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Representative Dick Ames (D - Ches 13)

  • Represents: Dublin, Jaffrey
  • Committees: Education Funding
  • Recorded roll call votes: Yea 1,768, Nay 1,521, Not Voting/Not Excused 4
  • Bills sponsored: 58, 23 as prime sponsor

Bills Sponsored

  • HB 772-FN (2026): establishing a foundation opportunity budget program for funding public education.
  • HB 734-FN (2026): relative to the state education property tax and the low- and moderate-income homeowners property tax relief program. (prime sponsor)
  • HB 1824-FN (2026): relative to school district financial distress.
  • HB 1799-FN (2026): relative to required state funding for providing an opportunity for an adequate education. (prime sponsor)
  • HB 1787-FN (2026): modifying the statewide education property tax. (prime sponsor)
  • HB 1648 (2026): providing property tax exemptions for qualifying residences.
  • HB 1579 (2026): establishing a committee to study methods for increasing revenues to enable additional spending on education.
  • HB 1557-FN (2026): modifying the state average expenditure per pupil relative to students in special education.
  • HB 1409-FN (2026): modifying the deposit of revenues collected from video lottery terminals. (prime sponsor)
  • HB 1296 (2026): relative to the conditions for, and procedures for the adoption of, the elderly tax exemption.
  • SB 160-FN (2025): relative to the administration of raffles.
  • HB 531-FN (2025): setting annual limits on the amount of charitable gaming revenue which may be distributed to one charitable organization. (prime sponsor)
  • HB 402 (2025): relative to liability as taxable income of education freedom account payments.
  • HB 328-FN (2025): establishing a charitable gaming oversight commission. (prime sponsor)
  • HB 569-FN (2024): relative to the state education property tax and the low and moderate income homeowners property tax relief program. (prime sponsor)
  • HB 529-FN-A-LOCAL (2024): relative to additional aid grants for schools based on free and reduced price meals and fiscal capacity disparity.
  • HB 220 (2024): establishing a committee to study the regulatory structure of charitable gaming. (prime sponsor)
  • HB 1586-FN-A-LOCAL (2024): establishing a foundation opportunity budget program for funding public education.
  • HB 1304-FN-LOCAL (2024): relative to vessel registration and boat fee decals.
  • SB 90-A (2023): establishing a commission to study charitable gambling.
  • HR 8 (2023): urging Congress to enact legislation regulating and banning certain semi-automatic assault weapons and large capacity ammunition feeding devices. (prime sponsor)
  • HB 78 (2023): repealing an act prohibiting the state from enforcing any federal statute, regulation, or Presidential Executive Order that restricts or regulates the right of the people to keep or bear arms.
  • HB 106-FN (2023): relative to extreme risk protection orders.
  • SB 426-FN (2022): relative to the adequate education grants for fiscal year 2023.
  • SB 415-FN-A (2022): making an appropriation to the department of health and human services for the purpose of increasing rates paid to homeless shelters.
  • SB 402-FN (2022): (New Title) relative to financial assistance for municipalities affected by disasters.
  • SB 235 (2022): relative to the authority to offer multiple education instruction options.
  • HB 504-FN-LOCAL (2022): relative to the state education property tax and the low and moderate income homeowners property tax relief program. (prime sponsor)
  • HB 1680-FN (2022): establishing a foundation opportunity budget program for funding public education.
  • HB 1283 (2022): relative to liability as taxable income of education freedom account payments.
  • HB 1135 (2022): requiring a performance audit of the department of education, education freedom account program.
  • HB 565 (2021): establishing a committee to study charitable gaming. (prime sponsor)
  • HB 324-FN (2021): relative to the administration of certain state taxes by the department of revenue administration.
  • HB 281-FN (2021): relative to the tax expenditure report and relative to delaying the enactment of the single sales factor under the business profits and business enterprise taxes.
  • SB 610 (2020): (New Title) establishing a committee to evaluate the Transportation Climate Initiative memorandum of understanding and associated modeling and scenarios.
  • HB 686-FN-A-LOCAL (2020): relative to calculating and funding the interim cost of an opportunity for an adequate education and extending the interest and dividends tax to capital gains. (prime sponsor)
  • HB 551-FN-A (2020): establishing a school funding commission and making an appropriation therefor.
  • HB 479-FN (2020): relative to eligibility for the low and moderate income homeowners property tax relief.
  • HB 1699-FN-A (2020): relative to a tax on electronic cigarettes. (prime sponsor)
  • HB 1200 (2020): (New Title) relative to the tax expenditure report and relative to delaying the enactment of the single sales factor under the business profits and business enterprise taxes.
  • HB 1161-FN (2020): relative to electronic filings of meals and rooms tax returns and interest on payments of state taxes. (prime sponsor)
  • HB 734-FN-LOCAL (2019): relative to the annual percentage reduction in stabilization grants to school districts.
  • HB 632-FN (2019): relative to the education tax credit.
  • HB 595-FN (2019): relative to the administration of the tobacco tax. (prime sponsor)
  • HB 1743-FN (2018): (Third New Title) relative to funding for the Sununu youth services center, relative to positions at the department of health and human services, and establishing a committee to study alternatives to the continued use of the Sununu youth services center.
  • HB 1422-FN-A (2018): relative to the applicability of certain business tax rate changes. (prime sponsor)
  • SB 188-FN (2017): establishing a nonpartisan revenue estimator position in the department of administrative services.
  • HB 644-FN-A-LOCAL (2017): extending the interest and dividends tax to capital gains, increasing exemptions from the tax, and providing for retirement system contributions on behalf of employers other than the state. (prime sponsor)
  • HB 597-FN-LOCAL (2017): relative to calculating the cost of an opportunity for an adequate education and providing fiscal capacity disparity aid. (prime sponsor)
  • HB 333-FN (2017): removing the exemption for premium cigars from the tobacco tax. (prime sponsor)
  • HB 634-FN-A (2016): relative to applying the interest and dividends tax to trusts, increasing exemptions, and extending the tax to capital gains; and relative to homeowners property tax relief. (prime sponsor)
  • HB 376-FN-A (2016): appropriating funds to the department of environmental services for the purpose of funding eligible and completed drinking water, wastewater, and landfill closure projects under the state aid grant program.
  • SB 201-FN-A (2015): increasing the annual limit on the new investment tax credit.
  • HB 551-FN (2015): relative to preventing diversion of business income to tax havens. (prime sponsor)
  • HB 1633-FN-A-LOCAL (2014): relative to expanded gaming in New Hampshire. (prime sponsor)
  • HB 1630-FN-A (2014): relative to gaming in New Hampshire. (prime sponsor)
  • HB 1555-FN (2014): relative to the neglect of elderly, disabled, or impaired adults and relative to financial exploitation.
  • HB 623-FN-A (2013): appropropriating funds to the department of environmental services for the purpose of funding eligible and completed drinking water, wastewater, and landfill closure projects under the state aid grant program.

Recent Votes

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

And 3,193 earlier votes.

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