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Former Representative Jim Ryan (D - Merr 2)

On record 2005 to 2008. This page is their record in the New Hampshire General Court; it is not a current directory entry.

  • Recorded roll call votes: Nay 231, Yea 378
  • Bills sponsored: 40, 15 as prime sponsor

Bills Sponsored

  • SB 364 (2008): relative to vehicle weight tolerance.
  • HB 76-FN (2008): creating an environmental policy for New Hampshire. (prime sponsor)
  • HB 467 (2008): (New Title) establishing a state climate change policy commission and developing a climate action plan and to report on climate change issues. (prime sponsor)
  • HB 295 (2008): (2nd New Title) relative to fuel quality standards and testing requirements for combustion of biomass and biomass fuel and clarifying a definition of provider of electricity.
  • HB 186-FN (2008): relative to random recounts.
  • HB 185-FN (2008): (New Title) relative to economic revitalization zone credits. (prime sponsor)
  • HB 1638 (2008): establishing an oversight commission on motor vehicle fines.
  • HB 1595-FN (2008): relative to driver's license renewals by persons engaged in overseas government service. (prime sponsor)
  • HB 1461 (2008): relative to penalties for vehicle overload. (prime sponsor)
  • HB 1404-FN (2008): relative to liability insurance for passenger rail service.
  • HB 1356-FN (2008): prohibiting the use of certain information to underwrite motor vehicle insurance coverage.
  • HB 1351 (2008): relative to fish and game license and registration agents.
  • HB 1298-FN (2008): making changes to the veterinary/medical/optometric education program. (prime sponsor)
  • HB 1261 (2008): establishing a commission to investigate a program in which senior year of high school may be spent at a community college.
  • SB 82-FN (2007): reorganizing the administration and governance of the regional community-technical college system.
  • SB 216 (2007): relative to certification of employee organizations to represent public employees.
  • HR 9 (2007): supporting the U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement.
  • HB 498-FN-A (2007): (3rd New Title) dedicating certain OHRV and snowmobile unrefunded road tolls to the fish and game department, and relative to the land and community heritage investment program administrative fund.
  • HB 431 (2007): establishing a commission to study academic and financial requirements for recipients of Pell grants. (prime sponsor)
  • HB 430 (2007): establishing a committee to study a constitutional amendment to guarantee a right to personal privacy. (prime sponsor)
  • HB 408 (2007): establishing a council for the homeless.
  • HB 311 (2007): (New Title) establishing a committee to review liability issues for commuter rail operations.
  • HB 199-FN-A (2007): making an appropriation for the restoration of the Sawyer House at the Daniel Webster birthplace.
  • HB 632-FN-LOCAL (2006): creating an environmental policy for New Hampshire. (prime sponsor)
  • HB 538 (2006): (New Title) relative to deconstruction of structures.
  • HB 1756 (2006): relative to alternative regulation of small incumbent local exchange carriers.
  • HB 1660-FN (2006): regulating identity theft.
  • HB 1507 (2006): requiring the department of environmental services to report on and make recommendations on global warming issues in New Hampshire. (prime sponsor)
  • HB 1459-FN-A (2006): (2nd New Title) AN ACT making an appropriation to the department of regional community-technical colleges for tuition maintenance; authorizing the temporary use of the department of regional community-technical colleges nonlapsing account for tuition maintenance; and authorizing the use of the department of regional community-technical colleges' nonlapsing account for construction of a health education center nursing wing at the New Hampshire technical institute of Concord.
  • HB 1376 (2006): relative to the duties of the legislative oversight committee on electric utility restructuring. (prime sponsor)
  • HB 1374 (2006): establishing a committee to require personal information holders to disclose a security breach. (prime sponsor)
  • HB 1146 (2006): (2nd New Title) AN ACT establishing a state energy policy commission.
  • SB 79 (2005): relative to the governance of the regional community-technical colleges.
  • SB 199 (2005): establishing exemptions from certain administrative requirements for the department of regional community-technical colleges.
  • HB 665-FN-LOCAL (2005): relative to the applicable minimum wage for hourly employees.
  • HB 58 (2005): (New Title) relative to the effective date for the elimination of certain substances from gasoline supplies and removing a certain requirement relative to opting out of the reformulated gasoline program.
  • HB 384 (2005): prohibiting mandatory overtime. (prime sponsor)
  • HB 371 (2005): relative to mercury reduction.
  • HB 231 (2005): establishing a commission to study issues relating to personal privacy. (prime sponsor)
  • HB 127 (2005): establishing a committee to study the creation of a satellite campus of the regional community-technical college system in the city of Franklin. (prime sponsor)

Recent Votes

  • June 4, 2008: HR24, MOTION TO REMOVE FROM TABLE (REP HALL) — Nay
  • June 4, 2008: SB321, C OF C REPORT #2132 AS PASSED BY SENATE + NEW AM — Yea
  • June 4, 2008: SB482, C OF C REPORT #2004 HOUSE AMS + NEW AM — Yea
  • June 4, 2008: SB530, SHALL RULE OF THE CHAIR BE UPHELD (REP HESS) — Yea
  • June 4, 2008: SSHR1, FLAM 2149H REP HESS — Nay
  • June 4, 2008: SSHR1, ADJOURNMENT (REP M.CLARK) — Nay
  • June 4, 2008: SSHR1, ADOPTION OF RULES — Yea
  • June 4, 2008: SSHB1, MOTION TO ADJOURN (REP HESS) — Nay
  • June 4, 2008: SSHB1, DIVIDE SECTIONS 1, 2, 3 & 4 OUT (REP BERGIN) — Nay
  • June 4, 2008: SSHB1, FLAM 2152H (REP KURK) — Nay
  • June 4, 2008: SSHB1, DIVIDE SECTION 7 OUT (REP HESS) — Nay
  • June 4, 2008: SSHB1, OUGHT TO PASS — Yea
  • May 21, 2008: HB1436, CONCUR (REP GORMAN) — Yea
  • May 21, 2008: HB1309, CONCUR (REP ALMY) — Yea
  • May 21, 2008: HR28, FLAM 1913H (REP VAILLANCOURT) — Nay
  • May 21, 2008: HR24, MOTION TO REMOVE FROM TABLE (REP WINTERS) — Nay
  • May 15, 2008: SB482, FLAM 1786H (REP SPLAINE) — Nay
  • May 15, 2008: SB342, OTP / AM 1657H — Yea
  • May 15, 2008: SB482, FLAM 1786H (REP SPLAINE) — Yea
  • May 15, 2008: HR25, LAID ON TABLE (REP HUNT) — Yea
  • May 14, 2008: SB337, OTP / AM 1658H NT — Yea
  • May 14, 2008: SB463, OTP / AM 1702H NT — Yea
  • May 14, 2008: CACR34, AM 1795H NT — Yea
  • May 14, 2008: CACR34, FLAM 1812H (REP SNOW) — Nay
  • May 14, 2008: CACR34, LAID ON TABLE (REP D.EATON) — Yea
  • May 14, 2008: CACR34, FLAM 1856H NT (REP PACKARD) — Nay
  • May 14, 2008: CACR34, FLAM 1847H NT (REP INGBRETSON) — Nay
  • May 14, 2008: CACR34, INDEFINITELY POSTPONDED (REP M.CLARK) — Nay
  • May 14, 2008: CACR34, OTP — Nay
  • May 14, 2008: CACR34, PRINT ENTIRE DEBATE IN PERMANENT JOURNAL (REP BERGIN) — Yea
  • May 14, 2008: SB321, FLAM 1855H (VAILLANCOURT) — Nay
  • May 14, 2008: SB321, FLAM 1879H (REP WEYLER) — Nay
  • May 7, 2008: SB312, RFS — Yea
  • May 7, 2008: SB312, OTP (REP L.QUANDT) — Nay
  • May 7, 2008: SB540, OTP / AM 1565H — Yea
  • May 7, 2008: SB530, DEBATE PLACED IN PERMANENT JOURNAL (REP WENDELBOE) — Nay
  • May 7, 2008: SB530, OTP / AM 1564H — Yea
  • May 7, 2008: SB539, MAJ AM 1574H — Yea
  • May 7, 2008: SB539, FLAM 1684H (REP VAILLANCOURT) — Nay
  • May 7, 2008: SB539, OTP / AM 1574H — Yea
  • May 7, 2008: SB539, RECONSIDERATION (REP D.EATON) — Nay
  • April 16, 2008: SB530, OTP/AM 1268H — Yea
  • April 16, 2008: SB539, OTP / AM 1269H — Yea
  • April 16, 2008: SB528, OTP / AM 1284H — Yea
  • April 16, 2008: SB519, OTP / AM 1303H — Yea
  • April 16, 2008: SB502, OTP — Yea
  • April 16, 2008: SB363, OTP / AM 1182H — Yea
  • April 16, 2008: HR24, LAID ON TABLE (REP D.EATON) — Yea
  • March 19, 2008: HB1472, OTP / AM 0711H — Yea
  • March 19, 2008: HB1439, ITL — Yea
  • March 19, 2008: HB1434, OTP / AM 0770H — Yea
  • March 19, 2008: HB432, MAJ AM 0895H — Yea
  • March 19, 2008: HB781, MAJ AM 0859H — Yea
  • March 19, 2008: HB781, MIN AM 0915H (REP VAILLANCOURT) — Nay
  • March 19, 2008: HB1426, OTP — Yea
  • March 19, 2008: HB1427, OTP — Nay
  • March 19, 2008: HB1427, ITL — Nay
  • March 19, 2008: HB1496, RULING OF CHAIR UPHELD (REP VAILLANCOURT) — Yea
  • March 19, 2008: HB1496, OTP — Yea
  • March 19, 2008: HB1594, OTP / AM 1025H — Yea
  • March 19, 2008: HB1644, OTP / AM 1018H — Yea
  • March 18, 2008: CACR28, ITL — Yea
  • March 18, 2008: HB1628, OTP / AM 0651H — Yea
  • March 18, 2008: HB1360, ITL — Yea
  • March 18, 2008: HB1547, ITL — Yea
  • March 18, 2008: HB686, OTP / AM 0687H NT AND 1021H — Nay
  • March 18, 2008: HB1623, OTP/ AM 0625H NT — Yea
  • March 18, 2008: HB1645, OTP / AM 1031H — Yea
  • March 18, 2008: HB1146, ITL — Yea
  • March 18, 2008: HB1589, ITL — Yea
  • March 18, 2008: HB1127, MIN AM 0540H (REP BEDRICK) — Nay
  • March 18, 2008: HB1127, OTP / AM 0080H — Yea
  • March 18, 2008: HB1436, LAY ON TABLE (REP PRICE) — Nay
  • March 18, 2008: HB1436, OTP / AM 0682H — Yea
  • March 18, 2008: HB1354, ITL — Yea
  • March 13, 2008: HB1160, ITL — Yea
  • March 13, 2008: HB1495, ITL — Yea
  • March 13, 2008: HB1498, ITL — Yea
  • March 13, 2008: HB1517, ITL — Yea
  • March 13, 2008: HB1588, ITL — Yea
  • March 12, 2008: HB1185, ITL — Yea
  • March 12, 2008: HB1192, OTP/AM 0509H NT — Yea
  • March 12, 2008: HB1543, ITL — Yea
  • March 12, 2008: HB1455, ITL — Yea
  • March 12, 2008: CACR24, ITL — Yea
  • March 12, 2008: HB1255, ITL — Yea
  • March 5, 2008: HB1309, OTP — Yea
  • March 5, 2008: HB1414, OTP — Yea
  • March 5, 2008: CACR23, ITL — Yea
  • March 5, 2008: HB1296, ITL — Yea
  • March 5, 2008: HB1602, ITL — Yea
  • March 5, 2008: HB1614, ITL — Yea
  • March 5, 2008: CACR21, ITL — Yea
  • March 5, 2008: CACR29, ITL — Yea
  • March 5, 2008: HB1261, AM 0667H NT — Yea
  • March 5, 2008: HB1483, ITL — Nay
  • February 13, 2008: HB1391, RFS — Nay
  • February 6, 2008: HB1504, MAJORITY COMM. REPORT: ITL — Yea
  • February 6, 2008: HB1509, OTP/AM 0319H — Yea
  • February 6, 2008: HB1403, ITL — Yea

And 509 earlier votes.

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