Former Representative John Pratt (D - Ches 2)

On record 1999 to 2006. This page is their record in the New Hampshire General Court; it is not a current directory entry.

• Recorded roll call votes: Nay 481, Yea 440, Not Voting/Excused 113, Not Voting/Not Excused 27
• Bills sponsored: 89, 16 as prime sponsor

Bills Sponsored

• HR 13 (2006): (New Title) condemning the genocide in the Darfur region of the Sudan and calling upon the President, the State Department and Congress to unite the international community to end the genocide in Darfur.
• HB 715-FN-A (2006): relative to the regulation of bingo and lucky 7.
• HB 648-FN (2006): relative to reducing frivolous medical injury actions.
• HB 391 (2006): (New Title) relative to election affidavits.
• HB 1767-FN-A (2006): authorizing the state acquisition of real estate destroyed in the October 2005 floods, establishing a commission to determine the appropriate use of the property, and making an appropriation therefor.
• HB 1686-FN (2006): relative to the allocation of certain off highway recreational vehicle fees.
• HB 1443 (2006): relative to priorities for development of all terrain (ATV) and trail bike trails.
• HB 1338 (2006): relative to medical malpractice insurance rates.
• HB 1329-FN-A-LOCAL (2006): repealing the provision allowing operators to retain 3 percent of meals and rooms taxes collected.
• HB 1186 (2006): relative to the location of the Cheshire county superior court. (prime sponsor)
• HB 1167-FN-A (2006): (2nd New Title) relative to the department of transportation pilot program for effective investment of state highway mitigation funds and making an appropriation to the land and community heritage investment program.
• HR 10 (2005): urging increased consideration and preservation of local authority in international trade and investment agreements.
• HB 710-FN (2005): (New Title) relative to the 5-year valuation of municipal assessments, and relative to the total property valuation for the town of Roxbury.
• HB 702-FN (2005): (New Title) relative to the screening and mediation of medical malpractice claims.
• HB 686-FN (2005): relative to the judicial branch family division.
• HB 64 (2005): establishing a committee to study assessing local education costs on a county-wide basis.
• HB 633-FN-A (2005): relative to companies which do not provide health insurance to their employees and continually appropriating a special fund.
• HB 51 (2005): establishing a committee to study the feasibility of imposing a luxury sales tax and an amusements tax.
• HB 49 (2005): establishing an independent legislative redistricting commission.
• HB 48 (2005): establishing a committee to study ballot reform.
• HB 31-FN-A (2005): relative to state matching funds for Federal Emergency Management Agency disaster assistance grants and making an appropriation therefor.
• HB 289-FN (2005): relative to registration fees for lobbying and lobbyists and requiring registration of employers of lobbyists.
• HB 207-FN (2005): relative to the appointment of a guardian ad litem in adoption proceedings.
• HB 189 (2005): establishing an international trade commission to investigate and report on the effects of international trade agreements on New Hampshire self-governance.
• CACR 6 (2005): relating to state representative and state senate districts. Providing that there shall be 36 senate districts and 4 house districts within each senate district. (prime sponsor)
• CACR 5 (2005): relating to the size of the house of representatives and compensation of the legislature. Providing that the number of representatives be reduced to 100 and that compensation shall be an average daily wage of the citizens of the state.
• CACR 3 (2005): relating to state income tax revenue. Providing that all state income tax revenue shall be dedicated to the funding of public education.
• SB 437 (2004): relative to unemployment compensation.
• SB 436-FN-LOCAL (2004): relative to the Claremont and Newport district courts.
• HB 771-FN (2004): repealing exemptions to the consumer protection act.
• HB 643-FN (2004): (3rd New Title) relative to the family division of the courts, reducing the number of superior court justices, and relative to marital masters.
• HB 607-FN (2004): relative to the determination of just compensation in eminent domain proceedings.
• HB 1417 (2004): relative to examination of persons called as jurors in civil cases. (prime sponsor)
• HB 1407 (2004): granting limited law enforcement authority to certain federal officers stationed in New Hampshire.
• HB 1349-FN-LOCAL (2004): relative to medical parole.
• SB 91 (2003): extending the committee to study eminent domain proceedings and adding certain duties.
• SB 90-FN (2003): increasing the cap for relocation assistance for businesses in eminent domain proceedings.
• SB 48 (2003): exempting housing for older persons from certain age discrimination laws.
• SB 161 (2003): relative to procedures in eminent domain proceedings.
• SB 131 (2003): (New Title) establishing a committee to study the system of health care safety net providers in New Hampshire, and options for improving access to primary and preventive care for the uninsured and underinsured.
• SB 129 (2003): relative to the board of tax and land appeals and eminent domain cases.
• HB 798 (2003): relative to gifts by fiduciaries.
• HB 77 (2003): establishing a committee to study the process of de novo appeals from the district courts. (prime sponsor)
• HB 623-FN-A (2003): repealing RSA 77, relative to taxation of incomes.
• HB 606 (2003): (New Title) establishing a right-to-know study commission and relative to meetings open to the public.
• HB 362-LOCAL (2003): relative to approval of certain capital and operating costs in the Fall Mountain regional school district.
• HB 337-FN-A-LOCAL (2003): relative to state funding of county correctional facilities.
• HB 306 (2003): relative to the procedure for determining the order of names on the general election ballot.
• HB 255-LOCAL (2003): authorizing the creation of special purpose village districts within the Fall Mountain regional school district.
• HB 186 (2003): relative to the effect of divorce or annulment upon trusts. (prime sponsor)
• HB 185 (2003): relative to pretermitted heirs. (prime sponsor)
• HB 184 (2003): relative to distribution upon intestacy. (prime sponsor)
• HB 183 (2003): relative to a distribution from a decedent's estate to a minor. (prime sponsor)
• HB 182 (2003): relative to unclaimed shares and advancements to heirs. (prime sponsor)
• HB 181 (2003): (New Title) relative to limiting landowner liability for giving permission for horseback riding. (prime sponsor)
• HB 130 (2003): establishing a judicial nominating commission.
• CACR 7 (2003): relating to state representative and state senate districts. Providing that there shall be 36 senate districts and 4 house districts within each senate district. (prime sponsor)
• CACR 3 (2003): relating to the nomination and appointment of judicial officers. Providing that the governor shall nominate and by and with the advice and consent of the senate, shall appoint judges of the supreme, superior, and district courts, the chief justice of the supreme court, chief justice of the superior court, and the administrative justice of the district court.
• CACR 14 (2003): relating to the funding of public education. Providing that the state shall fund an amount not less than 30 percent of the total average statewide expenditure for public education for kindergarten through grade 12 during the previous biennium and that the general court shall have the power to apportion this amount by statute; that the state shall assure the opportunity for an adequate public education for all pupils in the state in grades kindergarten through 12; and that no tax in any form on the value of real property shall be used to fund the state's obligation to cherish and support public education.
• HB 608-FN (2002): establishing a judicial ethics advisory committee.
• HB 582 (2002): establishing a judicial nominating commission.
• HB 466 (2002): relative to the selection of replacement justices for supreme court justices who are disqualified to hear cases.
• HB 1411-FN-A (2002): (2nd New Title) making an appropriation to the judicial branch for district and probate court security.
• HB 1309 (2002): prohibiting arrests for violation-level offenses.
• HB 1147 (2002): relative to the annulment of certain criminal offenses committed under the laws of another jurisdiction.
• HB 1100-FN-A (2002): (New Title) relative to the judicial conduct commission and making an appropriation therefor.
• SB 114 (2001): (New Title) establishing a committee to study issues relating to judicial reform, and making an appropriation therefor.
• HB 766-FN-A-LOCAL (2001): establishing a New Hampshire education tax on consumption as a source of funding for education, reducing the rates of other state taxes, and increasing certain exemptions to the interest and dividends tax.
• HB 637-FN (2001): (New Title) requiring annual training for members of the workers' compensation appeals board.
• HB 624 (2001): establishing a committee to study requiring mandatory ethics seminars for judges.
• HB 588 (2001): relative to examination of persons called as jurors.
• HB 339 (2001): prohibiting the taking of deer by baiting.
• HB 261-FN (2001): including the judiciary as a public employer under the public employee labor relations act. (prime sponsor)
• HB 244 (2001): establishing a commission to examine the size, compensation, and staff requirements of the legislature.
• HB 170-FN-A (2001): (New Title) relative to state fees, funds, revenues, and expenditures.
• SB 403-FN-A (2000): making an appropriation to the department of agriculture, markets, and food for the inspection of apiaries and honeybee swarms.
• SB 338 (2000): relative to trustee process.
• HB 580-FN-A-LOCAL (2000): (New Title) authorizing a grant from funds appropriated to the joint promotional program for the purpose of marketing the Connecticut river area as a travel and tourism destination.
• HB 1546-FN-A-LOCAL (2000): establishing a New Hampshire education tax on consumption as a source of funding for education, reducing the rates of other state taxes, and increasing certain exemptions to the interest and dividends tax.
• HB 1535-FN (2000): (New Title) relative to creation of a commission to study the state's increasing appellate caseload and solutions to the increasing appellate caseload.
• HB 1430 (2000): establishing a committee to study the circumstances and investigations of the deaths of Janet and Steven Dow.
• HB 1402-LOCAL (2000): relative to the transfer of excess medical reserve funds to the capital reserve fund. (prime sponsor)
• SB 91 (1999): designating segments of the Cold River as protected under the rivers management and protection program.
• SB 189-FN (1999): relative to the establishment of a civil rights act.
• HB 506-FN-LOCAL (1999): relative to voter registration. (prime sponsor)
• HB 451 (1999): (New Title) establishing a committee to study first and second mortgage home loans.
• HB 217-LOCAL (1999): relative to conditions on net income for an elderly exemption from property taxes. (prime sponsor)
• HB 116-FN-A-LOCAL (1999): establishing an alternative consumption tax as a source of funding for education and making an appropriation therefor.
• HJR 22 (1998): requesting the government of the United States to adopt and ratify the international treaty to ban land mines. (prime sponsor)

Recent Votes

• September 26, 2006: HR, REP PEPINO: FL AM {2410H} — Nay
• September 26, 2006: HR, REP COBURN: FL AM {2414H} — Nay
• September 26, 2006: SB1, REP SOLTANI: ADOPT SECTION 1 OF FL AM 2421H — Nay
• September 26, 2006: SB1, REP O'NEIL: OTPA — Nay
• June 28, 2006: HB345, OVERRIDE GOVERNOR'S VETO — Nay
• June 28, 2006: HB1566, OVERRIDE GOVERNOR'S VETO — Nay
• May 24, 2006: SB403, ADOPT COMMITTEE OF CONFERENCE REPORT — Nay
• May 24, 2006: REP O'NEIL: RULES SUSPENSION - INTRODUCTION OF RESOLUTION — Yea
• May 24, 2006: HR25, REP ALBERT: OTP — Yea
• May 24, 2006: HB656, UPHOLD RULING OF THE CHAIR — Yea
• May 24, 2006: HB656, REP LUND: LAY ON TABLE — Nay
• May 24, 2006: HB656, ADOPT COMMITTEE OF CONFERENCE REPORT — Yea
• May 24, 2006: HB656, REP MOONEY: RECONSIDERATION — Nay
• May 24, 2006: HB678, ADOPT COMMITTEE OF CONFERENCE REPORT — Yea
• May 24, 2006: HB1331, ADOPT COMMITTEE OF CONFERENCE REPORT — Nay
• May 24, 2006: HB1752, REP MIRSKI: LAY ON TABLE — Not Voting/Excused
• May 24, 2006: REP CRAIG & DEJOIE: RULES SUSPENSION - INTRODUCTION OF RESOLUTION — Not Voting/Excused
• May 11, 2006: HB1204, REP BATULA: CONCUR WITH SENATE AMENDMENT — Nay
• May 4, 2006: SB22, REP O'NEIL: LAY ON TABLE — Nay
• May 4, 2006: SB306, COMMITTEE REPORT: OTP/AM — Yea
• May 4, 2006: SB322, COMMITTEE REPORT: OTP — Not Voting/Excused
• May 4, 2006: SB131, MAJORITY COMMITTEE REPORT: ITL — Yea
• May 4, 2006: SB380, MAJORITY COMMITTEE REPORT: ITL — Yea
• April 26, 2006: SB318, MAJORITY COMMITTEE REPORT: ITL — Yea
• April 26, 2006: SB318, REP BICKNELL: OTP — Nay
• April 26, 2006: SB348, MAJORITY COMMITTEE REPORT: ITL — Yea
• April 26, 2006: SB348, REP BICKNELL: OTP — Nay
• April 26, 2006: SB351, COMMITTEE REPORT: ITL — Nay
• April 26, 2006: SB190, MAJORITY COMMITTEE REPORT: OTP/AM — Yea
• April 26, 2006: SB386, MAJORITY COMMITTEE REPORT: OTP/AM — Yea
• April 26, 2006: SB24, UPHOLD RULING OF THE CHAIR — Yea
• April 19, 2006: SB324, REP VAILLANCOURT: LAY ON TABLE — Yea
• April 19, 2006: SB294, COMMITTEE AMENDMENT {1680} — Yea
• April 19, 2006: SB294, COMMITTEE REPORT: OTP/ AM — Yea
• April 19, 2006: SB310, REP PACKARD: FLOOR AMENDMENT {1759} — Yea
• April 19, 2006: SB234, COMMITTEE REPORT: OTP — Yea
• April 19, 2006: SCR6, AFTER RECONSIDERATION REVOTE MAJORITY COMMITTEE REPORT: ITL — Nay
• April 19, 2006: SCR6, REP ROBERTS: FLOOR AMENDMENT {1725} — Yea
• April 19, 2006: SCR6, MOTION: OTP/AM — Yea
• April 12, 2006: SB131, MAJORITY COMMITTEE AMENDMENT {1630} — Nay
• April 12, 2006: SB131, MAJORITY COMMITTEE REPORT: OTP/AM — Nay
• April 12, 2006: SB268, MAJORITY COMMITTEE REPORT: OTP — Yea
• April 12, 2006: SB268, REP O'NEIL: REFER FOR INTERIM STUDY — Yea
• April 12, 2006: SB306, MAJORITY COMMITTEE REPORT: OTP — Yea
• April 12, 2006: SCR6, MAJORITY COMMITTEE REPORT: ITL — Nay
• April 12, 2006: HB1229, REP ITSE: REMOVE FROM TABLE — Nay
• March 22, 2006: CACR30, MOTION: OTP/AM — Yea
• March 22, 2006: HB1496, COMMITTEE REPORT: ITL — Yea
• March 22, 2006: HB1692, REP STEVENS: MINORITY AMENDMENT {1425} — Nay
• March 22, 2006: HB1692, REP BATULA: FLOOR AMENDMENT {1487} — Nay
• March 22, 2006: HB1692, MOTION: OTP/AM — Yea
• March 22, 2006: HB1236, REP O'BRIEN: FLOOR AMENDMENT {1476} — Nay
• March 22, 2006: HB1236, MAJORITY COMMITTEE REPORT: OTP — Nay
• March 22, 2006: HB1167, COMMITTEE REPORT: OTP/AM — Yea
• March 22, 2006: HB1384, COMMITTEE REPORT: REFER FOR INTERIM STUDY — Not Voting/Excused
• March 22, 2006: HB1459, COMMITTEE REPORT: OTP/AM — Not Voting/Excused
• March 22, 2006: HB1710, REP O'NEIL: FLOOR AMENDMENT {1512} — Not Voting/Excused
• March 22, 2006: HB1726, REP BUZZELL: LAY ON TABLE — Not Voting/Excused
• March 22, 2006: HB1548, MAJORITY COMMITTEE REPORT: ITL — Not Voting/Excused
• March 22, 2006: HB1138, MOTION: OTP — Not Voting/Excused
• March 22, 2006: HB678, MAJORITY COMMITTEE REPORT: OTP/AM — Not Voting/Excused
• March 21, 2006: HB1177, MAJORITY COMMITTEE AMENDMENT {1172} — Nay
• March 21, 2006: HB1177, REP VAILLANCOURT: FLOOR AMENDMENT {1242} — Yea
• March 21, 2006: HB1177, REP DICKINSON: LAY ON TABLE — Yea
• March 21, 2006: HB1177, REP ROWE: FLOOR AMENDMENT {1432} — Yea
• March 21, 2006: HB1177, MAJORITY COMMITTEE REPORT: OTP/AM — Nay
• March 21, 2006: HB1354, COMMITTEE REPORT ON SECTION 1, PARAGRAPH VIII, ALL SECTION 2: ITL — Yea
• March 21, 2006: HB1649, MAJORITY COMMITTEE REPORT: ITL — Yea
• March 21, 2006: HB1314, MAJORITY COMMITTEE REPORT: ITL — Nay
• March 21, 2006: HB1567, MAJORITY COMMITTEE REPORT: OTP/AM — Nay
• March 21, 2006: HJR20, REP MASON: MINORITY COMMITTEE AMENDMENT {0910} — Nay
• March 21, 2006: CACR34, REP HUTCHINSON: LAY ON TABLE — Nay
• March 21, 2006: CACR34, MAJORITY COMMITTEE REPORT: ITL — Yea
• March 21, 2006: HB1682, MAJORITY COMMITTEE REPORT: ITL — Not Voting/Excused
• March 21, 2006: HB1719, MAJORITY COMMITTEE REPORT: ITL — Not Voting/Excused
• March 21, 2006: HB1558, MAJORITY COMMITTEE REPORT: OTP/AM {0768} — Not Voting/Excused
• March 9, 2006: LIMIT DEBATE TO 4 MINUTES PER SPEAKER — Nay
• March 9, 2006: HB1707, MAJORITY COMMITTEE AMENDMENT {1023} — Nay
• March 9, 2006: HB1707, REP PRICE: LAY ON TABLE — Nay
• March 9, 2006: HB1707, REP W PACKY CAMPBELL: FLOOR AMENDMENT {1293} — Nay
• March 9, 2006: HB1707, REP O'BRIEN: POSTPONE TO DAY CERTAIN - MARCH 22 2006 — Nay
• March 9, 2006: HB1707, REP DANIEL EATON: INDEFINITELY POSTPONE — Yea
• March 9, 2006: HB1566, MAJORITY COMMITTEE REPORT: OTP/AM {1182} — Nay
• March 9, 2006: HB1492, MAJORITY COMMITTEE REPORT: ITL — Yea
• March 9, 2006: HB1768, COMMITTEE REPORT: OTP/AM — Nay
• March 9, 2006: HB1770, COMMITTEE REPORT: ITL — Nay
• March 9, 2006: HB1531, MAJORITY COMMITTEE REPORT: ITL — Nay
• March 9, 2006: HJR25, MAJORITY COMMITTEE REPORT: OTP — Nay
• March 9, 2006: HB1243, MAJORITY REPORT: ITL — Nay
• March 9, 2006: HB1329, MAJORITY COMMITTEE REPORT: ITL — Not Voting/Excused
• March 9, 2006: HB1612, MAJORITY COMMITTEE REPORT: ITL — Not Voting/Excused
• March 8, 2006: CACR37, COMMITTEE REPORT: OTP — Yea
• March 8, 2006: CACR37, REP MCKINNEY: ITL — Nay
• March 8, 2006: HB1666, MAJORITY COMMITTEE REPORT: ITL — Yea
• March 8, 2006: HB1233, COMMITTEE REPORT: ITL — Yea
• March 8, 2006: HB1137, COMMITTEE REPORT: ITL — Yea
• March 8, 2006: HB1481, COMMITTEE REPORT: REFER TO INTERIM STUDY — Nay
• March 8, 2006: HB1506, REP WHALLEY: FLOOR AMENDMENT{1311} — Not Voting/Excused
• March 8, 2006: HB1506, COMMITTEE REPORT: OTP/AM — Not Voting/Excused
• March 8, 2006: HB1582, COMMITTEE REPORT: ITL — Not Voting/Excused

And 961 earlier votes.

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