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Former Representative Harold Melcher (D - Hills 11)

On record 1999 to 2002. This page is their record in the New Hampshire General Court; it is not a current directory entry.

  • Recorded roll call votes: Nay 253, Yea 251, Not Voting/Excused 24, Not Voting/Not Excused 2
  • Bills sponsored: 47, 27 as prime sponsor

Bills Sponsored

  • HB 765-FN-A (2002): establishing an historic homeownership mortgage credit program.
  • HB 712-FN (2002): relative to the coordination of state, regional, and local planning efforts. (prime sponsor)
  • HB 675 (2002): relative to mercury source reduction.
  • HB 650-FN (2002): relative to master plans.
  • HB 522-LOCAL (2002): (New Title) establishing discretionary preservation easements for preserving historic agricultural structures, and changing the disposition of unused interest from the land conservation investment program.
  • HB 506 (2002): prohibiting the granting of certain variances from zoning ordinances. (prime sponsor)
  • HB 470 (2002): relative to caller identification requirements for persons engaged in telephone solicitation.
  • HB 393-FN (2002): relative to plant nurseries and nursery stock. (prime sponsor)
  • HB 1313 (2002): relative to spreading sludge on excavation sites for reclamation. (prime sponsor)
  • HB 1288 (2002): relative to regular meetings of local planning boards.
  • HB 1284 (2002): relative to the time frame for petitions for zoning changes submitted to local planning boards.
  • HB 1170 (2002): extending the environmental audit program. (prime sponsor)
  • HB 1143 (2002): establishing a committee to study self-certification of hazardous waste small quantity generators. (prime sponsor)
  • HB 1126-FN-A (2002): establishing the weights and measures laboratory accreditation program. (prime sponsor)
  • HB 1102 (2002): (New Title) establishing a hazardous waste coordinator certificate program and making an appropriation therefor.
  • HB 671 (2001): enabling municipalities to adopt a property tax credit based on income for blind, disabled, or elderly taxpayers receiving Social Security income.
  • HB 626 (2001): relative to an override of the limitation on appropriations by a local legislative body. (prime sponsor)
  • HB 401 (2001): relative to the receipt of information from regional planning commissions by local land use boards. (prime sponsor)
  • HB 186-FN-A (2001): establishing a pesticides training program. (prime sponsor)
  • HB 175-FN-LOCAL (2001): (New Title) relative to the amount of the homestead right. (prime sponsor)
  • HB 115 (2001): relative to automated telemarketing practices. (prime sponsor)
  • HB 106 (2001): relative to honey products. (prime sponsor)
  • HB 105-FN-A (2001): establishing an agricultural nutrient management program and making an appropriation therefor.
  • HCR 35 (2000): urging the United States Food and Drug Administration to defer its proposed rules requiring pasteurization for apple cider and consider adoption of alternative processing standards.
  • HB 542-FN-A (2000): (2nd New Title) repealing the legacies and succession tax.
  • HB 52 (2000): exempting certain currants and gooseberries resistant to the white pine blister rust organism from restrictions on planting in control areas. (prime sponsor)
  • HB 51 (2000): (New Title) providing for the voluntary registration of commercial maple producers and maple packers. (prime sponsor)
  • HB 310 (2000): (New Title) providing that the department of agriculture, markets, and food shall not conduct meat inspections unless and until such time as the United States Department of Agriculture withdraws its meat inspection program from the state. (prime sponsor)
  • HB 209 (2000): relative to authorizing the consideration of traditional village patterns in local zoning ordinances. (prime sponsor)
  • HB 1386 (2000): designating segments of the Souhegan River as protected under the rivers management and protection program.
  • HB 1305-LOCAL (2000): exempting water withdrawals for normal agricultural operations from certain restrictions on water withdrawals.
  • HB 1259-FN (2000): (New Title) establishing a coordinated and comprehensive effort by state agencies for economic growth, resource protection, and planning policy to encourage smart growth, and relative to a certain project in Seabrook, New Hampshire. (prime sponsor)
  • HB 1258-FN (2000): relative to invasive plant, insect, and fungal species.
  • HB 1172 (2000): providing staggered terms for agricultural advisory board members.
  • HB 1166 (2000): relative to confidentiality and information collection by the department of agriculture, markets, and food. (prime sponsor)
  • HB 704-FN-A (1999): (New Title) establishing a wildlife damage control program and making an appropriation therefor. (prime sponsor)
  • HB 546-FN-A (1999): providing partial funding to support research monitoring groundwater at reclamation sites that have had sludge applied.
  • HB 504 (1999): establishing a sludge advisory board and relative to sludge quality standards. (prime sponsor)
  • HB 306 (1999): relative to discoverability of environmental audit reports. (prime sponsor)
  • HB 298-FN (1999): relative to the authority of the executive director of fish and game to prevent damage to commercial agricultural crops through wildlife reduction or management. (prime sponsor)
  • HB 288 (1999): relative to the committee to study land management, protection of farmland, rural character, environmental quality and sprawl. (prime sponsor)
  • HB 231 (1999): relative to approval of applications in the charter schools pilot program.
  • HB 229 (1999): changing the registration fee requirement of the commercial feed law. (prime sponsor)
  • HB 225 (1999): relative to the definitions of the terms "farm," "agriculture," and "farming."
  • HB 222 (1999): preempting local regulation of biosolids or sludge disposal by landfilling or landspreading. (prime sponsor)
  • HB 208-FN (1999): establishing a coordinated and comprehensive effort by state agencies for economic growth, resource protection, and planning policy to deter sprawl. (prime sponsor)
  • HB 207-FN-A (1999): directing the office of state planning to conduct a study of the effects of sprawl in the state and making an appropriation therefor.

Recent Votes

  • June 27, 2002: HR, REPS HESS & FRANCOEUR: SUSP RULES TO CONSIDER HB 2002 — Nay
  • June 27, 2002: REP SOLTANI: POSTPONE ROLL CALL ON APPEAL OF DECISION OF CHAIR — Yea
  • June 27, 2002: UPHOLD DECISION OF CHAIR — Nay
  • June 27, 2002: REP CLEMONS: 15 MINUTE RECESS — Yea
  • May 22, 2002: HB298, OVERRIDE GOVERNOR'S VETO — Nay
  • May 22, 2002: HB420, OVERRIDE GOVERNOR'S VETO — Nay
  • May 22, 2002: HB465, OVERRIDE GOVERNOR'S VETO — Nay
  • May 22, 2002: HB622, OVERRIDE GOVERNOR'S VETO — Nay
  • May 22, 2002: HB1366, OVERRIDE GOVERNOR'S VETO — Nay
  • May 22, 2002: HB1393, OVERRIDE GOVERNOR'S VETO — Nay
  • May 2, 2002: HB1235, REP VAILLANCOURT: LAY ON THE TABLE — Yea
  • May 2, 2002: HB1235, ADOPT CONF COMM REPORT — Nay
  • April 25, 2002: SB352, REPS KURK & FOSTER: SUSP RULES FOR REPORT — Yea
  • April 25, 2002: SB352, QUESTION: SECS 14-15 — Yea
  • April 25, 2002: HB672, REP HUNT: NONCON WITH SEN AM REQUEST CONF COMM — Nay
  • April 25, 2002: HB1348, REP PACKARD: NONCONC WITH SEN AM REQUEST CONF COMM — Nay
  • April 25, 2002: HB1348, REP MCGUIRK: CONCUR WITH SENATE AMENDMENT — Yea
  • April 17, 2002: SB34, COMMITTEE AMENDMENT{3178} — Yea
  • April 17, 2002: SB112, COMMITTEE MAJORITY REPORT: OTP/AM — Nay
  • April 17, 2002: SB425, REP BURLING: SPECIAL ORDER TO LATER IN DAY — Yea
  • April 17, 2002: SB455, COMMITTEE REPORT: OTP/AM — Yea
  • April 17, 2002: SB336, REPS STRITCH AND SCANLAN: FLOOR AMENDMENT{3536h} — Nay
  • April 17, 2002: SB336, REPS BRAGDON AND F DAVIS: FLOOR AMENDMENT{3481h} — Yea
  • April 17, 2002: SB336, REP ARNDT: OTP/AM — Nay
  • April 17, 2002: SB425, QUESTION: SEC. 3 OF BILL — Nay
  • April 17, 2002: SB410, COMMITTEE MAJORITY AMENDMENT{3415} — Nay
  • April 17, 2002: SB410, COMMITTEE MINORITY AMENDMENT{3231} — Yea
  • April 17, 2002: SB440, COMMITTEE REPORT: OTP — Not Voting/Excused
  • April 4, 2002: SB332, COMMITTEE REPORT: REFER FOR INTERIM STUDY — Nay
  • April 4, 2002: SB315, REP ROBERTS ET AL: FLOOR AMENDMENT{3140} — Nay
  • April 4, 2002: SB315, REP MCGUIRK: LAY ON THE TABLE — Nay
  • April 4, 2002: SB315, REP ROYCE: REFER FOR INTERIM STUDY — Yea
  • April 4, 2002: SB319, COMMITTEE REPORT: OTP — Nay
  • April 4, 2002: HB1449, REP SPANG ET AL: FLOOR AMENDMENT{3236} — Yea
  • March 21, 2002: HB1483, COMMITTEE REPORT: OTP/AM — Yea
  • March 21, 2002: SB1, REP MIRSKI: RECOMMIT TO COMMITTEE — Yea
  • March 21, 2002: SB1, COMMITTEE REPORT: OTP — Nay
  • March 21, 2002: HB1100, COMMITTEE REPORT: OTP/AM — Nay
  • March 21, 2002: HB1464, COMMITTEE MAJORITY REPORT: ITL — Yea
  • March 21, 2002: HB1449, COMMITTEE MAJORITY AMENDMENT{2881} — Nay
  • March 21, 2002: HB1273, COMMITTEE REPORT: OTP/AM — Yea
  • March 7, 2002: HB1346, COMMITTEE MAJORITY REPORT: OTP/AM — Yea
  • March 7, 2002: HB1346, REP MIRSKI: LAY ON THE TABLE — Nay
  • March 7, 2002: HB1446, COMMITTEE MAJORITY REPORT: ITL — Nay
  • March 7, 2002: HB1446, REP ESTABROOK: FLOOR AMENDMENT{2736} — Nay
  • March 7, 2002: HB1446, COMMITTEE MINORITY REPORT: OTP — Yea
  • March 7, 2002: HB1461, COMMITTEE REPORT: OTP/AM — Yea
  • March 7, 2002: CACR30, COMMITTEE MAJORITY REPORT: OTP — Nay
  • March 7, 2002: CACR30, COMMITTEE MINORITY REPORT: ITL — Yea
  • March 7, 2002: HB672, COMMITTEE MAJORITY REPORT: ITL — Nay
  • March 7, 2002: HB1242, COMMITTEE MAJORITY REPORT: OTP/AM — Nay
  • March 7, 2002: CACR35, REP MIRSKI: FLOOR AMENDMENT{2869} — Nay
  • March 7, 2002: CACR35, COMMITTEE MAJORITY REPORT: ADOPT AS AMENDED — Nay
  • March 7, 2002: HB1462, COMMITTEE MAJORITY REPORT: REFER FOR INTERIM STUDY — Nay
  • March 7, 2002: HB1462, COMMITTEE MINORITY REPORT: OTP — Yea
  • March 6, 2002: HB1233, COMMITTEE REPORT: ITL — Yea
  • March 6, 2002: HB1376, COMMITTEE REPORT: ITL — Nay
  • March 6, 2002: HB1420, COMMITTEE MAJORITY REPORT: OTP/AM — Nay
  • March 6, 2002: HB1320, REP AKINS: FLOOR AMENDMENT{2849} — Yea
  • March 6, 2002: HB2000, COMMITTEE AMENDMENT{2823} SECS. 2 & 3 — Nay
  • March 6, 2002: HB1273, COMMITTEE MINORITY AMENDMENT{2785} — Yea
  • March 6, 2002: HB1273, COMMITTEE REPORT: OTP/AM — Nay
  • March 6, 2002: HB1357, COMMITTEE MAJORITY REPORT: OTP/AM — Nay
  • March 6, 2002: HB1268, COMMITTEE MINORITY AMENDMENT{2845} — Nay
  • March 6, 2002: HB1268, COMMITTEE REPORT: OTP/AM — Yea
  • March 6, 2002: HB1450, COMMITTEE MAJORITY REPORT: OTP/AM — Nay
  • March 6, 2002: HB1450, REP MCGUIRK: REFER FOR INTERIM STUDY — Nay
  • February 21, 2002: HB1363, COMMITTEE MAJORITY REPORT: ITL — Nay
  • February 21, 2002: HB1363, REP BURLING: OTP — Yea
  • February 21, 2002: HB1423, COMMITTEE MAJORITY AMENDMENT{2606}, SECS 1 THROUGH 5 — Nay
  • February 21, 2002: HB1423, COMMITTEE MAJORITY REPORT: OTP/AM — Nay
  • February 21, 2002: HB1416, COMMITTEE REPORT: ITL — Yea
  • February 21, 2002: HB1100, COMMITTEE MAJORITY REPORT: OTP/AM — Nay
  • February 21, 2002: HB1405, COMMITTEE REPORT: OTP/AM — Nay
  • February 21, 2002: HB1187, COMMITTEE AMENDMENT{2465} — Yea
  • February 21, 2002: HB1394, COMMITTEE REPORT: ITL — Yea
  • February 14, 2002: HB420, COMMITTEE MAJORITY REPORT: OTP/AM — Nay
  • February 14, 2002: HB1000, COMMITTEE REPORT: OTP/AM — Yea
  • February 14, 2002: HB1330, COMMITTEE REPORT: ITL — Yea
  • February 14, 2002: HB1178, COMMITTEE MAJORITY REPORT: ITL — Yea
  • February 14, 2002: HB1209, COMMITTEE REPORT: ITL — Yea
  • February 14, 2002: HB1236, COMMITTEE MAJORITY REPORT: OTP/AM — Nay
  • February 14, 2002: HB1249, COMMITTEE REPORT: OTP/AM — Yea
  • February 14, 2002: HB1380, COMMITTEE MAJORITY REPORT: ITL — Yea
  • February 14, 2002: HR21, REP PETER SULLIVAN: FLOOR AMENDMENT{2565} — Yea
  • February 14, 2002: HR21, COMMITTEE REPORT: ADOPT AS AMENDED — Nay
  • January 31, 2002: HB675, COMMITTEE MAJORITY REPORT: OTP/AM — Yea
  • January 31, 2002: HB589, REP BAROODY: FLOOR AMENDMENT{2320} — Nay
  • January 31, 2002: HB1353, COMMITTEE MAJORITY REPORT: ITL — Yea
  • January 31, 2002: HB1353, REP DICKINSON: LAY ON THE TABLE — Nay
  • January 31, 2002: HB1404, COMMITTEE MAJORITY REPORT: ITL — Yea
  • January 24, 2002: HB1280, COMMITTEE REPORT: ITL — Yea
  • January 17, 2002: SB31, COMMITTEE REPORT: ITL — Nay
  • January 17, 2002: HB298, REP BURLING: FLOOR AMENDMENT{2176} — Yea
  • January 17, 2002: HB298, COMMITTEE REPORT: OTP/AM — Yea
  • January 17, 2002: CACR21, COMMITTEE REPORT: ADOPT AS AMENDED — Yea
  • January 17, 2002: CACR21, REP HERMAN: ITL — Nay
  • January 17, 2002: HB762, COMMITTEE REPORT: ITL — Nay
  • January 17, 2002: HCR14, REP SAPARETO: FLOOR AMENDMENT{2210} — Nay
  • January 17, 2002: HCR14, COMMITTEE REPORT: ADOPT AS AMENDED — Nay

And 430 earlier votes.

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