flanagan voted to reject HCR12, a resolution calling on New Hampshire's congressional delegation to pursue Medicare for All. Its six requested provisions included optional enrollment for citizens, legal residents and their children; comprehensive dental, vision, prescription and long-term-care coverage without deductibles; movement of Medicaid recipients into Medicare; prevention and chronic-care cost control; choice of providers; and regulation of quality, safety and oversight. It directed transmission to the delegation and did not itself enact or appropriate funds for an insurance program. The House adopted Inexpedient to Legislate 180–151.

March 12, 2026Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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On March 12, 2026, Flanagan voted to reject HB1760, which repealed the 2025 prescription-copayment directive and premium requirements for Granite Advantage and children's health insurance. The four-section bill appropriated the sum necessary to replace the lost Medicaid funding for the biennium ending June 30, 2027, authorized treasury warrants and specified July 1, 2026 effectiveness. Its fiscal note estimated a $16.75 million shortfall and warned that existing Granite Advantage restrictions on general funds created a possible additional liquor-fund transfer; that estimate did not set the statutory appropriation amount. The House adopted Inexpedient to Legislate 184–153.

March 12, 2026Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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On March 11, 2026, Flanagan voted for HB1735 with amendment 0850h, expanding the right-to-try law from terminal illness to chronic, severely debilitating illness. The four-section bill removed the prior eligible-patient definition and phase-one investigational-drug definition, permitted manufacturers to charge for treatment and required neither insurer coverage nor a manufacturer to offer it. It protected physician and facility licenses and provided conditional liability immunity tied to two physicians' illness determination, lack of satisfactory FDA-approved options, written informed consent, respect for an adult patient's prior wishes, and no willful, reckless or bad-faith conduct. Individualized treatments retained the requirement for genetic specificity and cooperation with a federally assured eligible facility. It allowed patients and providers to seek injunctions and attorney fees against regulatory or enforcement violations; telehealth prescreening expanded to qualifying severe illness. The text specified an effective date upon passage. The House adopted the amended passage report 181–151.

March 11, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability

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On March 11, 2026, Flanagan voted for HB1449 with amendment 0989h. Its two sections prohibited vaccination clinics during school hours at public elementary, secondary and charter schools and required parents or guardians to accompany and remain with children vaccinated at such clinics. It preserved school nurses' statutory duties and specified effectiveness 60 days after passage; 0989h corrected the savings clause's wording. The House adopted the amended passage report 172–154.

March 11, 2026Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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Voted to reject HB1596 increasing the cigarette and little-cigar tax from $1.78 to $2.80 per 20-pack, adding $18 million annually for the university system, and repealing premiums for children’s health insurance and Granite Advantage coverage. The House rejected it, 200–157.

February 12, 2026Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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On January 8, 2026, Flanagan voted Yea for SB134 amendment 3093h, 349–5, and passage as amended, 204–150. The complete five-section replacement applied federal Medicaid community-engagement and work requirements to applicable Granite Advantage recipients. It required documentary compliance for the month before an application and at least quarterly thereafter, rejected self-attestation for compliance and exemptions, required legislative health-oversight approval for optional exemptions or waivers, and required specified professional certification for medical-frailty or special-needs exemptions. It provided notice and 30 days to verify compliance or exemption before disenrollment, federal-law priority and severability. It changed the CMS submission deadline to December 1, 2026 or an earlier federal-template deadline, changed Fiscal Committee approval to review, and added quarterly implementation reports through 2026. Existing state work provisions were suspended while federal requirements applied, with certification if the suspension ended. It removed the obsolete five-year demonstration wording while retaining non-general-fund financing, Medicaid managed care, the retroactive-coverage waiver and correctional presumptive-eligibility provisions, cost transparency, provider incentives and reference-based pricing. The upon-passage version was adopted and ordered to third reading.

January 8, 2026Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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Voted for written parental consent for each new school medical or dental service identified by a new diagnostic billing code. The amended SB34 added legislative reporting and ended the school Medicaid program statewide, or at an individual district, if government policies contradicted parental control of children’s medical services. The House approved it, 186–155.

January 7, 2026Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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Voted to prohibit school physicians, nurses and other district-employed or contracted health providers from performing surgery or prescribing pharmaceutical drugs on school grounds. The amended HB360 retained authority to provide school health services and omitted the introduced ban on diagnostic tests. The House approved it, 183–155.

January 7, 2026Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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On March 27, 2025, Flanagan voted Nay for HB377 amendment 1316h, 168–203, Yea to end debate, 177–194, and Yea for amended passage, 197–167. The amendment and debate motion failed; passage succeeded. The four-section House version barred knowingly performing or offering procedures or puberty-blocking or cross-sex hormones to affirm a minor's identity inconsistent with biological sex, exempted defined sex-development disorders, and imposed a class B felony. Prior treatment continued only through documented tapering to avoid harm before January 1, 2026, when the House text set the taper exception to expire. It specified an upon-passage effective date for other provisions. Amendment 1316h instead expressly covered counseling and referrals, retained criminal penalties and permitted existing active treatment to continue without that taper deadline, with a January 1, 2026 effective date. On June 26, Flanagan voted Yea for conference report 2809CoFC, 202–161, and it passed. The complete four-section conference version retained the treatment prohibition and disorder exception but allowed treatment started before January 1, 2026 to continue and replaced criminal liability with medical-board administrative discipline. It added minors' private damages and injunction claims, claims through parents or after adulthood until age 20, recovery of related future-treatment costs and prevailing fees, and attorney-general enforcement without requiring exhausted administrative remedies. It also required an annual children's environmental-health-day proclamation. The conference text specified January 1, 2026, as the effective date for treatment provisions, and 60 days after passage for the remaining provisions.

June 26, 2025Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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Flanagan voted Yea for HB 751 as replaced by amendment 0220h. The report passed 216–152 and went to Finance. The replacement licensed outpatient substance-use treatment facilities, excluding impaired-driver programs and nonclinical recovery support. It designated a behavioral-health ombudsman specialist subject to funding and appropriated $211,000 for a compliance-officer position.

March 6, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Flanagan voted Nay on HB 94. The report passed 184–183 and went to Finance. The proposal restricted Medicaid coverage of circumcision for children to specified diagnoses or a provider determination of medical necessity. The separate vision-screening amendment failed and was not part of this vote.

March 6, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability

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On February 20, 2025, Flanagan voted for HB 53 amended by 0272h, 328–42. It allowed medical-cannabis patients or caregivers to cultivate at reported, locked residences, within plant, usable-cannabis and canopy limits. It expanded laboratory and legal protections, added cultivation locations to the confidential registry, permitted specified affidavit-based police checks and adjusted treatment-center plant limits. It required location reporting by December 1, 2025.

February 20, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Flanagan voted Nay on concurrence with the Senate version of HB1246 on June 30, 2020; concurrence passed 194–132. On September 16 he voted Nay on overriding the governor’s veto; the 196–139 vote fell short of two-thirds and the veto stood. Its12-section text revised health-care infection reporting to follow specified national standards, removed two mandatory process measures, retained influenza coverage reporting and required monthly reporting of Health and Human Services budget reductions. It established a nonlapsing, continually appropriated COVID-19 nursing-home and long-term-care fund receiving $25 million in CARES money for testing, protective equipment, family-video technology, facility continuity and an independent needs/preparedness review. It directed another $10 million in CARES money to child-care scholarships, expanding eligibility to 275% of federal poverty guidelines and assistance across all tiers for July 2020–June 2021. It authorized qualifying pharmacists and supervised interns to administer available COVID-19 vaccines with primary-care-provider notice, required public check-register reporting of all CARES disbursements, and directed Medicaid-plan and rule changes for nursing-assistant training reimbursement. The text specified effective dates after 60 days for infection reporting and training-reimbursement provisions and passage for the remainder.

September 16, 2020Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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On June 30, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay on concurrence with the Senate version of carried2019 HB250; concurrence passed 205–124. On September 16, 2020, he voted Nay on overriding its veto; the 194–146 vote fell short of two-thirds and the veto stood. It required a comprehensive adult Medicaid dental benefit, including preventive care and medically necessary restorative, emergency and prosthodontic services, and directed the health commissioner to select and procure a dental managed-care arrangement. It set an August information request, November federal-plan submissions and April 1, 2021 contracting deadline, required federal approval before operation, full-risk capitated payments, quality protections, fiscal oversight and implementing rules. The measure added detailed service and procurement requirements to the existing adult-dental mandate; it contained no new fixed appropriation.

September 16, 2020Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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Flanagan voted Nay on concurrence with the Senate version of HB1166 on June 30, 2020; concurrence passed 178–154. He also voted Nay on September 16 on overriding the governor’s veto; the 193–145 vote fell short of two-thirds and the veto stood. The text expanded unemployment eligibility and self-employment assistance for specified COVID-19 shutdown, quarantine and family-care circumstances, protected qualifying emergency-benefit overpayments, and calculated annual earnings for qualifying family leave using preleave earnings. It extended federal family-leave protections for specified COVID-19 circumstances to employers with at least 15 employees, subject to individual hardship exceptions. It directed a $50 million CARES transfer to Employment Security, first for computer upgrades supporting the expanded eligibility and then to the unemployment trust fund, with legislative certification and a federal-funding-loss contingency. It imposed COVID-19 workplace hygiene, protective-equipment and testing-access or paid-time-off requirements, directed state protective-equipment assistance at no cost for employers with no more than 15 employees, and waived employer job-training cost sharing until July 2021. It waived COVID-19 testing and treatment cost sharing and specified out-of-network charges for individual and group health coverage, the state employee plan and Medicaid managed-care coverage. The text specified an effective date upon passage for most provisions and January 1, 2021 for coordinated health-service-corporation and HMO provisions. The enrolled amendment corrected section numbering and effective-date cross-references.

September 16, 2020Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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Flanagan voted Nay on concurrence with the Senate version of HB1375 on June 30, 2020; the House concurred 227–105. On September 16 he voted Nay on overriding the governor’s veto; the 191–138 vote fell short of two-thirds and the veto stood. Its two-section text established medical-monitoring claims for significant negligent exposure to hazardous or toxic substances causing increased disease risk, requiring reasonably necessary diagnostic testing that existed to detect the disease. It allowed claims without present injury or symptoms, excluded past or present health status from the claim, and limited damages to expert-proven necessary examinations and related costs. It permitted court-supervised monitoring programs and reasonable attorney fees and litigation costs, established a three-year filing period from the chapter’s effective date or discovery of exposure irrespective of release date, included severability, and specified an effective date upon passage.

September 16, 2020Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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Flanagan voted Nay on concurrence with the Senate version of HB685 on June 30, 2020; the House concurred 196–132. On September 16 he voted Nay on overriding the governor’s veto; the 195–139 vote fell short of two-thirds and the veto stood. The carried 2019 bill’s three-section Senate replacement named the Reproductive Health Parity Act of 2020 and required individual and group insurance that covered maternity services to cover emergency or elective abortions for New Hampshire residents. It permitted maximum benefits, coinsurance and reasonable limitations, deductibles and exclusions, deemed contracts renewed by their next yearly anniversary, and permitted only the minimum exemption necessary to preserve federal funding when enforcement threatened that funding. Its effective date was January 1, 2021. The full fiscal note identified no appropriation and described indeterminate premium, revenue and expenditure effects.

September 16, 2020Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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On June 30, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay on concurring with the Senate amendment to HB1162; concurrence passed 209–119. The57-section Senate text expanded adoption and parentage recognition for unmarried adults sharing parenting and families using assisted reproduction. It recodified the independent child advocate, expanded oversight to executive child-serving agencies, and set records access, confidentiality, subpoena, incident-reporting and oversight-commission rules. It removed parental reimbursement obligations for specified court-ordered juvenile and child-protection services while retaining insurance assignments and service-cost exceptions. It phased in continuing counsel for children placed outside their homes, required least-restrictive juvenile dispositions and behavioral-health care planning, and made the child’s best interests the primary child-protection consideration. It removed early-intervention insurance cost sharing, with a high-deductible-plan exception and existing benefit caps. It required service referrals for substance-exposed children under three and established a kinship navigator program. It expanded authorized central-registry employment screening and retained founded reports indefinitely, subject to removal petitions. It extended the missing-child definition to under eighteen. It included stepparents, defined psychological maltreatment and established a temporary rebuttable presumption of harm for specified substance misuse, impaired driving and violence or maltreatment, with an exception protecting domestic-violence victims. The text specified immediate, July 2020, 60-day and January/July 2021 effective dates for different provisions, and July 2024 for repeal of the presumption.

June 30, 2020Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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On March 11, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay on HB1280 Ought to Pass with Amendment, adopted 223–121. That five-section version capped insured patients’ total payments for a 30-day insulin supply at $100 and exempted insulin from deductibles. On June 30 he voted Nay on concurrence with Senate amendment 1470s, adopted 224–104. The replacement capped payments at $30 for each insulin prescription and each 30-day supply, including early refills, while retaining the deductible exemption. It also established an independent prescription-drug affordability board with public meetings, conflict disclosures, spending targets, pricing reports, confidential manufacturer and pharmacy-benefit-manager data collection, user-fee funding and civil penalties. It established a federally approved Canadian wholesale-drug importation program with safety, tracing, cost-savings, licensing and audit requirements. It expressly included generic-drug pricing in consumer protection law. It required covered formulary-drug prior-authorization responses within two business days, with approval after that deadline. It mandated insurance coverage for epinephrine auto-injectors. It authorized competitive online pharmacy-benefit-manager reverse auctions and real-time claims review for public health plans, with optional joint purchasing and independent technology vendors.

June 30, 2020Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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On June 30, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay on concurrence with the Senate version of HB1639; concurrence passed 201–121. The health-care package revised Medicaid income eligibility, emergency authorization rules, insurance coverage for oral cancer medicines and qualifying long-term tick-borne treatment, pharmacy audit rights and dental fee contracts. It required a public state health assessment and improvement plan, individualized chronic-pain prescribing rules and mental-health reimbursement parity, and provided at least one substance-use medication option without prior authorization. It added physician assistants to advance-directive and resuscitation laws with patient-choice safeguards, temporarily allowed tightly limited surrogate consent to experimental COVID-19 treatment, revised physician-assistant licensing, and established confidential overdose-death review. It created a nonlapsing, continually appropriated opioid-settlement trust for treatment, recovery, prevention and related services, with 15percent directed to qualifying local plaintiffs. It also authorized pharmacist COVID-19 vaccination, required medically appropriate jail addiction treatment, strengthened patient nondiscrimination and visitation rights, restricted examinations of unconscious patients subject to care and emergency exceptions, and established notice, independent impact review and appeal procedures for proposed facilities near critical-access hospitals.

June 30, 2020Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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On June 30, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay on concurrence with the Senate version of HB1264; concurrence passed 210–116. Its16-section text extended the seacoast cancer-cluster commission through June 2022; set drinking-water limits of 12pptPFOA,15pptPFOS,18pptPFHxS and11pptPFNA with annual review and authority to adjust them to protect health; and aligned ambient groundwater standards with statutory state limits. It created a nonlapsing, continually appropriated PFAS remediation loan fund and appropriated $50 million for drinking-water and wastewater-residual capital remediation, authorizing up to $50 million in state borrowing and general-fund debt payments. Eligible public and nonprofit water or wastewater systems needed approved cost-effective projects, no viable lower-cost alternatives and responsible-party contributions; need-based loan forgiveness reached10%, capped at $5 million total, with additional forgiveness contingent on litigation recoveries after public debt and legal costs were repaid. It applied the existing governmental pollutant-liability standard to PFAS incidents, including its reasonable-best-practices presumption. It required resident individual/group insurance coverage of PFAS/PFC blood tests without greater cost sharing than similar benefits and extended those requirements to health-service corporations and HMOs. The text specified effective dates after 60 days for insurance provisions with coordinated January 2021 updates and passage for the rest.

June 30, 2020Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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On June 30, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay on concurrence with the Senate version of HB1230; the House concurred 229–102. Its two-section text amended the 2019 budget’s substance-use appropriation, retaining $375,000 for fiscal 2020 and $375,000 for fiscal 2021, specifying existing Manchester Safe Stations and substance-use disorder services in Nashua, and retaining treasury-warrant authority with funds nonlapsing until June 30, 2021. The amendment broadened the Nashua service purpose rather than adding a new fixed dollar amount and specified an effective date upon passage.

June 30, 2020Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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On June 30, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay on concurrence with the Senate version of HB1240; concurrence passed 257–68. The 12-section text expanded the definition of sexual contact to humiliation and defined covered students from preschool through grade12 and specified adult programs. It extended sexual-assault offenses to school employees, contractors or volunteers and their students through ten months after graduation or departure. It also covered authority figures more than four years older than victims aged thirteen through seventeen. It did not require coercive use of authority or treat consent as a defense. This version retained legal-spouse exceptions. It created an $85 civil-marriage-officiant license, directing $80 to domestic-violence programs and $5 to administration. It adjusted pharmacy renewal deadlines by license-number parity. It permitted temporary out-of-state health-professional licenses for up to 120 days, subject to board jurisdiction and stated exclusions. It required electronic or scanned signatures for licensing administration. It expanded temporary allied-health licensing to athletic trainers and genetic counselors while excluding compact-member boards. The text specified January 1, 2021 for sexual-assault provisions, 60 days after passage for marriage and allied-health provisions, and passage for the other provisions as their effective dates.

June 30, 2020Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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On June 30, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay on concurrence with the Senate version of HB1623; concurrence passed 204–117. The version expanded Medicaid and commercial insurance coverage and reimbursement for telemedicine, including audio-only care, eligible practitioners and school Medicaid services. It provided reimbursement parity with comparable in-person services, kept medical-necessity and coverage limits, and expanded telemedicine access to substance-use treatment in specified settings with federal prescribing safeguards and patient-consented notification. It permitted telemedicine within practitioners' existing scopes, required appropriate licensure, records and standards of care, provided fee-dispute review, and established a telehealth study commission.

June 30, 2020Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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On March 12, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay on amendment 0647h for HB1404; the House adopted it 182–123. He then voted Nay on Ought to Pass with Amendment; the House adopted that question 178–125 and ordered third reading. The complete two-section replacement added prevention, including preventive prescriptions, to existing confidential sexually transmitted disease diagnosis and treatment for minors aged 14 or older without parental knowledge or consent. It included physician assistants and advanced practice registered nurses alongside physicians and set a 60-day effective date. The replacement contained no separate pharmacy dispensing authorization.

March 12, 2020Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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On March 12, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay on Ought to Pass with Amendment 1001h for HB1655; the House adopted it 185–118 and ordered third reading. Its nine-section text expanded the insurance-assessment-funded vaccine purchasing system to covered adults aged 19–64, excluded Medicare beneficiaries and specified pneumococcal polysaccharide and herpes-zoster vaccines, and updated vaccine ordering, distribution and administrative-oversight definitions. It revised assessment handling, interstate arrangements and interim-assessment rules to cover adult vaccines, removed medical-loss-ratio classification language, and extended the existing continuously appropriated vaccine-purchase fund’s uses to ordering, distribution and administrative oversight. Vaccines remained supplied without charge apart from administration costs. It set a July 1, 2021 effective date; the fiscal note estimated approximately $10.7 million in annual assessment-funded revenue and expenditure, rather than a fixed new general-fund appropriation.

March 12, 2020Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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On March 11, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay on HB1633 with amendment 0846h; the House adopted the recommendation 219–104 and ordered third reading. The seven-section House version required individual and group health insurers to cover further blood testing, including medically necessary PCR testing, for New Hampshire residents who remained symptomatic after an initial tick-borne illness blood test. It barred greater copayments, deductibles or coinsurance than for similar benefits and extended the requirements to health service corporations and HMOs, with January 2021 coordination provisions and the remainder effective 60 days after passage. The fiscal note listed no appropriation.

March 11, 2020Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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On January 8, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay for carried 2019 HB546 with amendment 2836h, 218–144; it passed and was referred to Commerce and Consumer Affairs. The complete fifteen-section replacement regulated art therapists under the mental-health board, added a therapist member and six-member quorum, defined practice and standards, set graduate education, supervised-experience, examination and fee requirements with equivalent-program and prior-credential pathways, and applied existing unlawful-practice sanctions. It exempted art teachers who did not claim to be therapists and repealed the separate art-therapy chapter. It added licensed art therapists to group mental-health insurance coverage, early-intervention coverage including Medicaid, and autism treatment services, with a July 1, 2020 effective date. On March 11, 2020, he voted Nay on the recommendation with amendment 0981h; the House adopted it197–139 and ordered third reading. The amended version retained the licensing framework and July 1, 2020 effective date. It expanded exemptions to art teachers, artists, entertainers and specified nonprofit activities not represented as art therapy. It removed January's sections adding art therapists to insurance, early-intervention and autism coverage.

March 11, 2020Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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On February 19, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay on HB1281 with amendment 0455h; the House adopted the recommendation 208–110 and ordered third reading. The seven-section text required coverage of single-use epinephrine auto-injectors under individual and group accident and health insurance issued or renewed for New Hampshire residents, with copayments, deductibles and coinsurance no greater than similar covered benefits. It extended those requirements through applicable health-services corporation and HMO statutes, including coordinated January 2021 statutory versions. The main effective date was 60 days after passage, with the coordinated sections effective January 1, 2021 at 12:03 a.m. The text contained no appropriation.

February 19, 2020Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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On February 19, 2020, Flanagan voted Yea for HB1563, 329–21; the House approved it and referred it to Ways and Means. The complete two-section introduced bill transferred drug-forfeiture-fund administration from the attorney general to the governor and Executive Council. It retained reimbursement of officials’ drug-related arrest and prosecution costs and replaced broad drug-control and extraordinary trial-cost uses with drug or mental-health treatment, rehabilitation, prevention, education, other substance-misuse response programs and matching grants. It contained a 60-day effective date and no new dollar appropriation.

February 19, 2020Supports Healthcare Affordability

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On January 8, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay on passage of the carried 2019 HB366 as amended. The House-amended bill added opioid use disorder with cravings or withdrawal as a qualifying condition for therapeutic cannabis. Certification was restricted to a DATA 2000-waivered clinician providing medication-assisted treatment or a certified addiction-medicine or addiction-psychiatry physician. The House adopted the report 289–65.

January 8, 2020Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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On May 23, 2019, Flanagan voted Nay on SB 88 as amended; the House adopted it, 263–90. Its seven-section version removed the three-month provider-patient relationship requirement for therapeutic-cannabis certification while retaining an in-person examination and medical assessment. It changed treatment-center patient reports from monthly to weekly, reduced the deadline for a new designated-caregiver card from 50 to 20 days, and repealed applicant-photo requirements. Adopted amendment 1667h supplied the complete certification definition. On September 19, 2019, he voted against overriding the veto of the seven-section bill. The House approved the override, 238–117, despite his opposition.

September 19, 2019Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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On September 18, 2019, Flanagan voted Nay on overriding the veto of HB364. The nineteen-section bill permitted registered therapeutic-cannabis patients or caregivers cultivating for one patient to grow at a reported locked, enclosed residence, subject to limits of 3 mature plants, 3 immature plants, 12 seedlings and 8 ounces, with canopy and visibility limits and shared-location restrictions. It extended possession, cultivation, transport and laboratory-testing protections, required location reporting, limited caregiver expense compensation to $500 annually excluding labor, and preserved rental-property restrictions and department revocation powers. It added a defense for qualifying applicants awaiting registry cards and adjusted treatment-center seedling and cultivation rules. The House approved the override 259–120 despite his Nay vote.

September 18, 2019Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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On September 18, 2019, Flanagan voted Nay on overriding the veto of HB587. The bill required honoring an individual's anatomical-gift decision, limited revocation or amendment to the listed statutory provisions, and required health providers and procurement organizations to make reasonable efforts to effect the gift. The override failed 224–156; the veto was sustained.

September 18, 2019Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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On January 31, 2019, Flanagan voted against HB 349, allowing state and county prisoners to arrange an outside licensed medical consultation at their own or another designated person’s expense. The House approved it, 226–145. The final three-section version permitted county facilities to charge an administrative fee of up to $35, ordinarily required on-site visits and advance payment arrangements, and left final treatment decisions to the county provider or state chief medical officer when opinions conflicted. On September 18, he opposed overriding its veto. The override failed, 229–155, lacking two-thirds approval, and the veto was sustained.

September 18, 2019Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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On June 27, 2019, Jack Flanagan voted against SB 226’s conference report, adopted 208–143. The proposal registered and regulated pharmacy benefit managers, provided pharmacy pricing appeals and consumer complaints, prohibited lowering settled claim payments except for fraud or inaccurate information, and required patients to pay the lower of the customary price or copayment. It required rebate reporting with public aggregate data and confidential company-specific information, authorized examinations billed to benefit managers, and reestablished a pharmaceutical-cost study commission. The conference version clarified confidentiality and examination authority, including a contingent statutory reference.

June 27, 2019Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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Flanagan voted against SB 290 on May 2, 2019. The Senate version expanded qualifying activities and exemptions from Medicaid community-engagement requirements. It added notice, assistance and cure requirements before termination, carryforward hours, and reinstatement safeguards. It removed the retroactive-coverage waiver and required ending work requirements after specified coverage losses, uncompensated care, or federal-waiver failures. It permitted general funds as a last resort at a 90-percent federal match, expanded Granite Workforce eligibility, lowered its TANF reserve threshold to $20 million, and changed program oversight. The House adopted the passage report 210–150 and referred the bill to Finance. On June 5, he voted Nay on the bill with amendment 2331h; it passed, 207–143. The amendment required documented assistance offers and an opportunity to cure before benefit suspension, advance written and verbal notices, and credit for carried-forward work hours and assistance activities. It expanded drug-court exemptions and reduced the TANF reserve trigger for terminating Granite Workforce from $40 million to $5 million. On June 27, he voted against the conference report, adopted 206–147. Its replacement six-section version retained the 100-hour monthly requirement, broadened medical, caregiving, disability and homelessness exemptions, and substituted suspension for termination. It requested 45-day retroactive coverage and required temporary waivers of work requirements or suspensions when specified communication, transportation or participation barriers affected substantial numbers of members, with seven-day official notice. It expanded commission voting and revised oversight duties. The earlier general-fund and Granite Workforce provisions were absent from this replacement.

June 27, 2019Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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On June 5, 2019, Flanagan voted Nay on SB 279 as amended; the House adopted it, 210–147. Its complete three-section version required covered group insurers to pay for infertility diagnosis, medically necessary fertility treatment, and fertility preservation before treatment threatening fertility. It included specified donor-procurement services and storage through the policy term. It prohibited unequal cost sharing, preexisting-condition exclusions, arbitrary limitations and protected-class differences. Exceptions covered SHOP and extended-transition plans, experimental procedures, nonmedical reproduction costs, sterilization reversal and specified surrogate medical costs. Written, current clinical guidelines governed permissible limits. On June 27, he voted against its conference report, adopted 209–141. The conference retained the complete House version without changes.

June 27, 2019Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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On June 5, 2019, Flanagan voted Nay on SB 289 as amended; the House adopted it, 207–141. Its 15-section version expanded collection-station licensing and home-care definitions, permitted reimbursement for qualifying legally responsible relatives, and required developmental-disability and long-term-care services to meet federal community-care standards. It included client-selected service coordination and person-centered planning. It deferred specified federally funded research oversight to a single institutional board, expanded licensed clinic medication dispensing while removing department approval of protocols, and recognized public health coverage in child-support obligations. Amendment 1792h clarified the area-agency definition and federal standard.

June 5, 2019Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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On May 8, 2019, Flanagan voted Nay on SB 4; the House adopted it, 213–137. Its 15-section version placed health-insurance protections in state law: essential-health-benefit coverage, limits on age and tobacco premium variations, restrictions on medical underwriting, guaranteed issue and renewal, bans on preexisting-condition exclusions and annual or lifetime essential-benefit caps, and nondiscrimination. It also addressed emergency-care cost sharing, rescission, enrollment windows, dependent coverage, and small-employer participation requirements. It repealed a health-coverage tax-incentive provision.

May 8, 2019Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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Flanagan voted against SB 293 on May 8, 2019. The unamended version required the health department to reimburse federally qualified and rural health centers for services to Medicaid beneficiaries suspended for noncompliance with community-engagement requirements. It treated suspended beneficiaries as Medicaid enrollees for that reimbursement. The House adopted the passage report 226–134 and referred the bill to Finance.

May 8, 2019Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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On May 8, 2019, Flanagan voted Nay on SB 5 as amended; the House adopted it, 207–130. The three-section version appropriated $3 million for Medicaid mental-health and substance-use provider rates and $450,000 for emergency shelter and stabilization services. Amendment 1647h made the rate funding nonlapsing. It retained sole-source contracting and priority for high-need areas, required a spending report within 21 days, and permitted federal matching funds without prior Fiscal Committee approval.

May 8, 2019Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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Voted against expanding disclosure and review standards for health-care charitable-trust acquisitions to consider community and statewide access to quality, affordable physical and mental health care. The House version extended advance notice and review from 120 to 180 days and required acquisition documents and public input. The House approved it, 207–148.

March 7, 2019Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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Voted to kill HB163, which classified drug treatment or surgery to alter a child's sex assigned at birth as child abuse, except in cases of ambiguous genitalia. The House killed the bill, 309–59.

January 31, 2019Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Flanagan prime-sponsored HB239 on January 2, 2019. The seven-section introduced bill reduced supervised experience requirements for alcohol and drug counselors, clinical social workers and clinical mental health counselors. It set several counselor pathways at 1,500 hours. It reduced clinical-supervisor requirements to 5,000 hours as a counselor and 1,500 hours supervising professionals. It retained the specified two-year post-master’s training periods for social workers and mental health counselors.

January 2, 2019Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Flanagan opposed amendment 1920h to SB 532, which required coverage for substance-use treatment at an appropriate level of care while an insurer’s hotline determination was pending, replacing coverage beginning after that determination. The amendment passed, 210–139.

May 11, 2016Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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Flanagan voted for SB 534, directing the health and education departments to develop and coordinate a comprehensive system of publicly funded behavioral-health care for children, including community services, annual plans and reports, and an interagency agreement. Implementation was subject to existing statutory and budget constraints. The passage motion passed, 197–99.

May 11, 2016Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Flanagan opposed tabling SB 481 and supported its amended passage in April and May. The bill required licenses for new cardiac catheterization, open-heart surgery and megavoltage radiation therapy services, with quality standards, financial-assistance policies, notice, appeals and protections for nearby critical-access hospitals. The May version directed license fees to the general fund and appropriated $50,000 for licensing costs. Tabling failed, 129–182; the passage motions passed, 198–114 and 195–134.

April 20, 2016Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Flanagan voted for SB 500, which established state authorization and insurance oversight for qualifying colleges’ self-funded student health plans, including financial reserves, claims protections, coverage disclosures and an expected medical loss ratio of at least 85 percent. The passage motion passed, 256–84.

April 20, 2016Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted for SB533's April version restructuring the governor's alcohol-and-drug commission and requiring performance reports. It provided $3 million for treatment contracts, $2 million for supportive housing and funding for a drug prosecutor. It used excess budget appropriations. The motion passed, 235–109, then went to Finance. In May, opposed an amendment changing concealed-carry licenses and allowing eligible people to carry without a license. It failed, 98–204.

April 20, 2016Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Flanagan voted for SB 330, which created a licensing board for medical-imaging professionals and radiation therapists, established training and continuing-education requirements, and provided disciplinary procedures and exemptions. The passage motion passed, 213–113.

April 6, 2016Supports Healthcare Affordability

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On March 9, 2016, voted to kill HB1623, prohibiting abortion sought solely because of a fetal genetic abnormality, with criminal penalties and civil remedies against providers and exemptions for the pregnant woman. The House adopted the killing motion, 224–88.

March 9, 2016Supports Healthcare Affordability

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On March 9, 2016, Flanagan voted for the unsuccessful motion to reject HB1453, 89–257. The proposal concerned adding ulcerative colitis as a qualifying condition for therapeutic cannabis.

March 9, 2016Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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On March 9, 2016, voted to kill HB1328, restricting abortion at 20 weeks after fertilization, with limited life, rape and incest exceptions, consent and reporting requirements, and criminal and civil enforcement. The House adopted the killing motion, 182–144.

March 9, 2016Supports Healthcare Affordability

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On March 9, 2016, Flanagan voted to reject HB1690, 211–128. The bill extended the New Hampshire Health Protection Program, removed its scheduled termination, and retained termination if federal funding fell below the specified matching schedule.

March 9, 2016Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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On January 20, 2016, opposed dividing SB576 and voted for its passage 276–69. The Senate-amended text added fentanyl-class drugs to penalty thresholds, strengthened prescription monitoring and prescriber training, expanded medical review membership, and set substance-use treatment coverage standards, including two outpatient visits without prior authorization. It also required a hotline assessment and conditioned technology-dependent provisions on funding.

January 20, 2016Supports Healthcare Affordability

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On February 18, 2015, voted to kill HB670, protecting conscientious refusals to provide or pay for health-care services by providers, institutions and payers. The proposal included liability protections, bans on retaliation and civil remedies, with a preadmission consent-form condition for institutions. The House adopted Inexpedient to Legislate 237–88.

February 18, 2015Supports Healthcare Affordability

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On February 18, 2015, voted to kill HB677, restricting public funds, facilities and contracts for abortion and organizations providing abortion-related services, with specified exceptions. The proposal also barred abortion referrals and emergency contraception in school health clinics. The House adopted Inexpedient to Legislate 216–142.

February 18, 2015Supports Healthcare Affordability

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On February 11, 2015, Flanagan voted to kill HB101, which exempted scheduleIII topical androgens from the 34-day prescription-filling limit. The House adopted the motion, 191–151.

February 11, 2015Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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On June 4, 2014, Flanagan voted against the SB261 conference report restoring the Senate version. It permitted state administration of health benefits for certain State Employees’ Association retirees enrolled as of July 1, 2013, required the association to pay participating employees’ and retirees’ premiums, and retained the commissioner’s authority to end participation based on state interests. The House adopted the report 213–130.

June 4, 2014Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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On May15,2014, Flanagan voted against the failed1814h amendment to SB389 permitting qualifying patients and caregivers to cultivate therapeutic cannabis under specified limits and safeguards. He voted for the bill as amended1841h, granting fish-and-game officers motor-vehicle enforcement authority with the same powers as other certified law-enforcement officers. The amendment failed110–177 and the bill passed219–72. On June4, he supported the conference report retaining that House version; the report passed260–91.

June 4, 2014Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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On April 30, 2014, Flanagan voted against SB91 as amended by1357h. The text required individual and group insurance coverage for off-label drugs supported by recognized compendia or medical literature, and expedited overrides of alternative-drug coverage conditions for ineffectiveness, expected ineffectiveness, harm or medical necessity. The House passed172–141.

April 30, 2014Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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On March 20, 2014, Flanagan voted for HB1242 as amended to require individual and group health insurers to credit eligible prior cost sharing toward deductibles, coinsurance, and out-of-pocket limits when continuously insured members entered policies shorter than 12 months, including specified carrier or market changes. The text covered health-service corporations and HMOs and set January 2015 applicability. The House passed it, 165–124.

March 20, 2014Supports Healthcare Affordability

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On March 20, 2014, Flanagan voted to kill HB1501, whose text imposed annual state licensing and inspections on specified outpatient abortion clinics, with detailed facility, equipment, staffing, hospital-admitting-privilege, screening, recovery, and reporting requirements. It established criminal and civil enforcement penalties for violations. The House adopted the kill motion, 211–86.

March 20, 2014Supports Healthcare Affordability

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On March 20, 2014, Flanagan voted against HB1635, which appropriated $517,458 for fiscal year 2014 and $8,549,419 for fiscal year 2015 for integrated community mental health services, and $1,113,400 in each year for plaintiffs’ attorney fees, costs, and monitoring under the federal mental health settlement. The House passed the bill 173–125.

March 20, 2014Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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On January 29, 2014, Flanagan voted for HB658 as amended by2342h, establishing a registration board and background checks for unlicensed medical technicians with access to drugs and patients. The text required facility verification and adverse-action reporting, provided disciplinary and hearing procedures, penalties and injured-person civil claims, and appropriated$20,672 for FY2015 board expenses. The House adopted the report228–92 and referred the bill to Ways and Means.

January 29, 2014Supports Healthcare Affordability

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On November 21, 2013, Flanagan opposed special-session HB 1’s House health coverage plan. It covered newly eligible low-income adults through employer insurance or private managed care, with federal Medicaid funding and state administrative appropriations. It required cost-effective employer coverage, premium and cost-sharing payments, quality reporting, independent audits, and later individual premium assistance. It also established a state insurance marketplace and transitioned breast and cervical cancer coverage. He voted against majority amendment 2418h, adopted 204–151. He supported unsuccessful amendments imposing a state-cost growth termination trigger, removing the state-marketplace requirement, retaining oversight provisions, and reducing the required number of participating insurers. Those amendments failed 162–191, 154–197, 146–195, and 142–200. He then voted against passage as amended; the House adopted it 198–146.

November 21, 2013Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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On June 26, 2013, Flanagan voted Yea on the HB664 conference report, adopted 235–115. The report restored the eight-section House version. It broadened childhood-vaccine assessments beyond insurers to specified administrators, stop-loss coverage and group plans. It based representation and quarterly payments on covered children under nineteen and treated assessments as medical benefit costs. It provided reserves, adjustments, refunds and interstate coordination, plus annual reports and reviews. It allowed show-cause proceedings, fines and license suspension after a just-cause finding. It continued the vaccine-purchase fund and provided for return of unused childhood-vaccine funds to the association.

June 26, 2013Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Flanagan voted against HB 573 as amended by 0797h on March 20, 2013; the House adopted it 286–64. That version authorized registered therapeutic-cannabis patients and caregivers, including limited home cultivation, with provider certifications and regulated nonprofit treatment centers. On June 26, he requested the roll call and voted against conference report 2098c, adopted 284–66. The conference version removed patient and caregiver cultivation, limited usable possession to two ounces, and established up to four nonprofit centers. It retained medical certifications, minor-patient protections, a confidential registry, criminal and civil protections, security and product controls, oversight reports, and a continuously appropriated fee-funded administrative fund.

June 26, 2013Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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On June 5, 2013, Flanagan voted Nay on1905h to SB129, adopted 175–137; Yea on1967h, defeated140–170; and Nay on passage with 1905h, adopted 179–132. The House version required clear and convincing findings that youth commitment was necessary for safety. It separately defined nonsecure or staff-secure shelter care for ages eleven through seventeen. It required treatment availability outside secure settings. It provided release after six months for nonviolent offenses, subject to pending cases and renewable ninety-day court waivers. It established counsel, disability protections, notice and periodic court-review rights. The adopted amendment added $5,372,682 in federal funds for the Insurance Department’s consumer-assistance grant, including consultants, contracted services, travel, equipment and staff costs, with July 1, 2013 specified as the funding provision's effective date. The text specified an effective date sixty days after passage for the juvenile provisions. The rejected1967h retained that appropriation but required prior joint health-care-reform oversight approval of spending, exempting grant acceptance and appropriation transfers.

June 5, 2013Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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On May 8, 2013, Flanagan voted Nay on SB194; the House passed it 212–120. The bill required expanded Medicaid family-planning coverage by July 1, 2013 and a state-plan amendment for the 90% federal match. It required manual claims processing or a third-party administrator when ordinary systems were unavailable. It required advance provider guidance and technical assistance, plus a report within sixty days and annually thereafter.

May 8, 2013Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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On May 16, 2012, voted against amendment2242h to SB375, extending the ban on new licensed nursing-home, skilled-nursing, intermediate-care, inpatient-rehabilitation and long-term-acute-care beds through June30,2014. The proposal preserved replacement, safety, deficiency-remedy, repair and transferred-bed exceptions. The amendment failed157–162.

May 16, 2012Supports Healthcare Affordability

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On May 15, 2012, voted for amendment2220h to SB295, replacing the bill with repeal of the research-and-development tax credit's scheduled sunset. Then voted against amendment2224h restoring24hour in-person abortion-consent and payment-delay requirements, emergency exceptions and civil/professional remedies, and against the resulting bill. House adopted the replacement172–123, the added abortion text178–120 and passage198–100.

May 15, 2012Supports Healthcare Affordability

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On April 25, 2012, Flanagan voted for SB 409 as replaced by amendment 1751h. The House adopted it 236–96 and referred it to Finance. The version permitted registered patients with specified debilitating conditions and designated caregivers to possess and cultivate limited medical marijuana. It required provider certification, caregiver background checks, registry cards and confidential records, with restricted police access. It protected authorized patients, providers and caregivers from specified state penalties while retaining impaired-driving, workplace and public-smoking restrictions. Fees and fines funded a continuously appropriated, nonlapsing operating fund. The text specified July 1, 2013, or earlier certification of sufficient funds, as the patient-protection start date and July 1, 2015 as the expiry date. This vote concerned the House replacement, before later Finance and conference amendments.

April 25, 2012Supports Healthcare Affordability

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On March 21, 2012, voted against floor amendment1261h to HB1642, adopted 196–164, then against the amended bill, adopted 198–161. The text exempted for-profit destination specialty hospitals with no more than 50 beds and at least 65% proposed out-of-state patients from certificate-of-need review and required DHHS to request a federal waiver of their Medicaid enhancement tax.

March 21, 2012Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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On March 7, 2012, Flanagan opposed the12-section replacement1026h for HB 1546, adopted 187–152. It revised religious-society property and governance provisions, removed specified income and citizenship restrictions, and repealed older meetinghouse and dissolution provisions. It also added religious-objecting employer exemptions to contraceptive coverage in three insurance statutes. He then supported only the divided sections9–12, adopted 196–150; sections1–8 passed without an attributable own vote. Section12 specified60 days after passage.

March 7, 2012Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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On February 22, 2012, Flanagan voted against HR 29, urging federal health officials to rescind the rule requiring health plans to cover sterilization and contraceptives. The resolution also called for congressional action and distribution to federal officials. The House adopted it 227–121.

February 22, 2012Supports Healthcare Affordability

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On January 18, 2012, Jack Flanagan opposed HB 228 amendment 0237h, adopted 206–147, and passage as amended, adopted 207–147. The replacement prioritized public family-planning funds among public providers, hospitals and federally qualified health centers, rural clinics, and specified primary-care providers. It prohibited department contracts or grants to entities performing or operating facilities for non-federally qualified abortions. It authorized enforcement, recoupment, injunctions, eligible-provider suits and prevailing-plaintiff fees, and reallocated funds appropriated contrary to those rules. It included intervention and severability provisions and a 60-day effective date. His earlier vote for ITL failed 150–195, and his January 5 vote for a special order passed 298–18..

January 18, 2012Supports Healthcare Affordability

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On January 4, 2012, Flanagan supported HB 309 amendment 0090h, adopted 231–133, and amended passage, adopted 229–133 and ordered third reading. The version made certified-midwife coverage optional, required utilization review for early-childhood therapies, autism treatment and hearing aids, and added age-specific hearing-loss thresholds. It changed medically necessary group obesity coverage to make bariatric surgery optional. A five-member legislative committee studied existing insurance mandates and federal essential benefits, with mileage and a November 2012 report deadline. The text specified effect upon passage for the study section and 60 days later for the other provisions.

January 4, 2012Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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On October 12, 2011, Flanagan supported HB 652, adopted 259–111 and sent to third reading. It created a five-member commission outside the legislature and state workforce to develop and select five-year capitated Medicaid managed-care contracts. It required medical homes, quality-of-care protections, fiscal-committee involvement, and Governor and Council contract approval, followed by departmental implementation. It replaced the prior managed-care mandate and dissolved the commission when contracts received approval. The Senate killed the bill in May 2012; no implementation is attributed to this vote.

October 12, 2011Supports Healthcare Affordability

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On June 22, 2011, Flanagan supported SB 33’s replacement conference report, adopted 278–99. It required retired state employees under 65 and applicable spouses to contribute 12.5 percent of monthly medical premiums, capped per household at two participants. The retirement system deducted contributions from retirement allowances; administrative services billed other retirees and remaining balances. Collections entered the employee and retiree benefit risk management fund. Nonpayment triggered certified notice and benefit termination, with reenrollment dependent on paying outstanding amounts within six months. The text specified July 1, 2011 as its effective date.

June 22, 2011Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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Opposed the first HB396 veto override, then moved and voted for reconsideration and supported a second override. It expanded state meat-processing exemptions with labeling, handling and training requirements. Monthly limits were three cattle, five swine and ten sheep or goats. The first override failed, 204–116; reconsideration passed, 187–120. The second override failed, 202–107, below two thirds.

August 19, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health

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On March 20, 2025, Flanagan voted to pass HB 221, adopted 195–151. The two-section proposal permitted the public utilities commission to modify or add cost-effectiveness tests for efficiency programs beginning with 2027 triennia, through adjudication and an order at least 12 months in advance. It retained the Granite State and Total Resource Cost tests through 2026 and the 65% planned electric-savings floor. On August 19, 2026, he supported overriding the veto of the later ten-section version. That version expanded long-term electricity-purchase agreements and advanced-nuclear planning, with public-interest hearings, purchase limits and a nuclear coordinator’s oversight and outreach duties. It raised the net-metering threshold from 100 to 250 kilowatts and protected specified prior net-metering applications for twenty years. The override failed, 152–167, lacking two-thirds approval, and the veto was sustained.

August 19, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

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On May 14, 2026, Flanagan voted for amendment 1971h to SB 557, placing adoption of official-ballot town meetings on regular election ballots with absentee voting and polling requirements. It aligned rescission procedures and advanced liquor-licensee restrictions on specified kratom products from January 1, 2027 to bill passage. The amendment passed, 171–162.

May 14, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

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On April 23, 2026, Flanagan voted to reject SB 449, expanding industrial net metering, providing long-term tariff eligibility, and revising renewable-generation storage and interconnection rules. Rejection passed, 181–158.

April 23, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Flanagan voted against overriding the veto of carried 2025 HB451 on April 9, 2026. The exact0458h/0125EBA version established a manufacturer-funded paint stewardship program, with an approved per-container assessment included in the purchase price and no additional collection fee. It required plans, consumer education, environmentally sound collection and disposal, retailer compliance and annual reports; permitted voluntary collection sites; exempted approved conduct from state antitrust law; protected confidential financial and sales data; and required manufacturers to reimburse state administrative costs. The text included universal-waste handling and conditional protections for good-faith collection sites and specified an effective date upon passage. The override failed,186–169.

April 9, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health

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On March 26, 2026, Flanagan voted to send HB1602's earlier 0405h battery-recycling program to interim study; study failed 128–226. After adoption of the full replacement 1278h, he voted against amended passage, which passed 244–112. The replacement required covered portable and medium-format battery producers and retailers to participate in an approved, producer-financed stewardship program from July 2028, with plans due January 2028 and exemptions for specified medical, vehicle, liquid-electrolyte, larger lead-acid, recalled and nonremovable product batteries. It required free accessible collection, safety training and environmentally sound recycling, performance goals, recurring plans and reports, reimbursement of DES and collection-site costs, and publicly listed approved producers and plans. It barred consumer fees at sale or program collection, permitted conditional proprietary confidentiality and civil cost-recovery actions, and exempted approved stewardship conduct from specified antitrust rules. Qualified independent collection programs remained possible, including up to ten municipal sites without fees and annual reporting, with protection against duplicative electronic-device stewardship obligations. DES received rulemaking authority, and the bill had severability and immediate effectiveness. Private reimbursement obligations did not constitute a fixed public appropriation.

March 26, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health

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On February 12, 2026, Flanagan opposed tabling HB 1542; tabling failed, 160–188. He supported the amended bill replacing renewable-energy initiative support with per-kilowatt-hour ratepayer rebates of remaining alternative-compliance payments. The House approved it, 189–157, and referred it to Ways and Means. On March 26, he supported replacement 1085h, approved 189–162. Its three sections preserved the continuously appropriated Renewable Energy Fund but directed money remaining after administration and support for the offshore-wind and energy-innovation office to the general fund from June 30, 2026. From July 1, 2027 at 12:01 a.m., that excess instead funded retail electric ratepayer rebates. It removed renewable and solar earmarks and associated initiative-audit language.

March 26, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health

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On March 26, 2026, Flanagan voted against HB1469 as amended by 1187h; the House adopted amended passage 323–28. Its eighteen sections required licensing and professional supervision of qualifying massage and bodywork establishments, with misdemeanor operation without a license, public posting, fees and operational, health, safety, inspection and recordkeeping rules. It permitted owners without personal practitioner licenses to hire licensed managers; designated medical facilities and specified sole practitioners were exempt, though walk-in sole massage practices required establishment licenses. The bill addressed illegal-activity discipline, renewals, definitions and advisory-board compensation, and specified July 1, 2027 effectiveness. The adopted amendment removed the paralegal-investigator funding section rather than appropriating it. This differed from HB1458's proprietor-license approach.

March 26, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health

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On March 11, 2026, Flanagan voted for HB1219 after adoption of amendment 1094h. The bill limited vaccination requirements for children and all adults living in foster homes to those permitted under RSA 141-C:20-a, including vaccine types, numbers of doses and exemptions. It retained a 60-day effective date. The House adopted the amended passage report 180–145. Later Senate provisions concerning Medicare savings programs were not part of this vote.

March 11, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health

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On March 11, 2026, Flanagan voted for HB1773 with amendment 1019h, directing DHHS to request a federal SNAP demonstration waiver by January 1, 2027 excluding candy and sweetened drinks from eligible purchases. The amended definitions included artificial sweeteners, specified beverage exceptions for milk, substitutes, coffee, unsweetened tea and qualifying juices, and excluded baked goods from the candy definition. The two-section bill required nutrition outreach, retailer coordination and assistance, an evaluation plan and annual reporting beginning November 2026; implementation rules depended on federal approval. It specified a 60-day effective date and provided no funding or new positions. The House rejected the amended passage report 161–173 and then adopted Inexpedient to Legislate.

March 11, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

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On March 11, 2026, Flanagan voted for HB1449 with amendment 0989h. Its two sections prohibited vaccination clinics during school hours at public elementary, secondary and charter schools and required parents or guardians to accompany and remain with children vaccinated at such clinics. It preserved school nurses' statutory duties and specified effectiveness 60 days after passage; 0989h corrected the savings clause's wording. The House adopted the amended passage report 172–154.

March 11, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted for HB1635 requiring school staff suicide-prevention training within 30 days of hiring and every two years, replacing the annual requirement and removing the two-hour minimum. The House approved it, 183–167.

March 5, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted against tabling HR35 and then for its amended resolution urging a prohibition on intentional polluting emissions for weather modification and geoengineering. The resolution recommended that environmental officials notify federal agencies and publish the policy. The House adopted it, 169–152.

March 5, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted for HB1584 requiring prominent medical- and religious-exemption notices on state vaccination promotions and accepting any signed statement of religious objection for school immunization exemptions. The amended bill used existing disciplinary procedures for state employees rather than new civil fines. The House approved it, 197–163.

February 12, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health

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On February 12, 2026, Flanagan voted Nay on HB1719, which removed hepatitis B from the statutory list of required childhood immunizations while retaining the other listed diseases. The complete two-section introduced version had a 60-day effective date. The House passed the bill 186–168 and referred it to Finance.

February 12, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

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Cosponsored HB1544 on January 7, 2026. The introduced version required fragrance-free cleaners and restroom personal-hygiene products in public areas of state buildings within one year. It banned fragrance-dispensing devices. It did not impose a blanket ban on visitors' personal fragrances.

January 7, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted to reject HB97, which included $15 million in each of two fiscal years for eligible wastewater infrastructure projects approved by June 2026. The proposed funds were nonlapsing. The House rejected the bill, 175–156.

January 7, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health

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On March 13, 2025, Flanagan voted for HB 219’s ten-section replacement, amendment 0678h. The House approved it, 189–173, and referred it to Finance. It removed the separate solar-energy class, excluded government-procured wind, lowered the thermal-energy requirement to 1.7 percent, fixed alternative-compliance rates, and revised renewable-fund and customer-generator credit provisions. On January 7, 2026, he again supported amended passage, approved 175–152. Amendment 2988h retained that operative package and delayed its effective-date section to July 1, 2027.

January 7, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health

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On March 27, 2025, Flanagan voted Yea to pass HB712 with amendment 1138h, 200–165, and it passed. The complete six-section House version barred physicians from performing transgender chest surgery on minors and limited other breast surgeries to listed cancer, malignancy, injury, infection, gynecomastia, symptomatic macromastia and congenital-deformity exceptions. It expanded the existing gender-surgery prohibition to chest, facial and reproductive-organ procedures undertaken for gender identity, preserved specified medical exceptions, and retained discipline for referrals as well as provision. Amendment 1138h included indicated lymph-node removal, corrected cross-references and replaced the special prevailing-party remedy with liability for negligent or willful violations or assistance under existing law. The House version specified an effective date 60 days after passage for breast-surgery provisions and January 1, 2026 for the remainder. On June 26, Flanagan voted Yea for conference report 2862CoFC, 191–163, and it passed. The fifteen-section conference version retained surgery restrictions but excluded physiologically necessary or reconstructive procedures from transgender chest surgery. It provided administrative discipline without criminal liability. It added minors' private claims for damages, court orders and fees, without requiring exhaustion of administrative remedies. Parents brought claims for minors, or individuals sued after adulthood until age twenty. It also added attorney-general enforcement. It removed referrals from the gender-surgery disciplinary provision. It also required residential-care quality-assurance programs and public investigation and inspection results, posted correction notices, facility-wide visitation policies, and dementia training of six initial hours and four annual hours. Civil penalties remained in a nonlapsing resident-protection account. New abortion reporting collected date, county, patient age group, in-state or out-of-state residence, method and gestational age without patient or provider identifiers, with annual aggregate state reports, confidentiality rules, $100-per-business-day noncompliance fines and a misdemeanor for knowing false reports. The conference version specified January 1, 2027 as the reporting rules’ effective date; other sections had July 1, 2025, 60-day or January 1, 2026 dates. The conference added a new reporting section rather than repealing the existing fetal-life-protection disclaimer about abortion rights.

June 26, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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On June 5, 2025, Jack Flanagan voted Yea on SB 180 amendment 2642h; it failed 163–166. It replaced the adopted landfill provisions with a childhood immunization rule-authority restriction: only the seven diseases listed in statute, with existing varicella, hepatitisB and Hib rules retained through June 30, 2026, and a scheduled2045 rule-authority repeal. The replacement removed landfill groundwater five-year travel and minimum1,500-foot setbacks, independent hydrogeological testing, subsurface and aquifer investigations, continuous site staffing, low-permeability soil requirements, enhanced storm-design and airport-distance requirements, mandatory specified permit denials and protective DES rulemaking language. The retained first three sections concerned CoosCounty economic designation, county input and 2045 designation repeal. No named whole-bill passage vote was established.

June 5, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health

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On May 1, 2025, Flanagan voted against SB 60 amendment 1815h, which was adopted, 176–165. It limited mandatory childhood vaccinations to seven diseases named in statute, removed health officials’ authority to require vaccinations for other diseases, and retained existing chickenpox, hepatitis B and Hib rules until June 30, 2026. It left the bill’s advance-deposit horse-wagering provisions unchanged.

May 1, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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On May 1, 2025, Flanagan voted to reject SB 228, 190–151, and the House rejected it. The eight-section Senate version expanded group net metering to eligible customer-generators and multiple hosts, raised the simple-net-meter threshold from 100 to 500 kilowatts, capped compensation at group electricity costs, and expanded low-income community solar limits to three megawatts per project and eighteen megawatts annually. It included nonprofit educational institutions and public housing authorities within eligible municipal-host groups.

May 1, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health

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On March 27, 2025, Flanagan voted Yea on HB361 Ought to Pass, adopted 203–164. Its two-section text prohibited school districts, chartered public schools and public academies from requiring students or members of the public to wear a covering over the mouth and nose on school property unless required for a specific extracurricular or instructional purpose or another law. It preserved protective equipment for sports and concussion prevention, scientific or educational chemical hazards, and accommodations under individualized education programs or Section 504 plans. The House text specified an effective date 60 days after passage.

March 27, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health

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On March 27, 2025, Flanagan voted to pass HB 679, 204–165. It barred childhood immunization requirements for vaccines not shown in clinical trials to prevent transmission of a disease.

March 27, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health

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On March 27, 2025, Flanagan voted to pass HB 357, 195–174. It removed the health commissioner’s authority to require additional childhood vaccines by rule. It retained seven diseases expressly listed in statute and kept the varicella, hepatitis B, and Hib rules only until June 30, 2026.

March 27, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health

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On March 26, 2025, Flanagan voted to kill HB 226; the motion failed 140–196. The eight-section introduced proposal permitted drug-checking equipment and nominal samples for testing, expanded paraphernalia exclusions, authorized specified funding uses, and protected participants from punishment, searches and evidentiary use. It prohibited using test results for clinical decisions or criminal investigations. Later amendment 0624h and passage were unnamed votes and are not attributed to him.

March 26, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health

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On March 6, 2025, Flanagan voted against tabling HB524; the motion failed 175–198. He then voted for Ought to Pass, adopted 189–181. The two-section bill repealed RSA126-Q establishing the New Hampshire Vaccine Association, effective 60 days after passage. The association collected commercial-payer and third-party-administrator payments for the non-governmental share of the state's universal childhood-vaccine purchasing program; the bill contained no appropriation or new-position authorization.

March 6, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Flanagan voted Yea for HB 649. The motion passed 212–143 and went to Ways and Means. The bill repealed vehicle safety inspections, diagnostic emissions testing, inspection fees, and the air-pollution-abatement fund. It revised truck, motorcycle, odometer, custom-vehicle, and used-vehicle provisions while retaining requested dealer inspections and deceptive-practice remedies.

March 6, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Flanagan voted Yea for HB 224 with amendment 0288h. The report passed 200–162 and went to Ways and Means. The replacement directed renewable-energy-fund money exceeding administration, offshore-wind-office funding, and incentive payments into per-kilowatt-hour retail customer rebates. It removed prior renewable-project uses and audit language.

March 6, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Flanagan voted Yea to indefinitely postpone HB 724. The motion passed 202–167, ending House consideration. The proposal lowered the childhood blood-lead action level from 5 to 3.5 micrograms per deciliter. It required contractor certification numbers on building permits, inspections of other units after a lead hazard finding, and a rebuttable presumption of lead in pre-1978 housing.

March 6, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Flanagan voted Yea to reject HB 756. The motion passed 202–169. The proposal added blood-lead test results to school and daycare health records. When a child lacked a test, it required documented parental notice and lead-poisoning education, with existing exemptions retained.

March 6, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health

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On February 20, 2025, Flanagan voted to reject HB 368, 213–157. It prohibited tobacco and e-cigarette smoking in vehicles carrying children under 16, with a $100 fine and enforcement only after a stop for another traffic violation.

February 20, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health

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On February 20, 2025, Flanagan voted for HB 682, 206–163. It removed offshore-wind development duties and renewable-fund support, renamed the office of energy innovation and repealed the wind workforce committee, offshore-wind commission and additional wind-study provisions. It retained Gulf of Maine clean-energy advice and aligned nuclear, grid-modernization and hydrogen responsibilities with the renamed office.

February 20, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health

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On February 13, 2025, Flanagan voted to reject HB 422, 196–175. It increased maximum civil penalties and administrative fines for unrestored shoreland violations from $5,000 to $15,000 and retained escalating repeat-violation fines.

February 13, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health

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On February 13, 2025, Flanagan voted to reject HB 332, 196–171. It added protection and remediation of surface-water quality to the authorized purposes of village districts.

February 13, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health

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On February 13, 2025, Flanagan voted to reject HB 334, 199–171. It expanded natural-resource protections in the state development plan and required an environmental-threats section addressing contamination, waste disposal and recycling.

February 13, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health

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On February 6, 2025, Flanagan voted to indefinitely postpone HB 83, 215–140. It raised the sports-betting age and mobile age-verification threshold from 18 to 21. The postponement ended House consideration.

February 6, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Sponsored HB545 on January 9, 2025. The introduced version required seasonal publication of states with chronic wasting disease and tests before importing meat from affected deer-family animals processed outside New Hampshire. A first offense carried a $250 violation fine; subsequent offenses were class B misdemeanors with $1,000 fines.

January 9, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Flanagan voted Nay on concurrence with the Senate version of HB1246 on June 30, 2020; concurrence passed 194–132. On September 16 he voted Nay on overriding the governor’s veto; the 196–139 vote fell short of two-thirds and the veto stood. Its12-section text revised health-care infection reporting to follow specified national standards, removed two mandatory process measures, retained influenza coverage reporting and required monthly reporting of Health and Human Services budget reductions. It established a nonlapsing, continually appropriated COVID-19 nursing-home and long-term-care fund receiving $25 million in CARES money for testing, protective equipment, family-video technology, facility continuity and an independent needs/preparedness review. It directed another $10 million in CARES money to child-care scholarships, expanding eligibility to 275% of federal poverty guidelines and assistance across all tiers for July 2020–June 2021. It authorized qualifying pharmacists and supervised interns to administer available COVID-19 vaccines with primary-care-provider notice, required public check-register reporting of all CARES disbursements, and directed Medicaid-plan and rule changes for nursing-assistant training reimbursement. The text specified effective dates after 60 days for infection reporting and training-reimbursement provisions and passage for the remainder.

September 16, 2020Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Flanagan voted Nay on concurrence with the Senate version of HB1166 on June 30, 2020; concurrence passed 178–154. He also voted Nay on September 16 on overriding the governor’s veto; the 193–145 vote fell short of two-thirds and the veto stood. The text expanded unemployment eligibility and self-employment assistance for specified COVID-19 shutdown, quarantine and family-care circumstances, protected qualifying emergency-benefit overpayments, and calculated annual earnings for qualifying family leave using preleave earnings. It extended federal family-leave protections for specified COVID-19 circumstances to employers with at least 15 employees, subject to individual hardship exceptions. It directed a $50 million CARES transfer to Employment Security, first for computer upgrades supporting the expanded eligibility and then to the unemployment trust fund, with legislative certification and a federal-funding-loss contingency. It imposed COVID-19 workplace hygiene, protective-equipment and testing-access or paid-time-off requirements, directed state protective-equipment assistance at no cost for employers with no more than 15 employees, and waived employer job-training cost sharing until July 2021. It waived COVID-19 testing and treatment cost sharing and specified out-of-network charges for individual and group health coverage, the state employee plan and Medicaid managed-care coverage. The text specified an effective date upon passage for most provisions and January 1, 2021 for coordinated health-service-corporation and HMO provisions. The enrolled amendment corrected section numbering and effective-date cross-references.

September 16, 2020Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Flanagan voted Nay on concurrence with the Senate version of HB1375 on June 30, 2020; the House concurred 227–105. On September 16 he voted Nay on overriding the governor’s veto; the 191–138 vote fell short of two-thirds and the veto stood. Its two-section text established medical-monitoring claims for significant negligent exposure to hazardous or toxic substances causing increased disease risk, requiring reasonably necessary diagnostic testing that existed to detect the disease. It allowed claims without present injury or symptoms, excluded past or present health status from the claim, and limited damages to expert-proven necessary examinations and related costs. It permitted court-supervised monitoring programs and reasonable attorney fees and litigation costs, established a three-year filing period from the chapter’s effective date or discovery of exposure irrespective of release date, included severability, and specified an effective date upon passage.

September 16, 2020Opposes Environment and Public Health

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On June 30, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay on concurrence with the Senate version of HB1645; concurrence passed 255–74. Its26-section text extended misdemeanor domestic-violence annulment eligibility to ten years and coordinated repeat convictions; allowed equitable remedies in contract claims against the state; and added a bail commissioner to the pretrial-services commission. It revised bail standards concerning public safety, repeated failures to appear and alleged new offenses. It allowed detention or financial conditions under stated evidence and hearing requirements. It preserved live-testimony opportunities and appointed counsel for indigent class B misdemeanor detainees. It revised bail-commissioner fee assistance, identification and training, and established a remote-services study. It prohibited private or for-profit prisoner-housing contracts except temporary corrections emergencies, preserved ancillary-service contracts and existing housing contracts until expiration, and granted qualifying underage alcohol-overdose callers and patients arrest/prosecution immunity excluding impaired driving. It required written reporting and investigation of officer misconduct, with protection against retaliation. It expanded public-property criminal-mischief coverage, while reducing the specified public-property offense from a class A misdemeanor to a violation with restitution. It created a continually appropriated police psychological-screening fund receiving $100,000 from drug forfeitures. It removed the local funding-approval condition for police standards and prohibited chokeholds except the specified statutory exception. The text specified January 1, 2021 for officer-misconduct and criminal-mischief provisions, 60 days after passage for listed annulment, bail, alcohol-immunity and screening-fund provisions, and passage for the remainder as their effective dates.

June 30, 2020Opposes Environment and Public Health

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On June 30, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay on concurrence with the Senate version of HB1639; concurrence passed 201–121. The health-care package revised Medicaid income eligibility, emergency authorization rules, insurance coverage for oral cancer medicines and qualifying long-term tick-borne treatment, pharmacy audit rights and dental fee contracts. It required a public state health assessment and improvement plan, individualized chronic-pain prescribing rules and mental-health reimbursement parity, and provided at least one substance-use medication option without prior authorization. It added physician assistants to advance-directive and resuscitation laws with patient-choice safeguards, temporarily allowed tightly limited surrogate consent to experimental COVID-19 treatment, revised physician-assistant licensing, and established confidential overdose-death review. It created a nonlapsing, continually appropriated opioid-settlement trust for treatment, recovery, prevention and related services, with 15percent directed to qualifying local plaintiffs. It also authorized pharmacist COVID-19 vaccination, required medically appropriate jail addiction treatment, strengthened patient nondiscrimination and visitation rights, restricted examinations of unconscious patients subject to care and emergency exceptions, and established notice, independent impact review and appeal procedures for proposed facilities near critical-access hospitals.

June 30, 2020Opposes Environment and Public Health

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On June 30, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay on concurrence with the Senate version of HB1264; concurrence passed 210–116. Its16-section text extended the seacoast cancer-cluster commission through June 2022; set drinking-water limits of 12pptPFOA,15pptPFOS,18pptPFHxS and11pptPFNA with annual review and authority to adjust them to protect health; and aligned ambient groundwater standards with statutory state limits. It created a nonlapsing, continually appropriated PFAS remediation loan fund and appropriated $50 million for drinking-water and wastewater-residual capital remediation, authorizing up to $50 million in state borrowing and general-fund debt payments. Eligible public and nonprofit water or wastewater systems needed approved cost-effective projects, no viable lower-cost alternatives and responsible-party contributions; need-based loan forgiveness reached10%, capped at $5 million total, with additional forgiveness contingent on litigation recoveries after public debt and legal costs were repaid. It applied the existing governmental pollutant-liability standard to PFAS incidents, including its reasonable-best-practices presumption. It required resident individual/group insurance coverage of PFAS/PFC blood tests without greater cost sharing than similar benefits and extended those requirements to health-service corporations and HMOs. The text specified effective dates after 60 days for insurance provisions with coordinated January 2021 updates and passage for the rest.

June 30, 2020Opposes Environment and Public Health

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On June 30, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay on concurrence with the Senate version of HB1230; the House concurred 229–102. Its two-section text amended the 2019 budget’s substance-use appropriation, retaining $375,000 for fiscal 2020 and $375,000 for fiscal 2021, specifying existing Manchester Safe Stations and substance-use disorder services in Nashua, and retaining treasury-warrant authority with funds nonlapsing until June 30, 2021. The amendment broadened the Nashua service purpose rather than adding a new fixed dollar amount and specified an effective date upon passage.

June 30, 2020Opposes Environment and Public Health

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On June 30, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay on concurrence with the Senate version of HB1245; concurrence passed 190–127. The omnibus agency package added earned sentence credits for correctional-industry and other rehabilitation programs, repealed 24 statutory boards and programs, reduced several committees' legislative membership, and established a review of remaining nonregulatory bodies. It revised reciprocal-jurisdiction reinsurance safeguards, commercial-insurance cancellation rules and insurance enforcement, directed parental-rights and child-protection appeals to the Supreme Court, and made unauthorized entry on correctional grounds a misdemeanor. It expanded controlled procurement-card use, raised the usual surplus-property bid threshold, retained license residency for deployed military members' children, revised agency salary grades, and changed administrative-rule filing, notice and review procedures. It broadened state energy-saving measures and competitive energy contracts, allocated half of remaining general-funded energy budgets to the existing energy investment fund, and made veterans' donations and decal receipts continually appropriated. It created offshore-wind planning and industry-development bodies. It established seasonal-dock registration and repair exemptions with water-quality safeguards, emergency dam intervention and owner reimbursement, optional municipal use of the fire marshal, trained safety-officer powers with a two-hour detention limit, medical-imaging licensure checks, and motor-carrier default sanctions with notice, inability-to-pay and hearing provisions. It required an animal-case cost-of-care budget request and raised tobacco sales and possession ages to twenty-one, with specified exceptions. It revised workers' compensation audit penalties and mental-health discharge procedures and extended a waterway study. It authorized specialty-beverage sales with a 5% wholesale-case fee. It required replacement-well impact mitigation and changed Lucky 7 ticket pricing. It revised child-fatality review and removed its nonpublic-session exemption, and established voluntary recovery-housing certification, complaints and safety standards with certified-housing limits on state-funded referrals.

June 30, 2020Opposes Environment and Public Health

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On March 12, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay on Ought to Pass with Amendment 0029h for HB1539; the House adopted it 185–112 and ordered third reading. The seven-section replacement required a landlord receiving a lead-hazard reduction order to notify the tenant within 15 days and make an unconditional temporary-relocation offer within 45 days, before remediation. It required prorated rent refunds, an adequate lead-safe dwelling and specified rent-difference payments, reasonable moving and storage costs, a right to return and lease cancellation if the tenant chose not to return. It allowed a written permanent-vacancy lump-sum agreement with half paid within 72 hours and the remainder and full deposit after timely vacancy. It added landlord-compliance remedies and defenses, treated failure to vacate under the agreement as a tenancy-termination ground and added a seven-day notice provision, with a 90-day effective date.

March 12, 2020Opposes Environment and Public Health

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On March 12, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay on amendment 0647h for HB1404; the House adopted it 182–123. He then voted Nay on Ought to Pass with Amendment; the House adopted that question 178–125 and ordered third reading. The complete two-section replacement added prevention, including preventive prescriptions, to existing confidential sexually transmitted disease diagnosis and treatment for minors aged 14 or older without parental knowledge or consent. It included physician assistants and advanced practice registered nurses alongside physicians and set a 60-day effective date. The replacement contained no separate pharmacy dispensing authorization.

March 12, 2020Opposes Environment and Public Health

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On March 12, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay on Ought to Pass with Amendment 1001h for HB1655; the House adopted it 185–118 and ordered third reading. Its nine-section text expanded the insurance-assessment-funded vaccine purchasing system to covered adults aged 19–64, excluded Medicare beneficiaries and specified pneumococcal polysaccharide and herpes-zoster vaccines, and updated vaccine ordering, distribution and administrative-oversight definitions. It revised assessment handling, interstate arrangements and interim-assessment rules to cover adult vaccines, removed medical-loss-ratio classification language, and extended the existing continuously appropriated vaccine-purchase fund’s uses to ordering, distribution and administrative oversight. Vaccines remained supplied without charge apart from administration costs. It set a July 1, 2021 effective date; the fiscal note estimated approximately $10.7 million in annual assessment-funded revenue and expenditure, rather than a fixed new general-fund appropriation.

March 12, 2020Opposes Environment and Public Health

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On March 12, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay on Ought to Pass with Amendment for HB1319; the House adopted it 189–123 and ordered third reading. After amendments 0995h and 1108h, the text barred permits for new landfills with disposal areas within two miles of state or national parks. It expressly excluded expansions of existing landfills. It defined covered state parks, the Appalachian National Scenic Trail and Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park. Historic sites and recreational rail trails were excluded. It set a 60-day effective date.

March 12, 2020Opposes Environment and Public Health

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On March 11, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay on HB1472 with amendment 0697h; the House adopted the recommendation197–135 and ordered third reading. The three-section0697h text restricted food-service businesses to providing single-use plastic straws only on explicit customer request or customer selection from a self-service dispenser. It covered plastic from petroleum or biological polymers, excluded nonplastic alternatives and licensed health-care facilities, and exempted the restriction from RSA149-M:5. Its stated purpose was source reduction and its effective date was one year after passage.

March 11, 2020Opposes Environment and Public Health

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On March 11, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay on HB1701 with amendment 0974h; the House adopted the recommendation 197–127 and ordered third reading. The three-section replacement required qualifying retailers selling or supplying film-plastic packaging to establish collection and recycling programs, register with Environmental Services, keep two years of weight records and offer reusable bags. It covered stores over 15,000 square feet and specified chains, exempted licensed food-service establishments and set separate enclosed-mall collection rules. Large stores had 18 months to comply and other qualifying stores one year. Collected uncontaminated film plastics required recycling rather than disposal. The department provided educational materials, recycler information and implementing rules; the enforcement schedule specified a warning followed by $250 and $500 fines. The text encouraged rather than required 20 percent recycled-content bags and specified an effective date upon passage. The fiscal note listed no appropriation.

March 11, 2020Opposes Environment and Public Health

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On March 11, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay on HB1102 with amendment 0437h; the House adopted the recommendation 232–81 and ordered third reading. The five-section0437h replacement, named Rachel's Law, required state- or municipality-licensed food establishments to post menu and menu-board notices asking customers to disclose food allergies and maintain a department-approved, trained and certified food-protection manager during operating hours. That manager informed employees of allergy and safety issues relevant to their duties. Enforcement followed state licensing rules or local ordinances; specified licensing or inspection exemptions remained, and the text did not create or affect private causes of action. It limited municipal-license exemptions for these allergy provisions, authorized rules and set a January 1, 2021 effective date.

March 11, 2020Opposes Environment and Public Health

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On March 11, 2020, Flanagan voted against HB1410 as amended by 0723h. The House adopted Ought to Pass with Amendment 192–143 and ordered third reading. The replacement prohibited flavors in vaping products for people under 21 and flavors other than menthol and tobacco in cartridges for all users, while exempting refillable tanks from the latter restriction. It removed the introduced bill's separate chemical restrictions and set an effective date of January 1, 2021.

March 11, 2020Opposes Environment and Public Health

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On February 19, 2020, Flanagan voted against Ought to Pass with Amendment on HB1664. The report was adopted 197–123 and referred to Executive Departments and Administration. Amendment0130h replaced the introduced bill's environmental-advocate and oversight-commission provisions with annual statewide greenhouse-gas inventories, emission-reduction goals of at least 20 percent below 1990 levels by 2025, 50 percent by 2035 and 80 percent by 2050, and a public-comment climate-action plan updated every five years. It required agencies to incorporate the goals in planning, rules and funding decisions, required periodic public progress reports and consideration of impacts on rural, low-income and minority communities, and added the emission goals to state energy policy. It contained no appropriation.

February 19, 2020Opposes Environment and Public Health

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On February 19, 2020, Flanagan voted Yea for HB1563, 329–21; the House approved it and referred it to Ways and Means. The complete two-section introduced bill transferred drug-forfeiture-fund administration from the attorney general to the governor and Executive Council. It retained reimbursement of officials’ drug-related arrest and prosecution costs and replaced broad drug-control and extraordinary trial-cost uses with drug or mental-health treatment, rehabilitation, prevention, education, other substance-misuse response programs and matching grants. It contained a 60-day effective date and no new dollar appropriation.

February 19, 2020Supports Environment and Public Health

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On January 9, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay for carried 2019 HB559 with amendment 2820h, 205–158; it passed. The complete four-section House replacement required checkout bags over150square inches to meet recycled-material standards: plastic at least4mils thick, or paper with at least40%postconsumer recycled content, with recyclable-and-reusable labels. Businesses charged10cents per bag up to 50cents per purchase and retained the fees; other reusable bags were exempt. DES arranged a stakeholder review after 24months, with enforcement withheld unless that review established a need. The text had a one-year effective date.

January 9, 2020Opposes Environment and Public Health

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On January 9, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay for carried 2019 HB102 with amendment 2819h, 215–151; it passed. The complete two-section House version added municipal power to regulate distribution of single-use plastic and paper bags to consumers through bylaws, with a 60-day effective date. Existing noise, campaign-reporting and weapons-display powers in the printed section remained unchanged.

January 9, 2020Opposes Environment and Public Health

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On September 18, 2019, Flanagan voted Nay on overriding the veto of HB582. The seven-section bill expanded the energy board's stakeholder and recommendation role, allocated auction proceeds between residential and commercial/industrial customers according to electricity-delivery sales, and rebated the commercial/industrial allocation. It added annual energy-reduction reporting to the board and barred diversion of the continually appropriated energy-efficiency fund to other purposes. It repealed the rule on unsold allowances and the contingent repeal of RGGI, and included an SB205-dependent renumbering contingency. The override failed 221–157; the veto was sustained.

September 18, 2019Opposes Environment and Public Health

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On June 13, 2019, Flanagan voted against concurring with the Senate’s HB 183 amendment; concurrence passed, 222–123. The eight-section version created a five-legislator microgrid study with consultation and a November report. It required distribution utilities to buy three years of baseload renewable-generation credits from eligible facilities, excluding municipal-solid-waste facilities and power already purchased under the existing program. Prices used the difference between the adjusted energy rate and the higher of the facility’s received rate or real-time market price. Utilities recovered purchase and reasonable costs through a nonbypassable charge to all customer classes. It specified monthly invoices, 15-day payments, confidentiality, commission adjudication, tolling of interrupted program periods and severability. On September 18, he opposed overriding its veto. The override failed, 251–132, and the veto was sustained.

September 18, 2019Opposes Environment and Public Health

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On June 6, 2019, Jack Flanagan voted against passing SB 168 as amended. The House adopted the report, 217–139. The version raised the new-solar renewable portfolio requirement from 0.6 percent in 2019 to 5.4 percent in 2025. It exempted electricity delivered under qualifying preexisting, unextended supply contracts and required confidential annual reports on those contracts through July 2022.

June 6, 2019Opposes Environment and Public Health

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On May 23, 2019, Flanagan voted Nay on SB 165 as amended; the House adopted it, 229–113. Its four-section version expanded member-bill credits for group net-metering and added a low-income community-solar incentive of 3 cents per kilowatt-hour through July 1, 2021, then 2.5 cents. Qualifying projects needed at least five residential customers, a majority at or below 300 percent of poverty, and no more than 15 percent nonresidential load. It required at least two new qualifying projects annually per utility territory from 2020, cost-benefit reports, and adjustments for generation exceeding group usage.

May 23, 2019Opposes Environment and Public Health

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On May 8, 2019, Flanagan voted Nay on SB 275; the House adopted it, 205–145. The version required state participation in the Transportation and Climate Initiative and plans for a lower-emission state fleet. It set feasible zero-emission goals for new light-vehicle acquisitions in 2026, heavy vehicles in 2031, and the entire state fleet in 2041, with emergency and feasibility exceptions. It authorized regional low-carbon-fuel discussions while retaining prior legislative approval for program implementation. It also removed semiannual expense reporting. These requirements concerned state vehicles.

May 8, 2019Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Flanagan voted against amended SB 193 on May 8, 2019. The version barred specified import, shipment and manufacture of residential upholstered furniture containing more than 0.1 percent flame-retardant chemicals. It required compliance certificates or retailer notices, prohibited notified retailers’ sales, and gave retailers manufacturer refunds. Violations fell under consumer-protection enforcement. The text protected submitted confidential information and exempted used furniture, specified public facilities, older inventory and manufacture, electronics, and mattresses, with California-label compliance alternatives. The House adopted the passage report 221–132.

May 8, 2019Opposes Environment and Public Health

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On May 8, 2019, Flanagan voted Nay on SB 142 as amended; the House adopted it, 211–135. The complete House replacement, amendment 1478h, required public middle and high school districts to provide sanitary napkins and tampons free of charge in female and gender-neutral bathrooms. Districts bore the cost and received permission to seek grants or community and nonprofit partnerships. The effective date was passage.

May 8, 2019Opposes Environment and Public Health

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On May 8, 2019, Flanagan voted Nay on SB 72; the House adopted it, 199–123. The complete two-section version repealed the Public Utilities Commission requirement to estimate electricity from net-metered, customer-sited sources lacking renewable-energy certificates and credit that production toward renewable-portfolio requirements. Its effective date was passage.

May 8, 2019Opposes Environment and Public Health

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On May 8, 2019, Flanagan voted Nay on SB 205 as amended; the House adopted it, 197–127. The three-section version permitted commission-approved energy-efficiency system-benefits-charge increases for planning periods ending in 2020 and 2023, and Fiscal Committee-approved increases for other efficiency purposes. It required at least 20 percent of efficiency funds for low-income programs and workforce-development funding. It expanded the energy-efficiency board and its stakeholder role, revised quorum and reporting rules, and retained restrictions on voting with private interests.

May 8, 2019Opposes Environment and Public Health

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On March 19, 2019, voted for HB480 as amended by 0974h, authorizing regulated sports wagering through Lottery Commission agents, mobile wagering, and up to ten locally approved retail locations. The text included bettor and event exclusions, verification and audit controls, education-fund proceeds, and up to $250,000 annually for a council promoting prevention and treatment of problem gambling. The House adopted it, 269–82.

March 19, 2019Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted to table HB494 and against its passage. The bill declared an imminent hazard at the Coakley Landfill and directed environmental officials to pursue contaminant removal or containment remedies for Berry's Brook. The table motion failed, 123–206; the House passed it, 231–97.

March 19, 2019Opposes Environment and Public Health

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On March 19, 2019, voted against HB560 as amended by 0920h, restricting single-use plastic carryout bags, requiring a minimum 10-cent charge for replacement bags with specified exemptions, and requiring large stores to collect recyclable plastic film. The House adopted the bill, 201–145.

March 19, 2019Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted against restricting food-service businesses to distributing single-use plastic straws only upon explicit customer request, with an exemption for licensed health-care facilities. The House approved the amended bill, 196–146.

March 19, 2019Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted against requiring the system benefits charge to fund energy-efficiency programs and allowing the energy-efficiency portion to increase without prior legislative approval. HB166 also authorized programs to offer low-cost efficiency products to low-income customers. The House approved it, 201–138; the Senate later killed it.

March 14, 2019Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted against HB542's $350,000 wetlands-regulations program for fiscal 2020. It provided $300,000 for municipal grants and $50,000 for a guidebook and model ordinance. The House approved it, 208–140.

February 28, 2019Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted against combining environmental permit accounts into a water-resources fund and increasing wetlands, shoreland and terrain-alteration fees. The version he opposed raised permanent-dock fees from $2 to $6 per square foot and added a $300 temporary-dock notification fee. It also expanded use of fees for staffing and permit review and authorized later fee adjustments by rule. The House approved it, 201–147.

February 28, 2019Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted to kill HB290, which required removal and destruction of certain older wood stoves when homes were sold in densely populated areas designated by environmental officials. The bill excluded central or sole-source heaters and certain antique and masonry stoves. The House killed it, 207–131.

February 28, 2019Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted against expanding tobacco taxes and retail licensing to cover electronic nicotine-delivery systems and related components and substances, whether or not they contained nicotine. FDA-approved drugs and devices were exempt; premium cigars remained exempt from the tax. The House approved this version, 203–153, then referred it to Ways and Means; the bill was later killed by voice vote.

February 27, 2019Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted against establishing a classified school-nurse coordinator position in the Department of Education to guide school nurses and staff on student health, safety, mental health and substance misuse. The House version required a licensed registered nurse and appropriated $109,000 for fiscal year 2020 and $111,000 for fiscal year 2021 from the general fund. The House approved it, 198–146; the bill later died in the Senate.

February 27, 2019Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted against licensing and inspecting tattooing, piercing and branding establishments in HB120. Later opposed an expanded version covering massage and other bodywork establishments. It funded an investigative paralegal through the professional-licensing fund. Both passed the House; the Senate killed the bill.

January 31, 2019Opposes Environment and Public Health

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On June 16, 2016, Flanagan voted Nay on five amendments to HB1000; all failed. Amendment2174h split the existing $1.5 million opioid-enforcement appropriation into $1.35 million for Safety and $150,000 for Corrections distributions for county costs, without increasing the stated total; it failed110–214. Amendment2187h permitted adult syringe sales, required safe-disposal and addiction-treatment information, retained prescription requirements for minors, and exempted unusable syringe residues from specified drug restrictions and penalties; it failed87–220. Amendment2188h removed mandatory concealed-carry licensing, replaced discretionary suitability with lawful-possession eligibility, retained optional licenses with five-year renewal and reciprocity provisions, and prohibited required photos or fingerprints unless requested; it failed100–214. Amendment2189h expanded public or approved-private school assignments and tuition contracts for pupils whose resident district lacked their grade, with school-board best-interest decisions; it failed95–219. Amendment2190h added fetuses from the end of the eighth week to specified homicide offenses other than capital murder, exempting the pregnant woman's acts, requested abortions and other medical procedures, and lawfully prescribed medicines; it failed93–222. Flanagan did not cast a named vote on the unchanged bill's final passage, adopted235–74.

June 16, 2016Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Flanagan opposed concurrence on HB 1298, which gave landowners additional remedies for direct pollution and damage from off-highway vehicles or snowmobiles and authorized specially certified federal border-patrol agents to make certain arrests under New Hampshire law in Coos County. Concurrence passed, 199–87.

May 19, 2016Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted against amended SB210 licensing septic-system evaluators. It created a board, professional standards, training, examinations, continuing education, discipline and penalties. Initial and renewal fees were capped at $150 for two years, with fee revenue covering 125% of board costs. It included transitional licenses, experience-based qualifications and exemptions for government employees and permitted septic designers. The House passed it, 158–128.

May 11, 2016Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted for amended SB498 making a first adult offense for up to one-quarter ounce of marijuana a $300 violation. It also covered up to one gram of hashish. It retained criminal penalties for repeat offenses and juvenile consequences. It split fines between prevention and treatment programs and court operations. The House passed it, 289–58.

May 11, 2016Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Flanagan voted against SB 368, which redirected $260,000 of an existing capital appropriation to environmental monitoring in the Piscataqua region estuaries and reduced the associated Hampton courthouse land-purchase appropriation by the same amount. The passage motion passed, 208–136.

April 20, 2016Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted for SB533's April version restructuring the governor's alcohol-and-drug commission and requiring performance reports. It provided $3 million for treatment contracts, $2 million for supportive housing and funding for a drug prosecutor. It used excess budget appropriations. The motion passed, 235–109, then went to Finance. In May, opposed an amendment changing concealed-carry licenses and allowing eligible people to carry without a license. It failed, 98–204.

April 20, 2016Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

On March 10, 2016, Flanagan voted to reject HB1374, 203–127. It redirected renewable-energy fund payments exceeding administration costs and specified incentives to per-kilowatt-hour ratepayer rebates.

March 10, 2016Supports Environment and Public Health

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Flanagan voted against rejecting HB 1148 and then voted for passage. The bill required public-interest review of pipeline-capacity contracts lasting more than a year, including costs, environmental and climate impacts, alternatives and private-property impacts. Rejection failed, 163–169; passage succeeded, 208–124.

March 10, 2016Supports Environment and Public Health

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Flanagan voted to reject HB 1440, which exempted volunteer and part-time solid-waste operators working under direct certified supervision from operator certification requirements. The rejection motion passed, 219–130.

March 9, 2016Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted to reject HB1178 removing the bear-take limit for licensed guides. The bill limited each guide to six active bait sites. The House rejected it, 217–122.

March 9, 2016Supports Environment and Public Health

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On January 20, 2016, opposed dividing SB576 and voted for its passage 276–69. The Senate-amended text added fentanyl-class drugs to penalty thresholds, strengthened prescription monitoring and prescriber training, expanded medical review membership, and set substance-use treatment coverage standards, including two outpatient visits without prior authorization. It also required a hotline assessment and conditioned technology-dependent provisions on funding.

January 20, 2016Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Flanagan voted to adopt an amendment to SB 369 encouraging public schools to provide age-appropriate drug and alcohol education from kindergarten through grade 12 and requiring school-board policies for information on existing counseling and treatment. The amendment required no new programs or services and passed, 196–150.

January 20, 2016Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

On February18,2015, Flanagan supported HB585’s amended$5-or-10percent assessment on court and Liquor Commission fines for alcoholic-beverage-law violations, with receipts shared among victim assistance, domestic-violence programs and alcohol-abuse prevention and treatment. It required legislative-body approval before political subdivisions spent collected liquor fines. House passage was adopted223–133. On January20,2016, he supported the changed Liquor-Commission-only$12-or-24percent assessment, adopted204–89. It retained hardship relief and the three equal fund shares; the court-assessment provision was removed.

January 20, 2016Supports Environment and Public Health

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Flanagan voted to reject HB 376, which appropriated about $9.02 million for fiscal 2016 and $7.64 million for fiscal 2017 to fund state aid for completed drinking-water, wastewater and landfill-closure projects. The House adopted the rejection, 184–130.

January 7, 2016Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Cosponsored HB1412 on January 6, 2016. The introduced version expanded public-utilities-commission duties to investigate direct, indirect and cumulative effects and support public information, participation and intervention. It prioritized health and natural resources. It barred public funding for excessive or costly projects, undue community burdens and specified harms to public lands, waters, wildlife and resources.

January 6, 2016Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

On June 24, 2015, Flanagan voted for SB135’s conference report, updating child lead-testing advice and reporting, lowering the property-owner notice threshold, and expanding protection against lead-related evictions. It also established a prevention and screening commission and required reasonable care by owners while limiting specified negligence evidence and allowing conditional withdrawal of hazardous rental units. House adopted the report 249–103.

June 24, 2015Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

On June 24, 2015, Flanagan voted for HB364’s conference report, standardizing specified professional licenses to a June30 biennial renewal cycle with corresponding two-year fees. It also established a fee-funded, continually appropriated salt-applicator certification fund, moved pesticide-registration fees to rulemaking, and increased the registration-fee share for integrated pest management from 10% to 25%. House adopted the report 223–131.

June 24, 2015Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

On May 6, 2015, Flanagan voted to table SB125, 206–147. On June 3, he voted to pass the adopted replacement requiring national third-party certification for paid residential mold assessment, exempting professionals hired primarily for other work and requiring the home-inspector board to publish certification information. Violations carried a violation for natural persons and a class B misdemeanor for other persons. The broader state licensing and remediation amendment failed; the replacement passed, 230–128.

June 3, 2015Supports Environment and Public Health

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On May 6, 2015, Flanagan voted to kill SB105. The Senate-amended bill required child-resistant packaging for retail liquid-nicotine containers, imposed a class A misdemeanor for retail violations, excluded sealed prefilled cartridges, and established a committee to study indoor-smoking laws and e-cigarettes. The motion passed, 210–143.

May 6, 2015Opposes Environment and Public Health

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On May 6, 2015, Flanagan voted to pass SB106 with amendment1390h. The bill prohibited selling, possessing or transporting defined synthetic drugs, imposed fines and seizure provisions, and added penalties for liquor, lottery and food-service licensees. It required public-awareness reports and a hearing-based process for changing controlled substances; the House amendment excluded nonprescription and proprietary medicines from that control process. Passage passed, 233–120.

May 6, 2015Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

On April 29, 2015, voted for SB113, authorizing two casinos with slot machines and table games, a gaming commission, licensing and audit safeguards, and public funds for regulation and gambling treatment. The Senate-amended text set 35% slot-revenue and 18% table-revenue taxes, with municipal and treatment distributions. He opposed amendments repealing the gambling prohibition and removing the two-license limit. Both amendments failed; passage failed 156–208, and the House then killed the bill.

April 29, 2015Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

On March 4, 2015, Flanagan voted to table HB136; that motion failed, 171–188. He then voted to pass the bill, prohibiting tanning-facility use by people under18 and requiring operators to obtain proof of age, with a medical-phototherapy exception. The House passed it, 199–162.

March 4, 2015Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

On February 18, 2015, supported amendment0139h to HB208 and its passage. The House version retained RGGI, rebated allowance-sale proceeds above a zero-dollar threshold less administrative costs to ratepayers, and repealed the remaining energy-efficiency allocations and related oversight duty. The amendment passed197–158; passage passed201–154.

February 18, 2015Opposes Environment and Public Health

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On February 18, 2015, Flanagan voted to kill HB575, which established a Department of Education school-nurse consultant for student wellness, mental health, substance abuse, parental education, and nurse staff development, with $87,000 appropriated for each of fiscal years2016 and2017. The House adopted the motion, 236–122.

February 18, 2015Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

On February 18, 2015, Flanagan voted to kill HB615, which redirected state energy-contract savings into a nonlapsing Energy Fund, expanded its continually appropriated uses to renewable-energy projects, construction oversight, and a part-time energy position, and required Public Works oversight of energy projects above$100,000. It also changed report dates, removed obsolete committee approvals and an interest-free repayment requirement, and revised state-building exemptions. The House adopted the motion, 210–145.

February 18, 2015Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

Cosponsored HB143 on January 8, 2015. The introduced version added qualifying hydroelectric generation to Class I renewable-portfolio sources under the post-January-2006 condition and existing incremental-investment exceptions. It preserved biomass co-firing and thermal emission clauses.

January 8, 2015Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

On January29,2014, Flanagan opposed HB532’s municipal energy-efficiency and clean-energy financing expansion, adopted167–140. That version broadened improvements and financing authority, removed the$60,000 cap, excluded residential property with fewer than five units, and added mortgagee-consent, foreclosure-priority, loss-reserve and confidentiality rules. On June4, he opposed conference report1970CofC, adopted205–132. It included private financing, creditworthiness and recorded mortgage-consent requirements, foreclosure consequences, and a financing cap of$1million or35percent of assessed property value, whichever was greater. The conference removed the wind-siting provision.

June 4, 2014Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

On April 16, 2014, Flanagan voted against SB405’s certification and registration requirements for airborne-radon mitigation installers, including a $20 annual registry fee; the House adopted the amended bill 172–147. On June 4, he opposed the conference version, which required national certification for designers and installers, made certified persons responsible for supervised workers, required public notice and penalized false certification claims. The conference report passed 227–122.

June 4, 2014Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

On March 20, 2014, Flanagan supported a failed motion to table HB1570 and opposed closing debate. He then voted against amendment1053h and amended passage of a paint-stewardship program financed through paint-purchase assessments, with collection access requirements, state-approved plans and assessment changes, financial assurance, public financial reporting, and cleanup liability. The House adopted the amendment, 167–135, and passed the bill, 161–142.

March 20, 2014Opposes Environment and Public Health

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On January 29, 2014, Flanagan voted against amendment2269h to HB292 and against the amended passage report. The replacement increased the boat-registration lake fee from$7.50 to$9.50, allocated the extra$2 to exotic aquatic-weed control, and retained a nonlapsing fund continually appropriated to environmental services. The House adopted the amendment171–120 and report164–127. His intervening vote to table the bill failed126–165.

January 29, 2014Opposes Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

On January 29, 2014, voted for HB485’s amended keno program. The text required local voter approval and licensed operators, assigned proceeds to operators, problem-gambling services and the education trust fund, and established financial reporting and inspection rules. The House adopted the report 202–141.

January 29, 2014Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

On January22,2014, Flanagan voted for HB597 as amended by2261h, requiring licensed health-care facilities and providers, except laboratories and collection stations, to adopt drug-free workplace policies covering direct-care employees, contractors and agents. The text required education, inventory controls, self-referral, coworker reporting, reasonable-suspicion testing, assistance, confidentiality, investigation and consequences for violations. The House adopted the passage report289–48.

January 22, 2014Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

On June 26, 2013, Flanagan voted Yea on the HB664 conference report, adopted 235–115. The report restored the eight-section House version. It broadened childhood-vaccine assessments beyond insurers to specified administrators, stop-loss coverage and group plans. It based representation and quarterly payments on covered children under nineteen and treated assessments as medical benefit costs. It provided reserves, adjustments, refunds and interstate coordination, plus annual reports and reviews. It allowed show-cause proceedings, fines and license suspension after a just-cause finding. It continued the vaccine-purchase fund and provided for return of unused childhood-vaccine funds to the association.

June 26, 2013Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

On June 26, 2013, Flanagan voted Nay on the SB148 conference report; the House adopted it 225–128. The version lowered specified Class I and III renewable purchase percentages and revised useful-thermal-energy targets and qualifying biomass upgrades. It set Class III alternative-compliance payments at $45 for 2015–2017, with later indexed recalculation. It created a legislative study of renewable standards, costs, shortfalls, markets and contracts, with a November report. It also replaced individual and small-employer health premium-rating rules with permitted federal-consistent factors and one statewide geographic rating area, repealed a plan-adjustment provision and set those insurance changes for January 1, 2014. Earlier June 5 votes did not name him, so no prior House cast is attributed.

June 26, 2013Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

On March 20, 2013, Flanagan spoke against 0802h to HB306 and voted Nay; the House adopted the replacement 191–157. Its complete sixteen sections updated New Hampshire's Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative to the 2013 model, lowered annual allowance budgets with banked-allowance adjustments, required staged emissions-allowance retirement, removed trigger-based extensions and larger offset allowances, and created extra cost-containment allowances at escalating auction-price thresholds. It extended rebates above $1 to all retail electricity customers, revised future-year auctions, reporting and the 2016 review, and permitted specified offset-protocol updates without repeating rulemaking after initial incorporation. He later voted Nay to concur in the Senate version on June 5; concurrence passed 207–131. That version narrowed the protocol-incorporation clause to national or regional forestry protocols referenced in the model rule and corrected the model date, while retaining the budgets, reserves, rebates and other mechanisms.

June 5, 2013Opposes Environment and Public Health

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On May 22, 2013, Flanagan voted Yea to table SB89; the motion failed 156–211. He then voted Nay on passage with 1489h, adopted 225–142. The complete three-section House bill defined prohibited lead sinkers and lead-weighted hooks by a total weight of one ounce or less, including coated tackle or attached skirts, while exempting listed fishing products such as spinnerbaits, spoons, plugs and flies. It prohibited retail sale or offers, made each day a separate violation with a maximum $250 fine, and set June 1, 2016 as the effective date. His failed table vote establishes no terminal disposition.

May 22, 2013Opposes Environment and Public Health

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On May 22, 2013, Flanagan voted Nay on SB122; the House passed it 257–107. The complete six-section bill required a separate license to take, possess, land or transport northern shrimp for sale on state waters, with $100 resident and $500 reciprocal-state nonresident fees covering operators and helpers. It required harvest reporting and rule compliance, allowed limits and eligibility rules, imposed violations or misdemeanors with catch confiscation, and excluded shrimp from general commercial and wholesale licenses, effective January 1, 2014.

May 22, 2013Opposes Environment and Public Health

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On May 8, 2013, Flanagan voted Nay on SB164 with 1366h; the House adopted it 210–143. The complete two-section House version authorized an optional coastal-management section in municipal master plans addressing projected property or habitat loss from storm surge, flooding and inundation, effective sixty days after passage. The amendment removed the introduced findings section.

May 8, 2013Opposes Environment and Public Health

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On March 27, 2013, Flanagan voted Nay on HB185; Ought to Pass passed 194–156. The two-section bill raised the fee assessed on fuel oil at importation for the discharge-cleanup fund from one cent to 1.25 cents per gallon, beginning July 2013.

March 27, 2013Opposes Environment and Public Health

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On March 20, 2013, Flanagan voted Nay on 0712h to HB630. The House adopted it 204–153. This complete two-section replacement redirected remaining greenhouse-gas allowance-auction proceeds to the electric utilities' core energy-efficiency programs, reserving at least twenty percent for the low-income program, beginning July 2013. It replaced the introduced repeal proposal; his vote is recorded on this replacement rather than on repeal.

March 20, 2013Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Moved and spoke for $32,900 to control invasive milfoil in Lake Potanipo. Brookline approved $13,160 in state grants and $19,740 in taxes.

March 13, 2013Supports Environment and Public Health

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On February 13, 2013, Flanagan supported rejecting HB307, adopted 338–9. The two-section bill required removal and destruction of specified uncertified wood stoves when homes in DES-designated densely populated areas were sold. It excluded sole-source or central heating, qualifying antique stoves, ducted furnaces and specified masonry heaters. Sellers were responsible before closing unless buyers agreed in writing to removal within 30 days; the responsible party provided DES confirmation, and noncompliance did not invalidate the conveyance. The effective date was60 days after passage.

February 13, 2013Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Cosponsored SB123 on January 3, 2013. The introduced version allocated up to $2 million annually in remaining regional greenhouse-gas proceeds for municipal and local-government energy efficiency, including municipal utilities. The utilities commission used competitive bids. Each later biennium increased the annual allocation by 20% of the previous biennium's amount.

January 3, 2013Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

On June6,2012, Flanagan voted to adopt HB1490 conference report2375CofC, adopted211–74. The text replaced the greenhouse-gas reduction fund with an energy-efficiency fund, rebated auction proceeds above$1 per allowance to default-service customers and allocated remaining proceeds to core efficiency programs. It retained funding for existing contracts, added oversight reports, barred outside-consultant contracts and prevented retirement of unsold allowances. RGGI repeal depended on specified withdrawal by other New England states; prior compliance obligations and enforcement remained.

June 6, 2012Opposes Environment and Public Health

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On March 8, 2012, Flanagan supported HB 1182, adopted 166–125. The two-section proposal prohibited manufacture, sale or distribution of BPA-containing reusable baby containers and infant formula or baby food in BPA-containing packaging starting January 1, 2013. It required least-toxic substitutes and excluded specified carcinogenic and reproductive-toxic replacements, with a60-day general effective clause.

March 8, 2012Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

On March 7, 2012, Flanagan supported HB 1487 as amended0920h, adopted 243–96. The two-section House replacement prohibited state participation in low-carbon fuel programs imposing fuel quotas, caps or mandates. It allowed discussions with notice of that prohibition, required quarterly expense reports, preserved specified air statutes, and specified effect upon passage. Later final legislative-approval and semiannual-report exceptions were absent from this stage.

March 7, 2012Opposes Environment and Public Health

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On March 7, 2012, Flanagan supported rejection of HB 1650, adopted 278–60. The four-section proposal declared qualifying intrastate food labeled Made in New Hampshire exempt from federal regulation. It barred specified licensing and inspections for direct producer-consumer sales, imposed enforcement and mislabeling penalties, retained consumer remedies, and prevented stricter municipal food ordinances. It specified January 1, 2013; its federal-law assertions were provisions of the rejected proposal.

March 7, 2012Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

On February 22, 2012, Flanagan opposed HB 1442 as amended0683h, adopted 261–80. The two-section replacement set motorcycle exhaust limits of 92decibels at idle,96for specified cylinder counts at 2,000rpm and 100for three- or four-cylinder engines at 5,000rpm, usingSAEJ2825. The same limits applied to inspections, with 100–300dollar fines and January 1, 2013 effectiveness.

February 22, 2012Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Cosponsored SB250 on January 4, 2012. The introduced version relaxed specified off-highway vehicle trail-screening criteria while retaining remaining habitat, rare-plant, cultural and safety requirements. It narrowed the public-well protection area and added existing-soil, surface-road and site-specific nest or roost exceptions. It broadened DOT connector exceptions and exempted Coos connectors from specified trail provisions. It permitted designated Coos noninterstate, nondivided highways and required six named segments to open.

January 4, 2012Opposes Environment and Public Health

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On June 22, 2011, Flanagan opposed SB 91’s conference report, adopted 284–92. Its two-section version prohibited municipalities and local land-use boards from imposing sprinkler installation requirements on new or existing detached one- or two-family buildings used only as residences. It also barred enforcement of existing sprinkler requirements for manufactured homes in manufactured-housing parks. The bill specified July 1, 2011 as its effective date.

June 22, 2011Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

On February 23, 2011, Flanagan voted against recommitting HB 519,100–250, and for its amended passage,246–104. Amendments 0324h and 0408h repealed New Hampshire’s RGGI carbon cap and allowance program beginning January 1, 2012, while preserving prior-period compliance and enforcement. Remaining fund money and later deposits were directed to electric utilities’ CORE energy-efficiency programs. The adopted floor amendment removed a proposed express utility cost-recovery provision. The proposal also removed related auction and fund rules and references. During debate, Flanagan asked why beneficiaries did not pay for efficiency projects themselves and questioned the common-good rationale for Brookline lighting grants. He voted to print the debate,240–108. On March 30 he voted for the unchanged House proposal after Finance review,251–108; the House adopted it and ordered third reading.

March 30, 2011Opposes Environment and Public Health

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On March 15, 2011, Flanagan voted to kill HB 416, which added a conscientious-belief exemption from childhood immunization. Parents or guardians signed a form witnessed by a health provider or notary. The House adopted the killing motion 215–149.

March 15, 2011Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: gc.nh.gov

On February 6, 2025, Flanagan voted to reject HB 444, 213–144. It required 60 days’ notice and an opportunity for tenants to offer to buy restricted multi-family property before final sale acceptance.

February 6, 2025Opposes Reduce Wealth Gap

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On February 6, 2025, Flanagan voted against tabling HB 623; the motion failed, 149–207. Then voted to reject it, 216–141. It reserved the first 90 days of single- and multi-family property sales for natural persons, with development exceptions. It required entity registration and reporting, with property forfeiture and filing penalties.

February 6, 2025Opposes Reduce Wealth Gap

Source: gc.nh.gov

Flanagan voted Nay on concurrence with the Senate version of HB1166 on June 30, 2020; concurrence passed 178–154. He also voted Nay on September 16 on overriding the governor’s veto; the 193–145 vote fell short of two-thirds and the veto stood. The text expanded unemployment eligibility and self-employment assistance for specified COVID-19 shutdown, quarantine and family-care circumstances, protected qualifying emergency-benefit overpayments, and calculated annual earnings for qualifying family leave using preleave earnings. It extended federal family-leave protections for specified COVID-19 circumstances to employers with at least 15 employees, subject to individual hardship exceptions. It directed a $50 million CARES transfer to Employment Security, first for computer upgrades supporting the expanded eligibility and then to the unemployment trust fund, with legislative certification and a federal-funding-loss contingency. It imposed COVID-19 workplace hygiene, protective-equipment and testing-access or paid-time-off requirements, directed state protective-equipment assistance at no cost for employers with no more than 15 employees, and waived employer job-training cost sharing until July 2021. It waived COVID-19 testing and treatment cost sharing and specified out-of-network charges for individual and group health coverage, the state employee plan and Medicaid managed-care coverage. The text specified an effective date upon passage for most provisions and January 1, 2021 for coordinated health-service-corporation and HMO provisions. The enrolled amendment corrected section numbering and effective-date cross-references.

September 16, 2020Opposes Reduce Wealth Gap

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Voted against creating a student career and college savings program for eligible public and charter-school students who completed financial-literacy instruction in second grade or later. The bill provided a $250 initial deposit into a 529 account and an additional deposit, set annually according to available funds, when the account's principal reached $500. It increased the annual registration fee for each class of open-end mutual funds from $1,000 to $1,100, directing the added $100 to the program. The House passed this version, 216–126; the bill later died in the Senate.

February 27, 2019Opposes Reduce Wealth Gap

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On June24, 2015, Flanagan voted for HB577’s conference report, establishing a children’s savings program with donation-funded public-kindergarten pilots, financial-literacy activities, privacy safeguards, and a nonlapsing, continually appropriated program fund. It also gave Dover flexibility over bond terms, proceeds and refinancing. House adopted the report 201–145.

June 24, 2015Supports Reduce Wealth Gap

Source: gc.nh.gov

On May 29, 2013, Flanagan voted Nay on SB143; the House passed it 183–149. Its complete two-section version established self-employment assistance paid from the unemployment trust fund in place of regular benefits for selected unemployed workers establishing businesses. Eligibility required likely benefit exhaustion, application within sixty days, at least eighteen weeks of remaining benefits and participation in approved full-time training or business-development activities. The allowance equaled the normal weekly benefit and retained the overall benefit maximum but waived ordinary job-search, refusal-of-work and self-employment-income restrictions. Participation was capped at 2.5 percent of regular-benefit recipients, with rulemaking and termination powers. In his printed minority report, Flanagan opposed the program as redundant, criticized simultaneous business earnings and benefits, and raised competition with a former employer; those are attributed arguments.

May 29, 2013Opposes Reduce Wealth Gap

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On March 29, 2012, Flanagan supported HB1607 as replaced by1364h, adopted173–127. It created85-percent business-tax credits for donations funding private-school, out-of-district public-school and home-education scholarships, with income and scholarship limits, escalating statewide caps, organization safeguards and public reporting. It deducted corresponding state adequacy aid for recipients leaving public schools and restored aid when they returned. On June 27, he supported overriding the veto of the final version, adopted226–112. It retained the85-percent credit for eligible households at or below300percent of federal poverty guidelines, initial credit ceilings of$3.4million and$5.1million, scholarship safeguards and adjustments to adequacy and stabilization grants.

June 27, 2012Supports Reduce Wealth Gap

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Voted to override the veto of HB1072, which required 30 days of notice before Labor Department inspections and 30 days to respond to document or interview requests, with listed enforcement exceptions. The override failed, 160–159.

August 19, 2026Opposes Labor Rights

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Flanagan cosponsored HB1043 on January 7, 2026. The introduced bill allowed an employer-established alternative pay policy to replace the default two-hour minimum for employees reporting to work. On March 12, he voted for passage with amendment 0386h, which required that alternative policy to be written. The two-section amended bill retained existing municipal and county exclusions, ski-instructor compensation conditions and the good-faith cancellation-notice exception. The House adopted amended passage 189–155.

March 12, 2026Opposes Labor Rights

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On March 12, 2026, Flanagan voted for HB1245 as replaced by amendment 0237h. The three-section bill created voluntary portable benefit accounts owned and controlled by qualifying independent contractors for insurance, retirement and related expenses. It permitted contributions from hiring parties, workers and third parties; withholding a contractor's pay required a clear prominent written agreement, affirmative opt-in and the ability to opt out at any time. Offers, contributions, participation and authorized withholding were excluded from state employee-classification determinations, without alone establishing an employment relationship or control. It specified effectiveness 60 days after passage. The House adopted the amended passage report 188–151.

March 12, 2026Supports Labor Rights

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Voted for HB1464 adding political affiliation or opinion protections to employment discrimination law and criminal penalties for politically motivated harassment and economic interference. Passage failed, 136–199.

March 11, 2026Supports Labor Rights

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On March 11, 2026, Flanagan voted Nay to make HB1704 a special order, 167–164, and the motion passed. He voted Yea for amendment 0699h, 165–171; it failed. He voted Nay to indefinitely postpone the bill, 177–159, but the House adopted postponement. The introduced bill granted covered public employees individual bargaining over wages, hours, grievances and employment terms without union intervention, barred compulsory union representation and linking individual terms to union terms, and retained one exclusive representative per bargaining unit. It exempted defined law enforcement officers, fully qualified firefighters, public emergency medical personnel, qualified state and county corrections officers, and categories needing exclusive representation for federal funding. It prohibited coercing union financial support and agreements or strike, picket and boycott activity inducing violations, with class A misdemeanor penalties and attorney-general enforcement. Amendment 0699h retained individual bargaining and the exemptions but removed those prohibitions and criminal-enforcement provisions. The bill applied to new or extended agreements after its effective date and existing agreements within two years, with a January 1, 2027 effective date. His Nay on postponement alone did not establish support for the introduced penalties.

March 11, 2026Opposes Labor Rights

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Flanagan prime-sponsored HB248 on January 8, 2025, requiring state employees suspended with pay to receive written reasons within seven days and investigation updates every ninety days. On January 7, 2026, he prime-sponsored HB1109 with the same notice and update requirements. The later introduced bill excluded employees covered by collective-bargaining agreements; the 2025 proposal contained no such exception.

January 7, 2026Supports Labor Rights

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On March 26, 2025, Flanagan voted to kill HB 487, adopted 196–155. The four-section proposal required seven days advance scheduling notice for hourly workers, protected employees from retaliation, and exempted employers with fewer than 15 employees and health-care facilities. It allowed unforeseen changes with prompt notice and waivers through collective bargaining.

March 26, 2025Opposes Labor Rights

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Flanagan prime-sponsored HR16 on January 9, 2025. The introduced nonbinding resolution recognized frontline health workers and urged protection, support, protective equipment and essential supplies during humanitarian and public-health crises. On March 20, he voted for amendment 0757h, adopted 202–166. It added support for workers dismissed over vaccine mandates, urged their reintegration into health care, and affirmed medical choice and workplace protections. The amended resolution retained its protective-equipment and frontline-worker support provisions.

March 20, 2025Supports Labor Rights

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On March 20, 2025, Flanagan opposed tabling HB 280; the motion failed 172–192. He then voted for passage with amendment 0452h, adopted 191–176. The proposal retained weekly or biweekly payment deadlines but replaced prescribed payment methods and payroll-card safeguards with a method determined by employer and employee, written notice at hire, and 90 days notice of changes. It also repealed a labor civil-penalty provision.

March 20, 2025Opposes Labor Rights

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Flanagan voted Yea to reject HB 378. The motion passed 193–169. The proposal required employers with at least fifteen employees to provide earned-time policies and accounting. It treated unused nonsick paid time off as wages after specified business closures, ownership changes, or employment endings, with written carryover permitted after ownership changes.

March 6, 2025Opposes Labor Rights

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On February 20, 2025, Flanagan voted to reject HB 299, 193–177. It entitled prevailing workers’ compensation claimants to reasonable attorney-fee and cost reimbursement at departmental hearings, subject to commissioner approval. The House rejected the bill.

February 20, 2025Opposes Labor Rights

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On February 13, 2025, Flanagan voted to indefinitely postpone HB238; the motion passed 200–180. The bill prohibited employment conditions requiring union membership, union dues or equivalent third-party payments across public and private employers. It prohibited contrary agreements, provided misdemeanor penalties of up to $1,000 and 90 days, civil damages and injunctions, and attorney-general enforcement. It exempted federal and Railway Labor Act employment, federal enclaves, preempted applications and preexisting contracts until renewal.

February 13, 2025Supports Labor Rights

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Flanagan voted Nay on concurrence with the Senate version of HB1166 on June 30, 2020; concurrence passed 178–154. He also voted Nay on September 16 on overriding the governor’s veto; the 193–145 vote fell short of two-thirds and the veto stood. The text expanded unemployment eligibility and self-employment assistance for specified COVID-19 shutdown, quarantine and family-care circumstances, protected qualifying emergency-benefit overpayments, and calculated annual earnings for qualifying family leave using preleave earnings. It extended federal family-leave protections for specified COVID-19 circumstances to employers with at least 15 employees, subject to individual hardship exceptions. It directed a $50 million CARES transfer to Employment Security, first for computer upgrades supporting the expanded eligibility and then to the unemployment trust fund, with legislative certification and a federal-funding-loss contingency. It imposed COVID-19 workplace hygiene, protective-equipment and testing-access or paid-time-off requirements, directed state protective-equipment assistance at no cost for employers with no more than 15 employees, and waived employer job-training cost sharing until July 2021. It waived COVID-19 testing and treatment cost sharing and specified out-of-network charges for individual and group health coverage, the state employee plan and Medicaid managed-care coverage. The text specified an effective date upon passage for most provisions and January 1, 2021 for coordinated health-service-corporation and HMO provisions. The enrolled amendment corrected section numbering and effective-date cross-references.

September 16, 2020Opposes Labor Rights

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Flanagan voted Nay on concurrence with the Senate version of HB1494 on June 30, 2020; concurrence passed 202–127. He voted Nay on overriding its veto on September 16; the 202–133 vote fell short of two-thirds and the veto stood. Its eight-section worker omnibus repealed the statutory time limit on the occupational heart/lung-disease presumption for firefighters, created an11-member public-employee occupational-safety advisory board, and required federal-OSHA-level public-employer protections contingent on federal approval of a state plan. It expanded the $100,000 line-of-duty death benefit to qualifying state or municipal public-works employees, with payment by warrants from otherwise unappropriated treasury money, and removed workers’ compensation offsets against state retirement accidental-death annuities. It required certification and employer recognition of public-employee bargaining representatives on written majority authorization and protected individual bargaining units’ ability to negotiate their own wages and terms without being forced into impasse by another unit. The text specified an effective date upon passage for provisions other than the contingent safety standards.

September 16, 2020Opposes Labor Rights

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On February 27, 2019, Flanagan spoke against HB 712’s House proposal and requested a roll call. Flanagan voted against the carried HB712 paid family and medical leave insurance bill on February 27, 2019 (199–133, adopted and referred to Finance) and January 8, 2020 (215–141, adopted), and voted against overriding its veto on September 16, 2020 (195–143, failed two-thirds). The program covered state and nongovernmental employers, allowed equivalent employer plans and optional municipal participation, charged premiums of 0.5 percent of wages with permitted employee withholding, and offered up to twelve weeks of leave for childbirth, adoption, family or personal illness and specified military needs. Benefits replaced 60 percent of qualifying weekly earnings subject to a $125 minimum and state-average-wage cap, with six-month premium and earnings qualifications. It included continued health coverage, job restoration for federally covered employers, retaliation protections, appeals, reporting and outreach. The 2019 version allowed limited premium increases or reductions to maintain solvency and unquantified repayable start-up transfers. The January 2020 amendment prohibited premium increases, moved employer coverage to January 2021 and specified general-fund start-up loans of $3.5 million then $12 million, repayable in years three through five. The final effective date was July 1, 2020.

September 16, 2020Opposes Labor Rights

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On January 9, 2020, Flanagan supported HB731 amendment 2897h setting a $10 hourly minimum with a 45-percent tipped base from January 2021; it passed 189–170. He opposed replacement 0024h, which passed 189–177, and the resulting bill, adopted 212–155. That replacement started at $8.50, phased the minimum to $15 by 2025, set the tipped base at half the minimum and added annual nondecreasing cost-of-living adjustments from 2026. On June 30 he opposed concurrence with the Senate replacement, adopted 199–124. It instead set $10 for 2021–2022 and $12 from 2023, a $4 tipped base with a $12 earnings guarantee, and a separate $7.25 base for licensed secondary game operators. In printed debate he argued that payroll increases risked closures and job losses during the pandemic. On September 16 he opposed overriding the veto; 197–139 failed the two-thirds requirement and sustained the veto.

September 16, 2020Opposes Labor Rights

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On June 30, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay on concurrence with the Senate amendment to carried2019 HB705; concurrence passed 254–75. The19-section Senate text increased the maximum victim-compensation recovery from 30000 to 40000dollars, broadened eligibility and crime-victim rights, protected identifying information in fund-restitution proceedings, and expanded employment leave and safety-related unemployment protections. It removed the time limit for civil actions based on sexual assault or incest, including specified claims against governmental units, removed legal-spouse exceptions from sexual-assault offenses, and prohibited public sale of over-the-counter rape-evidence kits with a violation fine of up to 1000dollars. It required colleges to adopt sexual-misconduct policies and provide confidential resource advisors, annual prevention programming, trained staff, anonymous climate surveys and annual incident reports, agreements with crisis centers and law-enforcement coordination. Its disciplinary protections included timely detailed notice, equal access to evidence and witnesses, advisors, equal available appeals, impartial trained decisionmakers and identity privacy. It established a limited confidential-advisor privilege with judicial-review and defendant-fair-trial exceptions, good-faith reporter or witness disciplinary amnesty excluding egregious violations, and institutional civil penalties capped at the lower of 150000dollars or1percent of the operating budget. The text specified effective dates after 60 days for victim and assault provisions, after 180 days for campus requirements and immediately for the remainder.

June 30, 2020Opposes Labor Rights

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On June 30, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay on concurrence with the Senate version of HB1558; concurrence passed 201–129. Its37-section education and municipal omnibus limited suspension and expulsion grounds, required consideration of age, disability, disciplinary history and lesser interventions, preserved hearing and appeal processes, provided assignments and specified alternative educational services, and required graduated discipline policies and parental notice. It updated additional full-day-kindergarten aid to half the statutory base amount during the initial year before pupils entered ordinary adequate-education counts. It revised economic-revitalization-zone tax-credit certification and calculation while extending the program’s repeal to 2028, and required certification of employer college-graduate retention agreements. It required school workplace-violence plans, training and reporting, prohibited discouraging injury reports, coordinated restraint guidance, required concussion return-to-learning policies and staff child-sexual-abuse prevention training, and required biennial curriculum-compliance reporting. It lowered specified municipal and electric-utility bond or note approval thresholds from two-thirds to three-fifths without issuing a particular bond. It added the university-system chancellor to the business-agency partner council. It established student-best-interest reassignment and manifest-hardship hearings, appeals and tuition procedures. Transfer limits and parent transportation responsibility applied to best-interest transfers. It raised permitted retained school year-end funds from 2.5% to 5%. Public hearings preceded expenditures, with annual accounting. It strengthened multi-tiered behavioral-health support and interagency technical assistance within existing budget constraints. It centralized school-bus-driver and transportation-monitor criminal-history checks at the Education Department and created a background-check coordinator and certification-rule authority. The considered version used staged effective dates spanning June/July 2020,60 days after passage and January/July 2021; the later enrolled amendment corrected discipline, short-title and effective-date cross-references.

June 30, 2020Opposes Labor Rights

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On March 12, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay on the Ought to Pass recommendation for HB1715; the House adopted it 182–131 and ordered third reading. The four-section introduced text required timely written notice of nonrenomination for certified teachers with at least one year in the district, with an April 15 or budget-dependent deadline bounded by May. Teachers with an experienced educator certificate and at least two consecutive district years obtained requested reasons and a board hearing, with ten-day request and fifteen-day hearing and decision deadlines. It placed the nonrenewal proof burden on the superintendent, preserved board discretion over grounds, barred seniority alone as a reduction-in-force basis and defined covered teachers to include principals, librarians and guidance counselors. It established three-year experienced educator credentials after at least three years' full-time experience, two effective evaluations and a successful renewal cycle, required teacher-involved evaluation systems and set July 1, 2021 as the effective date.

March 12, 2020Opposes Labor Rights

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On March 5, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay on HB1322 passage; the 207–137 recommendation passed and the House ordered third reading. The two-section introduced text barred state-funded university-system institutions from prohibiting employee group or union membership as a condition of employment or continued enrollment, or disciplining employees solely for that membership. It also prohibited university-system spending to discourage joining or forming unions or to oppose bargaining-unit formation. Existing student association protections remained. Its effective date was60 days after passage. The journal also recorded that Flanagan spoke against the bill.

March 5, 2020Opposes Labor Rights

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On March 5, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay on HB1221 with amendment 0256h; the 210–139 recommendation passed and the House ordered third reading. The two-section amended text restricted employers, labor organizations and employment agencies from using or requesting applicant or employee credit-history information for hiring, termination, promotion, discipline, compensation and other employment decisions. Exceptions included legal requirements and bona fide substantial job-related purposes subject to federal notice and consent requirements, plus specified financial institutions, government agencies and federally regulated employers. Amendment0256h added licensed sales-finance companies and retail sellers to the excluded employers. The text defined substantial job relationships, provided Labor Commissioner civil penalties and appeals, and set a January 1, 2021 effective date. His published minority report said the exceptions did not resolve concerns for businesses using credit-card processing or other financial transactions.

March 5, 2020Opposes Labor Rights

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On March 5, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay on HB1399 with amendment 0449h; the 205–142 recommendation passed and the House ordered third reading. The three-section0449h replacement required certification and public-employer recognition of an organization holding board-approved authorization cards from a majority of the appropriate bargaining unit when no organization was already lawfully recognized. Current employee signatures had to be dated within six months of filing. Staff verified support and reported to parties within 10 days absent exceptional cause; board procedures protected individual choice and kept filed cards confidential. Its effective date was60 days after passage.

March 5, 2020Opposes Labor Rights

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On March 5, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay on HB1290 with amendment 0444h; the 209–134 recommendation passed and the House ordered third reading. The two-section0444h replacement allowed an employee organization to choose mail ballots for all votes in any election ordered by the Public Employee Labor Relations Board, by filing notice at least24hours before the pre-election conference. Its effective date was60 days after passage; the fiscal note estimated variable administrative costs, not an appropriation.

March 5, 2020Opposes Labor Rights

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On January 8, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay for amendment 2854h to carried 2019 HB506, 186–173; it passed. The complete two-section replacement required employers, when practicable, to allow employees up to three hours away from work to vote in biennial general elections and had a 60-day effective date. It replaced the introduced election-holiday proposal. The House later passed the amended bill by an unnamed division vote; no personal passage vote is attributed.

January 8, 2020Opposes Labor Rights

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Flanagan voted Nay on HB 226's enrolled amendment 2645EBA on September 19, 2019, adopted 211–145. The amendment inserted the statute heading and removed a separate provision granting hearing rights based on three years of teaching anywhere in the state and two in the current district. On January 8, 2020, he voted Nay on overriding the veto of the final 2019 bill; 213–149 fell short of two-thirds and the veto was sustained. The final three-section version required written nonrenewal notice for certified teachers with at least one year in the district, school-board evaluation policies, and hearing rights for teachers who had obtained an experienced-educator certificate and served two consecutive years in the current district. It provided deadlines for hearing requests and decisions, put the nonrenewal proof burden on the superintendent, prohibited reductions in force based solely on seniority and otherwise retained the school board's discretion. It required experienced-educator credentials based on three full-time years, two effective evaluations and a completed renewal cycle, and covered principals, assistant principals, librarians and counselors as well as teachers. The final effective date was July 1, 2020.

January 8, 2020Opposes Labor Rights

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On September 19, 2019, Flanagan voted Nay on overriding the veto of SB148. The bill required public employers to provide exclusive employee representatives access for grievance and workplace meetings and a paid-time sixty-minute new-employee meeting within ten days. The initial meeting included the right to accept or decline membership, agreement rights and estimated dues. It protected employee and family contact information from public disclosure with specified exceptions, protected union-member communications subject to labor-board proceedings, permitted facility use without interference with government operations and allowed recovery of otherwise unincurred costs. Greater bargaining-agreement access rights remained protected. The override failed 218–139; the veto was sustained.

September 19, 2019Opposes Labor Rights

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Flanagan voted Nay on overriding the veto of HB211 on September 18, 2019. The bill barred employers from seeking salary history before a compensated employment offer was negotiated, with an exception for voluntarily supplied information, and barred treating prior wages as a defense to wage discrimination. The override failed 224–157 and the veto was sustained.

September 18, 2019Opposes Labor Rights

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On June 5, 2019, authored a minority committee report and spoke against SB10, raising the state minimum wage to $10 in2020 and $12 in2022 and increasing the tipped-worker base rate to50percent; voted against passage, adopted209–139. On June 27, spoke and voted against the conference version, restoring the45percent tipped-worker base rate while requiring a $12 wage-and-tip total. The House adopted the conference report,207–143.

June 27, 2019Opposes Labor Rights

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On May 8, 2019, Flanagan voted Nay on SB 20; the House adopted it, 202–135. Its ten-section version restored workplace notice-posting requirements and wage-record retention periods set by labor-department rules. It limited enrolled 16- and 17-year-olds to 40¼ work hours during weeks with one to four school days, replacing the 48-hour exception. It made work outside posted hours evidence of a youth-employment violation and repealed the proportionality requirement for labor inspections. Other sections addressed Sunday-rest schedules, wage-change notice, and equal-pay and minimum-wage postings.

May 8, 2019Opposes Labor Rights

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Flanagan requested a roll call and voted against amended SB 99 on May 2, 2019. The version defined gainful employment in workers’ compensation by the worker’s age, education, training, temperament, and capacity for similarly remunerative labor. Its effective date was January 1, 2020. The House adopted the passage report 204–152. The committee amendment was adopted without a named individual vote.

May 2, 2019Opposes Labor Rights

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Flanagan voted against SB 151 on May 2, 2019. The version authorized labor-department stop-work orders for knowingly unpaid wages or missing workers’ compensation coverage. It provided ten-day appeals, hearings within five days, suspension during timely appeals, rescission upon compliance, and court review. Orders also reached successor businesses with shared principals. Violating an order carried misdemeanor or felony penalties. The House adopted the passage report 212–145.

May 2, 2019Opposes Labor Rights

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On April 4, 2019, voted against HB616 as amended. The printed House amendment limited its 1.5% retirement adjustment to the first $50,000 of annual pension benefits for qualifying long-retired members. The House passed it 219–149.

April 4, 2019Opposes Labor Rights

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Spoke and voted against raising the state minimum wage to $9.50 in 2020, $10.75 in 2021 and $12 in 2022, with a lower youth rate and a tipped-worker base rate of 50% of the applicable minimum. He also opposed a failed amendment extending the schedule to $15 in 2024. The House passed HB186, 210–145.

March 14, 2019Opposes Labor Rights

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On March 7, 2019, authored the minority committee report supporting HB622's right-to-work provisions, citing freedom of association and union accountability. The introduced bill prohibited employment-conditioned union membership or payments, required revocable written authorization for dues deductions, and provided criminal and civil enforcement with existing-contract and federal-law exceptions. Flanagan then voted against the majority motion to kill the bill; the House adopted that motion, 214–135.

March 7, 2019Opposes Labor Rights

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On March 10, 2016, voted to kill HB1346. Its text set a $3.27 tipped base wage, added $1 annually in2017–2019, reached the federal minimum in2020, and treated tips as additional to the minimum hourly wage. The House adopted Inexpedient to Legislate 190–137.

March 10, 2016Opposes Labor Rights

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On March 10, 2016, voted to kill HB1480, which set minimum hourly wages of $8.25 in2017, $9 in2018 and $9.50 in2019, or the higher federal rate, and restaurant tipped base wages of $4, $4.50 and $5 while removing other listed hospitality establishments from that category. The House adopted Inexpedient to Legislate 185–143.

March 10, 2016Opposes Labor Rights

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On March 9, 2016, Flanagan voted to reject HB1475, 195–160. The introduced bill established a $100,000 state death benefit for public school, university and community-college employees killed in duty, with family eligibility and claims procedures.

March 9, 2016Opposes Labor Rights

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Voted for HB372 exempting farm employers with annual payrolls under $10,000 from workers' compensation requirements. Employers choosing the exemption needed $300,000 in liability insurance and $5,000 in medical-payment coverage. The House passed it, 270–39.

January 20, 2016Opposes Labor Rights

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Flanagan prime-sponsored HB1505 on January 4, 2012, HB325 on January 3, 2013, and HB1670 on January 6, 2016. All three introduced versions required a one-time award equal to 10% of an implemented employee suggestion’s first twelve months of savings. They broadened eligibility, excluding specified senior officials, and preserved eligibility after employment ended. They protected identities until awards and required anonymous reporting, investigation and governor-and-council approval. Awards came from affected agency budgets or the employee-award fund, including operating budgets for self-funded units. They allowed one additional award after wider implementation and excluded suggestions already under state consideration. Suggestion-award caps were removed; extraordinary-service limits of $5,000 per award and $10,000 annually remained. The 2012 proposal contained no later reversion. The 2013 proposal specified restoration of earlier rules on September 1, 2015; the 2016 proposal set that restoration for September 1, 2018. On February 20, 2013, Flanagan spoke against rejection and voted Nay on Inexpedient to Legislate. The Speaker’s favorable vote produced a 179–179 tie, and rejection failed. Flanagan then moved Ought to Pass, adopted 199–162 by unnamed division.

January 6, 2016Supports Labor Rights

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Flanagan cosponsored SB9 on September 16, 2015, and helped introduce it for immediate consideration. He supported the chair’s introduction ruling, upheld 286–89, and suspension of the rules, adopted 285–93. The twenty-seven-section bill funded state pay increases with $7.5 million in fiscal 2016 and $22.5 million in fiscal 2017. It established employee-relations oversight and public hearings, broadened a $2.45 million liquor capital appropriation, and extended it through June 2017. It reduced business-profits tax rates from 8.5% to 8.2% and then 7.9%, and enterprise rates from 0.75% to 0.72% and then 0.675%. The second reductions depended on a $4.64 billion revenue threshold. Salary and tax provisions depended on both regular budget bills becoming law. Flanagan opposed four failed amendments: voter-domicile rules, 94–264; optional concealed-pistol licenses, 96–265; removal of a courthouse-siting restriction, 65–289; and a business-asset-basis tax election, 93–263. He voted for passage, adopted 291–73, and offered the resolution for immediate third reading and final passage. SB9 conditioned its salary, employee-relations and business-tax provisions on both 2015 HB1 and HB2 becoming law and nullified HB2 sections 234–240 on business-tax reductions.

September 16, 2015Supports Labor Rights

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On June 3, 2015, Flanagan voted to pass SB221 with amendment 1926h, authorizing PUC-reviewed private utility bonds to recover costs associated with PSNH generation-plant divestiture and the Merrimack scrubber settlement. The text required review of customer, economic and employment effects and protected affected employees at least to the level of the current collective bargaining agreement. House passed it 308–43.

June 3, 2015Supports Labor Rights

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On March 4, 2015, Flanagan voted to kill HB116. The proposal reduced the teaching-service requirements for nonrenewal notice and hearing rights from five to three consecutive years, and from three to two years in the current district for qualifying certified teachers with service elsewhere in the state. The House adopted the motion, 218–145.

March 4, 2015Opposes Labor Rights

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Sponsored HB477 on January 8, 2015. The introduced version raised workers' compensation for temporary and permanent total or partial disability from 60% to 66⅔% of wages. It raised the lower-wage threshold from 30% to 40% and the after-tax measure from 90% to 100%. It set medical payments at 150% of Medicare rates.

January 8, 2015Supports Labor Rights

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On September 17, 2014, Flanagan voted against overriding the veto of HB591. The bill required state employers to adopt policies prohibiting abusive workplace conduct and retaliation, with reporting, investigation, appeal, training and confidentiality procedures. The House voted 141–154, sustaining the veto.

September 17, 2014Opposes Labor Rights

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On June 4, 2014, Flanagan voted against the HB1188 conference report prohibiting employers from discharging, disciplining or discriminating against employees because they disclosed their wages, salary or paid benefits. Its operative change depended on SB207 becoming law, with a January 1, 2015 effective time. The House adopted the report 207–120.

June 4, 2014Opposes Labor Rights

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Voted against SB207’s equal-pay protections on April 23 and May 14, 2014. The text barred sex-based pay differences for equal work, protected wage discussions and complaints, and provided Labor Department enforcement and penalties. On May 14, supported amendment1629h reducing the three-year discovery limit for unpaid-wage claims to one year; it failed 152–184. Also supported a failed tabling motion 129–208. The House passed the bill 233–103.

May 14, 2014Opposes Labor Rights

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On April23,2014, Flanagan voted against amendment1427h to SB204, setting additional GroupII first-responder impairment payments at up to $125,000 per claimant and $500,000 overall through July2016, adding study-commission members, and applying benefits to injuries from March12,2012. The amendment passed199–120. He then supported1492h to remove that retroactive-applicability section; it failed133–189.

April 23, 2014Opposes Labor Rights

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Cosponsored HB1404 on January 8, 2014. The introduced version made payroll cards voluntary after employees declined direct deposit or paper checks. It required three free withdrawals per pay period and convenient access to the full balance. It barred credit links, employee expiration costs and specified fees. It required fee and third-party disclosures, written consent before changes, free discontinuation and monthly statements with an inactivity exception. It required thirty-day closure and refund notice. Existing wage and welfare-payment timing remained.

January 8, 2014Supports Labor Rights

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On March 20, 2013, Flanagan voted against HB 357 as amended. It restricted employers’ use of credit histories in hiring, compensation, discipline and other employment decisions, with financial-institution, legally required and job-related exceptions. The House adopted it 213–144.

March 20, 2013Opposes Labor Rights

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On March 13, 2013, Flanagan voted against amendment 0824h to HB 501, raising the proposed state minimum wage to $7.75; it failed 152–182. He then voted against passage of the version establishing a $7.25 state minimum alongside the federal minimum and retaining tipped-worker provisions. The House adopted it 200–133.

March 13, 2013Opposes Labor Rights

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Cosponsored HB171 on January 3, 2013. The introduced version required a civil penalty of up to $2,500 for specified workers' compensation insurer or self-insurer failures without sufficient cause within twenty-one days. It changed the commissioner's discretion to a requirement.

January 3, 2013Supports Labor Rights

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On June 6, 2012, Flanagan voted for HB 1666’s conference report,2468c. It required fiscal-committee approval of every state collective bargaining agreement before it took effect, starting60 days after passage. The House adopted the report 203–77.

June 6, 2012Opposes Labor Rights

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On April 25, 2012, voted for amendment1841h to SB378, permitting public employers to request union decertification elections when dues-paying membership fell below both the certification threshold and half of bargaining-unit positions. He also voted for the amended bill permitting locally approved snow removal from private roads, driveways and classVI highways. House adopted the amendment219–106 and passage221–105.

April 25, 2012Opposes Labor Rights

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On March 29, 2012, Flanagan voted for HB 1460 as replaced by 1163h. It placed new and reemployed public workers beginning November 1, 2012 into individual defined-contribution retirement accounts, with specified contribution rates, six-to-ten-year employer-contribution vesting and annuity requirements. It retained employer payments for the existing system’s unfunded liability and required contracted plan administration. The House adopted it 197–104.

March 29, 2012Opposes Labor Rights

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On March 14, 2012, voted for HB1645 as amended, passed 194–141. It allowed public employers to request a secret-ballot union decertification election when dues-paying membership fell below the number needed to certify a bargaining unit and below half its positions. Employers paid election costs; each side paid promotional costs, and a vote retaining certification barred a repeat employer request for one year.

March 14, 2012Opposes Labor Rights

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On March 14, 2012, voted for HB1206 as amended, passed 198–137. The replacement required public employers and employees to share equally insurance-benefit cost increases needed to fulfill continuing obligations under expired labor contracts when the legislative body had not accepted a successor agreement.

March 14, 2012Opposes Labor Rights

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On March 14, 2012, opposed HB1574, passed 168–161. It increased the maximum consecutive work period before a required half-hour meal break from five hours to six, retaining the exception for work during which eating was feasible and permitted.

March 14, 2012Supports Labor Rights

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On March 7, 2012, Flanagan voted to schedule HB 1677 for the following week; the motion passed 300–41. On March 14, he voted for the bill, which passed 198–139. It prohibited mandatory union membership or payments as conditions of employment, allowed revocable written dues deductions, and provided criminal and civil remedies. It replaced exclusive public-sector representation with representation of union members or fee payers and removed unions’ obligation to represent nonpaying nonmembers.

March 14, 2012Opposes Labor Rights

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On January 11, 2012, Flanagan supported amendment 0111h to HB 494, adopted 225–119, then opposed passage as amended, which failed 169–180. The amendment added tipped employees of primary game operators to the45-percent minimum base-wage rule fromJuly1, 2012 untilJune30, 2014, while retaining the employer's obligation to make up a shortfall below the applicable minimum wage. His signed minority committee report opposed converting dealers to tipped wages and cited uncertain tips and lower employer-paid wages. The House subsequently tabled the bill on an unnamed vote, without an individual cast attributed to Flanagan.

January 11, 2012Supports Labor Rights

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On January 5, 2012, Flanagan voted for HB 383 as amended by 0339h, prohibiting agency fees as a condition of employment for full-time state employees outside the bargaining organization. Employees declining fees submitted a notarized relinquishment of membership and bargained benefits. The changes applied to the next state contract. The House adopted it 212–128.

January 5, 2012Opposes Labor Rights

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Cosponsored SB371 on January 4, 2012. The introduced version added mechanic's liens for licensed architects, landscape architects, engineers and surveyors providing professional design work on building projects. It included subcontractors and extended the general lien period from 120 to 180 days. Tax-lien priority remained.

January 4, 2012Supports Labor Rights

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On February 15, 2011, Flanagan voted for HB 474 as amended,221–131, and against reconsideration,100–248. The House proposal prohibited employment conditions requiring union membership, dues, substitute charitable payments, or union referral. It required revocable written authorization for dues deductions and prohibited coercion, with criminal and civil enforcement. The House amendments also limited public-union representation and contract benefits to members or employees choosing to pay dues or fees. On May 4 he voted to concur with Senate amendment 1403s,225–140; that replacement retained the right-to-work protections but removed the public-representation change. Existing contracts were exempt until renewal or extension, with federal-law exceptions. On November 30 he voted to override the veto,240–139; the override failed to reach two-thirds.

November 30, 2011Opposes Labor Rights

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On March 16, 2011, Flanagan voted to kill HB 560, which increased the minimum hourly wage to $8 starting September 1, 2011. The House adopted the killing motion 238–89.

March 16, 2011Opposes Labor Rights

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On March 16, 2011, Flanagan voted for HB 589, repealing written majority authorization as a route for certifying a public employee bargaining representative. The House adopted it 255–88.

March 16, 2011Opposes Labor Rights

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On February 16, 2011, Flanagan voted for SB 1, ending automatic continuation of expired public employee collective bargaining agreements. The House adopted the passage report 282–70.

February 16, 2011Opposes Labor Rights

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Moved $185,000 for a two-year Brookline teacher contract in 2002, including higher salaries, benefits and course reimbursements. He cited attracting and keeping teachers. The district approved it. In 1996, moved $36,398 for professional-staff pay and benefits; it passed, 58–33. In 1994, seconded $73,345 for professional staff and moved $13,206 for support staff under cooperative-school contracts. Both passed.

March 11, 2002Supports Labor Rights

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Voted to override the veto of HB1491 establishing an Insurance Department framework for political-subdivision risk-management programs, including capital, investment, reporting and enforcement rules. The override failed, 160–148.

August 19, 2026Supports Anti-Corruption

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Voted to override the veto of SB661 revising pooled-risk programs’ reserves, member assessments, financial oversight and disclosures. The override failed, 84–216.

August 19, 2026Supports Anti-Corruption

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Voted to override the veto of HB1369 changing town-meeting warrant notices. It required website posting alongside physical postings for regular meetings and two of three specified notice methods for special meetings. The House overrode the veto, 305–12.

August 19, 2026Supports Anti-Corruption

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Flanagan cosponsored HB1675 on January 7, 2026. The five-section introduced bill created a seven-member commission with subpoena powers to investigate ten specified questions about the Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence. It required annual Legislative Budget Assistant audits in publicly funded years and limited Executive Council-approved funding to direct material benefits for survivors. It removed coalition seats from eight state bodies and set a November 1, 2027 report deadline. The proposal specified immediate effectiveness for the commission provisions and effectiveness after sixty days for the funding and membership provisions. These were investigative questions, not established findings of misconduct. On March 12, Flanagan voted to remove the bill from the table. Removal failed 148–186.

March 12, 2026Supports Anti-Corruption

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Voted against adding school-funding and education freedom account spending graphs to mandatory voter reports, then supported amended HB1807 consolidating school cost and salary information, listing ten highest-paid administrators, and placing tax-impact information in annual warrants. The House approved it, 185–150.

March 11, 2026Supports Anti-Corruption

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Voted for HB1495 requiring school districts to use reimbursement anticipation note proceeds for the same purposes as the anticipated state education funds. The House approved it, 185–162.

March 5, 2026Supports Anti-Corruption

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Voted to reject HB1570 requiring budget-authority approval before police agencies entered ICE immigration-enforcement agreements, quarterly activity and cost reports, and authority to terminate agreements for cost reasons. The bill withheld state funding for noncompliance. The House rejected it, 198–161.

February 12, 2026Opposes Anti-Corruption

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Voted to reject HB1487 creating an independent commission to draw proposed legislative, congressional, executive-council and county-commission districts. The bill included public hearings, limits on partisan favoritism and a court-appointed map process after repeated legislative rejection. The House rejected it, 189–164.

February 5, 2026Opposes Anti-Corruption

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Spoke and voted against HB314, which restricted taxpayer-funded lobbying and required municipal ballot approval and annual spending disclosures for an exception. The bill preserved officials’ ability to testify unless required to register as lobbyists. The House rejected passage, 152–198.

January 8, 2026Opposes Anti-Corruption

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Voted for stronger audit requirements and state oversight of financially troubled school districts. The amended HB121 included fines for overdue audits, withholding aid for unjustified delays, district probation and state-appointed administrators with authority to override local decisions after unsuccessful remediation. It replaced elected district auditors with independent hired auditors. The House approved the bill, 187–154.

January 7, 2026Supports Anti-Corruption

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Voted for HB656 requiring school districts to disclose expected state and federal funds and related obligations in annual reports. Funds received during the year also needed disclosure. It kept hearings for unanticipated funds of at least $20,000. The House approved it, 186–155.

January 7, 2026Supports Anti-Corruption

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Sponsored HB1428 on January 7, 2026. The introduced version established written public-integrity criminal complaints with factual statements, generally excluding anonymous review. It provided conditional confidentiality, logging and local referrals. It required reasonable suspicion for preliminary review, written investigation or declination notices and specified Justice Department disposition options.

January 7, 2026Supports Anti-Corruption

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On December 17, 2025, Jack Flanagan voted to override the governor's veto of HB 356. The override failed, 177–174, because it lacked the required two-thirds vote. The eight-section version allowed school districts to adopt or rescind partisan elections by ballot. It set cooperative-district caucus, nomination, filing, ballot and plurality-election procedures. It also added elected partisan school-district caucuses to the statutory public-meeting exception.

December 17, 2025Opposes Anti-Corruption

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On May 8, 2025, Flanagan voted to limit debate on SB 295, 195–166, and the motion passed. He voted against amendment 1979h, which delayed education-account expansion until an audit was complete and found sufficient legal-compliance controls; it failed, 165–199. He then voted for the nine-section replacement 1857h, 188–176, and the House adopted it and referred it to Finance. It removed income eligibility limits, capped enrollment at 10,000, and increased the cap by twenty-five percent when applications reached ninety percent. It prioritized existing students, siblings, children with disabilities and families at or below 350 percent of poverty; restricted late prorated accounts, reserved spring-renewal spaces and required application deadlines. After two fiscal years with applications below ninety percent, certification triggered removal of the cap, priority rules and deadline requirements. On June 5, 2025, Jack Flanagan voted Nay on SB 295 amendment 2702h, which conditioned expansion on a completed EFA performance audit finding sufficient management controls; it failed 167–201. He voted Yea on the amended bill, adopted 190–178 and ordered to third reading, and Nay on reconsideration, which failed 171–198. The adopted eight-section Finance 2271h replacement removed income eligibility limits, provided rolling applications and a10,000-student2025–2026 cap increasing25 percent after a year above90 percent. Current EFA students, their siblings, children with disabilities and students at or below350 percent of federal poverty guidelines were exempt from the cap. Current students had reserved renewal spaces. Two consecutive school years with applications not exceeding the cap triggered repeal of the cap and priority definitions and procedures. These June provisions replaced the prior1857h enrollment rules; no audit precondition survived.

June 5, 2025Opposes Anti-Corruption

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On April 10, 2025, Flanagan supported tabling HB 66; that motion failed, 179–191. He then voted to pass it as amended, 207–164. It allowed any person to inspect public records and included preliminary drafts circulated to a quorum. It guaranteed remote requests and delivery for media members and people with specified New Hampshire ties, subject to format, technology, burden and security exceptions. The Finance amendment removed the fee waiver for court appeals of ombudsman rulings.

April 10, 2025Supports Anti-Corruption

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On March 27, 2025, Flanagan voted to pass HB 284 as amended, 198–160. It required recorded budget-committee and governing-body votes with tallies printed beside warrant articles. It required estimated property-tax impacts for budgets and special articles, up to five annual estimates for multi-year impacts or leases, separate town figures in multi-town districts, and a total-impact summary on applicable official ballots.

March 27, 2025Supports Anti-Corruption

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Flanagan voted Nay on concurrence with the Senate version of HB1246 on June 30, 2020; concurrence passed 194–132. On September 16 he voted Nay on overriding the governor’s veto; the 196–139 vote fell short of two-thirds and the veto stood. Its12-section text revised health-care infection reporting to follow specified national standards, removed two mandatory process measures, retained influenza coverage reporting and required monthly reporting of Health and Human Services budget reductions. It established a nonlapsing, continually appropriated COVID-19 nursing-home and long-term-care fund receiving $25 million in CARES money for testing, protective equipment, family-video technology, facility continuity and an independent needs/preparedness review. It directed another $10 million in CARES money to child-care scholarships, expanding eligibility to 275% of federal poverty guidelines and assistance across all tiers for July 2020–June 2021. It authorized qualifying pharmacists and supervised interns to administer available COVID-19 vaccines with primary-care-provider notice, required public check-register reporting of all CARES disbursements, and directed Medicaid-plan and rule changes for nursing-assistant training reimbursement. The text specified effective dates after 60 days for infection reporting and training-reimbursement provisions and passage for the remainder.

September 16, 2020Opposes Anti-Corruption

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On March 12, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay on Ought to Pass with Amendment 0899h for HB1665; the House adopted it 203–121 and ordered third reading. The two-section text created an independent advisory redistricting commission while retaining the legislature’s final decision on maps. It established a public application and cross-party selection process for 15 members, excluded current specified elected officials, required disclosure of lobbying, officeholding and primary-party voting history, and set removal, vacancy and term rules. It required public meetings and records, advance notice, county hearings before and after proposed maps, public map submissions, accessible participation and disclosure of outside influence communications. Its map criteria included constitutional compliance, population equality, compactness and communities of interest, and prohibited undue favoritism toward parties, incumbents or candidates and racial or language groups. It required proposed congressional, legislative, Executive Council and county commission maps by December 20 in the decennial redistricting year. It provided state administrative support and mileage reimbursement, authorized fiscal-year 2021 expense payments by gubernatorial warrant from otherwise unappropriated sums, and required later decennial budget recommendations. On September 16, Flanagan voted Nay on overriding the veto of that final 0899h version; the motion received 198–135, failed the two-thirds requirement and the veto remained in force.

September 16, 2020Opposes Anti-Corruption

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On June 30, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay on concurrence with the Senate version of HB1645; concurrence passed 255–74. Its26-section text extended misdemeanor domestic-violence annulment eligibility to ten years and coordinated repeat convictions; allowed equitable remedies in contract claims against the state; and added a bail commissioner to the pretrial-services commission. It revised bail standards concerning public safety, repeated failures to appear and alleged new offenses. It allowed detention or financial conditions under stated evidence and hearing requirements. It preserved live-testimony opportunities and appointed counsel for indigent class B misdemeanor detainees. It revised bail-commissioner fee assistance, identification and training, and established a remote-services study. It prohibited private or for-profit prisoner-housing contracts except temporary corrections emergencies, preserved ancillary-service contracts and existing housing contracts until expiration, and granted qualifying underage alcohol-overdose callers and patients arrest/prosecution immunity excluding impaired driving. It required written reporting and investigation of officer misconduct, with protection against retaliation. It expanded public-property criminal-mischief coverage, while reducing the specified public-property offense from a class A misdemeanor to a violation with restitution. It created a continually appropriated police psychological-screening fund receiving $100,000 from drug forfeitures. It removed the local funding-approval condition for police standards and prohibited chokeholds except the specified statutory exception. The text specified January 1, 2021 for officer-misconduct and criminal-mischief provisions, 60 days after passage for listed annulment, bail, alcohol-immunity and screening-fund provisions, and passage for the remainder as their effective dates.

June 30, 2020Opposes Anti-Corruption

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On June 30, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay on concurrence with the Senate version of HB1245; concurrence passed 190–127. The omnibus agency package added earned sentence credits for correctional-industry and other rehabilitation programs, repealed 24 statutory boards and programs, reduced several committees' legislative membership, and established a review of remaining nonregulatory bodies. It revised reciprocal-jurisdiction reinsurance safeguards, commercial-insurance cancellation rules and insurance enforcement, directed parental-rights and child-protection appeals to the Supreme Court, and made unauthorized entry on correctional grounds a misdemeanor. It expanded controlled procurement-card use, raised the usual surplus-property bid threshold, retained license residency for deployed military members' children, revised agency salary grades, and changed administrative-rule filing, notice and review procedures. It broadened state energy-saving measures and competitive energy contracts, allocated half of remaining general-funded energy budgets to the existing energy investment fund, and made veterans' donations and decal receipts continually appropriated. It created offshore-wind planning and industry-development bodies. It established seasonal-dock registration and repair exemptions with water-quality safeguards, emergency dam intervention and owner reimbursement, optional municipal use of the fire marshal, trained safety-officer powers with a two-hour detention limit, medical-imaging licensure checks, and motor-carrier default sanctions with notice, inability-to-pay and hearing provisions. It required an animal-case cost-of-care budget request and raised tobacco sales and possession ages to twenty-one, with specified exceptions. It revised workers' compensation audit penalties and mental-health discharge procedures and extended a waterway study. It authorized specialty-beverage sales with a 5% wholesale-case fee. It required replacement-well impact mitigation and changed Lucky 7 ticket pricing. It revised child-fatality review and removed its nonpublic-session exemption, and established voluntary recovery-housing certification, complaints and safety standards with certified-housing limits on state-funded referrals.

June 30, 2020Opposes Anti-Corruption

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On March 12, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay on the Ought to Pass recommendation for HB1423; the House adopted it 192–135. The two-section introduced text expanded each scholarship organization's public report to Revenue Administration, including scholarship amounts and counts at each amount, total donations and administrative expenses, per-school totals, home-education expenditure categories and receipts, rejected applicants' reasons and recipients' residence by ZIP code. It expanded parent surveys to all participating families with years-in-program breakdowns and explanations of measured academic improvement, made former recipients' two-year follow-up survey responses required, added dropout reasons and deleted the combined-data agreement item. Existing report provisions included an explanation for omitted information revealing private student data. It set a 60-day effective date; it did not itself appropriate scholarship funds.

March 12, 2020Opposes Anti-Corruption

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On March 12, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay on the Ought to Pass recommendation for HB1525; the House adopted it 198–124. The introduced text expanded the political-advocacy-organization definition and lowered the annual expenditure threshold from $5,000 to $2,500. It covered public communications referring to identified candidates or ballot measures within sixty days before primary or general elections. It applied to communications to the relevant electorate regardless of express advocacy for or against. It expressly included organizations under RSA664:2III and excluded candidate-forum expenses, including advertisements, marketing and events. It set a60-day effective date. The definition governed existing political expenditure and contribution requirements; the bill contained no public appropriation.

March 12, 2020Opposes Anti-Corruption

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On January 8, 2020, Flanagan voted against Ought to Pass with Amendment on the carried 2019 SB8. The report was adopted 224–141 and referred to Finance. House replacement 2802h established a fifteen-member redistricting commission with five members from each major party and five from other affiliations; current district officeholders were ineligible. It required county hearings before and after maps, seven days for comments, public records and meetings, accessible venues, disclosure of attempted outside influence and district criteria barring undue favor for parties, incumbents, candidates or racial and language groups. Leadership cross-selected the major-party members, and selection of the other five was exempt from right-to-know law. It retained legislative enactment, provided court review and possible special-master maps, mileage reimbursement and FY2021 warrant funding from unappropriated sums.

January 8, 2020Opposes Anti-Corruption

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Voted against HB706’s independent redistricting commission on February 28, 2019. House passage succeeded 218–123. The House version barred recent candidates, party officials, lobbyists and close relatives of officeholders from serving. It required public meetings, balanced membership and maps without unfair party or incumbent advantages. The later Senate version changed commissioner selection and relaxed several eligibility and hearing rules. It retained public map review and the ban on unfair party or incumbent advantages. On September 18, he opposed overriding the governor’s veto, 227–145. The veto remained in force.

September 18, 2019Opposes Anti-Corruption

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On June 5, 2019, Flanagan voted Nay on SB 235 as amended; the House adopted it, 207–139. Its three-section version required a designated independent human-resources professional to receive and investigate legislative sexual-harassment complaints, including complaints about members who left within two years. Investigations remained independent of the House speaker and Senate president. It protected complaint confidentiality, with informed written waiver and necessary investigative consultation. It required biennial policy review and publication and consideration of rules for in-person harassment and discrimination training.

June 5, 2019Opposes Anti-Corruption

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Voted for HB729 creating a public-records ombudsman and citizen appeals commission as an alternative to court complaints. It included $48,000 for fiscal 2020 and a July 2024 sunset. The House approved it, 177–165. Later voted against killing it; the House killed it, 203–165.

April 4, 2019Supports Anti-Corruption

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On March 14, 2019, voted to table HCR5, a resolution requesting a federal constitutional amendment addressing campaign-finance rulings and calling on New Hampshire's congressional delegation to promote it. The tabling motion failed, 142–189. He then voted against the resolution as amended by 0093h; the House adopted it, 198–132.

March 14, 2019Opposes Anti-Corruption

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Voted to kill HB202, which required presidential-primary candidates to submit five years of federal income tax returns for certification and public disclosure before their names appeared on the primary ballot. The House killed it, 291–72.

March 7, 2019Opposes Anti-Corruption

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Spoke and voted against required in-person sexual-harassment and discrimination training for legislators and staff. The House adopted the requirement. Later supported an unsuccessful amendment adding training on the state and U.S. constitutions.

January 2, 2019Opposes Anti-Corruption

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Opposed tabling SB324 in May; tabling failed, 115–171. In June, supported its conference report, which passed 191–149. It eliminated the land-use board and required governor and Executive Council approval for covered federal land acquisitions. It required local notice, hearings and compliance certificates. It included primary federal easements and excluded existing White Mountain National Forest holdings within the 1929 boundary from the two-percent limit.

June 1, 2016Supports Anti-Corruption

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On March 10, 2016, Flanagan voted for HB1322 as amended, 173–146. It required semiannual public-employer reports of union-dues and agency-fee counts and dues-payment ratios, including employee notices.

March 10, 2016Supports Anti-Corruption

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Flanagan voted to reject HB 1639, which gave taxpayers injured by public employees’ failure to perform duties or fraudulent acts access to employee indemnity bonds and a right of subrogation. The rejection motion passed, 318–41.

March 9, 2016Opposes Anti-Corruption

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Flanagan voted to reject HB 1249, which added false-swearing penalties for knowingly providing false evidence in child-abuse or neglect hearings and for investigators or department employees withholding exculpatory information. The rejection motion passed, 204–128.

March 9, 2016Opposes Anti-Corruption

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On March 9, 2016, Flanagan voted to reject HB1417, 189–135. The bill required permanent, promptly available records of certain public-body convenings involving collective bargaining or legal counsel, identifying participants, location and times.

March 9, 2016Opposes Anti-Corruption

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On February 10, 2016, voted to kill HB1564, creating a seven-member independent redistricting commission with public plans and hearings, restrictions on partisan influence, and successive legislative consideration of its plans. The text financed the commission through a disclosure-linked political-communication fee and state funding for shortfalls. The House adopted Inexpedient to Legislate 210–151.

February 10, 2016Opposes Anti-Corruption

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Flanagan voted for SB 110 as amended to establish confidential, voluntary administrative supervision of insurers by the insurance commissioner, including operating restrictions, insurer-paid supervision costs and judicial review. The amendment limited official immunity to good-faith actions within authorized duties that were neither wanton nor reckless. The House passed the version, 211–149.

January 6, 2016Supports Anti-Corruption

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On March 4, 2015, Flanagan voted to kill HB302, which required a House education-committee public hearing and commissioner review of testimony and committee comments before every education-department grant application. The motion passed, 260–77.

March 4, 2015Opposes Anti-Corruption

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On March 4, 2015, Flanagan voted to kill CACR9, which added forfeiture of state pension contributions and their gains, and loss of state-funded health insurance, to permitted Senate impeachment judgments. The House adopted the motion, 235–121.

March 4, 2015Opposes Anti-Corruption

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Submitted the majority committee report opposing HB371’s requested constitutional response to Citizens United, then voted to kill it on February 11, 2015. The proposal required at least four geographically diverse public hearings and a report, and urged New Hampshire’s congressional delegation to support a constitutional amendment. The House adopted Inexpedient to Legislate 194–157.

February 11, 2015Opposes Anti-Corruption

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On February 4, 2015, Flanagan voted to kill HB181, which required a public body holding a nonmeeting under four right-to-know-law exceptions to state its reason, limit discussion to that topic, take attendance, and record its starting and ending times. The House adopted the motion, 302–52.

February 4, 2015Opposes Anti-Corruption

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On February 4, 2015, Flanagan voted against amending House Rules30 and31 to create a Government Oversight and Audit Committee with duties to hear redress petitions, review executive and judicial audits, and conduct impeachment investigations, including witness oaths and requests for House subpoenas. The proposal also revised standing committees’ audit-review and compliance-monitoring duties. It failed, 119–236, lacking the required two-thirds vote.

February 4, 2015Opposes Anti-Corruption

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Flanagan prime-sponsored HB534 on January 8, 2015. Its three-section text required the Housing Finance Authority to disclose all municipal grant and loan conditions in writing at least fourteen days before acceptance. Disclosure included third-party and federal conditions. It required an annual independent certified-public-accountant audit and a November 1 report identifying funded housing projects, financial operations and progress on housing for elderly people. The bill’s operative text remained unamended.

January 8, 2015Supports Anti-Corruption

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Cosponsored HB412 on January 8, 2015. The introduced version required audited state agencies to report expected completion dates for open findings and reasons for closing findings. Administrative Services produced twice-yearly summaries, with gubernatorial concurrence or action and public transparency posting.

January 8, 2015Supports Anti-Corruption

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On September 17, 2014, Flanagan voted to override the veto of HB685. The bill expanded Legislative Budget Assistant access to confidential and privileged agency information for audits, transferred disputes over access to the fiscal committee, preserved disclosure restrictions, and excluded attorney-client communications obtained from regulated entities. The House voted 190–113, falling short of the required two thirds and sustaining the veto.

September 17, 2014Supports Anti-Corruption

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On May 7, 2014, Flanagan voted for SB241 as amended by1536h, establishing a nonlapsing economic-development fund and continually appropriating its public and private grants, gifts and donations to DRED. Spending was limited to the department’s statutory activities; donations lacked fee-for-service use primarily benefiting the donor, except promotional acknowledgment. The House passed236–111.

May 7, 2014Supports Anti-Corruption

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On January 15, 2014, Flanagan voted Nay on the amended HB675 report, which failed 97–250. The three-section version regulated police use of automated license-plate readers: attended devices and approved official uses, independent grounds or corroboration before a stop, three-minute deletion except specified active cases, access and audit records, Attorney General oversight, and annual reporting. It prohibited images of vehicle occupants and permitted listed criminal, missing-person, traffic and surveillance searches.

January 15, 2014Opposes Anti-Corruption

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Cosponsored SB376 on January 8, 2014. The introduced version required financial disclosures under RSA15-A from pooled-risk-management board members. It retained a public-official majority and barred compensation beyond reasonable expenses.

January 8, 2014Supports Anti-Corruption

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Cosponsored HB172 on January 3, 2013. The introduced version required the labor commissioner to retain insurer and self-insurer nonpayment cases, assessed and collected fines, and reductions, waivers or extensions for two years.

January 3, 2013Supports Anti-Corruption

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On March 8, 2012, voted to kill HB1676, adopted 230–82. Its introduced text established public campaign financing for candidates in five randomly selected state Senate districts, a continually appropriated nonlapsing fund capped at $6 million, qualifying contributions, campaign limits and disclosure, audits and penalties, and a funding commission. It ended the program in January 2018.

March 8, 2012Opposes Anti-Corruption

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On January 18, 2012, Flanagan supported amendment 0254h to HB 514, adopted 260–98. Its replacement required a warrant or prior written notice and owner permission for entering private land to gather data, restricted later use of that data, and barred using abutting-land data to deny permits. It preserved listed official, emergency, assessment, utility and surveying exceptions without expanding entry authority. It provided legal fees, invalidation and injunction remedies, and 250-to 2,000-dollar penalties, reimbursement and training for knowing official violations. A subsequent unnamed vote adopted passage as amended; no individual passage cast is attributed.

January 18, 2012Supports Anti-Corruption

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On January 5, 2012, Flanagan supported HB 628 as amended by 2768h, adopted 188–136 and ordered third reading. The version required law enforcement to document complaints about federal transportation-security searches and submit them to a state-police database within five business days. Records remained for five years before archiving; complainant identities were redacted from public records. It protected audio/video recording of searches, required police assistance, and provided potential official-oppression liability for obstructing those rights. It limited recording-error liability to gross negligence or intentional acts and specified effectiveness 90 days after passage.

January 5, 2012Supports Anti-Corruption

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Cosponsored HB1648 on January 4, 2012. The introduced version created a class B felony for state, county or local police knowingly failing to enforce the interference-with-custody law.

January 4, 2012Supports Anti-Corruption

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Cosponsored HB1365 on January 4, 2012. The introduced version required the guardian-ad-litem board to send written complaints to the appointing court, including during pending cases. It barred dismissal merely because proceedings were pending. It retained parallel investigation, discipline and agreed informal resolution.

January 4, 2012Supports Anti-Corruption

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Cosponsored SB262 on January 4, 2012. The introduced version changed disclosure of nonpublic minutes from seventy-two hours after the meeting to twenty-four hours after approval at the next scheduled quorum meeting. It retained two-thirds sealing requirements and later majority disclosure.

January 4, 2012Opposes Anti-Corruption

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On October 12, 2011, Flanagan supported HB 656 committee amendment 2676h, adopted 254–105. It fixed city ward boundaries for legislative redistricting and specified all five Portsmouth wards. He opposed 2695h, a Lebanon exception contingent on voter approval in March 2012; it failed 131–216. He supported 2729h, adopted 221–111, moving the ward-boundary deadline to January 7, 2012 and waiving statutory limits, notice, and hearing requirements for city special elections meeting that deadline. He opposed tabling, which failed 126–205, and supported amended passage, adopted 234–101 and ordered third reading. The text specified effect upon passage.

October 12, 2011Opposes Anti-Corruption

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Moved to pass over Brookline's proposed conflict-of-interest ordinance. The town approved his motion.

March 10, 2004Opposes Anti-Corruption

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Voted to override the veto of HB1369 changing town-meeting warrant notices. It required website posting alongside physical postings for regular meetings and two of three specified notice methods for special meetings. The House overrode the veto, 305–12.

August 19, 2026Supports Government Efficiency

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On May 14, 2026, Flanagan voted against SB 508, requiring all zoning-appeal grounds in the initial notice and requiring acceptance of revised land-use plans within 10 business days when they addressed the initial requested changes. The bill limited repeated revisions. Passage failed, 151–161; the House then killed the bill without a named vote.

May 14, 2026Opposes Government Efficiency

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On March 26, 2026, Flanagan voted for HB1555 with the earlier 0668h amendment. Its three sections gave the state fire marshal de novo review of local fire-chief decisions, a hearing within 40 days and a written decision within 30 days after the hearing, with requested extensions and further appeal to the building-code review board. It authorized the marshal to approve or reject alternative construction materials, designs, methods, equipment and state-building-code modifications statewide. It specified July 2, 2026 effectiveness. The fiscal note estimated costs but the bill funded no new positions. The House adopted passage 192–162.

March 26, 2026Supports Government Efficiency

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On March 12, 2026, Flanagan voted for HB1224 as replaced by amendment 0301h. Its four sections revised official-ballot town-meeting default budgets: prior operating appropriations adjusted for legal obligations, reduced for one-time expenses and associated transfers, eliminated positions and longstanding vacancies, with filled jobs reflecting actual pay and benefits without subsequent increases. It allowed public-safety vacancies under recruitment to retain separately listed prior funding for the designated purpose, including overtime and contracted services; unused funds reduced current local taxes and were barred from transfer elsewhere. Public safety included police, fire, emergency services and management, and snow-removal duties. It preserved the statutory calculation even when higher or lower than the proposed operating budget and specified January 1, 2027 effectiveness. The House adopted amended passage 186–160.

March 12, 2026Supports Government Efficiency

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Voted for stronger audit requirements and state oversight of financially troubled school districts. The amended HB121 included fines for overdue audits, withholding aid for unjustified delays, district probation and state-appointed administrators with authority to override local decisions after unsuccessful remediation. It replaced elected district auditors with independent hired auditors. The House approved the bill, 187–154.

January 7, 2026Supports Government Efficiency

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On March 27, 2025, Flanagan voted Yea on HB358 Ought to Pass, adopted 206–169. Its two-section introduced text retained disease-specific, physician-certified medical immunization exemptions but replaced the required religious-exemption form with no more than a parental or guardian statement of religious non-immunization and a signature. On June 12, he voted Yea to concur, adopted 194–153, with Senate 1753s specifying that the statement was written; the 60-day effective date was unchanged. On December 17, he voted Yea on overriding the governor's veto, 176–175. That vote failed the required two-thirds threshold and the veto was sustained.

December 17, 2025Supports Government Efficiency

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On May 8, 2025, Flanagan voted to pass SB 153 with amendments 0759s and 1876h, 293–61, and it passed. The four-section version required approval or denial of completed non-major residential driveway applications within sixty days. It created optional expedited major-entrance review for residential developments of at least twenty units within sixty business days after traffic-study approval, with a $120-per-unit fee, tracked third-party review retainers and refunds of unused retainers. It established a classified business-operations specialist position to administer that process, without an appropriation.

May 8, 2025Supports Government Efficiency

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Flanagan voted Yea to reject HB 646. The motion passed 209–165. The bill required paper and online school-meal applications with education-department assistance. It appropriated $102,000 and $104,000 for a support position and $1 million for district application software.

March 13, 2025Opposes Government Efficiency

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Flanagan voted Yea to reject HB 521. The motion passed 202–169. The proposal established online voter registration using New Hampshire motor-vehicle identification, database checks, accessible web standards, and local checklist review. It required an original signature before the first vote and made implementation contingent on general-fund appropriations.

March 13, 2025Opposes Government Efficiency

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Cosponsored HB344 on January 8, 2025. The introduced version allowed opening only outer absentee envelopes no more than one week before processing, with public notice. Inner ballot envelopes stayed inside secured outer envelopes until ordinary processing.

January 8, 2025Supports Government Efficiency

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Cosponsored HB294 on January 8, 2025. The introduced version removed the ten-voter challenge that postponed all absentee processing until polls closed. It retained twenty-four-hour public notice of the processing time and an announcement when polls opened.

January 8, 2025Supports Government Efficiency

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Flanagan voted Nay on concurrence with the Senate version of HB1166 on June 30, 2020; concurrence passed 178–154. He also voted Nay on September 16 on overriding the governor’s veto; the 193–145 vote fell short of two-thirds and the veto stood. The text expanded unemployment eligibility and self-employment assistance for specified COVID-19 shutdown, quarantine and family-care circumstances, protected qualifying emergency-benefit overpayments, and calculated annual earnings for qualifying family leave using preleave earnings. It extended federal family-leave protections for specified COVID-19 circumstances to employers with at least 15 employees, subject to individual hardship exceptions. It directed a $50 million CARES transfer to Employment Security, first for computer upgrades supporting the expanded eligibility and then to the unemployment trust fund, with legislative certification and a federal-funding-loss contingency. It imposed COVID-19 workplace hygiene, protective-equipment and testing-access or paid-time-off requirements, directed state protective-equipment assistance at no cost for employers with no more than 15 employees, and waived employer job-training cost sharing until July 2021. It waived COVID-19 testing and treatment cost sharing and specified out-of-network charges for individual and group health coverage, the state employee plan and Medicaid managed-care coverage. The text specified an effective date upon passage for most provisions and January 1, 2021 for coordinated health-service-corporation and HMO provisions. The enrolled amendment corrected section numbering and effective-date cross-references.

September 16, 2020Opposes Government Efficiency

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On March 12, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay on Ought to Pass for HB1672; the House adopted it 194–132 and ordered third reading. Its seven-section introduced text allowed qualified voters to use absentee ballots without specified excuses for state and official-ballot town elections, removed the separate absence, religious-observance, disability, employment and storm-related qualification language, and revised applications and affidavit envelopes while retaining voter-qualification and fraud rules. It set a 60-day effective date. On June 30, Flanagan voted Nay on concurrence with Senate amendment 1373s; the House concurred 195–130. That 23-section version retained no-excuse absentee voting and added publicly noticed partial processing before election day, balanced major-party participation, challenger and observer access, sealed ballot custody, preservation rules and temporary confidentiality for marked checklists; ballot counting remained restricted to election day. It added secure online voter registration beginning January 2021 with state motor-vehicle identification verification, original-signature requirements before first voting or receiving an absentee ballot, accessibility requirements, confirmations and deadlines. It required ERIC interstate registration matching and duplicate investigations with security and confidentiality protections, ended Kansas Crosscheck participation and required mailing absentee request forms to all registered voters before both 2020 statewide elections. It directed existing HAVA grants to implementation and authorized additional CARES Act warrants for uncovered costs, with an immediate effective date. On September 16, Flanagan voted Nay on overriding the veto of that final version; the motion received 191–141, failed the two-thirds requirement and the veto remained in force.

September 16, 2020Opposes Government Efficiency

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On June 30, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay on concurrence with the Senate version of HB1266; concurrence passed 221–101. The text temporarily permitted absentee registration and voting because of COVID-19 concerns. It revised registration affidavits and ballot applications while preserving domicile, identity and fraud attestations. It accepted one request for primary and general-election ballots. It removed signature comparison when a disability assistant signed the required assistance certification. It permitted alternative polling-place arrangements issued with attorney-general and public-health consultation, moved the earliest election-day absentee processing from two hours after polls opened to one, and temporarily removed the ten-voter demand to postpone processing until polls closed. It permitted public partial processing on the Thursday, Friday, Saturday or Monday before election day, after checklist posting. It required public notice, at least three assisting election officers and voter-name announcements. Challenges preceded checklist notation. Inner ballot envelopes remained sealed and secure until election day. The text specified an effective date upon passage and January 1, 2021 expiration for the temporary provisions, with prior procedures restored after expiration. A later enrolled amendment contingently renumbered the partial-processing statute to avoid a conflict with HB1672.

June 30, 2020Opposes Government Efficiency

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On June 30, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay on concurrence with the Senate version of HB1245; concurrence passed 190–127. The omnibus agency package added earned sentence credits for correctional-industry and other rehabilitation programs, repealed 24 statutory boards and programs, reduced several committees' legislative membership, and established a review of remaining nonregulatory bodies. It revised reciprocal-jurisdiction reinsurance safeguards, commercial-insurance cancellation rules and insurance enforcement, directed parental-rights and child-protection appeals to the Supreme Court, and made unauthorized entry on correctional grounds a misdemeanor. It expanded controlled procurement-card use, raised the usual surplus-property bid threshold, retained license residency for deployed military members' children, revised agency salary grades, and changed administrative-rule filing, notice and review procedures. It broadened state energy-saving measures and competitive energy contracts, allocated half of remaining general-funded energy budgets to the existing energy investment fund, and made veterans' donations and decal receipts continually appropriated. It created offshore-wind planning and industry-development bodies. It established seasonal-dock registration and repair exemptions with water-quality safeguards, emergency dam intervention and owner reimbursement, optional municipal use of the fire marshal, trained safety-officer powers with a two-hour detention limit, medical-imaging licensure checks, and motor-carrier default sanctions with notice, inability-to-pay and hearing provisions. It required an animal-case cost-of-care budget request and raised tobacco sales and possession ages to twenty-one, with specified exceptions. It revised workers' compensation audit penalties and mental-health discharge procedures and extended a waterway study. It authorized specialty-beverage sales with a 5% wholesale-case fee. It required replacement-well impact mitigation and changed Lucky 7 ticket pricing. It revised child-fatality review and removed its nonpublic-session exemption, and established voluntary recovery-housing certification, complaints and safety standards with certified-housing limits on state-funded referrals.

June 30, 2020Opposes Government Efficiency

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On June 30, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay on concurrence with the Senate version of HB1558; concurrence passed 201–129. Its37-section education and municipal omnibus limited suspension and expulsion grounds, required consideration of age, disability, disciplinary history and lesser interventions, preserved hearing and appeal processes, provided assignments and specified alternative educational services, and required graduated discipline policies and parental notice. It updated additional full-day-kindergarten aid to half the statutory base amount during the initial year before pupils entered ordinary adequate-education counts. It revised economic-revitalization-zone tax-credit certification and calculation while extending the program’s repeal to 2028, and required certification of employer college-graduate retention agreements. It required school workplace-violence plans, training and reporting, prohibited discouraging injury reports, coordinated restraint guidance, required concussion return-to-learning policies and staff child-sexual-abuse prevention training, and required biennial curriculum-compliance reporting. It lowered specified municipal and electric-utility bond or note approval thresholds from two-thirds to three-fifths without issuing a particular bond. It added the university-system chancellor to the business-agency partner council. It established student-best-interest reassignment and manifest-hardship hearings, appeals and tuition procedures. Transfer limits and parent transportation responsibility applied to best-interest transfers. It raised permitted retained school year-end funds from 2.5% to 5%. Public hearings preceded expenditures, with annual accounting. It strengthened multi-tiered behavioral-health support and interagency technical assistance within existing budget constraints. It centralized school-bus-driver and transportation-monitor criminal-history checks at the Education Department and created a background-check coordinator and certification-rule authority. The considered version used staged effective dates spanning June/July 2020,60 days after passage and January/July 2021; the later enrolled amendment corrected discipline, short-title and effective-date cross-references.

June 30, 2020Opposes Government Efficiency

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On June 30, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay on concurrence with the Senate version of HB1240; concurrence passed 257–68. The 12-section text expanded the definition of sexual contact to humiliation and defined covered students from preschool through grade12 and specified adult programs. It extended sexual-assault offenses to school employees, contractors or volunteers and their students through ten months after graduation or departure. It also covered authority figures more than four years older than victims aged thirteen through seventeen. It did not require coercive use of authority or treat consent as a defense. This version retained legal-spouse exceptions. It created an $85 civil-marriage-officiant license, directing $80 to domestic-violence programs and $5 to administration. It adjusted pharmacy renewal deadlines by license-number parity. It permitted temporary out-of-state health-professional licenses for up to 120 days, subject to board jurisdiction and stated exclusions. It required electronic or scanned signatures for licensing administration. It expanded temporary allied-health licensing to athletic trainers and genetic counselors while excluding compact-member boards. The text specified January 1, 2021 for sexual-assault provisions, 60 days after passage for marriage and allied-health provisions, and passage for the other provisions as their effective dates.

June 30, 2020Opposes Government Efficiency

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On June 30, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay on concurrence with the Senate version of HB1249; the House concurred 224–105. Its 13-section text revised and extended the interdisciplinary primary-care workforce commission through November 2024, added workforce retention, telehealth and integration of oral and behavioral health to its duties, removed its insurer-payment inequity assessment duty, and updated state rural-health data and report references. It authorized the superior-court chief justice to convene multicounty grand juries with statewide jurisdiction, population-proportional juror selection, remote proceedings, designated judicial supervision and trial venue, ordinary grand-jury powers, six-month terms with extensions and judicial-branch payment of expenses; that authority expired June 30, 2022. It also permitted specified attorney-supervised simultaneous video notarization and witnessing of paper estate-planning documents during the declared COVID-19 emergency, validated qualifying earlier emergency notarizations and retained the prohibition on electronic wills. The text specified an effective date upon passage for the remaining provisions.

June 30, 2020Opposes Government Efficiency

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On September 18, 2019, Flanagan voted Nay on overriding the veto of HB645. The five-section bill created voluntary registration of existing docks with a $200 fee, a five-year or ownership-change expiration and requirements to display registration numbers. It extended specified seasonal-dock permit exemptions to rivers with notice, deed and plan requirements. Registered repairs or replacements in non-tidal waters qualified only under the listed legal-history and enforcement conditions. DES had 10 business days to respond, followed by an additional five days after a written request; default authorization still required compliance with all project and water-quality requirements. The override failed 219–160; the veto was sustained.

September 18, 2019Opposes Government Efficiency

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Voted for HB729 creating a public-records ombudsman and citizen appeals commission as an alternative to court complaints. It included $48,000 for fiscal 2020 and a July 2024 sunset. The House approved it, 177–165. Later voted against killing it; the House killed it, 203–165.

April 4, 2019Supports Government Efficiency

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Sponsored HB708 on January 3, 2019. The introduced version required an existing electronic lower-court transcript to accompany a Supreme Court appeal, with a $25 applicant fee. It did not require creation of an unavailable transcript.

January 3, 2019Supports Government Efficiency

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On March 10, 2016, Flanagan voted to reject HB1500, 207–126. It required local default-budget calculations and compliance with the statutory formula before tax rates were set.

March 10, 2016Opposes Government Efficiency

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Flanagan voted to reject HB 1122, which required a state personnel database and capped direct supervisory positions at 15 percent and partial supervisory positions at 30 percent of each department’s classified workforce, subject to exceptions. The rejection motion passed, 200–150.

March 9, 2016Opposes Government Efficiency

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On March 9, 2016, Flanagan voted for HB1591 as amended by 0889h, 194–162. The nine-section version revised state-retiree health-premium contributions, invoicing and retirement withholding, provided $20,000 for overtime and up to $300,000 for plan consulting, and established an advisory subcommittee.

March 9, 2016Supports Government Efficiency

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Flanagan voted for CACR 23, a constitutional amendment that removed the requirement for selectmen to be present to receive votes at biennial elections while retaining their presence for counting. The passage motion failed, 169–164, because it lacked the required three-fifths majority.

March 9, 2016Supports Government Efficiency

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Flanagan prime-sponsored HB1505 on January 4, 2012, HB325 on January 3, 2013, and HB1670 on January 6, 2016. All three introduced versions required a one-time award equal to 10% of an implemented employee suggestion’s first twelve months of savings. They broadened eligibility, excluding specified senior officials, and preserved eligibility after employment ended. They protected identities until awards and required anonymous reporting, investigation and governor-and-council approval. Awards came from affected agency budgets or the employee-award fund, including operating budgets for self-funded units. They allowed one additional award after wider implementation and excluded suggestions already under state consideration. Suggestion-award caps were removed; extraordinary-service limits of $5,000 per award and $10,000 annually remained. The 2012 proposal contained no later reversion. The 2013 proposal specified restoration of earlier rules on September 1, 2015; the 2016 proposal set that restoration for September 1, 2018. On February 20, 2013, Flanagan spoke against rejection and voted Nay on Inexpedient to Legislate. The Speaker’s favorable vote produced a 179–179 tie, and rejection failed. Flanagan then moved Ought to Pass, adopted 199–162 by unnamed division.

January 6, 2016Supports Government Efficiency

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Flanagan voted to reject HB 504, which authorized a Department of Safety approved online course to satisfy the classroom portion of driver education while retaining behind-the-wheel training and observation requirements. The rejection failed, 111–242.

January 6, 2016Opposes Government Efficiency

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Cosponsored HB412 on January 8, 2015. The introduced version required audited state agencies to report expected completion dates for open findings and reasons for closing findings. Administrative Services produced twice-yearly summaries, with gubernatorial concurrence or action and public transparency posting.

January 8, 2015Supports Government Efficiency

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Flanagan cosponsored HB183 on January 3, 2013. The introduced bill permitted processing previously received absentee ballots when polls opened and later arrivals before 5 p.m. as soon as possible. It retained the ban on counting before polls closed and on disrupting voting. It removed the ten-voter challenge that postponed processing and repealed the separate delivery-to-moderator provision. The later version with amendment 0460h instead started processing at least two hours after polls opened. On January 8, 2014, Flanagan voted to override its veto. The override failed 176–163, below the required two-thirds, and the veto was sustained.

January 8, 2014Supports Government Efficiency

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Cosponsored HB1416 on January 8, 2014. The introduced version required a rolling two-year state economic strategy and operating plan with roles, resources, deadlines, outcomes and neighboring-state benchmarks. It covered sector forecasts, workforce, exports, grants, partners and legislative recommendations. It required quarterly public dashboards covering three prior fiscal years and two forward years. The initial plan was due December 31, 2014, with annual extensions. It revised related references and the advisory council's role.

January 8, 2014Supports Government Efficiency

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On June 5, 2013, Flanagan voted Yea on passing SB41 with House amendment 1778h; the report passed 336–0. The bill comprehensively revised the business corporations act, effective January 1, 2014. It covered corporate formation, filing and fees, registered agents and service, electronic notices and remote shareholder participation, share classes and issuance, distributions and solvency, shareholder meetings, proxies, voting groups and agreements, derivative litigation, director and officer duties, indemnification, conflicts of interest, and business opportunities. It established procedures for domestication and conversion, mergers and share exchanges, disposition of assets, shareholder appraisal rights and payment disputes, dissolution and creditor claims, foreign corporations, and inspection and reporting of corporate records. It preserved conditions, notice requirements, shareholder votes and court remedies within those processes. The House amendment required written notice of defective or inconsistent filings, corrected class voting provisions, added administrative dissolution for knowingly unlawful filings with a hearing and judicial appeal, and provided an expedited secretary-of-state hearing process for shareholders refused a meeting-related shareholder list. The process required confirmation of shareholder status and a written demand, a proper-purpose and good-faith determination, and provided default orders, enforcement and appeal. The bill also updated a bank-director statutory cross-reference. Later enrolled corrections removed a stray conjunction and subdivision markers and corrected punctuation; they did not change the scope of the House policy vote.

June 5, 2013Supports Government Efficiency

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On May 8, 2013, Flanagan voted Nay on the amended SB124 report, adopted 218–137. The nine-section version created an optional integrated permit for terrain alteration, sewage disposal, wetlands and shoreland projects, with a coordinated preliminary review, municipal and abutter notice, environmental waiver criteria, deadlines and a default-permit process, appeals and enforcement. It permitted local integrated zoning options and barred local boards from demanding state or federal permits before considering an application. Amendment 1501h adjusted municipal participation and established two DES positions supported by general funds within the program—a general-funded administrator and environmental specialist—with those positions scheduled for repeal on June 30, 2015. Later removal of the positions in 1863h is not part of this vote.

May 8, 2013Opposes Government Efficiency

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On March 21, 2013, Flanagan voted Nay on HB364 as replaced by 0678h; Ought to Pass with Amendment passed 194–89. The complete two-section replacement required employers to give retired Retirement System members notice before part-time employment and annually about hour limits and benefit consequences, required annual system notices to retirees, supplied a standard form, and protected employers providing notices from liability for restoration-to-service consequences. An unnamed division rejected a narrower notice-only replacement 120–162; no personal division cast is claimed.

March 21, 2013Opposes Government Efficiency

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Cosponsored HB238 on January 3, 2013. The introduced version extended probate bond, inventory and accounting exemptions to personal-property-only estates worth no more than $10,000. It required court-approved affidavits six to twelve months after appointment and an assertion of no outstanding debts. It provided default notices and citations and permitted a guardian-administrator when the ward qualified.

January 3, 2013Supports Government Efficiency

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On April 25, 2012, voted for amendment1708h and passage of SB203, replacing the LLC statute with revised formation, operating-agreement, management, fiduciary-duty, member-information, liability, conversion, merger, dissolution and filing rules. The adopted text recognized oral or implied operating agreements, established member and creditor remedies, and required online filing regulations. House adopted the amendment273–47 and passage304–18, referring the bill to Ways and Means.

April 25, 2012Supports Government Efficiency

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On March 28, 2012, Flanagan voted for HB 1658 as replaced by 1376h. It required public-assistance identity and income database checks, with notice, discrepancy review and fair hearings. It directed up to $3.925 million from existing appropriations toward residential-care providers under the Chase Home judgment and implementation of the existing Sean William Corey parent home-health-aide pilot. The House adopted it 245–84.

March 28, 2012Supports Government Efficiency

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On March 11, 2026, Flanagan voted Yea to pass HB1561 with amendment 0797h, 157–173; passage failed. The complete two-section replacement barred non-U.S.-citizen nationals or agents of the People's Republic of China from master's or doctoral enrollment, research participation and full-time employment at public colleges and universities, and barred partnerships, grants and research collaborations with PRC-government affiliates. It allowed 90 days to withdraw while retaining earned transcripts and credits, then required expulsion, referral to federal authorities and a $1,000 weekly institutional fine for failure to act. It provided class A misdemeanors for prohibited participation and faculty or staff violations, possible state-funding loss and accreditation sanctions, a reward equal to 10 percent of recovered funds paid from the general fund, attorney-general rules and annual reporting, and severability. The effective date was January 1, 2027. Unlike the introduced scope, the adopted replacement did not bar undergraduate attendance or private-college enrollment.

March 11, 2026Opposes Immigration

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On March 11, 2026, Flanagan voted Nay on indefinitely postponing HB1706 (158–169) and tabling it (161–170); both motions failed. He then voted Yea for passage, 170–164. The complete four-section introduced bill required DHHS to terminate refugee-resettlement contracts as promptly as practicable, barred state agencies from accepting money from any source or spending money directly or through towns or nongovernmental organizations to assist refugee resettlement, and repealed RSA161:2,XVIII. Its definition covered USRAP and other federal, nonprofit or grant programs designed to settle, fund or help refugees or asylees. It included severability and a 60-day effective date. The House passed the bill; the funding prohibition included federal money administered by state agencies, rather than only state general-fund spending.

March 11, 2026Opposes Immigration

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On May 22, 2025, Flanagan voted Yea on SB13 Ought to Pass with Amendment, adopted 192–164. The five-section House version0144s/1934h invalidated classes of out-of-state driving licenses issued exclusively to undocumented immigrants or marked to show absence of lawful presence. It prohibited stops based solely on suspected license invalidity, required a publicly maintained annual DMV list with a state-removal process, and provided a violation for first offenses and class B misdemeanor for repeats. It also barred renewal for people with pending asylum claims despite work authorization and barred issuance to granted asylees until lawful-permanent-resident adjustment was approved, regardless of earlier work authorization. The Driver's License Compact reciprocity language was correspondingly limited, with effectiveness60 days after passage.

May 22, 2025Opposes Immigration

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On May 8, 2025, Flanagan voted Nay on SB62 amendment 1941h, rejected 161–199, which retained permission for state and local agencies to enter federal 287(g) immigration agreements and required participating officers to identify their name, badge, agency and ICE authority. He voted Yea on 1957h, adopted 202–160, and on the resulting four-section House version, adopted 200–162. It prohibited state and local government from impeding 287(g) agreements, barred local interference with federal immigration-law compliance unless state or federal law expressly prohibited that compliance, and authorized attorney-general litigation, injunctions and punitive fines up to 25% of an entity's annual state funding. It allowed counties to hold ICE detainees for up to 48 hours excluding weekends and holidays after resolution of state charges and required detainer-refusal reports. The House text specified January 1, 2026, as the effective date for the added enforcement and custody provisions, and 60 days after passage for the initial agreement provision. The rejected identification safeguard did not become part of his approved version.

May 8, 2025Opposes Immigration

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On February 6, 2025, Flanagan voted Yea on HB71 Ought to Pass, adopted 211–146 and referred to Finance. Its two-section introduced text conditioned state financial assistance to public schools, chartered public schools, public academies and higher-education institutions on not using their facilities for government-ordered emergency shelter or housing exclusively for federally defined aliens who had not been admitted to the United States. It excepted shelter of up to 72 hours for enumerated disasters covered by a federal or state disaster declaration. On April 10, he voted Yea on the five-section House version0555h, adopted 209–162. It retained the shelter restriction and added prospective DHHS contract and contract-amendment language requiring contractors to comply with applicable statutory patients' rights, with that contract requirement repealed November 30, 2026. The House text specified an effective date 60 days after passage for the remainder. No later Senate property-assessment or pier provisions are attributed to these own stages.

April 10, 2025Opposes Immigration

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On March 13, 2025, Flanagan voted to pass HB 452, adopted 198–162. The five-section proposal barred license renewal for noncitizens lacking lawful permanent residency and barred issuing asylees licenses until permanent residency was granted. It made specified identification and eligibility evidence mandatory, marked temporary nonresident-alien licenses, and excluded those licenses as voter identification.

March 13, 2025Opposes Immigration

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On February 13, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay for HB1700,177–128; it passed. The complete three-section introduced bill allowed temporary New Hampshire residents who filed complete federal asylum applications to obtain180-day driver licenses with written federal acknowledgment of receipt. It excepted those licenses from the ordinary five-year maximum term and had a60-day effective date. Existing lawful-employment and spouse-or-child eligibility remained.

February 13, 2020Opposes Immigration

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On January22,2014, Flanagan voted against HB474 as amended by2219h, extending University System in-state tuition eligibility to students seeking to legalize their immigration status who completed a New Hampshire high school or equivalency credential, met the three-year attendance or domicile condition, and met other trustee criteria. The House adopted the passage report188–155.

January 22, 2014Opposes Immigration

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On May 15, 2012, voted for SB155 as amended by2128h, permitting federal section179 expense deductions up to25,000dollars under the January2012 code and authorizing local refugee-resettlement moratoriums based on absorptive capacity. The text required quarterly coordination and placement agreements and limited moratoriums to one year. The text specified July 1, 2013 for the tax sections and passage for the remaining provisions. House adopted231–79.

May 15, 2012Opposes Immigration

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On March 15, 2012, voted against killing HB1405, a motion that failed 119–156, and then supported its passage, adopted 190–109. The introduced text required quarterly refugee-placement coordination and agency agreements and allowed up to a year-long suspension of additional resettlement in a community after a local hearing found insufficient capacity for housing, services, schools or employment.

March 15, 2012Opposes Immigration

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On March 11, 2026, opposed tabling HB1300; that motion failed, 158–179. Supported amendment 1117h, adopted 182–155, and amended passage, adopted 177–160. The bill required separate local school-tax and central-administration cap questions at November elections in even-numbered years. Combined three-fifths approval imposed caps for two fiscal years starting fiscal 2028. It included ballot certification, retention and recount procedures. The school-tax cap used the prior property-tax levy, adjusted for Northeast CPI inflation and certified net taxable construction growth. It excluded appreciation and reassessment. The central-office cap was six percent of member districts' appropriations, excluding qualifying bonded real-property projects. It covered district administration and certain nonteaching directors, while excluding instruction, school-based administration and specified services. The bill included supermajority overrides, taxpayer enforcement, preservation of stricter existing caps and revenue-department enforcement against excessive appropriations. The House text specified November 1, 2026, as its effective date. On October 4, coauthored a column supporting the two-year school-tax cap and central-office expense cap. He backed voter overrides and exclusions for school construction bonds.

October 4, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction

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On March 12, 2026, Flanagan supported HB2026 replacement 0863h, adopted 345–3, and amended passage, adopted 338–13. The House version adopted the 2027–2036 transportation plan. It covered highway and bridge maintenance, regional projects, transit, rail, airports and active transportation. It added Albany intersection improvements at NH16, Wildwood Road and NH113, with $6,824,313 and construction in 2033. It removed Manchester I-293 Exit 6 and Exit 7 widening projects because funds were unavailable. He opposed amendment 0866h retaining Merrimack's Continental Boulevard as Class II instead of its scheduled Class V reclassification. That amendment failed 46–305. On August 19, he supported overriding the veto of the changed final bill; the override passed 292–25. The final restored the Manchester projects at $146,888,734 and $74,902,494. It added Bow-Concord I-93 widening at $285,849,979. It added eleven regional safety, complete-streets, bicycle, pedestrian and intersection projects totaling $68,547,475. It established January 1, 2027 toll schedules for twelve vehicle classes at seven plazas. Cash and unfunded-account rates differed from minimum funded New Hampshire E-ZPass rates. Class 1 examples were $2.00/$0.70 at Hooksett Main and Bedford Main, and $4.00/$1.40 at Hampton Main. It repealed the existing E-ZPass discount. It required free transponders for funded accounts on request for 210 days beginning December 1, 2026. It required governor-and-council action on proposed tolls within ninety days and reserved toll receipts for turnpike costs and debt obligations. It transferred specified New Boston conservation-land easements for the Gregg Mill Road Bridge. Compensation used approved appraisals or agreed replacement land; proceeds stayed in the conservation endowment. The text specified an effective date upon passage for the remainder.

August 19, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Opposed HB1588's conference report limiting required residential parking to one space per unit and allowing multifamily housing in commercial districts. It retained safety, site-plan and other conditions. It created special-assessment financing and expanded grants for housing-related sewers, water and roads, with a $1 appropriation. The House adopted it, 185–171.

June 4, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction

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On April 23, 2026, Flanagan voted to reject SB 543, establishing provisional Medicaid nursing-facility eligibility, state payments pending decisions, reimbursement obligations, a $1 program appropriation, and necessary funding for two positions. Rejection passed, 182–154.

April 23, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction

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On April 23, 2026, Flanagan voted Yea for SB101 amendment 1451h, 182–172, Nay for alternative 1455h, 169–184, and Yea for amended passage, 168–184. The first amendment passed, the alternative and passage failed, and an unnamed 320–32 division then tabled the bill. Amendment 1451h replaced the bill with a three-section statewide public-school open-enrollment framework. Districts set available capacity without adding staff, published seats twice yearly and admission and denial data annually, used fair lotteries with published permitted preferences, and barred selecting pupils by disability, special-education needs, aptitude or athletic achievement. It limited denial grounds, allowed program prerequisites, preserved continuous and cohort enrollment, and generally left transportation to families while preserving individualized disability requirements. Schools charged no tuition; state adequacy and additional charter-related aid followed eligible pupils through education-trust-fund payments, with mandatory general-fund transfers covering deficits. Existing tuition agreements and a tuition-free education option remained; resident districts retained special-education duties. State-board rules and review committees accompanied a July 1, 2027 effective date. Amendment 1455h instead established a temporary stakeholder commission studying funding, access, transport and special education, with legislative mileage, a September 1, 2027 report and repeal.

April 23, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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On February 12, 2026, Flanagan opposed HB 1655, funding state-owned dam maintenance through annual fees of $100 for waterfront properties and $50 for properties with deeded water access. It exempted working farms and current-use land and permitted a $5 municipal collection charge. The House approved amended passage, 208–146. On March 26, after a committee report without recommendation, he supported tabling the bill; tabling passed, 187–161.

March 26, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction

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On March 12, 2026, Flanagan voted for HB1224 as replaced by amendment 0301h. Its four sections revised official-ballot town-meeting default budgets: prior operating appropriations adjusted for legal obligations, reduced for one-time expenses and associated transfers, eliminated positions and longstanding vacancies, with filled jobs reflecting actual pay and benefits without subsequent increases. It allowed public-safety vacancies under recruitment to retain separately listed prior funding for the designated purpose, including overtime and contracted services; unused funds reduced current local taxes and were barred from transfer elsewhere. Public safety included police, fire, emergency services and management, and snow-removal duties. It preserved the statutory calculation even when higher or lower than the proposed operating budget and specified January 1, 2027 effectiveness. The House adopted amended passage 186–160.

March 12, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction

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On March 12, 2026, Flanagan voted to reject HB1760, which repealed the 2025 prescription-copayment directive and premium requirements for Granite Advantage and children's health insurance. The four-section bill appropriated the sum necessary to replace the lost Medicaid funding for the biennium ending June 30, 2027, authorized treasury warrants and specified July 1, 2026 effectiveness. Its fiscal note estimated a $16.75 million shortfall and warned that existing Granite Advantage restrictions on general funds created a possible additional liquor-fund transfer; that estimate did not set the statutory appropriation amount. The House adopted Inexpedient to Legislate 184–153.

March 12, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction

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On March 12, 2026, Flanagan voted to reject HB1609. Its two sections prohibited public spending on construction or repurposing of publicly owned immigration-detention property, sale or donation of such property for detention, subsidies for privately operated facilities and payments for privately owned immigration detention. It preserved authorized 287(g) cooperation and public health and safety resources for detained people, with effectiveness upon passage. The bill did not make a specific appropriation. The House adopted Inexpedient to Legislate 185–154.

March 12, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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On March 11, 2026, Flanagan voted Yea to pass HB1561 with amendment 0797h, 157–173; passage failed. The complete two-section replacement barred non-U.S.-citizen nationals or agents of the People's Republic of China from master's or doctoral enrollment, research participation and full-time employment at public colleges and universities, and barred partnerships, grants and research collaborations with PRC-government affiliates. It allowed 90 days to withdraw while retaining earned transcripts and credits, then required expulsion, referral to federal authorities and a $1,000 weekly institutional fine for failure to act. It provided class A misdemeanors for prohibited participation and faculty or staff violations, possible state-funding loss and accreditation sanctions, a reward equal to 10 percent of recovered funds paid from the general fund, attorney-general rules and annual reporting, and severability. The effective date was January 1, 2027. Unlike the introduced scope, the adopted replacement did not bar undergraduate attendance or private-college enrollment.

March 11, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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On March 11, 2026, Flanagan voted Nay on indefinitely postponing HB1706 (158–169) and tabling it (161–170); both motions failed. He then voted Yea for passage, 170–164. The complete four-section introduced bill required DHHS to terminate refugee-resettlement contracts as promptly as practicable, barred state agencies from accepting money from any source or spending money directly or through towns or nongovernmental organizations to assist refugee resettlement, and repealed RSA161:2,XVIII. Its definition covered USRAP and other federal, nonprofit or grant programs designed to settle, fund or help refugees or asylees. It included severability and a 60-day effective date. The House passed the bill; the funding prohibition included federal money administered by state agencies, rather than only state general-fund spending.

March 11, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted to reject HB1596 increasing the cigarette and little-cigar tax from $1.78 to $2.80 per 20-pack, adding $18 million annually for the university system, and repealing premiums for children’s health insurance and Granite Advantage coverage. The House rejected it, 200–157.

February 12, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted for HB348 allowing towns and cities to require proof of residency for local assistance and establish monthly assistance limits of at least half the federal poverty level. The bill allowed special consideration for people fleeing violence and up to 72 hours of emergency help for nonresidents. The House approved it, 190–157.

January 8, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted for an amendment and HB392 dissolving the state health-access office and ending funding for activities labeled health equity or environmental justice. The bill preserved federally required language-access, disability-access and other services and transferred those functions within the health department. The House approved it, 192–159.

January 8, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Spoke and voted against HB314, which restricted taxpayer-funded lobbying and required municipal ballot approval and annual spending disclosures for an exception. The bill preserved officials’ ability to testify unless required to register as lobbyists. The House rejected passage, 152–198.

January 8, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Voted to reject HB295, which preserved unspent state school-building aid for use in later budget cycles. The House rejected the bill, 191–150.

January 7, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted for written parental consent for each new school medical or dental service identified by a new diagnostic billing code. The amended SB34 added legislative reporting and ended the school Medicaid program statewide, or at an individual district, if government policies contradicted parental control of children’s medical services. The House approved it, 186–155.

January 7, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted to reject optional expanded free school meals for children in households with incomes up to 200 percent of the federal poverty level. SB204 split the additional meal costs between the state and participating school districts, and included assistance for online applications. The House rejected it, 183–161.

January 7, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted to reject HB97, which included $15 million in each of two fiscal years for eligible wastewater infrastructure projects approved by June 2026. The proposed funds were nonlapsing. The House rejected the bill, 175–156.

January 7, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted to reject HB651 increasing base school aid to $7,356.01 per pupil. It increased added aid for low-income students, English-language learners and special education. It required updated education-cost calculations at least every two years using actual costs. The House rejected it, 190–155.

January 7, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted to reject expanded free school meals for children in households with incomes up to 300 percent of federal poverty guidelines. HB665 included funding from the education trust fund for the additional meal costs. The House rejected it, 189–158.

January 7, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction

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On March 27, 2025, Flanagan voted to pass HB 475 as amended, 195–159. It revised default budgets to exclude salaries and benefits for positions vacant since before the prior budget’s approval, reflect actual compensation for filled positions without subsequent increases, and subtract transfers for one-time expenditures. It limited adjustments to obligations incurred or mandated by law and required disclosure of those one-time reductions. On December 17, 2025, Jack Flanagan voted to override the governor's veto of HB 475. The override failed, 178–175, because it lacked the required two-thirds vote. The three-section version revised default-budget calculations for eliminated and persistently vacant positions, actual filled-position compensation, and transfers for one-time expenditures. It retained adjustments for debt service, contracts, and legal obligations, and required disclosure of transferred one-time expenditures. Its effective date was January 1, 2026.

December 17, 2025Supports Government Spending Reduction

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On March 27, 2025, Flanagan voted to pass HB 613 as amended, 197–158. It allowed official-ballot towns and districts to adopt a default-budget reduction of 1–10 percent by three-fifths vote. After defeat of the proposed operating budget, a second ballot question offered the ordinary default budget; defeat of that question triggered the reduced default budget. It required public hearings and notices, barred amendment of the adoption question, and provided three-fifths procedures to change or rescind the option. On December 17, 2025, Jack Flanagan voted to override the governor's veto of HB 613. The override failed, 150–201, because it lacked the required two-thirds vote. The final two-section version addressed accessible voting systems, replacing the earlier tax-cap policy. If a governing body expected no registered voter to use the system, it required a website and public-location notice90–180 days before the election. The notice stated that the system was unavailable unless a registered voter submitted written notice of intent at least 60 days beforehand.

December 17, 2025Supports Government Spending Reduction

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On March 13, 2025, Flanagan opposed two failed amendments to HB115. Amendment 0916h required education freedom account students to meet the 350% federal poverty income threshold each year; it failed 170–205. Amendment 0922h retained the initial 350% threshold. It conditioned new accounts on sufficient appropriated funds after earlier applications and renewals; it failed 171–205. He voted Yea for the House version, 198–180, which raised initial eligibility to 400% of federal poverty and removed the income threshold after June 30, 2026, while retaining the exclusion for students in the corrections school district and a 60-day effective date. He again voted Yea on April 10 for Finance passage, 188–181. On June 26, he voted Yea, 196–167, to concur with Senate amendment 2880s, which replaced the education provisions with temporary state appropriations. That three-section replacement used the same purposes as fiscal 2025 operating appropriations, generally capped the rate at 45% with specified budget adjustments and additional payroll needs, and allowed emergency exceptions with governor, Executive Council and Fiscal Committee approval. It accepted federal funds and appropriated required state matching funds, provided transfer and warrant mechanisms, charged expenditures against later appropriations for the same purposes and periods, temporarily suspended inconsistent statutes, and indemnified officials for specified public-fund liability during the gap before enactment. Its authority ran from July 1 until a budget became law, no later than January 1, 2026. On December 17, he voted Nay on the veto override, which failed 1–347; the veto was sustained.

December 17, 2025Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Flanagan supported the 2011 HB2 budget-policy bill: House passage was adopted 222–119 and the June 22 conference report 259–119. He opposed failed amendments removing proposed health, assistance, retirement and other restrictions. The conference narrowed the House repeal of Children in Need of Services, omitted its RGGI repeal and municipal-aid suspension, and retained health-program and hospital-payment changes, Medicaid managed care, staffing and compensation reductions, retirement changes and borrowing for kindergarten construction. In 2013, he opposed House passage, 193–166, but supported 16 failed alternatives changing school aid, charter tuition and approvals, taxes, dedicated-fund transfers and other provisions. He supported the June 26 conference report, 346–12. It replaced House Medicaid expansion with a funded study, retained education tax credits, omitted the House road-tax increases, and revised hospital payments, county caps, charter funding, electronic-benefit restrictions, administrative savings, salary and benefit funding, energy-fund transfers and other agency programs. In 2015, he supported House passage, 194–179, adopted appropriation reductions and renewable-energy transfers, regulated keno and removal of the felonies-first court project. He opposed failed alternatives increasing tobacco taxes, salaries and specified aid, or removing specified fees. He supported the June 24 conference report, 196–164, and the September 16 veto override, 326–21. The enrolled bill combined appropriations and agency consolidation with business-tax reductions, licensing changes, education funding, Medicaid and hospital payments, transportation financing and employee-benefit restrictions. In 2019, he opposed House passage, 224–160, the June 27 conference report, 207–145, and the September 25 override, which failed 205–151. He supported a failed voluntary-leave alternative to the House payroll-funded leave program and adopted funding for Internet Crimes Against Children offset by building-aid and Fort Stark reductions. The conference removed mandatory leave, capital-gains taxation and sports betting. He also opposed replacement HB4, adopted 316–40. It changed business-tax rates, school-aid stabilization and temporary need-based aid, funded municipal aid, Medicaid increases and behavioral-health capacity, and changed housing appeals, environmental funding, employment and health-insurance rules. It restored a restriction on state abortion-service funding subject to budget and federal-law exceptions. In 2025, he supported HB2 House passage, 185–175, and the June 26 conference report, 184–183. He supported adopted biological-sex classifications, childhood-vaccine rulemaking limits, local-health limits and intrastate-firearm provisions. He opposed amendments removing school spending caps and retaining municipal keno control, the tax appeals board and the proposed Group III retirement plan; those removals or retentions nevertheless passed. He opposed several funding restorations and education-freedom-account alternatives, with differing outcomes preserved in the evidence. The conference expanded gaming and education freedom accounts; changed taxes, fees, public pensions, housing and environmental rules; imposed federally conditioned Medicaid premiums and employment-verification provisions; changed education aid, school-device and DEI rules; limited childhood-vaccine rulemaking; and repealed periodic vehicle safety inspections.

June 26, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Flanagan supported the 2011 FY2012–2013 operating budget: House passage was adopted 243–124 and the June 22 conference report 274–108. It funded state agencies, courts, public safety, roads, health services and education, while abolishing positions and directing additional agency cuts. He opposed failed restorations for higher education, mental health, developmental services, child care and other programs, but supported failed additions for domestic-violence services and Head Start. The conference version increased specified mental-health and developmental-service allocations relative to the House version and retained further agency reductions. In 2013, he opposed the FY2014–2015 House budget, adopted 194–172, after supporting a failed table motion. He supported the June 26 conference report, 337–18. It changed university and community-college funding to general funds, added charter tuition and hospital-care appropriations, increased drug-and-alcohol funding, and retained specified agency cuts, position eliminations and expenditure controls. In 2015, he supported FY2016–2017 House passage, 212–161, and opposed five failed amendments restoring specified health, housing, higher-education, tourism and developmental-service funding. On June 24, he cosponsored and jointly introduced HJR2 and offered its final-passage resolution, which was adopted. It authorized temporary spending up to six-twelfths of prior fiscal2015 appropriations for the same purposes, appropriated necessary federal matching funds, and permitted approved transfers; authority ended with enactment of an operating budget or January1,2016. He opposed amendment2336h, which failed150–208 and substituted96percent of half of the fiscal2016 amounts in the newly adopted budget. He supported the June 24 conference appropriations, 196–161, and the September 16 veto override, 321–25. The version funded agencies, transportation, education and health services, with restricted transfers, nonlapsing accounts and specified position eliminations. In 2019, he opposed the FY2020–2021 House budget, 225–159, the June 27 conference report, 209–144, and the September 25 veto override, which failed 204–151. He supported a failed amendment funding Internet Crimes Against Children through reductions elsewhere. That September he supported replacement HB3, adopted 327–29. It retained most conference appropriations, increased education aid, added $5 million in scholarships, shifted drug-task-force funding to Justice personnel, reduced tourism and rest-area allocations, and directed an additional $25 million DHHS reduction with exclusions for developmental services, county programs and Medicaid rates. In 2025, he supported FY2026–2027 House passage, 192–183, and the June 26 conference report both before its initial rejection, 182–183, and after reconsideration, 185–180. The House version combined statewide appropriations with position eliminations and agency reductions. The conference restored substantial human-rights, child-advocate and arts funding, increased developmental-service and mental-health allocations, changed education-freedom-account funding, and raised University System general funding from the House level. It retained additional annual DHHS reductions and biennial corrections reductions.

June 26, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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On February 20, 2025, Flanagan voted to reject HB 282; the motion failed, 175–195. On April 10, he voted to pass the unchanged bill, 296–76. It increased the biennial maximum for first-responder critical-injury benefits from $500,000 to $1 million while retaining the $125,000 maximum per eligible responder. On June 26, 2025, Jack Flanagan voted to concur with Senate amendments 2895s and 2898s to HB 282. Concurrence passed, 322–41. The expanded 53-section version retained the increase in aggregate first-responder injury benefits from $500,000 to $1 million per biennium, with the $125,000 individual limit unchanged. It added fiscal-capacity disparity aid to education grants and, from July 2027, capped additional targeted aid at $3,750 per pupil for municipalities with at least 5,000 resident pupils. It phased in changes to Group II retirement vesting, compensation, retirement ages, annuity multipliers, maximum benefits, and related disability and deferred benefits through 2034. It appropriated $14.5 million for fiscal 2026 and $27.5 million annually thereafter through 2034 and altered specified HB 2 provisions through contingencies.

June 26, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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On May 8, 2025, Flanagan voted to pass SB 105 with amendment 1626h, 193–168, and it passed. It enabled towns to adopt spending caps based on per-resident expenditure, population and a fixed or indexed inflation increase. It required three-fifths votes for adoption, changing or rescinding a cap and appropriations exceeding it, with charter exceptions, public notice and hearings. Failed replacement caps left existing caps intact, and official-ballot operating budgets below the override threshold were reduced to comply.

May 8, 2025Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Opposed the 2013 HB25 capital budget, adopted 285–68. Supported a failed amendment removing $38 million for a new women's prison and transitional housing; it failed, 98–253. The adopted House budget retained that project and authorized up to $176,430,748 in bonds. It funded public buildings, military facilities, career-technical centers, water systems, psychiatric crisis beds, technology, transport and higher education. It included $7.5 million for University System capital projects. Supported the 2019 HB25 capital budget, adopted 362–5. It included $124 million in general-fund bonds, $24.2 million in highway financing and $42 million for university facilities. It also funded career-technical centers, water infrastructure, public buildings, rail and transit, child-welfare technology and cybersecurity. On April 10, 2025, opposed amendment 1493h to HB25, removing $450,000 for Carroll and Strafford freight rail. The proposal reduced appropriation and borrowing totals by $450,000. It also barred using an existing $825,895.97 rails-and-ties appropriation on active state-owned freight lines. The amendment failed, 136–232.

April 10, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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On March 27, 2025, Flanagan voted to pass HB 374 as amended, 195–159. The adopted replacement defined tax-cap bases, attendance, population and inflation calculations, using October 1 inflation figures. It specified adoption ballot language, barred amendment of that question, and allowed cap changes through a new three-fifths adoption vote without first rescinding the existing cap. It retained school-budget cap override thresholds, directed SAU-budget warrant placement, and applied the revisions to existing caps.

March 27, 2025Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Flanagan voted Yea to reject HB 703. The motion passed 202–173. The bill prohibited meal denial, stigma, collection fees, and activity restrictions over unpaid school-meal balances. It required outreach and state payment of unpaid meal debt and included a $1 appropriation.

March 13, 2025Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Flanagan voted Yea to reject HB 646. The motion passed 209–165. The bill required paper and online school-meal applications with education-department assistance. It appropriated $102,000 and $104,000 for a support position and $1 million for district application software.

March 13, 2025Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Flanagan voted Yea for HB 649. The motion passed 212–143 and went to Ways and Means. The bill repealed vehicle safety inspections, diagnostic emissions testing, inspection fees, and the air-pollution-abatement fund. It revised truck, motorcycle, odometer, custom-vehicle, and used-vehicle provisions while retaining requested dealer inspections and deceptive-practice remedies.

March 6, 2025Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Flanagan voted Yea for HB 751 as replaced by amendment 0220h. The report passed 216–152 and went to Finance. The replacement licensed outpatient substance-use treatment facilities, excluding impaired-driver programs and nonclinical recovery support. It designated a behavioral-health ombudsman specialist subject to funding and appropriated $211,000 for a compliance-officer position.

March 6, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Flanagan voted Yea to reject HB 245. The motion passed 225–147. The proposal created a continually appropriated speed-enforcement awareness grant fund for municipal police. It redirected 8.33 percent of court penalty assessments from the general fund to equipment and data-reporting grants.

March 6, 2025Supports Government Spending Reduction

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On February 20, 2025, Flanagan voted for HB 682, 206–163. It removed offshore-wind development duties and renewable-fund support, renamed the office of energy innovation and repealed the wind workforce committee, offshore-wind commission and additional wind-study provisions. It retained Gulf of Maine clean-energy advice and aligned nuclear, grid-modernization and hydrogen responsibilities with the renamed office.

February 20, 2025Supports Government Spending Reduction

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On February 6, 2025, Flanagan voted for HB 133, 206–147. It required notices for overdue license transfers and certain departures or license expirations. It expanded voter and motor-vehicle matching, preserved data-use limits and appropriated $40,000 for technology upgrades. The bill advanced to Finance.

February 6, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Flanagan voted Nay on concurrence with the Senate version of HB1246 on June 30, 2020; concurrence passed 194–132. On September 16 he voted Nay on overriding the governor’s veto; the 196–139 vote fell short of two-thirds and the veto stood. Its12-section text revised health-care infection reporting to follow specified national standards, removed two mandatory process measures, retained influenza coverage reporting and required monthly reporting of Health and Human Services budget reductions. It established a nonlapsing, continually appropriated COVID-19 nursing-home and long-term-care fund receiving $25 million in CARES money for testing, protective equipment, family-video technology, facility continuity and an independent needs/preparedness review. It directed another $10 million in CARES money to child-care scholarships, expanding eligibility to 275% of federal poverty guidelines and assistance across all tiers for July 2020–June 2021. It authorized qualifying pharmacists and supervised interns to administer available COVID-19 vaccines with primary-care-provider notice, required public check-register reporting of all CARES disbursements, and directed Medicaid-plan and rule changes for nursing-assistant training reimbursement. The text specified effective dates after 60 days for infection reporting and training-reimbursement provisions and passage for the remainder.

September 16, 2020Supports Government Spending Reduction

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On June 30, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay on concurrence with the Senate version of carried2019 HB250; concurrence passed 205–124. On September 16, 2020, he voted Nay on overriding its veto; the 194–146 vote fell short of two-thirds and the veto stood. It required a comprehensive adult Medicaid dental benefit, including preventive care and medically necessary restorative, emergency and prosthodontic services, and directed the health commissioner to select and procure a dental managed-care arrangement. It set an August information request, November federal-plan submissions and April 1, 2021 contracting deadline, required federal approval before operation, full-risk capitated payments, quality protections, fiscal oversight and implementing rules. The measure added detailed service and procurement requirements to the existing adult-dental mandate; it contained no new fixed appropriation.

September 16, 2020Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Flanagan voted Nay on concurrence with the Senate version of HB1166 on June 30, 2020; concurrence passed 178–154. He also voted Nay on September 16 on overriding the governor’s veto; the 193–145 vote fell short of two-thirds and the veto stood. The text expanded unemployment eligibility and self-employment assistance for specified COVID-19 shutdown, quarantine and family-care circumstances, protected qualifying emergency-benefit overpayments, and calculated annual earnings for qualifying family leave using preleave earnings. It extended federal family-leave protections for specified COVID-19 circumstances to employers with at least 15 employees, subject to individual hardship exceptions. It directed a $50 million CARES transfer to Employment Security, first for computer upgrades supporting the expanded eligibility and then to the unemployment trust fund, with legislative certification and a federal-funding-loss contingency. It imposed COVID-19 workplace hygiene, protective-equipment and testing-access or paid-time-off requirements, directed state protective-equipment assistance at no cost for employers with no more than 15 employees, and waived employer job-training cost sharing until July 2021. It waived COVID-19 testing and treatment cost sharing and specified out-of-network charges for individual and group health coverage, the state employee plan and Medicaid managed-care coverage. The text specified an effective date upon passage for most provisions and January 1, 2021 for coordinated health-service-corporation and HMO provisions. The enrolled amendment corrected section numbering and effective-date cross-references.

September 16, 2020Supports Government Spending Reduction

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On June 30, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay on concurrence with the Senate’s HB 1234 omnibus amendment. The House adopted concurrence, 198–129. On September 16, he voted Nay on overriding the governor’s veto. The override failed 192–145 because two-thirds approval was required, and the veto remained in effect. The Senate package contained a $2,016,343 appropriation to replace Concord Steam heating systems in state buildings and extended the heating-savings account for debt payments. It created an animal-health records database with electronic veterinary submissions, fees of up to $2, dedicated funding, confidentiality safeguards, and penalties for unauthorized access. Banking changes required background checks and payment of investigation costs, and permitted email delivery of consumer complaints. Administrative-form changes required public access and filing of forms, while retaining committee review of substantive revisions. State IT and cybersecurity standards received a rulemaking exemption. Retirement investment fees and reports received public disclosure requirements. The package created the Lakes Region Development Authority to redevelop the former Laconia State School property. It included up to $2 million in state borrowing for matching funds, financial disclosure, recusal, annual independent audits, public-records obligations, and a 2026 sunset. It also exempted authority purchases and certain rules from ordinary state procedures. Haverhill received responsibility for roads within Woodsville, whose fire district received a financial-audit requirement. The package ratified specified building and fire code amendments. Energy provisions regulated customer-owned storage and compensation for avoided costs, expanded qualifying hydrogen sources, revised renewable-energy alternative compliance payments, and allowed certain shared-interconnection hydroelectric generators to use net metering. Solid-waste provisions set disposal-reduction targets, updated planning and reporting, and established a working group. Other provisions covered groundwater protection, recovery-house fire-code exemptions with safety conditions, and temporary restaurant beer and wine delivery with food. The package also revised estate administration, powers of attorney, property disclaimers, alimony calculations, victims’ compensation appeals, and emergency-responder death benefits. It repealed the EMS licensing interstate compact, changed motor-vehicle rental tax collection, and addressed technical education credentials, Guard security rules, municipal financing, and several institutional administrative provisions. The later enrollment amendment corrected database repeal timing and a working-group organization’s name, and added overlapping-bill contingencies; no named Flanagan vote on that enrollment amendment was recorded.

September 16, 2020Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Flanagan voted Nay on concurrence with the Senate version of HB1494 on June 30, 2020; concurrence passed 202–127. He voted Nay on overriding its veto on September 16; the 202–133 vote fell short of two-thirds and the veto stood. Its eight-section worker omnibus repealed the statutory time limit on the occupational heart/lung-disease presumption for firefighters, created an11-member public-employee occupational-safety advisory board, and required federal-OSHA-level public-employer protections contingent on federal approval of a state plan. It expanded the $100,000 line-of-duty death benefit to qualifying state or municipal public-works employees, with payment by warrants from otherwise unappropriated treasury money, and removed workers’ compensation offsets against state retirement accidental-death annuities. It required certification and employer recognition of public-employee bargaining representatives on written majority authorization and protected individual bargaining units’ ability to negotiate their own wages and terms without being forced into impasse by another unit. The text specified an effective date upon passage for provisions other than the contingent safety standards.

September 16, 2020Supports Government Spending Reduction

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On March 12, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay on Ought to Pass with Amendment 0899h for HB1665; the House adopted it 203–121 and ordered third reading. The two-section text created an independent advisory redistricting commission while retaining the legislature’s final decision on maps. It established a public application and cross-party selection process for 15 members, excluded current specified elected officials, required disclosure of lobbying, officeholding and primary-party voting history, and set removal, vacancy and term rules. It required public meetings and records, advance notice, county hearings before and after proposed maps, public map submissions, accessible participation and disclosure of outside influence communications. Its map criteria included constitutional compliance, population equality, compactness and communities of interest, and prohibited undue favoritism toward parties, incumbents or candidates and racial or language groups. It required proposed congressional, legislative, Executive Council and county commission maps by December 20 in the decennial redistricting year. It provided state administrative support and mileage reimbursement, authorized fiscal-year 2021 expense payments by gubernatorial warrant from otherwise unappropriated sums, and required later decennial budget recommendations. On September 16, Flanagan voted Nay on overriding the veto of that final 0899h version; the motion received 198–135, failed the two-thirds requirement and the veto remained in force.

September 16, 2020Supports Government Spending Reduction

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On February 27, 2019, Flanagan spoke against HB 712’s House proposal and requested a roll call. Flanagan voted against the carried HB712 paid family and medical leave insurance bill on February 27, 2019 (199–133, adopted and referred to Finance) and January 8, 2020 (215–141, adopted), and voted against overriding its veto on September 16, 2020 (195–143, failed two-thirds). The program covered state and nongovernmental employers, allowed equivalent employer plans and optional municipal participation, charged premiums of 0.5 percent of wages with permitted employee withholding, and offered up to twelve weeks of leave for childbirth, adoption, family or personal illness and specified military needs. Benefits replaced 60 percent of qualifying weekly earnings subject to a $125 minimum and state-average-wage cap, with six-month premium and earnings qualifications. It included continued health coverage, job restoration for federally covered employers, retaliation protections, appeals, reporting and outreach. The 2019 version allowed limited premium increases or reductions to maintain solvency and unquantified repayable start-up transfers. The January 2020 amendment prohibited premium increases, moved employer coverage to January 2021 and specified general-fund start-up loans of $3.5 million then $12 million, repayable in years three through five. The final effective date was July 1, 2020.

September 16, 2020Supports Government Spending Reduction

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On March 12, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay on Ought to Pass for HB1672; the House adopted it 194–132 and ordered third reading. Its seven-section introduced text allowed qualified voters to use absentee ballots without specified excuses for state and official-ballot town elections, removed the separate absence, religious-observance, disability, employment and storm-related qualification language, and revised applications and affidavit envelopes while retaining voter-qualification and fraud rules. It set a 60-day effective date. On June 30, Flanagan voted Nay on concurrence with Senate amendment 1373s; the House concurred 195–130. That 23-section version retained no-excuse absentee voting and added publicly noticed partial processing before election day, balanced major-party participation, challenger and observer access, sealed ballot custody, preservation rules and temporary confidentiality for marked checklists; ballot counting remained restricted to election day. It added secure online voter registration beginning January 2021 with state motor-vehicle identification verification, original-signature requirements before first voting or receiving an absentee ballot, accessibility requirements, confirmations and deadlines. It required ERIC interstate registration matching and duplicate investigations with security and confidentiality protections, ended Kansas Crosscheck participation and required mailing absentee request forms to all registered voters before both 2020 statewide elections. It directed existing HAVA grants to implementation and authorized additional CARES Act warrants for uncovered costs, with an immediate effective date. On September 16, Flanagan voted Nay on overriding the veto of that final version; the motion received 191–141, failed the two-thirds requirement and the veto remained in force.

September 16, 2020Supports Government Spending Reduction

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On June 30, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay on accepting the factfinder’s report concerning the State of New Hampshire and seven employee labor organizations, as recommended by the Joint Committee on Employee Relations; the House accepted it199–108. In the printed debate, he asked where the discussed additional funding came from, cited the reported state budget shortfall and raised concerns about liabilities after CARES funding expired. The Speaker answered that funding needed to return to the legislature. These were Flanagan’s stated funding concerns; the acceptance vote itself was not described as an enacted pay raise or appropriation.

June 30, 2020Supports Government Spending Reduction

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On June 30, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay on concurrence with the Senate version of HB1645; concurrence passed 255–74. Its26-section text extended misdemeanor domestic-violence annulment eligibility to ten years and coordinated repeat convictions; allowed equitable remedies in contract claims against the state; and added a bail commissioner to the pretrial-services commission. It revised bail standards concerning public safety, repeated failures to appear and alleged new offenses. It allowed detention or financial conditions under stated evidence and hearing requirements. It preserved live-testimony opportunities and appointed counsel for indigent class B misdemeanor detainees. It revised bail-commissioner fee assistance, identification and training, and established a remote-services study. It prohibited private or for-profit prisoner-housing contracts except temporary corrections emergencies, preserved ancillary-service contracts and existing housing contracts until expiration, and granted qualifying underage alcohol-overdose callers and patients arrest/prosecution immunity excluding impaired driving. It required written reporting and investigation of officer misconduct, with protection against retaliation. It expanded public-property criminal-mischief coverage, while reducing the specified public-property offense from a class A misdemeanor to a violation with restitution. It created a continually appropriated police psychological-screening fund receiving $100,000 from drug forfeitures. It removed the local funding-approval condition for police standards and prohibited chokeholds except the specified statutory exception. The text specified January 1, 2021 for officer-misconduct and criminal-mischief provisions, 60 days after passage for listed annulment, bail, alcohol-immunity and screening-fund provisions, and passage for the remainder as their effective dates.

June 30, 2020Supports Government Spending Reduction

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On March 11, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay on HB1280 Ought to Pass with Amendment, adopted 223–121. That five-section version capped insured patients’ total payments for a 30-day insulin supply at $100 and exempted insulin from deductibles. On June 30 he voted Nay on concurrence with Senate amendment 1470s, adopted 224–104. The replacement capped payments at $30 for each insulin prescription and each 30-day supply, including early refills, while retaining the deductible exemption. It also established an independent prescription-drug affordability board with public meetings, conflict disclosures, spending targets, pricing reports, confidential manufacturer and pharmacy-benefit-manager data collection, user-fee funding and civil penalties. It established a federally approved Canadian wholesale-drug importation program with safety, tracing, cost-savings, licensing and audit requirements. It expressly included generic-drug pricing in consumer protection law. It required covered formulary-drug prior-authorization responses within two business days, with approval after that deadline. It mandated insurance coverage for epinephrine auto-injectors. It authorized competitive online pharmacy-benefit-manager reverse auctions and real-time claims review for public health plans, with optional joint purchasing and independent technology vendors.

June 30, 2020Supports Government Spending Reduction

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On June 30, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay on concurrence with the Senate version of HB1639; concurrence passed 201–121. The health-care package revised Medicaid income eligibility, emergency authorization rules, insurance coverage for oral cancer medicines and qualifying long-term tick-borne treatment, pharmacy audit rights and dental fee contracts. It required a public state health assessment and improvement plan, individualized chronic-pain prescribing rules and mental-health reimbursement parity, and provided at least one substance-use medication option without prior authorization. It added physician assistants to advance-directive and resuscitation laws with patient-choice safeguards, temporarily allowed tightly limited surrogate consent to experimental COVID-19 treatment, revised physician-assistant licensing, and established confidential overdose-death review. It created a nonlapsing, continually appropriated opioid-settlement trust for treatment, recovery, prevention and related services, with 15percent directed to qualifying local plaintiffs. It also authorized pharmacist COVID-19 vaccination, required medically appropriate jail addiction treatment, strengthened patient nondiscrimination and visitation rights, restricted examinations of unconscious patients subject to care and emergency exceptions, and established notice, independent impact review and appeal procedures for proposed facilities near critical-access hospitals.

June 30, 2020Supports Government Spending Reduction

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On June 30, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay on concurrence with the Senate version of HB1264; concurrence passed 210–116. Its16-section text extended the seacoast cancer-cluster commission through June 2022; set drinking-water limits of 12pptPFOA,15pptPFOS,18pptPFHxS and11pptPFNA with annual review and authority to adjust them to protect health; and aligned ambient groundwater standards with statutory state limits. It created a nonlapsing, continually appropriated PFAS remediation loan fund and appropriated $50 million for drinking-water and wastewater-residual capital remediation, authorizing up to $50 million in state borrowing and general-fund debt payments. Eligible public and nonprofit water or wastewater systems needed approved cost-effective projects, no viable lower-cost alternatives and responsible-party contributions; need-based loan forgiveness reached10%, capped at $5 million total, with additional forgiveness contingent on litigation recoveries after public debt and legal costs were repaid. It applied the existing governmental pollutant-liability standard to PFAS incidents, including its reasonable-best-practices presumption. It required resident individual/group insurance coverage of PFAS/PFC blood tests without greater cost sharing than similar benefits and extended those requirements to health-service corporations and HMOs. The text specified effective dates after 60 days for insurance provisions with coordinated January 2021 updates and passage for the rest.

June 30, 2020Supports Government Spending Reduction

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On June 30, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay on concurrence with the Senate amendment to carried2019 HB705; concurrence passed 254–75. The19-section Senate text increased the maximum victim-compensation recovery from 30000 to 40000dollars, broadened eligibility and crime-victim rights, protected identifying information in fund-restitution proceedings, and expanded employment leave and safety-related unemployment protections. It removed the time limit for civil actions based on sexual assault or incest, including specified claims against governmental units, removed legal-spouse exceptions from sexual-assault offenses, and prohibited public sale of over-the-counter rape-evidence kits with a violation fine of up to 1000dollars. It required colleges to adopt sexual-misconduct policies and provide confidential resource advisors, annual prevention programming, trained staff, anonymous climate surveys and annual incident reports, agreements with crisis centers and law-enforcement coordination. Its disciplinary protections included timely detailed notice, equal access to evidence and witnesses, advisors, equal available appeals, impartial trained decisionmakers and identity privacy. It established a limited confidential-advisor privilege with judicial-review and defendant-fair-trial exceptions, good-faith reporter or witness disciplinary amnesty excluding egregious violations, and institutional civil penalties capped at the lower of 150000dollars or1percent of the operating budget. The text specified effective dates after 60 days for victim and assault provisions, after 180 days for campus requirements and immediately for the remainder.

June 30, 2020Supports Government Spending Reduction

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On June 30, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay on concurrence with the Senate version of HB1623; concurrence passed 204–117. The version expanded Medicaid and commercial insurance coverage and reimbursement for telemedicine, including audio-only care, eligible practitioners and school Medicaid services. It provided reimbursement parity with comparable in-person services, kept medical-necessity and coverage limits, and expanded telemedicine access to substance-use treatment in specified settings with federal prescribing safeguards and patient-consented notification. It permitted telemedicine within practitioners' existing scopes, required appropriate licensure, records and standards of care, provided fee-dispute review, and established a telehealth study commission.

June 30, 2020Supports Government Spending Reduction

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On March 12, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay on Ought to Pass with Amendment 1001h for HB1655; the House adopted it 185–118 and ordered third reading. Its nine-section text expanded the insurance-assessment-funded vaccine purchasing system to covered adults aged 19–64, excluded Medicare beneficiaries and specified pneumococcal polysaccharide and herpes-zoster vaccines, and updated vaccine ordering, distribution and administrative-oversight definitions. It revised assessment handling, interstate arrangements and interim-assessment rules to cover adult vaccines, removed medical-loss-ratio classification language, and extended the existing continuously appropriated vaccine-purchase fund’s uses to ordering, distribution and administrative oversight. Vaccines remained supplied without charge apart from administration costs. It set a July 1, 2021 effective date; the fiscal note estimated approximately $10.7 million in annual assessment-funded revenue and expenditure, rather than a fixed new general-fund appropriation.

March 12, 2020Supports Government Spending Reduction

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On March 12, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay on Ought to Pass with Amendment 0827h for HB1171; the House adopted it 179–106 and ordered third reading. The complete three-section replacement established a public-employer occupational safety and health advisory board, included employer, employee, insurer, WorkWISE, public and legislative representatives, and assigned state-plan development, injury-data review, training recommendations and annual reporting. It required public employers to provide at least federal OSHA-level protection and authorized implementing rules only after federal approval of a state plan, and specified an effective date after 60 days for the advisory provisions. The fiscal note recorded no appropriation and uncertain implementation costs. In his printed minority report, Flanagan criticized unknown costs and an unfunded mandate on cities and towns while affirming employee safety.

March 12, 2020Supports Government Spending Reduction

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On March 12, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay on Ought to Pass with Amendment 0927h for HB1286; the House adopted it 182–125 and ordered third reading. The eight-section replacement required licensure to practice or use the music-therapist title, defined therapeutic services and excluded diagnosis of disorders, and preserved exceptions for other professionals, students and supervised practitioners who did not claim that title. It required professional certification or equivalent out-of-state qualifications, good standing and criminal-background review, and established a five-member governing board under the allied-health licensing system with two-year renewals and public-information duties. It created a program-assistant position and appropriated the amount necessary for that position and board per-diem and travel expenses from the professional-licensing fund, in addition to existing budget sums. It set a July 1, 2020 effective date.

March 12, 2020Supports Government Spending Reduction

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On February 13, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay to table HB1649,120–206; tabling failed. He then voted Yea for amended passage,144–173; passage failed, and the House adopted an unnamed killing motion. The complete four-section0168h version established annual road-use fees from $10 to $100 by EPA fuel-economy band and $125 for nongasoline vehicles, proportionally adjusted with road-toll rates. Motorcycles, mopeds, OHRVs and model-year1985-or-earlier vehicles were exempt. Registration agents retained $1 per fee, with the rest directed to highway funding after local-highway aid. It required linked EPA/VIN data and rules by July 1, 2021 and appropriated $330,000 from the highway fund for implementation for the biennium ending June 30, 2021. The text specified July 1, 2021 as the fee provisions' effective date and passage as the other provisions' effective date.

February 13, 2020Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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On January 8, 2020, Flanagan voted against Ought to Pass with Amendment on the carried 2019 SB8. The report was adopted 224–141 and referred to Finance. House replacement 2802h established a fifteen-member redistricting commission with five members from each major party and five from other affiliations; current district officeholders were ineligible. It required county hearings before and after maps, seven days for comments, public records and meetings, accessible venues, disclosure of attempted outside influence and district criteria barring undue favor for parties, incumbents, candidates or racial and language groups. Leadership cross-selected the major-party members, and selection of the other five was exempt from right-to-know law. It retained legislative enactment, provided court review and possible special-master maps, mileage reimbursement and FY2021 warrant funding from unappropriated sums.

January 8, 2020Supports Government Spending Reduction

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On January 8, 2020, Flanagan voted against Ought to Pass with Amendment on the carried 2019 SB7. The report was adopted 203–163 and referred to Finance. The Senate-amended bill with House amendment 2712h automatically applied eligible adult citizens for voter registration during specified motor-vehicle transactions unless they declined, with local review, error correction and a mailed second opt-out. It transmitted names, addresses, qualifications and signature images securely, updated prior-address registrations, required current data-security protocols and DMV-record auditing, and protected opt-outs, confidential participants and non-registration information from disclosure. It funded implementation from named federal Help America Vote Act grants and set July 1, 2021 as its effective date.

January 8, 2020Supports Government Spending Reduction

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On January 8, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay on passage of the carried 2019 HB677 as amended by 2798h. The version replaced broad school-discipline grounds with specified health, safety, repeated-rule, violence, bullying and weapons standards. It provided hearings, appeals and expulsion review. Officials considered age, disability, prior discipline and lesser interventions. It required educational assignments and alternative services after twenty cumulative suspended days, with stated exceptions. More than ten suspended days triggered a functional-behavior assessment and intervention plan. It applied policies to public and chartered public schools, provided statewide effect and specified reinstatement and enrollment exceptions, and required published graduated discipline policies. It established behavioral-health support grants using the Title I allocation formula, restricted distributions to public schools, added federal IDEA set-aside support and specified training, personnel, provider contracts, supplies and reporting uses. Its appropriation remained 5 million dollars for the 2021 biennium; the later 0359h one-dollar appropriation and revised budget requests were not part of this January vote. The House adopted the report 210–149 and referred the bill to Finance.

January 8, 2020Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Sponsored HB716 on January 3, 2019. The introduced version required education-department reimbursement for transportation of court-placed children remaining in their prior schools when in their best interests. It appropriated $300,000 for fiscal years 2020–2021, using opioid-response grant funds only when permitted and treasury funds otherwise. At the June 12 Brookline School Board meeting, he publicly backed the transportation funding to help districts make schooling decisions for foster children.

June 12, 2019Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Flanagan spoke and voted against amended SB 2 on May 8, 2019. The version doubled the unemployment-contribution offset and matching administrative contribution to 0.4 percent, raised annual job-training deposits from $2 million to $6 million, and returned unused training funds to the unemployment trust. It expanded training, child-care and transportation assistance, WorkReadyNH, and outreach to underserved workers. It capped existing programs and WorkReadyNH at $500,000each and administration at 10 percent or $600,000, and required annual effectiveness reports. The House adopted the passage report 216–146 and referred the bill to Finance. On June 5, he again voted Nay on the unchanged bill; the House adopted it, 207–140.

June 5, 2019Supports Government Spending Reduction

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On May 8, 2019, Flanagan voted Nay on SB 142 as amended; the House adopted it, 211–135. The complete House replacement, amendment 1478h, required public middle and high school districts to provide sanitary napkins and tampons free of charge in female and gender-neutral bathrooms. Districts bore the cost and received permission to seek grants or community and nonprofit partnerships. The effective date was passage.

May 8, 2019Supports Government Spending Reduction

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On May 8, 2019, voted to kill SB310 and then indefinitely postpone it. The Senate-amended bill authorized two state-operated video-lottery and table-game locations and licensed sports betting, with background checks, local voter approval, revenue taxes and public funds for regulation and gambling treatment. The House adopted the killing motion 289–63 and indefinite postponement 214–139.

May 8, 2019Supports Government Spending Reduction

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On May 8, 2019, Flanagan voted Nay on SB 5 as amended; the House adopted it, 207–130. The three-section version appropriated $3 million for Medicaid mental-health and substance-use provider rates and $450,000 for emergency shelter and stabilization services. Amendment 1647h made the rate funding nonlapsing. It retained sole-source contracting and priority for high-need areas, required a spending report within 21 days, and permitted federal matching funds without prior Fiscal Committee approval.

May 8, 2019Supports Government Spending Reduction

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On May 8, 2019, Flanagan voted Nay on SB 167 as amended; the House adopted it, 209–140. The version created a 13-member commission to investigate competitive procurement and long-term renewable-energy contracts. Its review covered procurement design, costs, rate impacts, market restructuring, and siting. It required a report by October 1, 2020, and provided a $100,000 technical-consultant budget funded through utility assessments. It also revised regional-energy-agency assessments. The House adopted amendments 1700h and 1851h by voice vote before the named passage vote.

May 8, 2019Supports Government Spending Reduction

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On May 8, 2019, Flanagan voted Nay on passing SB 271; the House adopted it, 213–140. The version required prevailing county federal wages and benefits on covered state-funded construction projects, certified payroll records, and restitution and penalties for underpayment. It also provided three-year contractor debarment. In his minority committee report, Flanagan objected that the requirement increased government construction costs and taxpayer burdens.

May 8, 2019Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Flanagan voted against SB 6 on May 2, 2019. The version appropriated $1,998,005 and $4,119,845 for 27 and 30 additional child-protection workers in fiscal years 2020 and 2021. It also appropriated $773,552 and $1,703,152 for nine and eleven additional supervisors. General funds covered 70 percent, with the remainder from federal funds. The House adopted the passage report 272–87.

May 2, 2019Supports Government Spending Reduction

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On February 27 and April 4, 2019, voted against HB481, a package legalizing adult cannabis possession and cultivation, licensing commercial sales, providing possession-related annulments, and imposing cannabis taxes and regulatory appropriations. The April House replacement imposed 5% wholesale and 9% retail taxes and funded administration, enforcement, prevention and treatment. The House adopted the February passage motion 209–147 and the April amended passage motion 200–163.

April 4, 2019Supports Government Spending Reduction

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On April 4, 2019, voted against HB616 as amended. The printed House amendment limited its 1.5% retirement adjustment to the first $50,000 of annual pension benefits for qualifying long-retired members. The House passed it 219–149.

April 4, 2019Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted for HB729 creating a public-records ombudsman and citizen appeals commission as an alternative to court complaints. It included $48,000 for fiscal 2020 and a July 2024 sunset. The House approved it, 177–165. Later voted against killing it; the House killed it, 203–165.

April 4, 2019Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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On March 19, 2019, voted for HB480 as amended by 0974h, authorizing regulated sports wagering through Lottery Commission agents, mobile wagering, and up to ten locally approved retail locations. The text included bettor and event exclusions, verification and audit controls, education-fund proceeds, and up to $250,000 annually for a council promoting prevention and treatment of problem gambling. The House adopted it, 269–82.

March 19, 2019Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Voted against requiring the system benefits charge to fund energy-efficiency programs and allowing the energy-efficiency portion to increase without prior legislative approval. HB166 also authorized programs to offer low-cost efficiency products to low-income customers. The House approved it, 201–138; the Senate later killed it.

March 14, 2019Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted against HB542's $350,000 wetlands-regulations program for fiscal 2020. It provided $300,000 for municipal grants and $50,000 for a guidebook and model ordinance. The House approved it, 208–140.

February 28, 2019Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted to table, then opposed, HB686 extending the interest and dividends tax to capital gains and increasing exemptions. It set base school aid at $4,000 per pupil and restored stabilization grants. It reduced the statewide education property-tax target from $363 million to $272 million beginning July 2021. Tabling failed; the House approved the bill, 199–143.

February 28, 2019Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Flanagan cosponsored HB709 on January 3, 2019. The introduced bill reworked school aid with a $3,709 base, $1,854 meal aid, district-concentration additions, and fiscal-capacity aid up to $1,500 for communities with lower property values. It included differentiated aid, hold-harmless rules and specified 101.5% caps. It required remittance of excess statewide education property taxes, repealed stabilization aid, expanded required kindergarten-through-grade-eight transportation beyond two miles, and added program-accounting and reporting rules. On February 27, Flanagan voted for the House replacement with amendments 0526h and 0693h. That version increased maximum fiscal-capacity aid to $6,000 at property values per pupil of $350,000 or less, declining to none at $1 million. It added meal aid of $927, $1,854, $2,781 or $3,708 per eligible pupil as district concentrations increased. It included inflation adjustments, revised hold-harmless and aid caps, and reporting on adequacy aid. It restored fiscal 2016 stabilization grants for fiscal 2020 and replaced them in fiscal 2021. The House version retained excess statewide education property taxes and omitted the introduced transportation changes. The House adopted amended passage 262–82 and referred it to Finance. The bill was later killed by voice vote.

February 27, 2019Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Voted against removing the half-day cap when counting kindergarten pupils for state school aid and repealing the separate kindergarten grant prorated by Keno revenue. The proposal did not require full-day kindergarten. The House approved the bill, 203–148, then referred it to Finance; it was later killed by voice vote.

February 27, 2019Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted against creating a student career and college savings program for eligible public and charter-school students who completed financial-literacy instruction in second grade or later. The bill provided a $250 initial deposit into a 529 account and an additional deposit, set annually according to available funds, when the account's principal reached $500. It increased the annual registration fee for each class of open-end mutual funds from $1,000 to $1,100, directing the added $100 to the program. The House passed this version, 216–126; the bill later died in the Senate.

February 27, 2019Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted against establishing a classified school-nurse coordinator position in the Department of Education to guide school nurses and staff on student health, safety, mental health and substance misuse. The House version required a licensed registered nurse and appropriated $109,000 for fiscal year 2020 and $111,000 for fiscal year 2021 from the general fund. The House approved it, 198–146; the bill later died in the Senate.

February 27, 2019Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted for HB177 restoring school stabilization grants to fiscal 2016 levels and ending annual 4% reductions. It excluded districts with surplus statewide education-property-tax revenue or no pupils. The House approved it, 268–90, then referred it to Finance. The bill was later killed by voice vote.

February 27, 2019Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Voted against establishing a commission to study adequate-education costs, funding disparities and an equitable school-funding formula, with a $500,000 nonlapsing appropriation from the education trust fund. The House approved this version, 207–148, then referred it to Finance; the bill was later killed by voice vote.

February 27, 2019Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted against licensing and inspecting tattooing, piercing and branding establishments in HB120. Later opposed an expanded version covering massage and other bodywork establishments. It funded an investigative paralegal through the professional-licensing fund. Both passed the House; the Senate killed the bill.

January 31, 2019Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Flanagan cosponsored CACR27 on January 6, 2016. The introduced constitutional proposal capped annual spending at revenue plus prefunded reserves and contingencies. Operating-cost debt with repayment beyond twelve months required approval by two-thirds of the General Court’s total membership. On May 11, he voted for the version with amendment 1870h. That version limited operating spending to revenue plus the previous budget period’s surplus and barred indebtedness for operating costs, with exceptions requiring two-thirds of each chamber’s total membership. The amended passage motion failed 201–139, lacking the required three-fifths House vote.

May 11, 2016Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Flanagan voted for SB 521, which raised off-highway vehicle registration fees by $30 for people without membership in a qualifying New Hampshire club, retained existing fees for qualifying club members and directed the additional revenue to trail grants. It also required a study of registration alternatives for users outside organized trail systems. The passage motion passed, 262–83.

April 20, 2016Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Flanagan opposed tabling SB 481 and supported its amended passage in April and May. The bill required licenses for new cardiac catheterization, open-heart surgery and megavoltage radiation therapy services, with quality standards, financial-assistance policies, notice, appeals and protections for nearby critical-access hospitals. The May version directed license fees to the general fund and appropriated $50,000 for licensing costs. Tabling failed, 129–182; the passage motions passed, 198–114 and 195–134.

April 20, 2016Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Voted for SB533's April version restructuring the governor's alcohol-and-drug commission and requiring performance reports. It provided $3 million for treatment contracts, $2 million for supportive housing and funding for a drug prosecutor. It used excess budget appropriations. The motion passed, 235–109, then went to Finance. In May, opposed an amendment changing concealed-carry licenses and allowing eligible people to carry without a license. It failed, 98–204.

April 20, 2016Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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On March 10, 2016, Flanagan voted to reject HB1374, 203–127. It redirected renewable-energy fund payments exceeding administration costs and specified incentives to per-kilowatt-hour ratepayer rebates.

March 10, 2016Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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On March 10, 2016, Flanagan voted against amendment 0941h to HB2016, 174–162. The adopted amendment deleted funding for the Nashua–Manchester–Concord Capitol Corridor Rail project, number 40818, from the proposed 2017–2026 transportation plan.

March 10, 2016Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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On March 9, 2016, Flanagan voted to reject HB1475, 195–160. The introduced bill established a $100,000 state death benefit for public school, university and community-college employees killed in duty, with family eligibility and claims procedures.

March 9, 2016Supports Government Spending Reduction

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On March 9, 2016, Flanagan voted for HB1591 as amended by 0889h, 194–162. The nine-section version revised state-retiree health-premium contributions, invoicing and retirement withholding, provided $20,000 for overtime and up to $300,000 for plan consulting, and established an advisory subcommittee.

March 9, 2016Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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On March 9, 2016, Flanagan voted to reject HB1690, 211–128. The bill extended the New Hampshire Health Protection Program, removed its scheduled termination, and retained termination if federal funding fell below the specified matching schedule.

March 9, 2016Supports Government Spending Reduction

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On February 10, 2016, opposed passage of HB1563 and then voted to kill it. The text removed the half-day attendance cap for kindergarten pupils from the adequate-education funding calculation, with a July 1, 2016 effective date. Passage failed 157–200, and the House adopted Inexpedient to Legislate 205–152.

February 10, 2016Supports Government Spending Reduction

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On February 10, 2016, voted to kill HB1564, creating a seven-member independent redistricting commission with public plans and hearings, restrictions on partisan influence, and successive legislative consideration of its plans. The text financed the commission through a disclosure-linked political-communication fee and state funding for shortfalls. The House adopted Inexpedient to Legislate 210–151.

February 10, 2016Supports Government Spending Reduction

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On February18,2015, Flanagan supported HB585’s amended$5-or-10percent assessment on court and Liquor Commission fines for alcoholic-beverage-law violations, with receipts shared among victim assistance, domestic-violence programs and alcohol-abuse prevention and treatment. It required legislative-body approval before political subdivisions spent collected liquor fines. House passage was adopted223–133. On January20,2016, he supported the changed Liquor-Commission-only$12-or-24percent assessment, adopted204–89. It retained hardship relief and the three equal fund shares; the court-assessment provision was removed.

January 20, 2016Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Flanagan voted to reject HB 376, which appropriated about $9.02 million for fiscal 2016 and $7.64 million for fiscal 2017 to fund state aid for completed drinking-water, wastewater and landfill-closure projects. The House adopted the rejection, 184–130.

January 7, 2016Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Flanagan prime-sponsored HB1505 on January 4, 2012, HB325 on January 3, 2013, and HB1670 on January 6, 2016. All three introduced versions required a one-time award equal to 10% of an implemented employee suggestion’s first twelve months of savings. They broadened eligibility, excluding specified senior officials, and preserved eligibility after employment ended. They protected identities until awards and required anonymous reporting, investigation and governor-and-council approval. Awards came from affected agency budgets or the employee-award fund, including operating budgets for self-funded units. They allowed one additional award after wider implementation and excluded suggestions already under state consideration. Suggestion-award caps were removed; extraordinary-service limits of $5,000 per award and $10,000 annually remained. The 2012 proposal contained no later reversion. The 2013 proposal specified restoration of earlier rules on September 1, 2015; the 2016 proposal set that restoration for September 1, 2018. On February 20, 2013, Flanagan spoke against rejection and voted Nay on Inexpedient to Legislate. The Speaker’s favorable vote produced a 179–179 tie, and rejection failed. Flanagan then moved Ought to Pass, adopted 199–162 by unnamed division.

January 6, 2016Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Cosponsored HB1101 on January 6, 2016. The introduced version barred resident tariffs, taxes and fees, including utility-ratepayer fees, from funding high-pressure gas pipelines connected directly or indirectly to liquefied-natural-gas export terminals. The export-terminal condition limited its scope.

January 6, 2016Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Cosponsored HB1412 on January 6, 2016. The introduced version expanded public-utilities-commission duties to investigate direct, indirect and cumulative effects and support public information, participation and intervention. It prioritized health and natural resources. It barred public funding for excessive or costly projects, undue community burdens and specified harms to public lands, waters, wildlife and resources.

January 6, 2016Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Flanagan cosponsored SB9 on September 16, 2015, and helped introduce it for immediate consideration. He supported the chair’s introduction ruling, upheld 286–89, and suspension of the rules, adopted 285–93. The twenty-seven-section bill funded state pay increases with $7.5 million in fiscal 2016 and $22.5 million in fiscal 2017. It established employee-relations oversight and public hearings, broadened a $2.45 million liquor capital appropriation, and extended it through June 2017. It reduced business-profits tax rates from 8.5% to 8.2% and then 7.9%, and enterprise rates from 0.75% to 0.72% and then 0.675%. The second reductions depended on a $4.64 billion revenue threshold. Salary and tax provisions depended on both regular budget bills becoming law. Flanagan opposed four failed amendments: voter-domicile rules, 94–264; optional concealed-pistol licenses, 96–265; removal of a courthouse-siting restriction, 65–289; and a business-asset-basis tax election, 93–263. He voted for passage, adopted 291–73, and offered the resolution for immediate third reading and final passage. SB9 conditioned its salary, employee-relations and business-tax provisions on both 2015 HB1 and HB2 becoming law and nullified HB2 sections 234–240 on business-tax reductions.

September 16, 2015Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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On June24, 2015, Flanagan voted for HB577’s conference report, establishing a children’s savings program with donation-funded public-kindergarten pilots, financial-literacy activities, privacy safeguards, and a nonlapsing, continually appropriated program fund. It also gave Dover flexibility over bond terms, proceeds and refinancing. House adopted the report 201–145.

June 24, 2015Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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On June 24, 2015, Flanagan voted for HB364’s conference report, standardizing specified professional licenses to a June30 biennial renewal cycle with corresponding two-year fees. It also established a fee-funded, continually appropriated salt-applicator certification fund, moved pesticide-registration fees to rulemaking, and increased the registration-fee share for integrated pest management from 10% to 25%. House adopted the report 223–131.

June 24, 2015Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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On June 24, 2015, Flanagan voted for HB681’s conference report, adding a $50 fine for each domestic-violence conviction and raising marriage-license fees from $45 to $50. The added revenues went to domestic-violence grant programs; courts retained payment deferral or installments for defendants unable to pay. House adopted the report 203–144.

June 24, 2015Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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On May 6, 2015, Flanagan voted to pass SB30 with amendment1515h. The replacement allowed county-approved redevelopment districts in unincorporated places, with property assessments dedicated to repaying qualifying state-guaranteed bonds. It increased the statewide guarantee ceiling from $95 million to $115 million and the redevelopment limit from $25 million to $30 million, with approval and repayment safeguards. Passage passed, 293–57.

May 6, 2015Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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On April 29, 2015, voted for SB113, authorizing two casinos with slot machines and table games, a gaming commission, licensing and audit safeguards, and public funds for regulation and gambling treatment. The Senate-amended text set 35% slot-revenue and 18% table-revenue taxes, with municipal and treatment distributions. He opposed amendments repealing the gambling prohibition and removing the two-license limit. Both amendments failed; passage failed 156–208, and the House then killed the bill.

April 29, 2015Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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On February 18, 2015, supported amendment0139h to HB208 and its passage. The House version retained RGGI, rebated allowance-sale proceeds above a zero-dollar threshold less administrative costs to ratepayers, and repealed the remaining energy-efficiency allocations and related oversight duty. The amendment passed197–158; passage passed201–154.

February 18, 2015Supports Government Spending Reduction

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On February 18, 2015, Flanagan voted to kill HB575, which established a Department of Education school-nurse consultant for student wellness, mental health, substance abuse, parental education, and nurse staff development, with $87,000 appropriated for each of fiscal years2016 and2017. The House adopted the motion, 236–122.

February 18, 2015Supports Government Spending Reduction

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On February 18, 2015, Flanagan voted to kill HB615, which redirected state energy-contract savings into a nonlapsing Energy Fund, expanded its continually appropriated uses to renewable-energy projects, construction oversight, and a part-time energy position, and required Public Works oversight of energy projects above$100,000. It also changed report dates, removed obsolete committee approvals and an interest-free repayment requirement, and revised state-building exemptions. The House adopted the motion, 210–145.

February 18, 2015Supports Government Spending Reduction

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On February 18, 2015, Flanagan voted to kill HB591, which reduced the motor-fuel road toll to18cents per gallon and repealed the adjustment-linked continual highway appropriation, related revenue allocations, and transportation borrowing authority. The House adopted the motion, 243–108.

February 18, 2015Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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On February 18, 2015, voted to kill HB677, restricting public funds, facilities and contracts for abortion and organizations providing abortion-related services, with specified exceptions. The proposal also barred abortion referrals and emergency contraception in school health clinics. The House adopted Inexpedient to Legislate 216–142.

February 18, 2015Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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On February 11, 2015, Flanagan voted to kill HB176, which appropriated $542,672 to reimburse towns affected by the Merrimack River and Connecticut River flood-control compacts for state fiscal year2013. The House adopted the motion, 221–127.

February 11, 2015Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Cosponsored SB206 on January 8, 2015. The introduced version appropriated $3.7 million for a Milford circuit court and motor-vehicle facility using an existing design on state-owned land. It authorized equal borrowing. Two-thirds of debt service came from general funds with rental-savings offsets and one-third from highway funds.

January 8, 2015Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Flanagan prime-sponsored HB1443 on January 8, 2014, and HB234 on January 8, 2015. Both introduced bills replaced separate renewable-portfolio classes with a unified standard, permitted eligible-source flexibility and net-metering credits, and set a $55 alternative-compliance rate indexed to the full consumer-price index. They split renewable-fund receipts between renewable-energy support and customer rate relief. They repealed residential incentive payments of up to $6,000 and classification rules. The 2014 proposal set an 8% standard in 2014, 10% in 2015 and 20% in 2025. The 2015 proposal moved those targets to 2015, 2016 and 2026, respectively. Both retained annual percentage increases between the second and final targets.

January 8, 2015Supports Government Spending Reduction

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On May 14, 2014, Flanagan voted against SB308 as replaced by1715h. The bill created a legislative study of health-care cooperation and regulatory review and required a one-time $300,000 hospital assessment to finance the state health plan, with administrative and consulting contracts exempt from governor-and-council approval. The House passed164–122.

May 14, 2014Supports Government Spending Reduction

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On May 7, 2014, Flanagan voted for SB241 as amended by1536h, establishing a nonlapsing economic-development fund and continually appropriating its public and private grants, gifts and donations to DRED. Spending was limited to the department’s statutory activities; donations lacked fee-for-service use primarily benefiting the donor, except promotional acknowledgment. The House passed236–111.

May 7, 2014Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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On April 23, 2014, voted for unsuccessful SB367 amendments setting a fixed 22.2-cent road toll instead of a CPI adjustment and substituting exit-11 toll removal for exit 12; they failed 126–202 and 99–231. Voted against an unsuccessful amendment removing tolls at exits 10–12, which failed 87–245. Voted against the bill’s report, which retained the CPI road-toll increase, transportation appropriations, up to $200 million in I-93 bonds, exit-12 toll removal and a DOT study. The report passed 193–141; his vote to reconsider was unsuccessful, 133–202.

April 23, 2014Supports Government Spending Reduction

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On April23,2014, Flanagan voted against amendment1427h to SB204, setting additional GroupII first-responder impairment payments at up to $125,000 per claimant and $500,000 overall through July2016, adding study-commission members, and applying benefits to injuries from March12,2012. The amendment passed199–120. He then supported1492h to remove that retroactive-applicability section; it failed133–189.

April 23, 2014Supports Government Spending Reduction

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On March 20, 2014, Flanagan voted against HB1635, which appropriated $517,458 for fiscal year 2014 and $8,549,419 for fiscal year 2015 for integrated community mental health services, and $1,113,400 in each year for plaintiffs’ attorney fees, costs, and monitoring under the federal mental health settlement. The House passed the bill 173–125.

March 20, 2014Supports Government Spending Reduction

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On February 12, 2014, Flanagan voted against HB1581 as amended by0228h. The text authorized up to$50million in outstanding state borrowing for state-owned red-list or DOT-closed bridges, with governor-and-council approval and debt service charged to the highway fund. It also capped additional highway-funded general-obligation debt when combined annual debt service exceeded10percent of prior-year unrestricted highway revenues. The House adopted the report251–82.

February 12, 2014Supports Government Spending Reduction

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On January 29, 2014, Flanagan voted for HB658 as amended by2342h, establishing a registration board and background checks for unlicensed medical technicians with access to drugs and patients. The text required facility verification and adverse-action reporting, provided disciplinary and hearing procedures, penalties and injured-person civil claims, and appropriated$20,672 for FY2015 board expenses. The House adopted the report228–92 and referred the bill to Ways and Means.

January 29, 2014Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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On January 29, 2014, Flanagan voted against amendment2269h to HB292 and against the amended passage report. The replacement increased the boat-registration lake fee from$7.50 to$9.50, allocated the extra$2 to exotic aquatic-weed control, and retained a nonlapsing fund continually appropriated to environmental services. The House adopted the amendment171–120 and report164–127. His intervening vote to table the bill failed126–165.

January 29, 2014Supports Government Spending Reduction

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On January 29, 2014, voted for HB485’s amended keno program. The text required local voter approval and licensed operators, assigned proceeds to operators, problem-gambling services and the education trust fund, and established financial reporting and inspection rules. The House adopted the report 202–141.

January 29, 2014Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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On January 29, 2014, Flanagan voted against HB650 as amended by0294h, appropriating$1 for Claremont–Lebanon bus start-up service and permitting additional state funding up to$250,000 after private funding and a federal matching grant, subject to fiscal-committee and governor-and-council approval. The text provided a June2017 lapse and return of private funds if sufficient federal funds were not received. The House adopted the report192–89.

January 29, 2014Supports Government Spending Reduction

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On November 21, 2013, Flanagan opposed special-session HB 1’s House health coverage plan. It covered newly eligible low-income adults through employer insurance or private managed care, with federal Medicaid funding and state administrative appropriations. It required cost-effective employer coverage, premium and cost-sharing payments, quality reporting, independent audits, and later individual premium assistance. It also established a state insurance marketplace and transitioned breast and cervical cancer coverage. He voted against majority amendment 2418h, adopted 204–151. He supported unsuccessful amendments imposing a state-cost growth termination trigger, removing the state-marketplace requirement, retaining oversight provisions, and reducing the required number of participating insurers. Those amendments failed 162–191, 154–197, 146–195, and 142–200. He then voted against passage as amended; the House adopted it 198–146.

November 21, 2013Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Flanagan voted against HB 573 as amended by 0797h on March 20, 2013; the House adopted it 286–64. That version authorized registered therapeutic-cannabis patients and caregivers, including limited home cultivation, with provider certifications and regulated nonprofit treatment centers. On June 26, he requested the roll call and voted against conference report 2098c, adopted 284–66. The conference version removed patient and caregiver cultivation, limited usable possession to two ounces, and established up to four nonprofit centers. It retained medical certifications, minor-patient protections, a confidential registry, criminal and civil protections, security and product controls, oversight reports, and a continuously appropriated fee-funded administrative fund.

June 26, 2013Supports Government Spending Reduction

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On March 6, 2013, Flanagan opposed HB295 with amendment 0450h. The House approved it, 244–112, and sent it to Ways and Means. It covered nonmunicipal youth skill camps teaching minors for at least eight hours yearly. It required checks of all owners, employees and volunteers for specified injury or child-harm convictions. Operators certified compliance and paid a $25 certification fee. Property owners were exempt after obtaining operators' written certification. The text retained recreation-camp licenses and established a separate, continuously appropriated fund for administration, rules and enforcement. On March 27, he opposed amendment 1021h's version, approved 199–150. It retained those provisions and raised the recreation-camp license fee from $50 to $200. On June 26, he supported the conference report, approved 241–114. The revised checks covered owners, employees and volunteers with potential unsupervised access to children. Operators disclosed check frequency and sources for publication on the department website. The bill permitted sharing checks from the preceding twelve months with signed consent. It retained the property-owner exception and permitted stricter camp policies. It retained the $200 license and $25 certification fees, dedicated fund, health and safety rules and enforcement. It also changed school background-check confidentiality to permit authorized sharing. The conference text specified an effective date thirty days after passage for rulemaking and January 1, 2014, for other provisions.

June 26, 2013Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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On June 5, 2013, Flanagan voted Nay on1905h to SB129, adopted 175–137; Yea on1967h, defeated140–170; and Nay on passage with 1905h, adopted 179–132. The House version required clear and convincing findings that youth commitment was necessary for safety. It separately defined nonsecure or staff-secure shelter care for ages eleven through seventeen. It required treatment availability outside secure settings. It provided release after six months for nonviolent offenses, subject to pending cases and renewable ninety-day court waivers. It established counsel, disability protections, notice and periodic court-review rights. The adopted amendment added $5,372,682 in federal funds for the Insurance Department’s consumer-assistance grant, including consultants, contracted services, travel, equipment and staff costs, with July 1, 2013 specified as the funding provision's effective date. The text specified an effective date sixty days after passage for the juvenile provisions. The rejected1967h retained that appropriation but required prior joint health-care-reform oversight approval of spending, exempting grant acceptance and appropriation transfers.

June 5, 2013Supports Government Spending Reduction

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On May 22, 2013, Flanagan voted to reject SB 152 and against reconsidering that rejection. The House adopted Inexpedient to Legislate 199–164 and defeated reconsideration 152–212. Senate amendment 0796s authorized one casino with up to 5,000 video lottery machines and 150 table games, an $80 million initial license, background investigations, licensing and audit controls, under-21 gambling prohibitions, and local referendum approval. It allocated gaming revenue to education, transportation, local governments, North Country development and problem-gambling treatment, and created regulatory and enforcement units. No proposed House minority amendment was adopted before rejection.

May 22, 2013Supports Government Spending Reduction

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On May 8, 2013, Flanagan voted Nay on the amended SB124 report, adopted 218–137. The nine-section version created an optional integrated permit for terrain alteration, sewage disposal, wetlands and shoreland projects, with a coordinated preliminary review, municipal and abutter notice, environmental waiver criteria, deadlines and a default-permit process, appeals and enforcement. It permitted local integrated zoning options and barred local boards from demanding state or federal permits before considering an application. Amendment 1501h adjusted municipal participation and established two DES positions supported by general funds within the program—a general-funded administrator and environmental specialist—with those positions scheduled for repeal on June 30, 2015. Later removal of the positions in 1863h is not part of this vote.

May 8, 2013Supports Government Spending Reduction

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On May 8, 2013, Flanagan voted Nay on SB194; the House passed it 212–120. The bill required expanded Medicaid family-planning coverage by July 1, 2013 and a state-plan amendment for the 90% federal match. It required manual claims processing or a third-party administrator when ordinary systems were unavailable. It required advance provider guidance and technical assistance, plus a report within sixty days and annually thereafter.

May 8, 2013Supports Government Spending Reduction

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On March 6, 2013, Flanagan voted to table HB 617,126–207; the motion failed. He voted for failed alternative 0696h,120–251, allocating highway-fund appropriations after municipal block grants entirely to transportation and excluding Safety and other projects. He voted against the amended bill,207–163. That seven-section version phased the 18-cent fuel toll to 33cents, continually appropriated the additional revenue for state and municipal roads and bridges, changed municipal-aid calculations, and set higher bridge and highway-aid minimums. On March 27 he supported failed alternative 1127h,146–217, which added traffic supervision within the transportation allocation, capped at 1 percent. He voted against HB 617 with amendment 1035h,206–158. The ten-section version phased gasoline and diesel tolls to 30cents, retained road and bridge appropriations and aid minimums, redirected specified unrefunded toll increases to highway and bridge betterment, and established a revenue-alternatives study commission. The House adopted both amended-bill motions.

March 27, 2013Supports Government Spending Reduction

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On March 20, 2013, Flanagan voted Nay on 0712h to HB630. The House adopted it 204–153. This complete two-section replacement redirected remaining greenhouse-gas allowance-auction proceeds to the electric utilities' core energy-efficiency programs, reserving at least twenty percent for the low-income program, beginning July 2013. It replaced the introduced repeal proposal; his vote is recorded on this replacement rather than on repeal.

March 20, 2013Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Moved and spoke for $32,900 to control invasive milfoil in Lake Potanipo. Brookline approved $13,160 in state grants and $19,740 in taxes.

March 13, 2013Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Flanagan voted Nay on March 6, 2013 on passage of SB 40; the printed House journal records Ought to Pass adopted 302–34. The two-section bill required fiscal 2013 education grants, including stabilization grants, to be supplemented to the fiscal 2011 level for municipalities receiving less, and shifted the existing stabilization-grant formula to fiscal 2014 and later. It distributed funds through the education-grant framework rather than creating a separate appropriation.

March 6, 2013Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Cosponsored SB123 on January 3, 2013. The introduced version allocated up to $2 million annually in remaining regional greenhouse-gas proceeds for municipal and local-government energy efficiency, including municipal utilities. The utilities commission used competitive bids. Each later biennium increased the annual allocation by 20% of the previous biennium's amount.

January 3, 2013Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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On March 29, 2012, Flanagan supported HB1607 as replaced by1364h, adopted173–127. It created85-percent business-tax credits for donations funding private-school, out-of-district public-school and home-education scholarships, with income and scholarship limits, escalating statewide caps, organization safeguards and public reporting. It deducted corresponding state adequacy aid for recipients leaving public schools and restored aid when they returned. On June 27, he supported overriding the veto of the final version, adopted226–112. It retained the85-percent credit for eligible households at or below300percent of federal poverty guidelines, initial credit ceilings of$3.4million and$5.1million, scholarship safeguards and adjustments to adequacy and stabilization grants.

June 27, 2012Supports Government Spending Reduction

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On June27,2012, Flanagan voted to override the veto of SB326, state reimbursement of river-compact towns and interest-and-dividends taxation of trusts. The text repealed reduced town reimbursements, directed2012–13 arrearage receipts to affected towns, removed direct taxation of specified trusts while retaining tax on resident grantors and beneficiaries, and applied the tax provisions to periods ending on or after December31,2013. The House vote was312–18; the override passed.

June 27, 2012Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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On March 16, 2011, Flanagan voted for CACR 6’s three-fifths threshold for new or increased state taxes and license fees, with a majority-vote exception for insufficient debt-service revenue. It failed 234–118. On March 30, he supported reopening consideration, 258–114, opposed defeat, 119–251, and upheld the chair, 270–101. He supported amendment 1169h, 265–107, and passage, 256–117. That version extended the threshold to state bonds and required appropriations or reserved general-fund revenues for debt payments. On June 6, 2012, he supported the conference version; it failed 220–132, below the required three-fifths vote.

June 6, 2012Supports Government Spending Reduction

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On May 15, 2012, Flanagan supported SB 289’s 2169h replacement, adopted 223–118, and passage, adopted 226–115. It required photo ID or a photographed qualified-voter affidavit, provided state-paid voting-only ID vouchers, required follow-up mail and investigations, and added mandatory jail terms for specified false-identity voting offenses. On June 6 he supported the conference replacement, adopted 255–103. It initially accepted broader IDs, student IDs and local verification, and permitted voting without an affidavit before November 2012. It delayed the narrower ID list and polling-place photographs until September 2013, retained religious and equipment-failure exceptions, and funded IDs and equipment through the election fund. It included voter education, notices, advisory review, confidentiality and retention rules.

June 6, 2012Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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On June6,2012, Flanagan voted to adopt HB1418 conference report2397CofC, adopted244–46. The text raised and inflation-adjusted business-enterprise-tax filing thresholds and increased the estimated-tax declaration threshold. It extended the business-tax commission, exempted Internet access from communications taxes and withdrew related assessments, appropriated$1.5million from audited insurance-tax surplus for developmental-disability services, and allowed up to$25,000 in section179 deductions using theJanuary2012 federal code for property placed in service fromJanuary2012.

June 6, 2012Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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On May 16, 2012, voted against amendment2270h to SB399, removing the proposed Internet-access tax exemption, and for the resulting bill with that exemption retained. The adopted text also capped specified government dredging application fees, required rulemaking for business tax forms, removed mandatory electronic-tax-payment authority and penalties, appropriated1.5milliondollars for developmental-disability services and raised business-enterprise-tax filing thresholds. The amendment failed85–245; House passage was245–80.

May 16, 2012Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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On May 16, 2012, Flanagan supported SB 372’s education tax-credit amendment 2190h, adopted 235–99, then passage as amended, adopted 236–97. It created an85-percent business-tax credit for donations funding income-limited school and home-education scholarships. It set credit caps, an average2500-dollar school scholarship and smaller home-education allowance, required financial and eligibility reports, and provided stabilization grants for affected public-school districts. The text specified January 2013 as the first program year.

May 16, 2012Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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On May 16, 2012, voted for amendment2214h to SB229, creating a committee to solicit and evaluate retirement-plan proposals and appropriating100,000dollars for its work. The text established a defined-contribution plan for new state employees and participating employers, with contribution, vesting, annuity and existing pension-liability rules, contingent on a committee report by November1,2012. House adopted the amendment222–94; subsequent passage was unnamed.

May 16, 2012Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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On May 9, 2012, Flanagan voted to concur with the Senate version of HB1716, adopting the 2013–2022 transportation plan and statutory changes governing passenger-rail budget approval, highway projects, public-works memorial administration and federal highway grant anticipation bonds. The text required legislative approval of passenger-rail capital and operating budgets before construction or operating expenditures, except federally funded planning and studies. It changed specified highway projects and raised the federally aided highway bond ceiling from $195 million to $445 million, retaining a separate $45 million bridge ceiling and conditioning issuance on anticipated federal aid. The House concurred, 308–28.

May 9, 2012Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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On April 25, 2012, Flanagan voted for SB 409 as replaced by amendment 1751h. The House adopted it 236–96 and referred it to Finance. The version permitted registered patients with specified debilitating conditions and designated caregivers to possess and cultivate limited medical marijuana. It required provider certification, caregiver background checks, registry cards and confidential records, with restricted police access. It protected authorized patients, providers and caregivers from specified state penalties while retaining impaired-driving, workplace and public-smoking restrictions. Fees and fines funded a continuously appropriated, nonlapsing operating fund. The text specified July 1, 2013, or earlier certification of sufficient funds, as the patient-protection start date and July 1, 2015 as the expiry date. This vote concerned the House replacement, before later Finance and conference amendments.

April 25, 2012Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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On February1,2012, Flanagan supported HB1652, adopted260–81. Its introduced text directed an April1 transfer of insurance-premium-tax revenue equal to the audited fiscal2011surplus to the revenue stabilization reserve. On March29, he supported amendment1438h, adopted144–126, and the amended bill,267–12. That version directed the first$1.5million to developmental-disability services and the remainder to the reserve, retaining the April1transfer and effective date.

March 29, 2012Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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On February8,2012, Flanagan supported HB1692 as amended0475h, adopted247–105. It abolished the university-system chancellor’s office, transferred specified responsibilities to trustees or their chairperson, reduced board membership from27to21, and provided for a business manager and up to11system administrators. It changed competitive-bidding waivers to trustee votes, removed the chancellor-scholarship reference and specified July1,2013 effectiveness. On March29, he opposed failed amendment1365h,98–190, substituting a$2.4million administrative-expense reduction, tuition reallocation and reporting. He then supported the retained chancellor-elimination version,199–95.

March 29, 2012Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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On March 29, 2012, Flanagan voted for HB 1727, directing the insurance commissioner to return $333,000 of federal health-insurance-exchange planning grants. The fiscal note described compliance by declining further drawdowns because the state did not hold the money. The House adopted it 218–79.

March 29, 2012Supports Government Spending Reduction

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On March 21, 2012, voted to kill HB1313, adopted 259–90. The proposal allowed districts to adopt higher-education scholarships equal to half their high-school per-pupil expenditure for students who graduated early and scored proficient or better in every statewide-assessment subject, with local adoption, modification and rescission procedures.

March 21, 2012Supports Government Spending Reduction

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On March 8, 2012, Flanagan voted to reject HB 1713. It abolished the education department’s divisions and transferred remaining functions and funding to the commissioner’s office and state board. It repealed teacher certification, private career-school licensing, school-accountability provisions and school building aid. The House rejected it 276–44.

March 8, 2012Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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On March 8, 2012, voted to kill HB1676, adopted 230–82. Its introduced text established public campaign financing for candidates in five randomly selected state Senate districts, a continually appropriated nonlapsing fund capped at $6 million, qualifying contributions, campaign limits and disclosure, audits and penalties, and a funding commission. It ended the program in January 2018.

March 8, 2012Supports Government Spending Reduction

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On March 7, 2012, Flanagan opposed HCR 41, adopted 179–134. Its five recitals and three resolved clauses urged a finding that the federal health grant to Planned Parenthood of Northern New England was an unauthorized expenditure violating specified federal law, and that it be set aside as void. It directed signed copies to federal and state officials. This was nonbinding advocacy, not an actual grant cancellation or an independently established legal violation.

March 7, 2012Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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On March 7, 2012, Flanagan supported rejection of HB 1656, adopted 238–105. The two-section proposal raised state-paid juror compensation from 10to80dollars per half day, reimbursed actual travel and IRS-rate mileage, and counted travel time toward attendance. It specified July 1, 2012; projected costs in its fiscal note were estimates.

March 7, 2012Supports Government Spending Reduction

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On February 22, 2012, Flanagan supported rejection of HB 1342, adopted 248–57. The four-section proposal prohibited state departments from paying registered lobbyists or dues financing them with state funds, and imposed equivalent restrictions on city and town tax revenues. It retained town authority to employ legislative counsel and specified60 days after passage.

February 22, 2012Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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On February 22, 2012, Flanagan supported rejection of HB 1503, adopted 230–117. Its six-section proposal barred the motor-vehicle director from providing motorcycle rider courses while retaining standards and oversight, required exam waivers for approved-course graduates, extended learner permits to 45 days and imposed100-dollar instructor, classroom and range fees. It repealed dedicated-fund and related fee, insurance-discount and test-exemption provisions, effectiveJuly1, 2012.

February 22, 2012Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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On February 1, 2012, Flanagan supported HB 138, adopted 254–93 and ordered to third reading. Its four-section proposal replaced the temporary cold-case homicide unit with an ongoing unit devoted to unsolved murders, jointly supported by Justice and Safety. It established a separate nonlapsing fund, continually appropriated its receipts, authorized grants and other funding, and made personnel funding contingent on grants, federal funds or specifically appropriated legislative money. It required annual activity reports, repealed the prior session-law sunset and specified a60-day effective date.

February 1, 2012Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Cosponsored HB337 on January 6, 2011. The introduced version reworked education-aid calculations using salary quartiles, specified multipliers and class ratios of twenty-five for K–2 and thirty for grades 3–12. It treated kindergarten as half-day. Meal aid used $685, $1,369, $2,054 or $2,738 according to concentration; English-language aid was $675 and special-education aid $1,856. Fiscal-capacity aid used $3,360 or $2,100 for qualifying low-value, low-income districts. It capped grants at fiscal-year-2011 levels and added 95% of decreases. Tuition-only districts used the lesser formula or actual current costs minus education taxes. Districts remitted 5% of excess statewide education property taxes. Remaining excess funded capital or catastrophic special education before state aid. It created a six-legislator accountability study and specified July 1, 2011 effectiveness.

January 6, 2011Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Moved $185,000 for a two-year Brookline teacher contract in 2002, including higher salaries, benefits and course reimbursements. He cited attracting and keeping teachers. The district approved it. In 1996, moved $36,398 for professional-staff pay and benefits; it passed, 58–33. In 1994, seconded $73,345 for professional staff and moved $13,206 for support staff under cooperative-school contracts. Both passed.

March 11, 2002Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Raised safety concerns about longer dead-end roads and fewer exits in multifamily buildings at the Hollis Select Board meeting. He called for local communities to retain a say in housing rules.

September 28, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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On March 12, 2026, Flanagan supported HB2026 replacement 0863h, adopted 345–3, and amended passage, adopted 338–13. The House version adopted the 2027–2036 transportation plan. It covered highway and bridge maintenance, regional projects, transit, rail, airports and active transportation. It added Albany intersection improvements at NH16, Wildwood Road and NH113, with $6,824,313 and construction in 2033. It removed Manchester I-293 Exit 6 and Exit 7 widening projects because funds were unavailable. He opposed amendment 0866h retaining Merrimack's Continental Boulevard as Class II instead of its scheduled Class V reclassification. That amendment failed 46–305. On August 19, he supported overriding the veto of the changed final bill; the override passed 292–25. The final restored the Manchester projects at $146,888,734 and $74,902,494. It added Bow-Concord I-93 widening at $285,849,979. It added eleven regional safety, complete-streets, bicycle, pedestrian and intersection projects totaling $68,547,475. It established January 1, 2027 toll schedules for twelve vehicle classes at seven plazas. Cash and unfunded-account rates differed from minimum funded New Hampshire E-ZPass rates. Class 1 examples were $2.00/$0.70 at Hooksett Main and Bedford Main, and $4.00/$1.40 at Hampton Main. It repealed the existing E-ZPass discount. It required free transponders for funded accounts on request for 210 days beginning December 1, 2026. It required governor-and-council action on proposed tolls within ninety days and reserved toll receipts for turnpike costs and debt obligations. It transferred specified New Boston conservation-land easements for the Gregg Mill Road Bridge. Compensation used approved appraisals or agreed replacement land; proceeds stayed in the conservation endowment. The text specified an effective date upon passage for the remainder.

August 19, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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On May 14, 2026, Flanagan voted for amendment 1970h to SB 409, expanding sexual-assault survivor rights, notices, and evidence-information procedures while retaining amended police-pursuit penalties. The amendment failed, 172–184.

May 14, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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On April 23, 2026, Flanagan voted for SB 460 amendment 1286h, prohibiting specified tier III offenders from knowingly entering designated child-safety zones or approaching within 500 feet, with legitimate-purpose defenses and a class B felony penalty. It passed, 225–128. On April 23, 2026, Flanagan then voted against tabling SB 460; tabling failed, 146–207.

April 23, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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On March 26, 2026, Flanagan voted for HB1633. Its four sections expanded sexual-assault survivors' definitions to include asserted nonpenetrative or drug-facilitated assault, qualifying attempted-rape contact without requiring correct legal terminology, and deceased victims. It protected access without charge to medical examinations and individual evidence-kit elements, required prominent Attorney General information about survivor rights, collection windows, clothing evidence and out-of-state assaults, and required providers, officers and listed entities to supply equivalent written information. DOJ prepared the notice and summarized protocols; effectiveness was 60 days after passage. The bill provided no funding or new positions despite estimated implementation costs. The House adopted passage 340–1.

March 26, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted for HB1635 requiring school staff suicide-prevention training within 30 days of hiring and every two years, replacing the annual requirement and removing the two-hour minimum. The House approved it, 183–167.

March 5, 2026Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted for HB1710 establishing court procedures to prevent child abduction, including travel and passport restrictions, supervised visitation and emergency custody warrants. The bill required courts to consider domestic violence and good-faith efforts to avoid imminent harm. The House approved it, 198–161.

February 12, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted for revised school bullying and cyberbullying protections. The amended HB131 required reporting by staff, coaches and bus drivers, parental notification and investigations, conferences with perpetrators, victim-support information and protections against retaliation. It also included disciplinary consequences, educator reporting duties and revised civil remedies. The House approved the bill, 190–149.

January 7, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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On June 12, 2025, Jack Flanagan voted Yea to concur with the Senate version of HB 468; concurrence was adopted 265–83. Its five sections established escalating offenses for drone FAA violations, interference with emergency response, privacy violations, airport or occupied-aircraft disruption and damage, prison contraband or escape assistance, and dangerous armed drones. Qualified news gathering, specified bomb-squad or distraction-device uses, and lawfully acting officers had exceptions. It separated100 mph-or-higher driving into a higher minimum-fine and 90-day first-offense license-revocation provision. The effective date was January 1, 2026.

June 12, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Flanagan voted Yea for HB 649. The motion passed 212–143 and went to Ways and Means. The bill repealed vehicle safety inspections, diagnostic emissions testing, inspection fees, and the air-pollution-abatement fund. It revised truck, motorcycle, odometer, custom-vehicle, and used-vehicle provisions while retaining requested dealer inspections and deceptive-practice remedies.

March 6, 2025Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

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Flanagan voted Yea to reject HB 419. The motion passed 227–129. The bill added active windshield-wiper use to the circumstances requiring vehicle headlights, while retaining existing lighting standards.

March 6, 2025Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

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Flanagan voted Yea to reject HB 245. The motion passed 225–147. The proposal created a continually appropriated speed-enforcement awareness grant fund for municipal police. It redirected 8.33 percent of court penalty assessments from the general fund to equipment and data-reporting grants.

March 6, 2025Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

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On February 13, 2025, Flanagan voted to reject HB 203, 215–162. It required canoe, kayak and rowing-scull occupants to wear personal flotation devices from November 15 through May 15, except during official competition.

February 13, 2025Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

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On February 19, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay on the House passage recommendation for HB1660 with amendment 0050h; it passed 206–144 and was referred to Criminal Justice and Public Safety. The two-section version established civil protective orders for vulnerable adults experiencing abuse, exploitation or neglect. It provided free filing and service, petitions by the adult or specified representatives, private contact information, hearings and temporary emergency orders, and final orders following a preponderance finding of abuse and a credible threat to safety. Relief included contact and residence restrictions, protection of property and pets, asset freezes for exploitation, certain payments and restitution, and court extensions beyond the initial one-year order. Applicants signed a worksheet explaining differences from domestic-violence and stalking orders, including that this order did not provide weapon-surrender protection; 0050h removed the introduced provision confiscating weapons used in a violation. The text also addressed police enforcement, arrest for violations, criminal penalties and repeat violations, victim notices, court-only modifications, foreign orders subject to due-process requirements, good-faith officer immunity and DHHS referrals. Its effective date was January 1, 2021. On September 16, 2020, he voted Nay on the veto override; the 191–142 vote failed the required two-thirds and the veto was sustained.

September 16, 2020Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

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On June 30, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay on concurrence with the Senate version of HB1645; concurrence passed 255–74. Its26-section text extended misdemeanor domestic-violence annulment eligibility to ten years and coordinated repeat convictions; allowed equitable remedies in contract claims against the state; and added a bail commissioner to the pretrial-services commission. It revised bail standards concerning public safety, repeated failures to appear and alleged new offenses. It allowed detention or financial conditions under stated evidence and hearing requirements. It preserved live-testimony opportunities and appointed counsel for indigent class B misdemeanor detainees. It revised bail-commissioner fee assistance, identification and training, and established a remote-services study. It prohibited private or for-profit prisoner-housing contracts except temporary corrections emergencies, preserved ancillary-service contracts and existing housing contracts until expiration, and granted qualifying underage alcohol-overdose callers and patients arrest/prosecution immunity excluding impaired driving. It required written reporting and investigation of officer misconduct, with protection against retaliation. It expanded public-property criminal-mischief coverage, while reducing the specified public-property offense from a class A misdemeanor to a violation with restitution. It created a continually appropriated police psychological-screening fund receiving $100,000 from drug forfeitures. It removed the local funding-approval condition for police standards and prohibited chokeholds except the specified statutory exception. The text specified January 1, 2021 for officer-misconduct and criminal-mischief provisions, 60 days after passage for listed annulment, bail, alcohol-immunity and screening-fund provisions, and passage for the remainder as their effective dates.

June 30, 2020Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

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On June 30, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay on concurrence with the Senate amendment to carried2019 HB705; concurrence passed 254–75. The19-section Senate text increased the maximum victim-compensation recovery from 30000 to 40000dollars, broadened eligibility and crime-victim rights, protected identifying information in fund-restitution proceedings, and expanded employment leave and safety-related unemployment protections. It removed the time limit for civil actions based on sexual assault or incest, including specified claims against governmental units, removed legal-spouse exceptions from sexual-assault offenses, and prohibited public sale of over-the-counter rape-evidence kits with a violation fine of up to 1000dollars. It required colleges to adopt sexual-misconduct policies and provide confidential resource advisors, annual prevention programming, trained staff, anonymous climate surveys and annual incident reports, agreements with crisis centers and law-enforcement coordination. Its disciplinary protections included timely detailed notice, equal access to evidence and witnesses, advisors, equal available appeals, impartial trained decisionmakers and identity privacy. It established a limited confidential-advisor privilege with judicial-review and defendant-fair-trial exceptions, good-faith reporter or witness disciplinary amnesty excluding egregious violations, and institutional civil penalties capped at the lower of 150000dollars or1percent of the operating budget. The text specified effective dates after 60 days for victim and assault provisions, after 180 days for campus requirements and immediately for the remainder.

June 30, 2020Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

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On June 30, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay on concurrence with the Senate version of HB1558; concurrence passed 201–129. Its37-section education and municipal omnibus limited suspension and expulsion grounds, required consideration of age, disability, disciplinary history and lesser interventions, preserved hearing and appeal processes, provided assignments and specified alternative educational services, and required graduated discipline policies and parental notice. It updated additional full-day-kindergarten aid to half the statutory base amount during the initial year before pupils entered ordinary adequate-education counts. It revised economic-revitalization-zone tax-credit certification and calculation while extending the program’s repeal to 2028, and required certification of employer college-graduate retention agreements. It required school workplace-violence plans, training and reporting, prohibited discouraging injury reports, coordinated restraint guidance, required concussion return-to-learning policies and staff child-sexual-abuse prevention training, and required biennial curriculum-compliance reporting. It lowered specified municipal and electric-utility bond or note approval thresholds from two-thirds to three-fifths without issuing a particular bond. It added the university-system chancellor to the business-agency partner council. It established student-best-interest reassignment and manifest-hardship hearings, appeals and tuition procedures. Transfer limits and parent transportation responsibility applied to best-interest transfers. It raised permitted retained school year-end funds from 2.5% to 5%. Public hearings preceded expenditures, with annual accounting. It strengthened multi-tiered behavioral-health support and interagency technical assistance within existing budget constraints. It centralized school-bus-driver and transportation-monitor criminal-history checks at the Education Department and created a background-check coordinator and certification-rule authority. The considered version used staged effective dates spanning June/July 2020,60 days after passage and January/July 2021; the later enrolled amendment corrected discipline, short-title and effective-date cross-references.

June 30, 2020Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

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On June 30, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay on concurrence with the Senate version of HB1240; concurrence passed 257–68. The 12-section text expanded the definition of sexual contact to humiliation and defined covered students from preschool through grade12 and specified adult programs. It extended sexual-assault offenses to school employees, contractors or volunteers and their students through ten months after graduation or departure. It also covered authority figures more than four years older than victims aged thirteen through seventeen. It did not require coercive use of authority or treat consent as a defense. This version retained legal-spouse exceptions. It created an $85 civil-marriage-officiant license, directing $80 to domestic-violence programs and $5 to administration. It adjusted pharmacy renewal deadlines by license-number parity. It permitted temporary out-of-state health-professional licenses for up to 120 days, subject to board jurisdiction and stated exclusions. It required electronic or scanned signatures for licensing administration. It expanded temporary allied-health licensing to athletic trainers and genetic counselors while excluding compact-member boards. The text specified January 1, 2021 for sexual-assault provisions, 60 days after passage for marriage and allied-health provisions, and passage for the other provisions as their effective dates.

June 30, 2020Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

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On March 11, 2020, Flanagan voted Yea on HB1455 with amendment 0970h; the House adopted the recommendation216–120 and ordered third reading. The two-section0970h text established rebuttable presumptions that manufacturer-recommended scans and calibrations and specified independent paint/material estimates were necessary to restore a vehicle, and barred insurers from knowingly refusing payment unless the presumptions were rebutted. It required advance driver-assistance-system calibration notices for glass repair, calibration meeting manufacturer standards without restricting equipment to manufacturer tooling, and notices when calibration was incomplete or unsuccessful. It defined manufacturer technical recommendations and specified an effective date 60 days after passage.

March 11, 2020Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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On February 19, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay for HB1580 with amendment 0582h, 227–124; the House approved it and referred it to Criminal Justice and Public Safety. The complete four-section replacement exempted unmanned aircraft from state registration and imposed violation or misdemeanor sanctions for federally prohibited operation or interference with emergency operations. It criminalized targeted surveillance without a warrant or written consent, subject to emergency-response and law-enforcement-investigation exceptions, and nonconsensual recording for publication. It imposed felony sanctions for weaponizing drones and discharging their weapons and a class A misdemeanor for drone-assisted invasion of residential privacy. Government-land images and incidental private-property images without retained personal information were exempt. DOT sought federal critical-infrastructure designations for detention, police, fire and correctional facilities. The text had a January 1, 2021 effective date.

February 19, 2020Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

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On January 9, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay for carried 2019 HB655 with amendment 2733h, 178–188; amended passage failed. He then voted Yea to kill it, 188–180, and the House killed it. The complete two-section House version authorized municipal bylaws regulating houses where owners, tenants, occupants or invitees unreasonably disturbed neighborhood peace or nearby residents’ enjoyment through loud parties or music, fights, intoxication and similar activity. Statutory domestic abuse was excluded from the definition. The text had a 60-day effective date.

January 9, 2020Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

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Sponsored HB1615 on January 8, 2020. The introduced version required state and FBI fingerprint screening for nonemployee library performers or presenters contacting minors. It provided police-clearance alternatives after two invalid fingerprints and permitted charging applicants. It required confidentiality and record destruction and barred specified convictions or pending charges. It authorized state-police investigation and imposed a $500 penalty for trustee violations.

January 8, 2020Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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On January 8, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay on passage of the House-amended carried 2019 HB377. The House-amended bill made the best interest of the child the primary consideration in child-protection proceedings, conditioned family preservation on that standard and directed the children’s services oversight commission to review child-protection statutes, federal compliance and needed revisions. The House adopted the report 255–115 and ordered the bill to third reading.

January 8, 2020Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

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Flanagan prime-sponsored HB672 on January 3, 2019, and HB1152 on January 8, 2020. Both four-section introduced proposals, called the Chapman Act, added an exception to the prohibition on crossing solid center lines when complying with the duty to approach highway emergencies under RSA265:37-a. They retained the existing safe-passage exception for pedestrians and human-powered devices.

January 8, 2020Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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On February 27 and April 4, 2019, Flanagan opposed HB 696’s court protections for vulnerable adults facing abuse, exploitation or neglect. Both House versions allowed firearm restrictions after a specific finding of need to protect the plaintiff. They passed, 208–132 and 219–156. The final bill removed explicit firearm-surrender and possession provisions. It retained fee-free petitions by vulnerable adults and authorized representatives, emergency orders, notices and hearings, longer protection after proof by a preponderance, property orders, restitution, legal fees and renewal limits. It included law-enforcement assistance, arrest and penalties for order violations, foreign-order enforcement, DHHS reporting, good-faith liability limits and severability. On September 18, he opposed overriding its veto. The override failed, 217–156, lacking two-thirds approval, and the veto was sustained.

September 18, 2019Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

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On September 18, 2019, Flanagan voted Nay on overriding the veto of HB198. The four-section bill corrected the commercial-vehicle cross-reference, repealed the separate prohibited texting provision and required a license suspension of up to 15 days for a second mobile-device driving offense and at least 30 days for subsequent offenses, in addition to the stated fines. The override failed 223–157; the veto was sustained.

September 18, 2019Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted against requiring people operating off-highway recreational vehicles along traveled portions of public highways to hold a driver's license, removing the alternative allowing trained unlicensed riders accompanied by a licensed adult. The House approved HB592, 202–116.

March 14, 2019Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

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Sponsored HB372 on January 3, 2019. The introduced version removed the stationary-vehicle limit from the duty to give a wide berth near vehicles displaying flashing emergency lights.

January 3, 2019Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Flanagan voted for the SB 523 conference report, which added naturopaths to the prescription-monitoring program’s definition of practitioner and established a commission to study abuse-deterrent drug formulations, their effectiveness, costs and effects on insurance coverage. The report passed, 232–106.

June 1, 2016Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted for amended SB515 creating a presumption of harm from a custodial parent's opioid abuse or dependence. Treatment compliance rebutted that presumption, which expired in July 2020. It allowed court-ordered drug testing in child-protection proceedings and removed the exception shielding parents from testing costs. The House approved it, 203–129, then referred it to Finance.

April 20, 2016Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Supported HB602's January drone-surveillance rules, which passed, 246–66. That version included emergency exceptions and a limited tear-gas exception during violent riots. In March, opposed rejection, then supported amended passage. It required warrants or specified exceptions and reports for government use, banned weaponized drones and exempted National Guard duties. It included privacy protections, penalties and limited civil remedies. Rejection failed, 151–211; amended passage succeeded, 251–114.

March 23, 2016Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Flanagan voted to reject HB 1135, which rewrote self-defense law, including authorization of deadly force based on belief that another person was about to commit a felony, and expanded definitions of dwellings and surrounding property. The rejection motion passed, 329–30.

March 23, 2016Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Flanagan voted to reject HB 1446, which limited enforcement of the handheld-device driving law to cases involving another cited or charged offense or an accident. The rejection motion passed, 198–100.

February 4, 2016Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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On June 24, 2015, Flanagan voted for HB681’s conference report, adding a $50 fine for each domestic-violence conviction and raising marriage-license fees from $45 to $50. The added revenues went to domestic-violence grant programs; courts retained payment deferral or installments for defendants unable to pay. House adopted the report 203–144.

June 24, 2015Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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On February 18, 2015, Flanagan voted to kill HB387, which changed annual vehicle inspections to a biennial schedule and doubled the inspection-sticker fee from$3.25 to$6.50, with proportional changes to air-pollution and general-fund shares and refund rules. The House adopted the motion, 207–140.

February 18, 2015Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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On June 4, 2014, Flanagan voted against the HB1167 conference report exempting buildings used exclusively as private residences and apartment houses with fewer than three family units from specified boiler and pressure-vessel inspection requirements. The House adopted the report 182–152.

June 4, 2014Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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On June 4, 2014, Flanagan voted for the HB1410 conference report. The report added animal cruelty to the domestic-violence abuse definition and permitted temporary and final protective orders to grant petitioners exclusive care, custody or control of household animals and prohibit defendants from harming, concealing or transferring them. The House adopted the report 231–90.

June 4, 2014Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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On April 30, 2014, Flanagan voted for SB318, creating a domestic-violence offense covering specified abuse between family or household members and documenting that relationship for related offenses. The text set classA misdemeanor treatment, with classB felony treatment for specified deadly-weapon conduct. The House passed325–3.

April 30, 2014Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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On April 30, 2014, Flanagan voted for SB317 as amended by1467h, expanding human-trafficking protections and remedies. The text specified coercion offenses, a seven-to-thirty-year penalty for trafficking a minor, protections against victim prosecution and conviction-vacatur procedures, a civil remedy, longer prosecution limits and tattoo-removal reimbursement through victims’ assistance. The House passed327–0.

April 30, 2014Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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On January29,2014, Flanagan voted against HB263 as amended by2282h, granting good-faith reporters immunity and protecting medical records subject to court and hearing exceptions; the House adopted178–104. On March20, he opposed the version amended by0914h, which limited immunity to licensed health providers reporting based on appropriate clinical evaluation and treated the reports and medical records as motor vehicle records under RSA260:14. That version passed150–128.

March 20, 2014Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

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On March 12, 2014, Flanagan voted against amendment0265h to HB1601, expanding mandatory vehicle lighting to sunset through sunrise and front-headlamp use whenever fog, rain, or snow was present. The House adopted the amendment, 164–161. He then voted against amended passage; that motion failed, 151–182, and the House subsequently adopted a kill report.

March 12, 2014Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

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Cosponsored SB230 on January 8, 2014. The introduced version added utility-terrain vehicles to off-highway recreational vehicle definitions. It required rollover protection or safety belts and limited net vehicle weight to 1,700 pounds. Width was limited to sixty-five inches, excluding mirrors. This differed from the later sixty-two-inch amendment.

January 8, 2014Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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On March 20, 2013, Flanagan voted Nay on passage of HB242 with 0454h; the House adopted it 224–137. The complete two-section House bill expanded the child-restraint requirement from children under six to children under seven and raised the height exception from 55 to 56 inches, effective January 1, 2014. A separate back-seat amendment failed on an unnamed division, so no personal vote on that amendment is attributed. On June 26, he voted Yea on the conference report, adopted 227–126. That two-section version retained the under-seven requirement and January 1 start date but set the height exception at 57 inches.

June 26, 2013Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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On March 6, 2013, Flanagan opposed HB295 with amendment 0450h. The House approved it, 244–112, and sent it to Ways and Means. It covered nonmunicipal youth skill camps teaching minors for at least eight hours yearly. It required checks of all owners, employees and volunteers for specified injury or child-harm convictions. Operators certified compliance and paid a $25 certification fee. Property owners were exempt after obtaining operators' written certification. The text retained recreation-camp licenses and established a separate, continuously appropriated fund for administration, rules and enforcement. On March 27, he opposed amendment 1021h's version, approved 199–150. It retained those provisions and raised the recreation-camp license fee from $50 to $200. On June 26, he supported the conference report, approved 241–114. The revised checks covered owners, employees and volunteers with potential unsupervised access to children. Operators disclosed check frequency and sources for publication on the department website. The bill permitted sharing checks from the preceding twelve months with signed consent. It retained the property-owner exception and permitted stricter camp policies. It retained the $200 license and $25 certification fees, dedicated fund, health and safety rules and enforcement. It also changed school background-check confidentiality to permit authorized sharing. The conference text specified an effective date thirty days after passage for rulemaking and January 1, 2014, for other provisions.

June 26, 2013Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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On May 29, 2013, Flanagan voted Yea on SB20 with 1508h; the House adopted it252–76. The complete six-section House version added enhanced-technology ignition interlocks, prohibited sale or distribution of unapproved devices, expanded providers’ service and monitoring duties and required thirty-six-month data retention. It required a reserve equal to two percent of service and installation revenue for indigent assistance, with beneficiaries paying at least twenty-five percent of costs, and strengthened anti-circumvention rules, hearings and sanctions. Attempts above .02 alcohol concentration permitted up to one additional year of interlock restriction; circumvention carried a class A misdemeanor, at least $500 fine and a two-year extension with an enhanced device. It permitted out-of-state residents to obtain approved treatment and education at home under New Hampshire case-management oversight. The text specified an effective date upon passage.

May 29, 2013Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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On April 24, 2013, Flanagan voted Nay on SB83; the House passed it 238–105. Its complete four sections added a Hospital Association representative to the prescription-monitoring advisory council, moved the legislative performance audit from 2014 to 2017, and repealed the scheduled sunset and the restriction on accepting program money after September 15, 2015. The text specified an effective date upon passage.

April 24, 2013Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

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On May 9, 2012, voted for SB270, expanding victim and law-enforcement notifications when persons charged with listed violent crimes and found incompetent to stand trial were transferred or discharged. The text separated competency records from public court files, permitted specified releases, and required public written findings and victim copies. House adopted298–46.

May 9, 2012Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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On March 15, 2012, voted to kill HB1695, adopted 178–126. The proposal raised the interstate maximum speed to 70 mph, raised previously 55 mph interstate segments to 60 mph, retained 65 mph on specified divided turnpikes, and raised the interstate minimum from 45 to 50 mph.

March 15, 2012Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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On February 22, 2012, Flanagan supported rejection of HB 1693, adopted 238–110. Its four-section proposal changed motor-vehicle inspections from annual to every second year, doubled inspection-sticker fees from 3.25to6.50dollars and doubled the specified air-pollution and general-fund shares to 50cents each. It revised inspection timing and specified January 1, 2013 effectiveness.

February 22, 2012Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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On February 22, 2012, Flanagan supported rejection of HB 1503, adopted 230–117. Its six-section proposal barred the motor-vehicle director from providing motorcycle rider courses while retaining standards and oversight, required exam waivers for approved-course graduates, extended learner permits to 45 days and imposed100-dollar instructor, classroom and range fees. It repealed dedicated-fund and related fee, insurance-discount and test-exemption provisions, effectiveJuly1, 2012.

February 22, 2012Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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On February 1, 2012, Flanagan supported HB 138, adopted 254–93 and ordered to third reading. Its four-section proposal replaced the temporary cold-case homicide unit with an ongoing unit devoted to unsolved murders, jointly supported by Justice and Safety. It established a separate nonlapsing fund, continually appropriated its receipts, authorized grants and other funding, and made personnel funding contingent on grants, federal funds or specifically appropriated legislative money. It required annual activity reports, repealed the prior session-law sunset and specified a60-day effective date.

February 1, 2012Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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On January 11, 2012, Flanagan supported HB 388 as amended2773h, adopted 214–140. Its five sections added VoIP providers to 911 service coordination and funding, fixed the monthly surcharge at 47cents across listed telephone services, and covered providers without monthly customer billing. It changed remittances to quarterly, retained the restricted nonlapsing emergency-services fund and approval process for extra-budget transfers, and repealed a requirement that the surcharge provide adequate system funding. The proposal specified aJanuary1, 2013 effective date.

January 11, 2012Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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On January 5, 2012, Flanagan supported HB 486 as amended by 2577h, adopted 259–48 and ordered third reading. The version imposed a minimum500-dollar fine, a camera-equipped ignition interlock capable of real-time reporting, and two additional years of required interlock installation for circumvention violations, alongside a classA misdemeanor. The text specified January 1, 2013 as its effective date. The operative definition did not require GPS tracking, despite the minority reporter’s concern.

January 5, 2012Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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On June 22, 2011, Flanagan opposed SB 91’s conference report, adopted 284–92. Its two-section version prohibited municipalities and local land-use boards from imposing sprinkler installation requirements on new or existing detached one- or two-family buildings used only as residences. It also barred enforcement of existing sprinkler requirements for manufactured homes in manufactured-housing parks. The bill specified July 1, 2011 as its effective date.

June 22, 2011Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted to override the veto of HB1422 allowing petitions for new trials beyond three years in specified criminal cases involving newly discovered evidence and claimed innocence. It added screening, counsel and victim-services provisions. The House overrode the veto, 314–7.

August 19, 2026Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted to override the veto of HB1184 establishing notice, hearing and court-appeal procedures for no-trespass orders on municipal and school property. The House overrode the veto, 290–29.

August 19, 2026Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted to override the veto of HB1766 changing livestock-cruelty investigations and confiscations. It added veterinary involvement, owner and co-owner protections, custody rules and conditions for euthanasia. The House overrode the veto, 249–56.

August 19, 2026Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On May 14, 2026, Flanagan voted for amendment 1970h to SB 409, expanding sexual-assault survivor rights, notices, and evidence-information procedures while retaining amended police-pursuit penalties. The amendment failed, 172–184.

May 14, 2026Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted to revive HB1108, opposed its rejection, and supported amended passage protecting displays of firearms or other lawful self-defense means intended to deter reasonably perceived threats of injury, death, theft, unlawful intrusion or refusal to leave after trespass notice. The House approved it, 193–144.

March 11, 2026Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On March 11, 2026, Flanagan voted Nay to table HB1709, 153–181; the motion failed. He voted Yea for passage as amended by 0943h, 181–154, and the House passed it. The complete two-section replacement made occupancy or tenancy a class A misdemeanor only for an unlawfully present person previously convicted of a U.S. felony who was deported or left after that conviction and whose status was confirmed by Homeland Security under 8USC1252c. It directed sheriffs, when possible and safe during service of a writ of possession, to arrest people violating that provision or otherwise subject to arrest under that federal section. It included severability and a 60-day effective date. It replaced the introduced broader unlawful-presence rental proposal.

March 11, 2026Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted for amended HB1132 restricting flags and banners displayed at public and charter schools to specified government, military, school and instructional displays. The bill created escalating discipline and fines up to $1,000 for repeated violations. The House approved it, 182–156.

March 11, 2026Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted for HB1048 lifting the prohibition on adults carrying blackjacks, slungshots and metal knuckles while retaining penalties for minors possessing them and for transfers to minors. The House approved it, 192–154.

March 5, 2026Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted for HR19 encouraging colleges and universities to invite more conservative speakers alongside speakers across the ideological spectrum, condemning political violence and intimidation, and encouraging respectful debate. The House adopted it, 191–155.

March 5, 2026Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted for due-process protections for students, student organizations and faculty facing disciplinary action at state colleges and universities. HB510 required advance notice, access to evidence, an impartial hearing, representation and appeal rights. The amended version protected an accuser from direct questioning by the accused on request and preserved existing faculty bargaining agreements until expiration. The House approved it, 197–149.

January 7, 2026Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Sponsored HB1608 on January 7, 2026. The introduced version required grand-jury minutes and defendant access to relevant minutes. It expanded licensing and regulatory defense indemnification to county attorneys, assistants and municipal prosecutors acting within official duties without wanton or reckless conduct.

January 7, 2026Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted for school-material restrictions and a parental complaint process under SB33. The amended House bill defined material harmful to minors, required public district policies and written decisions, and allowed appeals to school boards. It also limited the educational exception to obscenity law to higher education. The House approved it, 181–157.

January 7, 2026Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Sponsored HB1116 on January 7, 2026. The introduced version allowed compelled judicial testimony about firsthand material facts in criminal cases upon a court finding. It required mailed small-claims notices within ten days after filing.

January 7, 2026Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On May 1, 2025, Flanagan spoke against SB 23 and voted against passage, 154–188, then for rejecting it, 190–152. The House rejected the bill. Its two-section version removed the purposeful-violation requirement from an existing duty-of-care offense and added class B felony liability for conduct placing a child in danger of serious injury or death, and class A liability when that injury or death resulted. Existing religious and safe-haven exceptions remained. On May 8, 2025, Flanagan voted against reconsidering the House’s rejection of SB 23; reconsideration failed, 158–206. This retained the May 1 rejection of the bill’s expanded child-endangerment offenses and felony penalties.

May 8, 2025Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On May 8, 2025, Flanagan voted Nay on SB62 amendment 1941h, rejected 161–199, which retained permission for state and local agencies to enter federal 287(g) immigration agreements and required participating officers to identify their name, badge, agency and ICE authority. He voted Yea on 1957h, adopted 202–160, and on the resulting four-section House version, adopted 200–162. It prohibited state and local government from impeding 287(g) agreements, barred local interference with federal immigration-law compliance unless state or federal law expressly prohibited that compliance, and authorized attorney-general litigation, injunctions and punitive fines up to 25% of an entity's annual state funding. It allowed counties to hold ICE detainees for up to 48 hours excluding weekends and holidays after resolution of state charges and required detainer-refusal reports. The House text specified January 1, 2026, as the effective date for the added enforcement and custody provisions, and 60 days after passage for the initial agreement provision. The rejected identification safeguard did not become part of his approved version.

May 8, 2025Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On March 26, 2025, Flanagan voted to reject HB 638, 214–127. The bill permitted parole consideration for people aged at least 60 serving life without parole for one first-degree murder, after more than 18 years and ten years without a Class A or B disciplinary violation. It excluded capital murder and retained the ordinary parole decision process.

March 26, 2025Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On March 26, 2025, Flanagan voted to kill HB 226; the motion failed 140–196. The eight-section introduced proposal permitted drug-checking equipment and nominal samples for testing, expanded paraphernalia exclusions, authorized specified funding uses, and protected participants from punishment, searches and evidentiary use. It prohibited using test results for clinical decisions or criminal investigations. Later amendment 0624h and passage were unnamed votes and are not attributed to him.

March 26, 2025Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On March 26, 2025, Flanagan voted Yea on HB198 Ought to Pass, adopted 208–125. Its six-section introduced text legalized possession, consumption, processing, transport and uncompensated adult-to-adult transfer for people 21 or older within limits of two ounces of cannabis flower or trim, ten grams of concentrate and 2,000 milligrams of THC in other products. It prohibited public smoking or vaping, with first and second fines up to $100 and $500 and a misdemeanor for subsequent offenses within five years, plus forfeiture. It retained underage possession penalties and juvenile procedures, substance-assessment fine waivers, impaired-driving restrictions, employer and property-owner restrictions, privacy protections and aggregate enforcement reporting. Amounts above the adult limits remained misdemeanors, and the text adjusted controlled-premises and vehicle-possession provisions. It contained no retail-sales or cultivation authorization.

March 26, 2025Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On March 26, 2025, Flanagan voted to reject HB 380. The introduced bill removed an additional penalty for unauthorized therapeutic-cannabis sales, while retaining ordinary drug penalties and registry-card revocation. The motion failed, 143–200.

March 26, 2025Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On March 26, 2025, Flanagan voted to pass HB 50 as amended, 183–157. The adopted version retained the prohibition on teaching discrimination. It limited educator discipline and civil actions to intentional or knowing violations, defined covered educators, and addressed racial targeting and equal protection. It permitted discussion of historical ideas and objective discussion of scientifically supported differences among protected groups.

March 26, 2025Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On February 20, 2025, Flanagan voted for HB 207, 207–162. It allowed adults to carry or sell blackjacks, slung shots and metallic knuckles, while prohibiting carrying by minors and transfers to minors, with forfeiture and violation penalties.

February 20, 2025Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On February 20, 2025, Flanagan voted for HB 53 amended by 0272h, 328–42. It allowed medical-cannabis patients or caregivers to cultivate at reported, locked residences, within plant, usable-cannabis and canopy limits. It expanded laboratory and legal protections, added cultivation locations to the confidential registry, permitted specified affidavit-based police checks and adjusted treatment-center plant limits. It required location reporting by December 1, 2025.

February 20, 2025Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On February 20, 2025, Flanagan voted to adopt Inexpedient to Legislate on HB75; the motion failed 167–190. The House subsequently adopted Ought to Pass without a named roll call. The bill removed cannabis from the controlled-drug schedule and related criminal, drug-liability and wiretapping provisions, annulled existing cannabis convictions and prison sentences and dismissed pending cannabis charges, and prohibited state and local enforcement of federal cannabis bans. It retained medical-card revocation for unauthorized patient sales, sent under-18 possession to juvenile proceedings and substance-misuse assessment, made under-21 possession or use and public use violations, and repealed the ban on electronic-benefit-card use at marijuana dispensaries, effective January 1, 2026.

February 20, 2025Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Sponsored HB146 on January 8, 2025. The introduced version required preservation through appeals of body-camera motor-stop footage when a defendant pleaded not guilty to covered traffic violations. It required defendant access within five days and dismissal with prejudice for noncompliance. Other legal retention duties and anonymized training exceptions remained.

January 8, 2025Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On June 30, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay on concurring with the Senate amendment to HB1162; concurrence passed 209–119. The57-section Senate text expanded adoption and parentage recognition for unmarried adults sharing parenting and families using assisted reproduction. It recodified the independent child advocate, expanded oversight to executive child-serving agencies, and set records access, confidentiality, subpoena, incident-reporting and oversight-commission rules. It removed parental reimbursement obligations for specified court-ordered juvenile and child-protection services while retaining insurance assignments and service-cost exceptions. It phased in continuing counsel for children placed outside their homes, required least-restrictive juvenile dispositions and behavioral-health care planning, and made the child’s best interests the primary child-protection consideration. It removed early-intervention insurance cost sharing, with a high-deductible-plan exception and existing benefit caps. It required service referrals for substance-exposed children under three and established a kinship navigator program. It expanded authorized central-registry employment screening and retained founded reports indefinitely, subject to removal petitions. It extended the missing-child definition to under eighteen. It included stepparents, defined psychological maltreatment and established a temporary rebuttable presumption of harm for specified substance misuse, impaired driving and violence or maltreatment, with an exception protecting domestic-violence victims. The text specified immediate, July 2020, 60-day and January/July 2021 effective dates for different provisions, and July 2024 for repeal of the presumption.

June 30, 2020Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On June 30, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay on concurrence with the Senate version of HB1639; concurrence passed 201–121. The health-care package revised Medicaid income eligibility, emergency authorization rules, insurance coverage for oral cancer medicines and qualifying long-term tick-borne treatment, pharmacy audit rights and dental fee contracts. It required a public state health assessment and improvement plan, individualized chronic-pain prescribing rules and mental-health reimbursement parity, and provided at least one substance-use medication option without prior authorization. It added physician assistants to advance-directive and resuscitation laws with patient-choice safeguards, temporarily allowed tightly limited surrogate consent to experimental COVID-19 treatment, revised physician-assistant licensing, and established confidential overdose-death review. It created a nonlapsing, continually appropriated opioid-settlement trust for treatment, recovery, prevention and related services, with 15percent directed to qualifying local plaintiffs. It also authorized pharmacist COVID-19 vaccination, required medically appropriate jail addiction treatment, strengthened patient nondiscrimination and visitation rights, restricted examinations of unconscious patients subject to care and emergency exceptions, and established notice, independent impact review and appeal procedures for proposed facilities near critical-access hospitals.

June 30, 2020Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On June 30, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay on concurrence with the Senate version of HB1558; concurrence passed 201–129. Its37-section education and municipal omnibus limited suspension and expulsion grounds, required consideration of age, disability, disciplinary history and lesser interventions, preserved hearing and appeal processes, provided assignments and specified alternative educational services, and required graduated discipline policies and parental notice. It updated additional full-day-kindergarten aid to half the statutory base amount during the initial year before pupils entered ordinary adequate-education counts. It revised economic-revitalization-zone tax-credit certification and calculation while extending the program’s repeal to 2028, and required certification of employer college-graduate retention agreements. It required school workplace-violence plans, training and reporting, prohibited discouraging injury reports, coordinated restraint guidance, required concussion return-to-learning policies and staff child-sexual-abuse prevention training, and required biennial curriculum-compliance reporting. It lowered specified municipal and electric-utility bond or note approval thresholds from two-thirds to three-fifths without issuing a particular bond. It added the university-system chancellor to the business-agency partner council. It established student-best-interest reassignment and manifest-hardship hearings, appeals and tuition procedures. Transfer limits and parent transportation responsibility applied to best-interest transfers. It raised permitted retained school year-end funds from 2.5% to 5%. Public hearings preceded expenditures, with annual accounting. It strengthened multi-tiered behavioral-health support and interagency technical assistance within existing budget constraints. It centralized school-bus-driver and transportation-monitor criminal-history checks at the Education Department and created a background-check coordinator and certification-rule authority. The considered version used staged effective dates spanning June/July 2020,60 days after passage and January/July 2021; the later enrolled amendment corrected discipline, short-title and effective-date cross-references.

June 30, 2020Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On March 12, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay on the Ought to Pass recommendation for HB1715; the House adopted it 182–131 and ordered third reading. The four-section introduced text required timely written notice of nonrenomination for certified teachers with at least one year in the district, with an April 15 or budget-dependent deadline bounded by May. Teachers with an experienced educator certificate and at least two consecutive district years obtained requested reasons and a board hearing, with ten-day request and fifteen-day hearing and decision deadlines. It placed the nonrenewal proof burden on the superintendent, preserved board discretion over grounds, barred seniority alone as a reduction-in-force basis and defined covered teachers to include principals, librarians and guidance counselors. It established three-year experienced educator credentials after at least three years' full-time experience, two effective evaluations and a successful renewal cycle, required teacher-involved evaluation systems and set July 1, 2021 as the effective date.

March 12, 2020Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On February 20, 2020, Flanagan voted for HB1648 as amended by 0252h; Ought to Pass with Amendment was adopted 236–112. It permitted adults 21 and older to possess three-quarters of an ounce of cannabis, five grams of hashish, infused products containing up to 300 milligrams of THC, and six plants including at most three mature plants. It allowed larger harvested amounts to remain at the cultivation site, required secure cultivation out of public view at the primary residence, permitted limited gifts and cannabis accessories, and retained prohibitions on compensated sales, impaired driving and underage use. It imposed fines for cultivation violations and public consumption, retained underage penalties, and prohibited dangerous solvent extraction with class A misdemeanor penalties, effective January 1, 2021.

February 20, 2020Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Flanagan prime-sponsored HB1157 on January 8, 2020. Its two-section introduced text imposed damages liability on news organizations for failing immediately to update, retract or correct online criminal-case stories. The obligation followed written notice from the injured person of acquittal, dismissal or a not-guilty finding. At the January 15 Judiciary hearing, he explained his concern about the effects of Internet stories and his desire for the complete story. NHPR also reported his alternative of clearer, universal New Hampshire Press Association guidelines and his acknowledgment that the proposed rule excluded out-of-state outlets.

January 15, 2020Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Flanagan voted Nay on HB 226's enrolled amendment 2645EBA on September 19, 2019, adopted 211–145. The amendment inserted the statute heading and removed a separate provision granting hearing rights based on three years of teaching anywhere in the state and two in the current district. On January 8, 2020, he voted Nay on overriding the veto of the final 2019 bill; 213–149 fell short of two-thirds and the veto was sustained. The final three-section version required written nonrenewal notice for certified teachers with at least one year in the district, school-board evaluation policies, and hearing rights for teachers who had obtained an experienced-educator certificate and served two consecutive years in the current district. It provided deadlines for hearing requests and decisions, put the nonrenewal proof burden on the superintendent, prohibited reductions in force based solely on seniority and otherwise retained the school board's discretion. It required experienced-educator credentials based on three full-time years, two effective evaluations and a completed renewal cycle, and covered principals, assistant principals, librarians and counselors as well as teachers. The final effective date was July 1, 2020.

January 8, 2020Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Sponsored HB1153 on January 8, 2020. The introduced version allowed limited driving privileges after first-offense impaired-driving or test-refusal suspensions, subject to financial-responsibility and need requirements. It made ignition-interlock conditions discretionary during the limited period and for one year after full restoration.

January 8, 2020Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On January 8, 2020, Flanagan voted Nay on passage of the carried 2019 HB677 as amended by 2798h. The version replaced broad school-discipline grounds with specified health, safety, repeated-rule, violence, bullying and weapons standards. It provided hearings, appeals and expulsion review. Officials considered age, disability, prior discipline and lesser interventions. It required educational assignments and alternative services after twenty cumulative suspended days, with stated exceptions. More than ten suspended days triggered a functional-behavior assessment and intervention plan. It applied policies to public and chartered public schools, provided statewide effect and specified reinstatement and enrollment exceptions, and required published graduated discipline policies. It established behavioral-health support grants using the Title I allocation formula, restricted distributions to public schools, added federal IDEA set-aside support and specified training, personnel, provider contracts, supplies and reporting uses. Its appropriation remained 5 million dollars for the 2021 biennium; the later 0359h one-dollar appropriation and revised budget requests were not part of this January vote. The House adopted the report 210–149 and referred the bill to Finance.

January 8, 2020Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On January 8, 2020, Flanagan voted Yea on passage of the carried 2019 HB201. The bill changed the specified offense of paying, agreeing or offering to pay for sexual contact or penetration with a person under 18, or to observe a sexually explicit performance involving such a person, from a class B to a class A felony. Payment to the young person or a third party remained covered; lack of knowledge of age and consent remained unavailable defenses. The House adopted the report 316–55 and ordered the bill to third reading.

January 8, 2020Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On September 18, 2019, Flanagan voted Nay on overriding the veto of HB364. The nineteen-section bill permitted registered therapeutic-cannabis patients or caregivers cultivating for one patient to grow at a reported locked, enclosed residence, subject to limits of 3 mature plants, 3 immature plants, 12 seedlings and 8 ounces, with canopy and visibility limits and shared-location restrictions. It extended possession, cultivation, transport and laboratory-testing protections, required location reporting, limited caregiver expense compensation to $500 annually excluding labor, and preserved rental-property restrictions and department revocation powers. It added a defense for qualifying applicants awaiting registry cards and adjusted treatment-center seedling and cultivation rules. The House approved the override 259–120 despite his Nay vote.

September 18, 2019Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On January 31, 2019, Flanagan voted against HB 349, allowing state and county prisoners to arrange an outside licensed medical consultation at their own or another designated person’s expense. The House approved it, 226–145. The final three-section version permitted county facilities to charge an administrative fee of up to $35, ordinarily required on-site visits and advance payment arrangements, and left final treatment decisions to the county provider or state chief medical officer when opinions conflicted. On September 18, he opposed overriding its veto. The override failed, 229–155, lacking two-thirds approval, and the veto was sustained.

September 18, 2019Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted against HB455 on March 7, 2019, replacing the death penalty for capital-murder convictions from the effective date with life imprisonment without parole; the House passed it, 279–88. On May 23, voted against overriding the governor’s veto. The House overrode the veto, 247–123, meeting the required two-thirds vote.

May 23, 2019Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On February 27 and April 4, 2019, voted against HB481, a package legalizing adult cannabis possession and cultivation, licensing commercial sales, providing possession-related annulments, and imposing cannabis taxes and regulatory appropriations. The April House replacement imposed 5% wholesale and 9% retail taxes and funded administration, enforcement, prevention and treatment. The House adopted the February passage motion 209–147 and the April amended passage motion 200–163.

April 4, 2019Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Spoke and voted against increasing specified off-road vehicle and snowmobile fines to $124 for speeding up to 24 mph over the limit and $248 for faster speeding and other listed violations. HB630 also directed county-sheriff prosecutions' fine proceeds to the county, after court deductions. The House approved it, 292–81.

April 4, 2019Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted against making possession or transfer of animal-fighting equipment, with intent to promote or facilitate fighting, a class B felony and strengthening restrictions on convicted offenders' animal ownership. The House approved HB605, 215–124.

March 19, 2019Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted against the House's deadly-weapons ban and joined a formal protest after it passed. Moved and defended an unsuccessful amendment replacing discipline or arrest with voluntary weapon surrender. Also supported an unsuccessful amendment allowing transfer to secure storage inside the restricted areas.

January 2, 2019Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted for SB391's conference report reducing a waiting period for annulment from three years to two. It covered qualifying Class A controlled-drug misdemeanors after sentence completion, subject to existing eligibility conditions. It removed a separate House provision for offenses committed between May 2014 and July 2015. The report passed, 333–11.

June 1, 2016Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted for amended SB498 making a first adult offense for up to one-quarter ounce of marijuana a $300 violation. It also covered up to one gram of hashish. It retained criminal penalties for repeat offenses and juvenile consequences. It split fines between prevention and treatment programs and court operations. The House passed it, 289–58.

May 11, 2016Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted for amended SB515 creating a presumption of harm from a custodial parent's opioid abuse or dependence. Treatment compliance rebutted that presumption, which expired in July 2020. It allowed court-ordered drug testing in child-protection proceedings and removed the exception shielding parents from testing costs. The House approved it, 203–129, then referred it to Finance.

April 20, 2016Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Supported HB602's January drone-surveillance rules, which passed, 246–66. That version included emergency exceptions and a limited tear-gas exception during violent riots. In March, opposed rejection, then supported amended passage. It required warrants or specified exceptions and reports for government use, banned weaponized drones and exempted National Guard duties. It included privacy protections, penalties and limited civil remedies. Rejection failed, 151–211; amended passage succeeded, 251–114.

March 23, 2016Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Flanagan voted to table HB 1153 and then voted against passage. The bill prohibited local residency restrictions on sexual offenders and offenders against children and made existing local restrictions unenforceable. Tabling failed, 122–237; passage succeeded, 264–92.

March 23, 2016Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Flanagan voted for the HB 1132 amendment narrowing the vehicle restriction on loaded rifles and shotguns to firearms with a round in the chamber and the safety off. The amendment passed, 196–120.

March 10, 2016Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On March 9, 2016, voted for CACR22 as amended by0817h, declaring an individual's right to live free from governmental interference in private or personal matters fundamental. The proposal failed,220–116, because it lacked the required three-fifths vote.

March 9, 2016Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On March 9, 2016, voted to kill HB1623, prohibiting abortion sought solely because of a fetal genetic abnormality, with criminal penalties and civil remedies against providers and exemptions for the pregnant woman. The House adopted the killing motion, 224–88.

March 9, 2016Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On March 9, 2016, voted to kill HB1328, restricting abortion at 20 weeks after fertilization, with limited life, rape and incest exceptions, consent and reporting requirements, and criminal and civil enforcement. The House adopted the killing motion, 182–144.

March 9, 2016Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Flanagan voted to reject HB 1249, which added false-swearing penalties for knowingly providing false evidence in child-abuse or neglect hearings and for investigators or department employees withholding exculpatory information. The rejection motion passed, 204–128.

March 9, 2016Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Flanagan cosponsored HB1660 on January 6, 2016. The introduced bill required public-owner consent for gas-pipeline takings and a municipal legislative-body meeting within thirty days of notice. It gave unanimous residential owners an option for acquisition of their entire tract. For-profit energy takers paid land-use-change taxes, and retained land kept current-use treatment even below minimum size. On March 9, Flanagan spoke for the bill with amendment 0677h and voted for amended passage, adopted 235–47. That version expressly covered temporary or permanent residential takings for high-pressure gas pipelines and related facilities. It retained public consent and land-tax protections.

March 9, 2016Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Flanagan voted to reject HB 1125, which required police to return recovered stolen computers, phones and similar devices to their owners within 48 hours, with extensions dependent on owner consent. The rejection motion passed, 180–152.

March 9, 2016Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted for amended HB1270 requiring a requested criminal-jury instruction on acquittal to avoid an unjust result. The instruction applied even after proof of every element of an offense. The House passed it, 184–145.

March 9, 2016Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On March 9, 2016, Flanagan voted to reject HB1496, 215–108. The bill protected privacy in personal and abandoned materials, required warrants or court orders for searches, and created criminal penalties and civil remedies, with crime-scene and federal-law exceptions.

March 9, 2016Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On January 20, 2016, opposed dividing SB576 and voted for its passage 276–69. The Senate-amended text added fentanyl-class drugs to penalty thresholds, strengthened prescription monitoring and prescriber training, expanded medical review membership, and set substance-use treatment coverage standards, including two outpatient visits without prior authorization. It also required a hotline assessment and conditioned technology-dependent provisions on funding.

January 20, 2016Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Flanagan voted for HB 500 to repeal New Hampshire’s prohibition and associated penalty for using firearm suppressors while taking wildlife. The House passed the bill, 184–124.

January 7, 2016Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On January 6, 2016, voted for HB512 as amended, extending emergency confiscation protections to firearm accessories, creating damages and civil penalties and return remedies, and protecting officers who refused unlawful confiscation orders. The House adopted the amended bill 231–121.

January 6, 2016Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Cosponsored HB1555 on January 6, 2016. The introduced version allowed unanimous landowners to elect valuation at the government's acquisition-vote date instead of the taking date, within thirty days after court return. After a refused thirty-day offer, it required another offer after 180 days instead of a condemnation notice.

January 6, 2016Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Sponsored HB1552 on January 6, 2016. The introduced version expanded death-penalty eligibility to killings involving weapons of mass destruction that killed more than one person. It also covered killings of people exercising specified constitutional, election, jury or public-service rights. The text defined covered weapons and protected activities.

January 6, 2016Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Sponsored HB1668 on January 6, 2016. The introduced version created a public heroin-offender registry after two qualifying distribution or manufacturing offenses, including represented heroin analogs. It required annual address, employment and school reports and photographs. Registration lasted five years, with nonconcurrent later terms and ten years after another conviction. Limited public-list review after three years did not end registration. It excluded registrants from public assistance, required restitution and marked temporary driver licenses. It imposed escalating noncompliance penalties and specified immunity.

January 6, 2016Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On May 6, 2015, Flanagan voted to pass SB106 with amendment1390h. The bill prohibited selling, possessing or transporting defined synthetic drugs, imposed fines and seizure provisions, and added penalties for liquor, lottery and food-service licensees. It required public-awareness reports and a hearing-based process for changing controlled substances; the House amendment excluded nonprescription and proprietary medicines from that control process. Passage passed, 233–120.

May 6, 2015Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On May 6, 2015, supported amendment1274h and passage of SB40. Its House version treated a fetus from the end of eight weeks after conception, or implantation for IVF, as a victim under specified homicide and assisted-suicide laws. It excluded capital murder and acts by the pregnant woman, requested licensed medical care including abortion, and lawful prescribed medication. The amendment passed 192–161; passage passed 193–159.

May 6, 2015Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On March 4, 2015, Flanagan voted to pass HB315 as amended, permitting seven-day eviction notices for tenant-paid utility failures, unauthorized extended occupants, or prohibited pets. The text included cure opportunities, with limits for repeated breaches and substantial damage. The House adopted the report, 263–95.

March 4, 2015Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On March 4, 2015, Flanagan voted to kill HB404, which removed the prohibitions on revealing a completed ballot and sharing its photograph, limited violations to a fine of no more than$10, and repealed polling-place notice requirements. The House adopted the motion, 233–131.

March 4, 2015Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On March 4, 2015, Flanagan voted to kill HB228, which repealed the prohibition on showing or specially marking a completed ballot, including related posting and fine references. The motion passed, 253–89.

March 4, 2015Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On February 11, 2015, Flanagan voted to kill HB246, which classified a judge’s denial or limitation of the defense’s jury-nullification instruction right to the Wentworth instruction as maladministration. The House adopted the motion, 225–115.

February 11, 2015Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Cosponsored HB420 on January 8, 2015. The introduced version allowed employment-related limited driving licenses after financially related child-support revocations, subject to proof of need and specified days, times and places. Licenses expired after six months but were renewable. Violations triggered revocation, and administrative costs were recoverable.

January 8, 2015Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On June 4, 2014, Flanagan voted against the HB1135 conference report adopting the Senate’s licensing penalties. The text classified driving with a license expired for no more than 12 months as a violation for a first offense and a class B misdemeanor for subsequent offenses, and driving without ever having a license as a class B misdemeanor. The House adopted the report 252–86.

June 4, 2014Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On May 14, 2014, Flanagan voted against amendment1708h to SB202, replacing the death penalty for capital murder with life imprisonment without parole, and then against the amended bill. The retained text also added unlawfully remaining in a building to the burglary statute. The House adopted the amendment218–117 and passed the bill226–110.

May 14, 2014Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On May 14, 2014, Flanagan voted to send SB400 to interim study, which failed136–181, then voted for its passage227–93. The bill set a classA misdemeanor for American-eel harvest violations and a classB felony for a second offense within five years, with confiscation of equipment and catch and catch-sale proceeds for fish-and-game enforcement and marine fisheries.

May 14, 2014Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On May 7, 2014, Flanagan voted for amendment1452h to SB248, permitting license-plate images at cash toll lanes and requiring images for full cash payers to be destroyed within three seconds of vehicle exit, with no retained record, disclosure or subpoena access. The House adopted the amendment 252–96.

May 7, 2014Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On March 20, 2014, voted for HB1503 amendment0412h, which increased homicide sentences when an offense caused miscarriage or stillbirth and required an explanation of that factor in second-degree murder sentencing. Also voted for unsuccessful amendment1091h, which added a fetus from the end of the twelfth week after conception to the definition of another for specified homicide offenses, with pregnancy, medical-treatment and medication exceptions. Voted for the amended bill’s report. The amendments passed176–116 and failed114–170, respectively; the report passed243–42.

March 20, 2014Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On March 20, 2014, Flanagan voted to kill HB1501, whose text imposed annual state licensing and inspections on specified outpatient abortion clinics, with detailed facility, equipment, staffing, hospital-admitting-privilege, screening, recovery, and reporting requirements. It established criminal and civil enforcement penalties for violations. The House adopted the kill motion, 211–86.

March 20, 2014Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On March 19, 2014, Flanagan voted to kill HB1438, whose text shifted from the defendant to the state the burden of proving firearms-law exceptions, excuses, provisos, or exemptions. The House adopted the kill motion, 207–126.

March 19, 2014Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On March 13, 2014, Flanagan voted to kill HB1452, whose text required a jury-nullification instruction in every criminal proceeding and a mistrial when the court failed to give it. The House adopted the kill motion, 193–84.

March 13, 2014Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On March 12, 2014, voted for HB1625’s amended marijuana penalties. The text made possession of one ounce or less of marijuana or five grams or less of hashish a violation, reduced other marijuana penalties and made cultivation of six or fewer plants a class A misdemeanor. It limited arrests and criminal-record disclosure, while retaining youth education, community-service and driving-license sanctions. The House adopted the report 215–92.

March 12, 2014Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On March 12, 2014, voted for an unsuccessful amendment to HB1170 that retained capital punishment and added murder of a child aged 12 or younger as a capital offense. Voted against an unsuccessful amendment commuting existing death sentences to life without parole, and against the death-penalty repeal bill. The amendments failed 83–247 and 85–245; the House adopted the repeal report 225–104.

March 12, 2014Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On February 12, 2014, Flanagan voted to kill HB1486. Its introduced text replaced the$300 minimum fine for a first underage alcohol-possession or consumption offense with a$100 maximum, and the$600 minimum for later offenses with a$300 maximum, with other penalty provisions retained. The House adopted Inexpedient to Legislate251–68.

February 12, 2014Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On February 6, 2014, Flanagan voted against HB366 as amended by2223h, extending the marked-ballot secrecy prohibition to completed ballots and sharing ballot images through social media or other means. The text retained a misdemeanor penalty and required election posters explaining the prohibition. The House adopted the report156–121.

February 6, 2014Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On January 22, 2014, voted against HB582’s amended medical-injury early-offer rules. The text added lost earning capacity, removed claimant fee penalties, extended waiver withdrawal to 45 days and invalidated waivers signed within 60 days after injury. The House adopted the report 206–134.

January 22, 2014Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On January15,2014, Flanagan voted against HB492 as amended2334h, adopted170–162 and referred to Ways and Means. It legalized adult possession of one ounce or five grams of hashish and growing six plants, with at most three flowering. It established licensed cultivation, manufacturing, testing and retail sales, age checks, local limits or bans, a$30-per-ounce cultivation tax and15percent retail tax. It retained impaired-driving and workplace restrictions, set product and security rules and reduced small-possession penalties for younger people. He supported two failed table motions,113–221 and153–185. He supported the initial kill motion, adopted170–168, then opposed reconsideration, which nevertheless passed173–165 and reopened the bill.

January 15, 2014Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On January 15, 2014, Flanagan voted Nay on the amended HB675 report, which failed 97–250. The three-section version regulated police use of automated license-plate readers: attended devices and approved official uses, independent grounds or corroboration before a stop, three-minute deletion except specified active cases, access and audit records, Attorney General oversight, and annual reporting. It prohibited images of vehicle occupants and permitted listed criminal, missing-person, traffic and surveillance searches.

January 15, 2014Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Flanagan voted against HB 573 as amended by 0797h on March 20, 2013; the House adopted it 286–64. That version authorized registered therapeutic-cannabis patients and caregivers, including limited home cultivation, with provider certifications and regulated nonprofit treatment centers. On June 26, he requested the roll call and voted against conference report 2098c, adopted 284–66. The conference version removed patient and caregiver cultivation, limited usable possession to two ounces, and established up to four nonprofit centers. It retained medical certifications, minor-patient protections, a confidential registry, criminal and civil protections, security and product controls, oversight reports, and a continuously appropriated fee-funded administrative fund.

June 26, 2013Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On June 5, 2013, Flanagan voted Yea on two motions to table SB47, which failed 155–188 and 161–185. He voted Nay on 1993h, which failed 111–236, and then Yea on passage, adopted 188–158. The complete two-section bill allowed a surviving spouse to retain a Purple Heart plate for life unless remarried, effective sixty days after passage. The rejected amendment retained that provision and added constitutional findings against federal indefinite detention. It barred state support or participation in implementing sections 1021 and 1022 of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act. It required Safety reporting of federal implementation requests and urged an attorney-general constitutional lawsuit.

June 5, 2013Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On June 5, 2013, Flanagan voted Nay on1905h to SB129, adopted 175–137; Yea on1967h, defeated140–170; and Nay on passage with 1905h, adopted 179–132. The House version required clear and convincing findings that youth commitment was necessary for safety. It separately defined nonsecure or staff-secure shelter care for ages eleven through seventeen. It required treatment availability outside secure settings. It provided release after six months for nonviolent offenses, subject to pending cases and renewable ninety-day court waivers. It established counsel, disability protections, notice and periodic court-review rights. The adopted amendment added $5,372,682 in federal funds for the Insurance Department’s consumer-assistance grant, including consultants, contracted services, travel, equipment and staff costs, with July 1, 2013 specified as the funding provision's effective date. The text specified an effective date sixty days after passage for the juvenile provisions. The rejected1967h retained that appropriation but required prior joint health-care-reform oversight approval of spending, exempting grant acceptance and appropriation transfers.

June 5, 2013Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On March 27, 2013, Flanagan voted Nay on 0968h's complete replacement of HB260; the House adopted it 215–138. Its sixteen sections expanded Children in Need of Services eligibility for truancy, runaway or dangerous disobedience, repeated violation-level conduct and specified serious behavioral or mental-health needs, requiring an express need for services. It required unsuccessful voluntary alternatives before compelled services, school truancy interventions, departmental screening and family-service plans, time limits and reviews, notice and hearings, and protection against using voluntary-plan statements in prosecutions. It permitted limited placement for runaway or specified serious-needs cases while barring out-of-home placement for ordinary truancy, disobedience and violation-level conduct, required least-restrictive dispositions and service-cost information, and allowed counseling, conditional release and other responses. It required nonidentifying public data and school-policy documentation, and permitted Fiscal Committee suspension of voluntary services on an insufficient-appropriations certification. The operative effective date was September 2013.

March 27, 2013Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On March 21, 2013, Flanagan voted Yea to reject HB290; Inexpedient to Legislate passed 322–9. The three-section introduced bill made open carrying of a loaded or unloaded pistol or revolver without a carry license inside a public building a class B felony. It included state, local, university and community-college facilities, permitted posted notices, and extended existing exemptions for law-enforcement and court-security officers, military service and specified transport and organized activities.

March 21, 2013Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On March 20, 2013, Flanagan opposed HCR 2, which urged a federal constitutional amendment limiting First Amendment rights to human beings and declaring money not speech. It excluded business corporations’ speech and associations, with an exception for publication and broadcasting activity. He voted for two unsuccessful tabling motions, 160–182 and 150–186, and unsuccessful indefinite postponement, 151–187. He voted against passage; the resolution passed 189–139.

March 20, 2013Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On March 13, 2013, Flanagan voted to reject HB 337, removing marijuana from state controlled-drug scheduling and criminal penalties. The proposal also repealed marijuana paraphernalia restrictions and deleted related drug-dealer liability, wiretap and labeling provisions. The House rejected it 239–112.

March 13, 2013Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On March 13, 2013, Flanagan voted Yea on HB399 with 0717h; Ought to Pass with Amendment passed 337–15. The version prohibited state material support or participation in specified federal National Defense Authorization Act detention provisions. It directed Safety to report federal implementation efforts through state agencies. It replaced the introduced misdemeanor with prosecution under applicable existing New Hampshire criminal law. It urged the attorney general to initiate or support a constitutional lawsuit. Its findings invoked federal and state constitutional detention, due-process and liberty protections. The later 1030h removal of the separate prosecution paragraph is not included in this March 13 version.

March 13, 2013Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On January30,2013, Flanagan voted to kill HB103, adopting theITL report270–77. The proposal reduced local itinerant-vendor ordinance offenses from classB misdemeanors to violations while retaining separate daily offenses after notice, effectiveJanuary1,2014.

January 30, 2013Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On June6,2012, Flanagan voted to adopt HB1260 conference report2472CofC, adopted234–60. The text escrowed Cheshire County simulcast contributions for up to36months to offset a resumed live race meet, with conditional simulcast licensing. It strengthened charitable-game fee, revenue-share, contract and financial-report requirements and expanded gambling-machine definitions and enforcement, including a classB felony and minimum$5,000 daily fines per machine for unlawful promotion. The conference narrowed sweepstakes coverage to operator-furnished machines at affiliated or contracting establishments.

June 6, 2012Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On May 9, 2012, voted for SB270, expanding victim and law-enforcement notifications when persons charged with listed violent crimes and found incompetent to stand trial were transferred or discharged. The text separated competency records from public court files, permitted specified releases, and required public written findings and victim copies. House adopted298–46.

May 9, 2012Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On April 25, 2012, Flanagan voted for SB 409 as replaced by amendment 1751h. The House adopted it 236–96 and referred it to Finance. The version permitted registered patients with specified debilitating conditions and designated caregivers to possess and cultivate limited medical marijuana. It required provider certification, caregiver background checks, registry cards and confidential records, with restricted police access. It protected authorized patients, providers and caregivers from specified state penalties while retaining impaired-driving, workplace and public-smoking restrictions. Fees and fines funded a continuously appropriated, nonlapsing operating fund. The text specified July 1, 2013, or earlier certification of sufficient funds, as the patient-protection start date and July 1, 2015 as the expiry date. This vote concerned the House replacement, before later Finance and conference amendments.

April 25, 2012Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On March29,2012, voted against killing HB1438 (93–212failed), supported amendment1098h(245–61), and supported the amended bill(284–23). It required police departments to provide exculpatory personnel-file evidence about officers serving as witnesses or prosecutors for use under criminal-evidence rules, while retaining judicial probable-cause and confidential in-camera review for non-exculpatory material.

March 29, 2012Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On March 21, 2012, voted for CACR31, proposing a constitutional right for parents to control their children’s health, education and welfare, with submission to voters in November 2012. The 204–154 vote fell short of the required three-fifths majority. Later voted against killing the resolution; that motion passed 214–146.

March 21, 2012Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On March 8, 2012, Flanagan voted to reject HB 1705, legalizing up to one ounce of marijuana for adults 21 and older. It licensed commercial growers and sellers, imposed wholesale and retail taxes, and earmarked half the net revenue for substance-abuse prevention or treatment. It also set age, location, advertising and product restrictions. The House rejected it 228–89.

March 8, 2012Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On March8,2012, Flanagan supported HB1595 as amended0771h, defeated136–178. Its replacement removed undeclared voters’ immediate post-primary return to undeclared status, applied ordinary party-change procedures and prohibited disaffiliation for90days after state or presidential primaries. It repealed the special change cards and specified60days after passage. He then opposed the motion to kill the bill, which was adopted195–124.

March 8, 2012Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On March 8, 2012, voted for HB1474, passed 199–88. The text prohibited requiring membership in a bar association or another professional organization to practice law and replaced bar-membership qualifications for Judicial Council and Board of Claims positions with legal-practice qualifications.

March 8, 2012Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On March 8, 2012, Flanagan voted against HB 1526 as amended by 0593h. It made possession of less than half an ounce of marijuana a violation for the first two offenses, with fines up to $250 and $500, and retained a misdemeanor for later offenses. It also exempted these amounts from the premises-or-vehicle offense and provided youth notification and education provisions. The House adopted it 162–161.

March 8, 2012Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On March 8, 2012, Flanagan supported tabling HB 1654, defeated153–171, then opposed its0646h version, defeated152–171. The three-section replacement required one-time minimum and maximum sentence reductions for completed education credentials, ranging from 90to180 days, and up to 60 days for approved vocational programming. It applied across sentencing dates, extended disciplinary-period reductions to earned time, and specified60 days after passage.

March 8, 2012Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On March 7, 2012, Flanagan supported HB 1146, defeated155–170. The two-section proposal required physically capable pupils who declined to recite the pledge of allegiance to stand silently rather than remain seated. It retained respect for participating pupils and severability, and specified60 days after passage.

March 7, 2012Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On March 7, 2012, Flanagan supported rejection of HB 1667, adopted 218–119. Its20 sections raised the juvenile-age boundary from 17to18 throughout criminal, detention, juvenile-jurisdiction, records and counsel provisions. Adult certification and specified extended jurisdiction remained; related release, registration and youth-development provisions changed. It specified60 days after passage.

March 7, 2012Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On February 1, 2012, Flanagan opposed sending HB 445 to interim study, which failed 158–183, and supported amendment 0084h, adopted 293–53. The replacement prohibited electronic tracking of an individual without consent, guardian consent or a valid court order. It defined notice and tracking devices, included listed property, employer, facility, court-monitoring, toll and supply-chain exceptions, and treated one vehicle occupant's consent as all occupants' consent for requested locating. It prescribed a misdemeanor per violation and civil damages of 1,000dollars or actual losses plus fees. Subsequent unnamed passage and committee referral are not individual casts.

February 1, 2012Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On February 1, 2012, Flanagan supported HB 574, adopted 257–87 and ordered to third reading, then opposed tabling it, which failed 92–253. Its five-section proposal repealed the statutory procedure for compensation and use of private property during emergencies and the provision concerning property used for corpse disposal. It removed related cross-references in communicable-disease and disaster laws, while retaining the printed powers for evacuation, decontamination and destruction and other compensation language. The text specified a60-day effective date; it did not expressly prohibit every governmental taking.

February 1, 2012Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On January 18, 2012, Flanagan supported amendment 0254h to HB 514, adopted 260–98. Its replacement required a warrant or prior written notice and owner permission for entering private land to gather data, restricted later use of that data, and barred using abutting-land data to deny permits. It preserved listed official, emergency, assessment, utility and surveying exceptions without expanding entry authority. It provided legal fees, invalidation and injunction remedies, and 250-to 2,000-dollar penalties, reimbursement and training for knowing official violations. A subsequent unnamed vote adopted passage as amended; no individual passage cast is attributed.

January 18, 2012Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On January 11, 2012, Flanagan opposed killing HB 415, which failed 147–197, then supported passage, adopted 217–129. Its two-section introduced text required the department to provide case and third-party records to a parent whose access to children was restricted or limited following an abuse or neglect investigation in a parental-rights proceeding. The operative clause did not limit this access to non-accused parents, despite the committee report's narrower characterization. It retained the printedJanuary1, 2012 effective date.

January 11, 2012Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On January 5, 2012, Flanagan supported HB 628 as amended by 2768h, adopted 188–136 and ordered third reading. The version required law enforcement to document complaints about federal transportation-security searches and submit them to a state-police database within five business days. Records remained for five years before archiving; complainant identities were redacted from public records. It protected audio/video recording of searches, required police assistance, and provided potential official-oppression liability for obstructing those rights. It limited recording-error liability to gross negligence or intentional acts and specified effectiveness 90 days after passage.

January 5, 2012Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Cosponsored HB1417 on January 4, 2012. The introduced version protected student-group membership at state-funded university and community-college institutions. Admission and enrollment conditions were barred from prohibiting membership, and discipline solely for membership was prohibited.

January 4, 2012Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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