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Former Senator Arthur Klemm (R - SD22)

On record 1999 to 2009. This page is their record in the New Hampshire General Court; it is not a current directory entry.

  • Recorded roll call votes: Yea 255, Nay 202, No vote recorded 2, Not Voting/Excused 10
  • Bills sponsored: 67, 12 as prime sponsor

Bills Sponsored

  • SR 2 (2002): a resolution supporting the retention of the phrase "under God" in the pledge of allegiance.
  • SR 1 (2002): a resolution urging the passage of legislation regarding the rights of voters in Manchester and Nashua. (prime sponsor)
  • SB 72-FN (2002): relative to payment of medical benefits costs for group II members of the retirement system. (prime sponsor)
  • SB 456-FN-A (2002): making appropriations to the department of health and human services.
  • SB 441-FN-A (2002): (New Title) establishing the position of hazardous materials response coordinator and making an appropriation therefor, establishing a committee to study the interoperability of state agency communications, authorizing the position of deputy director of state police, and repealing the division of enforcement in the department of safety. (prime sponsor)
  • SB 439 (2002): relative to the membership of the information technology management advisory board.
  • SB 405 (2002): relative to special number plates for veterans.
  • SB 385 (2002): relative to electric personal assistive mobility devices. (prime sponsor)
  • SB 379 (2002): relative to immune system therapy. (prime sponsor)
  • SB 309-FN (2002): (2nd New Title) relative to payment of medical benefits costs for disabled group II members of the retirement system.
  • SB 3 (2002): apportioning congressional districts. (prime sponsor)
  • SB 189-FN-A (2002): establishing a gasoline remediation and elimination of ethers fund.
  • SB 158-FN (2002): relative to payment of medical benefits for certain retirement system members retiring with combined creditable service or for certain members who have dependent children.
  • SB 1 (2002): apportioning state senate districts. (prime sponsor)
  • HB 420 (2002): apportioning state representative districts.
  • HB 419 (2002): apportioning delegates to state party conventions.
  • HB 380 (2002): apportioning county commissioner districts.
  • HB 379 (2002): apportioning the executive council districts.
  • HB 1151 (2002): (New Title) establishing a commission to examine and assess the status of civic education in New Hampshire.
  • HB 1148 (2002): (New Title) naming the state office complex on Hazen Drive in the city of Concord the Meldrim Thomson State Office Complex and naming New Hampshire route 25A from Wentworth to Orford the Governor Meldrim Thomson Scenic Highway.
  • HB 1000-FN-A (2002): relative to the acquisition and oversight of certain rights in land located in Pittsburg, Clarksville, and Stewartstown, known as the Connecticut Lakes headwaters tract and making an appropriation therefor; establishing funds for the stewardship of these lands; and allowing state agencies to hold certain rights under the New Hampshire land and community heritage investment program.
  • SB 181 (2001): relative to the manufacture, sale, or installation of certain smoke detectors. (prime sponsor)
  • SB 17-FN (2001): relative to accidental disability retirement benefits upon the death of a retired group II member.
  • SB 119 (2001): relative to small group health insurance coverage.
  • SB 118 (2001): (New Title) relative to individual health insurance coverage and extending the reporting date for the healthy kids subcommittee and clarifying the mission statement of the healthy kids corporation.
  • SB 111-FN (2001): (New Title) extending the payment of group health insurance premiums for certain retired members of the retirement system. (prime sponsor)
  • HB 758 (2001): (New Title) relative to the sale of gasoline containing ethers and establishing a gasoline remediation and elimination of ethers fund.
  • HB 477-FN (2001): relative to supplemental allowances for certain retired group I members of the New Hampshire retirement system.
  • HB 450 (2001): (3rd New Title) relative to work product and relative to attorneys' fees under the right-to-know law.
  • HB 303-FN-A-LOCAL (2001): relative to funding of training and certification of firefighters and emergency medical service providers programs in the department of safety, extending certain motor vehicle license expiration dates, and increasing certain motor vehicle license fees.
  • SR 14 (2000): relative to heating oil prices and the state match requirement for the federal Weatherization Program.
  • SCR 6 (2000): urging the President and Congress to address the challenge of high prescription medication prices.
  • SCR 5 (2000): urging the New England states and New York to consider cooperative strategies to address the challenge of the high cost of prescription medicines.
  • SCR 3 (2000): rescinding the 1979 call for a federal constitutional convention.
  • SB 472 (2000): relative to final authorization of electric rate reduction financing and commission action.
  • SB 437-FN (2000): relative to retail selling.
  • SB 415-FN-LOCAL (2000): relative to payment of group health insurance premiums for eligible retired members of the retirement system. (prime sponsor)
  • SB 401-FN-A-LOCAL (2000): establishing the New Hampshire land and community heritage investment program and making an appropriation therefor.
  • SB 389-FN (2000): (2nd New Title) relative to medical benefits for group II members of the retirement system.
  • SB 379-FN (2000): relative to lottery scratch tickets. (prime sponsor)
  • SB 343 (2000): relative to disclosures concerning sexual offenders in sales of real property. (prime sponsor)
  • SB 203-FN-A-LOCAL (2000): authorizing electronic games of chance at racetracks.
  • SB 127-FN-A-LOCAL (2000): establishing a local property tax education homestead allowance against school taxes on residential real estate, establishing a fund to reimburse municipalities for such exemptions, and making an appropriation therefor.
  • HB 1626-FN (2000): establishing a program to rebate certain excessive property tax payments of eligible taxpayers.
  • HB 1622-LOCAL (2000): (3rd New Title) making the requirement that a deputy town clerk have his or her domicile within the town optional, ratifying any annual town meeting held prior to the effective date of this act that is of questionable legality solely due to the town having a nonresident deputy town clerk, and relative to the simultaneous holding of certain town offices.
  • HB 1591-FN-LOCAL (2000): establishing a defined contribution retirement option in the New Hampshire retirement system.
  • HB 1588 (2000): relative to the authority of the department of transportation regarding rail safety inspections.
  • HB 1409 (2000): establishing a committee to study the feasibility of reestablishing the Lawrence, Massachusetts to Manchester, New Hampshire rail service line and the Concord to Lebanon Northern passenger rail service line.
  • HB 1378 (2000): establishing a task force to conduct an ongoing study of the feasibility of re-establishing passenger rail service on the Eastern Line from Newburyport, Massachusetts to Kittery, Maine.
  • HB 1368-FN (2000): establishing a Civil War memorials commission for the construction and maintenance of New Hampshire Civil War monuments and memorials.
  • HB 1257-FN (2000): prohibiting the sale of urine for drug testing purposes.
  • HB 1200-FN (2000): (3rd New Title) relative to the application of education property tax hardship relief to estate planning trusts and relative to eligibility for hardship relief.
  • HB 1106 (2000): making the widening of Interstate 93 from Manchester to the Massachusetts border a state priority.
  • SR 9 (1999): urging the President and Congress to extend the Older Americans Act for a 3-year period.
  • SR 6 (1999): a resolution expressing shock and sympathy to the people of Littleton, Colorado over the killing and injuring of students at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999.
  • SR 5 (1999): urging Congress to authorize construction of the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C. to begin immediately.
  • SR 4 (1999): calling on the President and the Congress to fully fund the federal government's share of the average per pupil expenditure in public elementary and secondary schools in the United States under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
  • SR 2 (1999): urging the President of the United States and Congress to prohibit federal recoupment of state tobacco settlement recoveries.
  • HCR 3 (1999): urging the federal government to fund 100 percent of the total cost of special education programs and services nationwide.
  • HB 689-FN (1999): (New Title) establishing a committee to study campaign contributions and expenditures.
  • HB 653-FN-A (1999): (New Title) increasing the personal needs allowance of nursing home residents and residents of residential care facilities and community residences and making an appropriation therefor.
  • HB 494-FN-A (1999): making an appropriation to the department of cultural resources for the purpose of funding participation of the state in the Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife.
  • HB 462 (1999): relative to public/private partnership projects in the department of transportation.
  • HB 455-FN-LOCAL (1999): designating all tobacco-related funds to be used exclusively to supplement state aid to public education.
  • HB 262-LOCAL (1999): relative to emergency expenditures and overexpenditures by school boards.
  • HB 261-LOCAL (1999): relative to the official ballot option.
  • HB 237-FN (1999): relative to the percentage of gross sales from each state aggregated in the tri-state lotto compact pool.

Recent Votes

  • October 22, 2009: CACR17, Order to 3rd Reading3/5 Necessary — Yea
  • June 27, 2002: SB457, adoption of the suspension of the rules Sen. Below/Sen. McCarley — Yea
  • June 27, 2002: SR2, Adoption of ought pass. Sen. Barnes/ Sen. Gordon — Yea
  • June 27, 2002: SR1, Ought to pass Sen. Johnson/Sen. Barnes — Yea
  • June 27, 2002: HB2002, Adoption of the suspension of the rules. Sen. Larsen/Sen. Fernald — Yea
  • June 27, 2002: HCO1, Adoption of the suspension of the rules Sen. Francoeur/Sen Barnes — Yea
  • May 22, 2002: SB1, Not withstanding the Governor's veto-shall the bill pass — Yea
  • May 22, 2002: SB112, Not withstanding the Governor's veto-shall the bill pass — Yea
  • May 22, 2002: SB141, Not withstanding the Governor's Veto-shall the bill pass — Yea
  • May 22, 2002: SB336, Not withstanding the Governor's Veto-shall the bill pass — Yea
  • May 22, 2002: SB419, Not withstanding the Governor's Veto-shall the bill pass — Yea
  • May 22, 2002: SB425, Not withstnading the Governor's veto-shall the bill pass — Yea
  • May 2, 2002: SB456, Ordering to third reading Sen. Barnes/Sen. McCarley — Yea
  • May 2, 2002: HB1426, Adoption of C of C report (3761) Sen. Gordon/Sen. Barnes — Yea
  • April 25, 2002: SB336, Moved to concur Sen. Below/ Sen. McCarley — Yea
  • April 25, 2002: SB342, Moved to nonconcur Sen. Francoeur/Sen. Barnes — Nay
  • April 25, 2002: SB410, moved to concur Sen Johnson/Sen. Barnes — Yea
  • April 18, 2002: HB1446, Adoption of amendment (3482s) Sen. Francoeur/Sen. Pignatelli — Nay
  • April 18, 2002: HB1446, Question was divided. Adoption of floor amendment (3596s) sections 1&3 Sen. Below/Sen. Barnes — Nay
  • April 18, 2002: HB1446, Question was divided. Adoption of floor amendment (3596s) section 2 Sen. Fernald/Sen. Barnes — Nay
  • April 18, 2002: HB1446, adoption of floor amendment (3607s) Sen. Fernald/Sen. Below — Nay
  • April 18, 2002: HB1446, Ordering to third reading Sen. Gatsas/Sen Barnes — Yea
  • April 18, 2002: HB1437, Substitute motion of ought to pass Sen. Francoeur/Sen. Below — Nay
  • April 18, 2002: HB284, Ordering to third reading Sen. McCarley/Sen. Cohen — Yea
  • April 18, 2002: HB1000, Ordering to third reading Sen. Barnes/Sen. Fernald — Yea
  • April 18, 2002: HB1462, Adoption of floor amendment (3514s) Sen. Disnard/Sen. Fernald — Nay
  • April 18, 2002: HB1429, Ought to pass Sen. Barnes/Sen. Boyce — Yea
  • April 18, 2002: HB298, Ordering to third reading Sen. O'Hearn/Sen. Pignatelli — Yea
  • April 18, 2002: HB1268, Adoption of amendment (3579s) Sen. Fernald/Sen. Pignatelli — Nay
  • April 18, 2002: HB1268, Adoption of floor amendment (3603s) Sen McCarley/Sen. Larsen — Yea
  • April 18, 2002: HB1218, Ordering to third reading Sen Prescott/Sen Barnes — Yea
  • April 18, 2002: HB672, Adoption of amendment (3553s) Sen. Francoeur/Sen Boyce — Nay
  • April 18, 2002: HB672, Adoption of floor amendment (3592s) Sen. Francoeur/ Sen. Boyce — Yea
  • April 18, 2002: HB672, Ordering to third reading Sen Hollingworth/Sen. McCarley — Yea
  • April 18, 2002: HCR14, Ought to pass Sen Wheeler/Sen. Roberge — No vote recorded
  • April 18, 2002: HB1249, Adoption of amendment (3563s) Sen Francoeur/Sen. Boyce — Yea
  • April 18, 2002: HB589, Adoption of amendment (3574s) Sen. Barnes/Sen.Pignatelli — Nay
  • April 18, 2002: HB587, Adoption of floor amendment (3487s) Sen. Boyce/Sen. Fernald — Nay
  • April 18, 2002: HB587, Ordering to third reading Sen. Francoeur/Sen. Barnes — Yea
  • April 18, 2002: HB253, Adoption of floor amendment (3644s) Sen. Cohen/Sen. Fernald — Nay
  • April 18, 2002: HB253, Ordering to third reading Sen. Francoeur/Sen. Boyce — Yea
  • April 18, 2002: HB1365, Ordering to third reading Sen Boyce/Sen.Francoeur — Yea
  • April 18, 2002: VETO DAY, Upholding the ruling of the Chair Sen. Below/Sen. McCarley — Yea
  • April 18, 2002: HB557, Ordering to third reading Sen. Gatsas/Sen. Prescott — Nay
  • April 18, 2002: SEN RULE, Senate deadlines Sen. Wheeler/Sen. Pignatelli — Yea
  • April 18, 2002: HB226, Adoption of floor amendment (3628) Sen. Below/Sen. Cohen — Yea
  • April 18, 2002: HB226, Ordering to third reading Sen Barnes/Sen Gatsas — Nay
  • April 16, 2002: HB1190, Ought to pass Sen. Disnard/Sen. Barnes — Yea
  • April 16, 2002: HB757, Adoption of floor amendment (3495s) Sen. McCarley/Sen. Fernald — Nay
  • April 16, 2002: HB757, Ordering to third reading Sen. McCarley/Sen. Barnes — Yea
  • April 16, 2002: HB1462, Adoption of amendment (3485s) Sen. Barnes/Sen. Pignatelli — Yea
  • April 16, 2002: HB1462, Adoption of floor amendment (3468s) Sen. Hollingworth/Sen. McCarley — Nay
  • April 16, 2002: HB1462, Adoption of floor amendment (3514s) Sen. Fernald/Sen. Pignatelli — Nay
  • April 16, 2002: HB1410, Adoption of amendment (3466s) Sen. Below/ Sen. Pignatelli — Nay
  • April 16, 2002: HB1118, Ought to pass Sen. Gatsas/Sen. Barnes — Nay
  • April 11, 2002: HB1298, Adoption of amendment (3353) Sen. Barnes/Sen. Burns — Yea
  • April 11, 2002: HB1298, Ordering to third reading Sen. Disnard/Sen. Pignatelli — Yea
  • April 11, 2002: HB744, Substitute motion ought to pass Sen. Barnes/Sen. Prescott — Nay
  • April 11, 2002: HB1437, Ought to Pass Sen. Francoeur/Sen. Barnes — Nay
  • April 11, 2002: HB1298, Adoption of the floor amendment (3422s) Sen. Barnes/Sen. Hollingworth — Yea
  • April 11, 2002: HB1148, Adoption of the floor amendment (3423s) Sen Barnes/Sen Roberge — Yea
  • April 11, 2002: HB757, Adoption of committee amendment (3401s) Sen. Pignatelli/Sen Cohen — Yea
  • April 11, 2002: HB1393, Ought to pass Sen. Gatsas/ Sen Barnes — Yea
  • April 11, 2002: HB1203, Adoption of minority amendment (3386) Sen. Hollingworth/Sen. Barnes — Nay
  • April 11, 2002: HB1282, Ought to pass Sen. Prescott/Sen Fernald — Yea
  • April 11, 2002: HCR23, Ought to pass Sen. Barnes/Sen. Gordon — Yea
  • April 10, 2002: HB587, Calling of the question Sen. Disnard/Sen. Fernald — Yea
  • April 10, 2002: HB587, Laid on the table Sen. Francoeur/Sen. Boyce — Nay
  • April 10, 2002: HB587, Ought to pass Sen. Francoeur/Sen. Gatsas — Yea
  • April 10, 2002: HB1172, Ordered to third reading Sen. Francoeur/ Sen. Barnes — Yea
  • March 21, 2002: SB440, Ordering to third reading Sen. Hollingworth/Sen. McCarley — Yea
  • March 21, 2002: HB1434, Ought to pass Sen. Hollingworth/Sen. McCarley — Yea
  • March 21, 2002: HB420, Calling the question Sen. Wheeler/Sen. Pignatelli — Yea
  • March 21, 2002: HB420, Adoption of amendment (3022) Sen. Francoeur/Sen. Burns — Nay
  • March 21, 2002: HB420, Adoption of floor amendment (3069) Sen. Fernald/Sen. Pignatelli — Nay
  • March 21, 2002: HB420, Ordered to third reading Sen. Below/Sen. Pignatelli — Yea
  • March 21, 2002: SB451, Substitute motion ought to pass Sen. Pignatelli/Sen. Wheeler — Nay
  • March 21, 2002: SB451, Ordered to third reading Sen. Prescott/Sen. Pignatelli — Nay
  • March 21, 2002: SB453, substitute motion of ought to pass Sen. Disnard/Sen. Pignatelli — Nay
  • March 21, 2002: SB453, Adoption of floor amendment (3078) Sen. Fernald/Sen. Pignatelli — Yea
  • March 21, 2002: SB105, Taking off the table Sen. Fernald/Sen. Gordon — Yea
  • March 14, 2002: SB440, Taking off the table Sen. Wheeler/Sen. Cohen — Nay
  • February 20, 2002: SB335, Subsitute motion of ought to pass Sen. Fernald/Sen. McCarley — Nay
  • February 20, 2002: SB335, Inexpedient to legislate Sen. Fernald/Sen. McCarley — Yea
  • February 20, 2002: SB340, Ought to pass Sen Fernald/Sen McCarley — Nay
  • February 20, 2002: SB343, Ought to pass Sen. Below/Sen. Gordon — Nay
  • February 20, 2002: SB402, Ought to pass Sen. Wheeler/Sen. Hollingworth — Yea
  • February 20, 2002: SB427, Substitute motion interim study Sen. Barnes/Sen. Eaton — Yea
  • February 20, 2002: SB198, Interim Study Sen. Gatsas/Sen. Barnes — Yea
  • February 20, 2002: SB198, Inexpedient to legislate Sen. Gatsas/Sen. Barnes — Nay
  • February 20, 2002: CACR33, Ordering to third reading Roll call is required — Yea
  • February 20, 2002: CACR5, Ordering to third reading Roll call required — Yea
  • February 20, 2002: SB431, Ought to pass Sen Fernald/Sen. Below — Yea
  • February 20, 2002: SB336, Ought to pass Sen. Wheeler/Sen. Fernald — Yea
  • February 20, 2002: SB336, Laid on the table Sen. Fernald/Sen. McCarley — Yea
  • February 20, 2002: SB336, Laid on the table Sen. McCarley/Sen. Gordon — Nay
  • February 20, 2002: SB336, Adoption of the floor amendment (2837s) Sen. Barnes/Sen. Fernald — Yea
  • February 20, 2002: SB336, Adoption of the floor amendment (2838s) Sen. Barnes/Sen Francoeur — Nay
  • February 20, 2002: SB87, Taking off the table Sen. Below/Sen. McCarley — Nay
  • February 20, 2002: SB417, Ought to pass Sen. Hollingworth/Sen. Cohen — Nay

And 369 earlier votes.

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