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Representative Claudine Burnham (R - Straf 2)

Represents: Milton, Rochester Ward 5
Committees: Election Law
Recorded roll call votes: Nay 353, Yea 711, Not Voting/Excused 17
Bills sponsored: 65, 14 as prime sponsor

Bills Sponsored

HR 24 (2026): honoring Tadeusz Kosciuszko.
HB 709-FN (2026): allowing parents or guardians to admit their children into any school district where they pay any property or school district taxes. (prime sponsor)
HB 693-FN (2026): relative to ballot counting procedures and permitting the hand counting of ballots.
HB 686-FN (2026): (New Title) prohibiting certain public entities from conducting or sponsoring political surveys, polls, or questionnaires in their official capacities.
HB 317 (2026): (New Title) allowing a supervisor of the checklist to verify a person's identity, with identification, if they personally know that person. (prime sponsor)
HB 314-FN (2026): prohibiting the use of federal, state, or local funds for lobbying activities.
HB 1670-FN (2026): relative to organized retail crime.
HB 1604-FN (2026): requiring suitable public facilities such as schools and town halls be made available as polling places upon request by local election officials.
HB 1590-FN (2026): harmonizing the age of personhood under the criminal code and the fetal life protection act.
HB 1547-FN (2026): relative to appeals from convictions in circuit court for certain offenses.
HB 1541-FN (2026): requiring the secretary of state to provide all voting precincts with secure containers for storing ballots.
HB 1526 (2026): relative to the adopting of a municipal budget committee and electing members thereof.
HB 1521 (2026): clarifying the definition of home education.
HB 1520-FN (2026): defining citizenship for the purposes of voting.
HB 1490 (2026): requiring scholarship organizations to provide written notice to parents explaining the parents' requirement to provide written notice upon termination of a home education program.
HB 1464-FN (2026): relative to discrimination, harassment, and violence based on political affiliation or opinion.
HB 1462 (2026): relative to election law complaints. (prime sponsor)
HB 1388 (2026): relative to the form of ballot for amendments to the constitution.
HB 1380-LOCAL (2026): requiring the assessment of real property and land be based on replacement or cost-based value.
HB 1322-FN (2026): reestablishing the judicial conduct commission.
HB 1309 (2026): relative to town meeting warrants.
HB 1306 (2026): relative to the counting of absentee ballots. (prime sponsor)
HB 1304 (2026): requiring guide examinations to be administered by conservation officers. (prime sponsor)
HB 1247 (2026): requiring the secretary of state to create, post on the secretary of state's website, and otherwise distribute notice of proposed constitutional amendments.
HB 1076 (2026): relative to authorizing or rescinding the use of electronic ballot counting devices.
HB 1044 (2026): relative to the filling of vacancies in the office of a county commissioner.
CACR 31 (2026): relating to ballot reconciliation. Providing that the state adopt certain provisions and penalties relative to the ballot reconciliation process.
CACR 23 (2026): relative to legislative oversight of the judicial branch.establishing legislative oversight of the judicial branch.
CACR 21 (2026): (New Title) voting eligibility.
CACR 20 (2026): relating to the power of the supreme and superior courts. Providing that such power is repealed.
SB 246-FN (2025): (New Title) providing maternal depression screening for new mothers; increasing access to health care services for new mothers; enabling new parents to attend infant pediatric medical appointments; and developing a plan for perinatal peer support certification.
HB 80 (2025): (New Title) allowing a public body member's presence at a meeting by electronic or other means of communication only if physical presence is unavoidable.
HB 78 (2025): requiring a person to have a domicile in the district from which they serve as county commissioner.
HB 764-FN (2025): prohibiting the intentional release of polluting emissions, including cloud seeding, weather modification, excessive electromagnetic radio frequency, and microwave radiation and making penalties for violation of such prohibition.
HB 684 (2025): preventing the use of student identification cards as a means to obtain a ballot.
HB 579 (2025): requiring applicants for a fish and game guide license to take and pass a standardized test provided by the fish and game department before receiving their license. (prime sponsor)
HB 574-FN (2025): requiring background checks of the private companies and their contractors who program and maintain New Hampshire voting machines. (prime sponsor)
HB 562 (2025): relative to the filling of vacant positions on elected municipal boards and school boards.
HB 497 (2025): requiring the periodic evaluation of the forms and procedures related to performing voter checklist duties.
HB 476-FN (2025): relative to restrictions on elective abortion.
HB 474 (2025): requiring a second witness at the counting of write-in votes. (prime sponsor)
HB 472 (2025): requiring voters to prove domicile.
HB 369-FN (2025): (New Title) relative to misdemeanor sexual assault prosecutions and relative to the duty to report for sexual offenders and offenders against children.
HB 288 (2025): (New Title) limiting how far in advance of an election an absentee ballot may be requested.
HB 274 (2025): relative to the verification of voter rolls annually.
HB 270-FN (2025): (New Title) requiring the preservation of electronic ballot counting device external storage devices. (prime sponsor)
HB 200 (2025): relative to the procedure for overriding a local tax cap.
HB 160 (2025): relative to the contents of the pre-election certificate. (prime sponsor)
CACR 7 (2025): relating to the presumption of innocence. Providing that in all cases and suits of the state against one of the people, the defendant shall be innocent unless proven guilty.
HB 1523 (2024): revising the moderator's worksheet for counting votes in elections. (prime sponsor)
HB 1518 (2024): relative to the legislative ethics committee.
HB 1446-FN-LOCAL (2024): relative to eliminating the cost for electronic copies of the checklist. (prime sponsor)
HB 1384 (2024): relative to noncompliance by a town or ward moderator and clerk.
HB 1381-FN (2024): relative to required training on election procedures.
HB 1370-FN (2024): (New Title) relative to eliminating voter identification exceptions.
HB 1369 (2024): relative to the verification of voter rolls every 4 years.
HB 1294-FN (2024): (New Title) establishing a committee to study ways to facilitate municipal compliance with Clean Water Act requirements.
HB 1228 (2024): relative to establishing a fish and game guides committee to determine qualifications for licensure of fish and game guides. (prime sponsor)
HB 1200-FN (2024): relative to controlled and secured storage of printed paper ballots.
HB 1156 (2024): relative to public health, safety, and state sovereignty.
HB 1134 (2024): relative to inventory controls for paper ballots. (prime sponsor)
HB 1092 (2024): creating a period for the placing of and removal of political advertising on public property.
HB 1012-FN (2024): exempting from criminal penalty certain parenting decisions intended to encourage a child's independence and freedom.
HCR 1 (2023): a resolution applying for a convention of the states under Article V of the Constitution of the United States.
HB 269-FN (2023): relative to limiting the authority of New Hampshire delegates to policymaking conventions.

Recent Votes

August 19, 2026: HB2026, Veto Override — Nay
August 19, 2026: HB221, Veto Override — Yea
August 19, 2026: HB232, Veto Override — Yea
August 19, 2026: HB396, Veto Override — Yea
August 19, 2026: HB1072, Veto Override — Yea
August 19, 2026: HB1097, Veto Override — Yea
August 19, 2026: HB1102, Veto Override — Yea
August 19, 2026: HB1184, Veto Override — Yea
August 19, 2026: HB1267, Veto Override — Yea
August 19, 2026: HB1336, Veto Override — Yea
August 19, 2026: HB1337, Veto Override — Yea
August 19, 2026: HB1358, Veto Override — Yea
August 19, 2026: HB1369, Veto Override — Yea
August 19, 2026: HB1422, Veto Override — Yea
August 19, 2026: HB1442, Veto Override — Yea
August 19, 2026: HB396, Reconsider — Yea
August 19, 2026: HB396, Veto Override — Yea
August 19, 2026: HB1491, Veto Override — Yea
August 19, 2026: HB1565, Veto Override — Yea
August 19, 2026: HB1610, Veto Override — Yea
August 19, 2026: HB1643, Veto Override — Yea
August 19, 2026: HB1726, Veto Override — Yea
August 19, 2026: HB1766, Veto Override — Yea
August 19, 2026: SB434, Veto Override — Yea
August 19, 2026: SB468, Veto Override — Yea
August 19, 2026: SB552, Veto Override — Yea
August 19, 2026: SB661, Veto Override — Yea
August 19, 2026: Affirm The Report — Nay
June 4, 2026: SB481, Adopt CofC Report — Yea
June 4, 2026: HB1588, Adopt CofC Report — Yea
June 4, 2026: HB317, Adopt CofC Report — Yea
June 4, 2026: HB1062, Adopt CofC Report — Yea
June 4, 2026: HB1279, Adopt CofC Report — Yea
June 4, 2026: HB155, Adopt CofC Report — Yea
June 4, 2026: HB1300, Adopt CofC Report — Yea
June 4, 2026: HB609, Table — Nay
June 4, 2026: HB1374, Adopt CofC Report — Yea
June 4, 2026: HB1376, Adopt CofC Report — Yea
May 21, 2026: HB1610, Concur — Yea
May 21, 2026: HB1358, Concur — Yea
May 21, 2026: HB1792, Concur — Nay
May 21, 2026: HB1336, Concur — Yea
May 21, 2026: HB1681, Concur — Yea
May 21, 2026: HB232, Concur — Yea
May 21, 2026: HB1442, Concur — Yea
May 21, 2026: Affirm The Report — Nay
May 21, 2026: Remove From Table — Yea
May 14, 2026: SB409, Adopt Floor Amendment — Nay
May 14, 2026: SB430, OTPA — Yea
May 14, 2026: SB434, OTPA — Nay
May 14, 2026: SB498, Reconsider — Nay
May 14, 2026: SB574, Adopt Amendment — Yea
May 14, 2026: SB574, OTPA — Yea
May 14, 2026: CACR12, Adopt Amendment — Yea
May 14, 2026: CACR12, Adopt Floor Amendment — Nay
May 14, 2026: CACR12, OTPA — Yea
May 14, 2026: SB223, OTPA — Yea
May 14, 2026: SB504, Adopt Floor Amendment — Yea
May 14, 2026: SB504, OTPA — Yea
May 14, 2026: SB552, OTP — Yea
May 14, 2026: SB408, Adopt Floor Amendment — Yea
May 14, 2026: SB557, Adopt Floor Amendment — Yea
May 14, 2026: SB88, OTPA — Yea
May 14, 2026: SB508, OTP — Yea
May 14, 2026: Table — Nay
May 14, 2026: SB643, OTPA — Yea
May 14, 2026: SB653, Adopt Amendment — Yea
May 14, 2026: SB653, OTPA — Yea
May 14, 2026: SB627, Interim Study — Yea
May 14, 2026: SB567, Adopt Floor Amendment — Yea
May 14, 2026: SB567, Table — Nay
May 14, 2026: SB567, OTPA — Yea
May 14, 2026: SB625, ITL — Nay
May 14, 2026: SB625, Adopt Floor Amendment — Yea
May 14, 2026: SB625, Adopt Floor Amendment — Yea
May 14, 2026: SB625, OTPA — Yea
May 7, 2026: HB564, Concur — Yea
May 7, 2026: SB669, Interim Study — Nay
May 7, 2026: SB481, OTPA — Yea
May 7, 2026: SB603, ITL — Yea
May 7, 2026: SB501, Table — Yea
May 7, 2026: SB520, Table — Yea
April 23, 2026: SB482, OTP — Nay
April 23, 2026: CACR11, OTP — Yea
April 23, 2026: SB460, Adopt Amendment — Yea
April 23, 2026: SB460, Table — Nay
April 23, 2026: SB586, Adopt Floor Amendment — Nay
April 23, 2026: SB101, Adopt Amendment — Yea
April 23, 2026: SB101, Adopt Amendment — Nay
April 23, 2026: SB101, OTPA — Yea
April 23, 2026: SB543, ITL — Yea
April 23, 2026: SB545, ITL — Yea
April 23, 2026: SB449, ITL — Yea
April 23, 2026: SB559, ITL — Yea
April 9, 2026: HB349, Veto Override — Yea
April 9, 2026: HB451, Veto Override — Nay
April 9, 2026: HB1689, Concur — Nay
April 9, 2026: SB620, OTPA — Nay
April 9, 2026: Shall Member Continue — Nay
April 9, 2026: Shall Member Continue — Nay

And 981 earlier votes.

Representative Claudine Burnham (R - Straf 2)

Bills Sponsored

Recent Votes

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