Former Senator Mary Brown (R - SD17)

On record 1999 to 2009. This page is their record in the New Hampshire General Court; it is not a current directory entry.

• Recorded roll call votes: Yea 88, Nay 109, Not Voting/Excused 2
• Bills sponsored: 70, 12 as prime sponsor

Bills Sponsored

• SR 14 (2000): relative to heating oil prices and the state match requirement for the federal Weatherization Program.
• SCR 3 (2000): rescinding the 1979 call for a federal constitutional convention.
• SB 88-FN (2000): relative to penalties for third driving while intoxicated offenses.
• SB 84 (2000): relative to eligibility for welfare benefits.
• SB 466 (2000): relative to lot rent increases at manufactured housing parks.
• SB 442-FN (2000): establishing an equipment depository and disabled person's employment fund in the department of administrative services. (prime sponsor)
• SB 440 (2000): relative to after market parts. (prime sponsor)
• SB 439-FN (2000): (New Title) relative to motor vehicle offenses resulting in serious bodily injury and relative to driver record information.
• SB 421-FN-A (2000): (New title) establishing a child day care program credit against the business profits tax and the business enterprise tax.
• SB 420-FN (2000): (New Title) increasing the penalty for people convicted of purposeful cruelty to animals taking place in front of children and with intent to intimidate them and relative to criminal threatening.
• SB 416-FN (2000): relative to licensure of dietitians.
• SB 412-FN (2000): adopting the "Court Integrity and Attorney's Independence Act.."
• SB 383 (2000): (New Title) requiring the department of health and human services and insurers to make prompt payments.
• SB 366-FN (2000): requiring an external financial audit of the university system of New Hampshire when the university system requests an appropriation that exceeds the prior appropriation by more than one percent.
• SB 365-LOCAL (2000): [New Title] relative to the adoption of bonds or notes in school districts and municipalities.
• SB 362 (2000): relative to the length of buses and single unit vehicles.
• SB 349 (2000): ( New Title ) relative to the sale of the marital residence in a domestic proceeding.
• SB 317 (2000): allowing driver education correspondence courses to be accepted and approved by the department of safety.
• SB 300 (2000): establishing a committee to study the administrative functions and procedures of the state court system. (prime sponsor)
• SB 143-FN (2000): relative to penalties for incest. (prime sponsor)
• SB 127-FN-A-LOCAL (2000): establishing a local property tax education homestead allowance against school taxes on residential real estate, establishing a fund to reimburse municipalities for such exemptions, and making an appropriation therefor. (prime sponsor)
• HB 542-FN-A (2000): (2nd New Title) repealing the legacies and succession tax.
• HB 466 (2000): establishing a commission to study education options in school districts not maintaining a high school.
• HB 349-FN-LOCAL (2000): relative to revising annual grant amounts made for school building aid.
• HB 311-FN-A (2000): (New Title) relative to grants made under the New Hampshire incentive program.
• HB 280-FN (2000): establishing a point system for the annual moose permit lottery.
• HB 1606-FN (2000): establishing the governor's commission on alcohol and drug abuse prevention, intervention, and treatment.
• HB 1591-FN-LOCAL (2000): establishing a defined contribution retirement option in the New Hampshire retirement system.
• HB 1580-FN-A-LOCAL (2000): allowing businesses to apply the investment tax credit to contributions made to public schools, charter schools, and scholarship funding organizations.
• HB 1540-FN (2000): prohibiting certain transfers of information.
• HB 1499 (2000): relative to credit for American sign language and transliteration as a foreign language.
• HB 1430 (2000): establishing a committee to study the circumstances and investigations of the deaths of Janet and Steven Dow.
• HB 1413 (2000): relative to the rights of ownership of cemetery plots or burial spaces.
• HB 1396 (2000): relative to interest rates on credit cards.
• HB 1381 (2000): relative to the dissolution of the Pawtuckaway cooperative high school district.
• HB 1377 (2000): (2nd New Title) prohibiting managed care organizations from disqualifying certain physicians as providers and relative to the duties of the joint health council.
• HB 1229 (2000): requiring the completion of a rate proceeding prior to legislative approval of a settlement agreement with PSNH.
• HB 1144-LOCAL (2000): (New Title) establishing a committee to study the exemption from property taxes for not-for-profit hospitals.
• HB 1116-FN (2000): prohibiting partial-birth abortions.
• CACR 39 (2000): relating to the funding of public education. Providing that the state shall fund an amount not less than 30 percent of the total annual statewide cost of public education for kindergarten through grade 12 and that the general court shall have the power to apportion this amount by statute; that the state shall support access to a continuum of educational opportunities including early childhood and postsecondary education at a financial level to be deemed appropriate by statute; and that beginning April 1, 2001, no property tax in any form shall be used to fund the state's obligation to cherish and support public education.
• CACR 23 (2000): [New Title] relating to the responsibility and authority of the general court to determine the content, extent, and funding of a public education and the use of monies received from the enactment of a new personal income tax. Providing that (a) If the general court enacts a new personal income tax, all monies received from such income tax and all the interest received on such monies shall, after deducting the necessary costs of administration, be appropriated and used exclusively to fulfill the state's duty to cherish the interest of public schools under article 83 of part second, and no part of such monies shall be transferred or diverted to any other purpose whatsoever. (b) The general court shall have the authority to determine the content, extent, and funding of a public education and that the state may fulfill its responsibility to provide to all citizens the opportunity for a public education by exercising its power to levy assessments, rates, and taxes, or by delegating this power, in whole or part, to a political subdivision; provided that upon delegation, such assessments, rates, and taxes are proportional and reasonable throughout the state or the political subdivision in which they are imposed. (prime sponsor)
• CACR 11 (2000): relating to the use of lottery revenues for educational purposes. Providing that lottery revenues be distributed directly to the governing body of the city or town.
• SR 9 (1999): urging the President and Congress to extend the Older Americans Act for a 3-year period.
• SR 6 (1999): a resolution expressing shock and sympathy to the people of Littleton, Colorado over the killing and injuring of students at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999.
• SR 5 (1999): urging Congress to authorize construction of the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C. to begin immediately.
• SR 10 (1999): urging the United States Congress to pass the Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999. (prime sponsor)
• SB 55 (1999): relative to health insurance for persons who use tobacco products.
• SB 54-FN (1999): relative to partial birth abortion.
• SB 32 (1999): (New Title) exempting employers of certain part-time contractors from providing unemployment compensation, and establishing a study committee to analyze ways to reconcile inconsistencies within the statues with regard to independent contractors. (prime sponsor)
• SB 31-LOCAL (1999): allowing property taxpayers to choose whether to participate in the funding of nonprofit organizations through their property taxes. (prime sponsor)
• SB 184-FN-A (1999): repealing the tax on nuclear station property.
• SB 17 (1999): relative to funeral arrangements. (prime sponsor)
• SB 146 (1999): (New Title) granting district courts exclusive jurisdiction over actions involving certain real estate purchase deposits held in escrow accounts.
• SB 133-FN (1999): establishing a process for reviewing judges. (prime sponsor)
• HB 695-FN-A (1999): providing an exemption under the interest and dividends tax for taxpayers on a limited income.
• HB 670 (1999): establishing an advisory board to study the future of the New Hampshire automated information system's "Webster" Internet site.
• HB 667 (1999): relative to the quorum required for sessions of the supreme court.
• HB 633-FN-LOCAL (1999): establishing parental choice scholarships.
• HB 518-FN-LOCAL (1999): relative to a joint maintenance agreement to build a single high school involving the towns of Northwood, Nottingham, and Strafford.
• HB 483-FN-LOCAL (1999): relative to restricting the authority of the state board of education to adopt minimum standards for public school approval.
• HB 462 (1999): relative to public/private partnership projects in the department of transportation.
• HB 398 (1999): relative to prayer in the public schools.
• HB 350-FN (1999): relative to an additional lane on Route 102 in Chester and making an appropriation therefor.
• HB 269-LOCAL (1999): relative to the disbursement of foundation aid.
• HB 259-FN (1999): granting a right to trial by jury in any controversy between a person or persons and a state board, commission, or agency when the amount in controversy is at least $5,000.
• HB 204-FN (1999): relative to driving after license revocation or suspension.
• HB 114-FN-A-LOCAL (1999): establishing a local property tax education homestead allowance against school taxes on residential real estate, establishing a fund to reimburse municipalities for such exemptions, and making an appropriation therefor.
• HB 110-FN-LOCAL (1999): authorizing each town and city to determine its methods of raising revenue to fulfill its obligation to fund public elementary and secondary education.
• HA 1 (1999): for the removal of David A. Brock, chief justice of the New Hampshire supreme court, from his said office.
• CACR 19 (1999): relating to 5-year renewable terms for all state judges and the age limit for state judges and county sheriffs. Providing that all state judges be commissioned for renewable 5-year terms and that there shall be no age limit for state judges and county sheriffs. (prime sponsor)

Recent Votes

• October 22, 2009: CACR17, Order to 3rd Reading3/5 Necessary — Yea
• July 12, 2000: SB153, Notwithstanding the Governor's veto shall the bill pass — Yea
• July 12, 2000: SB468, Notwithstanding the governor's veto shall the bill pass — Nay
• July 12, 2000: HB235, Notwithstanding the governor's veto shall the bill pass — Yea
• July 12, 2000: HB542, Notwithstanding the governor's veto shall the bill pass — Yea
• July 12, 2000: HB648, Notwithstanding the governor's veto shall the bill pass — Yea
• July 12, 2000: HB1343, Notwithstanding the governor's veto shall the bill pass — Yea
• July 12, 2000: HB1343, upholding the ruling of the chair — Yea
• May 31, 2000: SB472, Committee of Conference Report Fraser/Cohen — Yea
• May 31, 2000: HB628, Committee Of Conference Report Roberge/Fraser — Yea
• May 18, 2000: HB1510, Inexpedient to Legislate Brown/Francoeur — Nay
• May 18, 2000: HB1548, Ought to Pass Francoeur/Pignatelli — Nay
• May 18, 2000: HB1240, Floor Amendment (4517) F. King/Francoeur — Yea
• May 18, 2000: HB1531, Interim Study Trombly/Gordon — Yea
• May 18, 2000: HB542, Floor Amendment (4596) Gordon/Pignatelli — Nay
• May 18, 2000: HB542, Floor Amendment (4584) Gordon/Fernald — Yea
• May 18, 2000: HB542, Floor Amendment (4594) Trombly/Klemm — Nay
• May 18, 2000: HB542, Floor Amendment ( 4571) Gordon/Pignatelli — Nay
• May 18, 2000: HB542, Ordered to third reading Trombly/McCarley — Yea
• May 18, 2000: HB1525, Ought to pass Squires/F. King — Yea
• May 18, 2000: HB1414, Floor Amendment (4583) Gordon/Francoeur — Nay
• May 18, 2000: HB1241, Ought to pass Francoeur/Squires — Nay
• May 18, 2000: HB1342, Ordered to third reading Krueger/Brown — Yea
• May 18, 2000: SB401, Concurrence Gordon/Francoeur — Yea
• May 18, 2000: SB419, Committee of Conference Francoeur/Trombly — Nay
• May 18, 2000: HB1525, Ought to Pass Roberge/Larsen — Yea
• May 3, 2000: SB472, Committee Amendment (4333) Fraser/McCarley — Yea
• May 3, 2000: SB466, Interim study Hollingworth/Disnard — Yea
• April 27, 2000: HB1253, Ought to pass Larsen/Krueger — Nay
• April 27, 2000: HB1621, Ought to pass Francoeur/Squires — Nay
• April 20, 2000: HB1410, Laid on the table Pignatelli/F. King — Nay
• April 20, 2000: HCR24, Ordered to third reading Wheeler/Trombly — Yea
• April 20, 2000: SB459, Ought to pass Fraser/Russman — Yea
• April 20, 2000: SB329, Floor Amendment (4200) Francoeur/Fernald — Nay
• April 13, 2000: HJR25, Ought to pass Francoeur/Krueger — Nay
• April 13, 2000: SB459, Ordered to third reading Francoeur/Fraser — Nay
• April 13, 2000: HB522, Ordered to third reading Francoeur/Krueger — Yea
• April 6, 2000: HB542, Floor Amendment (4033) Francoeur/Pignatelli — Nay
• April 6, 2000: HB542, Laid on the Table F. King/Gordon — Yea
• April 6, 2000: SB401, Ordered to third reading Wheeler/Larson — Yea
• April 6, 2000: SB132, Floor Amendment (3936) Francoeur/Johnson — Yea
• March 30, 2000: SB379, Ought to pass Wheeler/Trombly — Yea
• March 30, 2000: SB399, Ordered to third reading Trombly/Wheeler — Yea
• March 30, 2000: HB542, Laid on the table Francoeur/Trombly — Nay
• March 30, 2000: HB542, Ought to pass Gordon/Roberge — Yea
• March 30, 2000: HB542, Special order Trombly/Gordon — Nay
• March 23, 2000: SB307, Committee Amendment (3804) Wheeler/Cohen — Nay
• March 23, 2000: SB307, Ordered to third reading Wheeler/Cohen — Nay
• March 23, 2000: SB373, Committee Amendment (3841) Disnard/Wheeler — Nay
• March 23, 2000: SB322, Ought to pass Trombly/Wheeler — Nay
• March 23, 2000: SB323, Committee Amendment (3843) Wheeler/Gordon — Yea
• March 23, 2000: SB405, Committee Amendment (3895) Roberge/Disnard — Nay
• March 23, 2000: SR14, Adoption of the resolution Trombly/Larsen — Yea
• March 16, 2000: SB409, Ordered to third reading Francoeur/ Brown — Yea
• March 16, 2000: SB361, Ought to Pass F. King/Francoeur — Nay
• March 16, 2000: SB447, Ordered to third reading Trombly/Pignatelli — Nay
• March 16, 2000: SB419, Floor Amendment (3811) Francoeur/Fraser — Yea
• March 16, 2000: SB419, Ordered to third reading Pignatelli/Francoeur — Nay
• March 16, 2000: SB427, Inexpedient to legislate Trombly/Francoeur — Yea
• March 16, 2000: HB235, Substitute Motion ought to pass Gordon/Roberge — Yea
• March 16, 2000: HB235, Floor Amendment (3818) Francoeur/Gordon — Yea
• March 16, 2000: SB132, Taken off the table Francoeur/Fernald — Yea
• March 16, 2000: SB430, Laid on the table Gordon/F. King — Nay
• March 16, 2000: SB430, Inexpedient to legislate F. King/Trombly — Yea
• March 9, 2000: SB365, Committee Amendment (3618) Roberge/Francoeur — Nay
• March 9, 2000: CACR38, Ordered to third reading — Nay
• March 9, 2000: SB337, Amendment Adopted (3643) Roberge/Trombly — Yea
• February 10, 2000: CACR23, Floor Amendment (3411) Trombly/Brown — Yea
• February 10, 2000: CACR23, Final Passage — Yea
• February 3, 2000: HB690, Ought To Pass Francoeur/McCarley — Yea
• February 3, 2000: SB219, Ordered to Third Reading Francoeur/Brown — Nay
• February 3, 2000: SB219, Inexpedient to Legislate Trombly/McCarley — Yea
• February 3, 2000: SB219, Laid on the Table Russman/Trombly — Nay
• February 3, 2000: CACR20, Ordered to third reading — Yea
• February 3, 2000: SB44, Ordered to third reading Francoeur/Wheeler — Nay
• February 3, 2000: SB44, Inexpedient to legislate Wheeler/Fernald — Yea
• February 3, 2000: HB542, Laid on the table Francoeur/Pignatelli — Nay
• February 3, 2000: SB203, Laid on the table Francoeur/Trombly — Yea
• February 3, 2000: CACR20, Final Passage — Yea
• January 13, 2000: HB366, Ought to Pass Francoeur/Trombly — Nay
• January 13, 2000: HB366, Inexpedient to Legislate Trombly/Francoeur — Yea
• January 13, 2000: SB144, Inexpedient to Legislate Disnard/Trombly — Yea
• November 3, 1999: HB625, Re-Refer Disnard/Francouer — Nay
• November 3, 1999: HB704, Re-referGordon/Pignatelli — Nay
• November 3, 1999: HB704, Order to Third ReadingWheeler/Pignatelli — Yea
• November 3, 1999: HB999, Order to Third ReadingFrancoeur/Larsen — Nay
• November 3, 1999: HB625, Committee of Conference report — Nay
• November 3, 1999: HB109, Rerefer back to Committee — Yea
• October 22, 1999: HB109, Floor Amendment (2163)F. King/Klemm — Nay
• October 22, 1999: HB109, Floor Amendment (2166)Pignatelli/Cohen — Nay
• October 22, 1999: CACR16, Order to 3rd Reading3/5 Necessary — Yea
• October 22, 1999: CACR16, Final Passage3/5 Necessary — Yea
• October 22, 1999: CACR16, Final Passage3/5 Necessary — Yea
• October 22, 1999: CACR17, Final Passage3/5 Necessary — Yea
• October 19, 1999: HCR10, Ought to Pass Trombly/D'Allesandro — Yea
• October 19, 1999: HB743, Ought to PassKlemm/F King — Nay
• July 1, 1999: HB661, Ought to PassBrown/Krueger — Nay
• June 29, 1999: HB341, Committee Amendment (1772)Francoeur/Roberge — Nay
• June 29, 1999: HB341, Order to 3rd ReadingF. King/Francoeur — Nay
• June 29, 1999: HB633, Rerefer to CommitteeFrancoeur/Trombly — Yea

And 99 earlier votes.

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