Billie Butler

Votes by issue

Their recorded votes on bills that divided the chamber (unanimous votes left out), grouped by topic. A bill can sit under more than one topic. "With" and "against" compare each vote with how most Democrats voted. How topics are assigned

• ›Education & families70 with · 0 against70 votes

  Most contested

  • No

    relative to parental notice for non-academic surveys in public schools.

    Dec 17, 2025 · Failed 181–170 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗

  • No

    relative to prohibiting obscene or harmful sexual materials in schools.

    Bars schools from giving minor students material harmful to minors, requires school boards to adopt a parent complaint and appeal process, and lets aggrieved persons, the attorney general, or the education department sue schools not following it, for at least $1,000 per violation.

    Dec 17, 2025 · Failed 183–167 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗

  • No

    (New Title) modifying the procedures for withdrawal from a cooperative school district and the discontinuance of elementary and high schools and requiring the review of school district operating documents by school boards.

    Lets a withdrawing district's voters alone decide, by a 3/5 vote, to leave a cooperative school district, requires voters in all towns a school serves to approve closing it unless the host town keeps it open by agreement, and has boards review governing documents every three years.

    Jun 4, 2026 · Passed 179–161 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗

  All education & families votes
• ›Rights & public safety62 with · 3 against65 votes

  Most contested

  • No

    repealing the refugee resettlement program in the department of health and human services and prohibiting expenditure of state funds on refugee resettlement.

    Ends the state refugee resettlement program in the health and human services department, requires its contracts to be terminated, and bars state agencies from accepting or spending money on refugee resettlement, including payments to towns or nonprofit groups.

    Mar 11, 2026 · Passed 170–164 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗

  • Yes

    permitting classification of individuals based on biological sex under certain limited circumstances and establishing that certain biological sex distinctions do not qualify as discrimination.

    Lets public and private entities separate people by biological sex in shared bathrooms and locker rooms, certain sports, and prisons and similar secure facilities without it counting as discrimination; government buildings that do so must also offer a single-occupancy bathroom open to all.

    Mar 11, 2026 · Failed 156–171 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗

  • No

    limiting the use of certain facilities on the basis of sex and redefining the term "gender identity."

    Defines female and male by biology, requires bathrooms and locker rooms in public schools and town-owned buildings to be used by sex, lets businesses open to the public do the same, houses inmates by sex, and bars citing gender identity to access single-sex spaces.

    Mar 5, 2026 · Passed 181–164 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗

  All rights & public safety votes
• ›Health & care41 with · 0 against41 votes

  Most contested

  • No

    prohibits certain government regulations regarding pregnancy resource centers in connection with abortion and contraception service offerings.

    Mar 12, 2026 · Passed 179–161 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗

  • No

    relative to exemption from immunization requirements on the basis of religious belief.

    Lets a parent or guardian claim a religious exemption from childhood vaccination requirements with only a signed written statement that the child has not been immunized because of religious belief, replacing the reference to a required form.

    Dec 17, 2025 · Failed 176–175 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗

  • No

    limiting times vaccine clinics may operate at schools and requiring parents or legal guardians to be present with their child during the administration of vaccinations at such a clinic.

    As introduced, bars public and charter schools from holding vaccination clinics during school hours and requires a parent or guardian to be present whenever a child is vaccinated at a school clinic; school nurses' existing duties are unaffected.

    Mar 11, 2026 · Passed 172–154 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗

  All health & care votes
• ›Jobs & cost of living35 with · 3 against38 votes

  Most contested

  • No

    relative to eligibility for public assistance, including the New Hampshire employment program, family assistance program, and SNAP.

    Bars the health department from seeking SNAP work-requirement waivers without legislative approval or loosening eligibility standards unless federal law requires, mandates regular data checks of recipients' income, incarceration, lottery winnings, and citizenship, and removes out-of-state-only users found nonresident or unresponsive.

    Mar 11, 2026 · Passed 172–161 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗

  • No

    relative to the reductions from the default budget for official ballot town meetings.

    Changes how towns with official-ballot meetings calculate their default budget, reducing it for salaries and benefits of eliminated positions and of positions vacant since before the prior year's budget, and basing pay on actual salaries of filled positions.

    Dec 17, 2025 · Failed 178–175 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗

  • Yes

    permitting public employees to bargain individually with public employers without any intervention.

    Lets most public employees negotiate pay, hours and grievances individually instead of through a union, excluding police, firefighters, emergency medical workers and corrections officers, and makes coercing employees to join or pay a union a misdemeanor with up to a $5,000 fine.

    Mar 11, 2026 · Passed 167–164 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗

  All jobs & cost of living votes
• ›Climate & energy19 with · 0 against19 votes

  Most contested

  • No

    (New Title) allowing alternative compliance payments to the renewable energy fund to be refunded to ratepayers on a per kilowatt hour basis.

    Mar 26, 2026 · Passed 189–162 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗

  • No

    (New Title) relative to changes to the minimum electric renewable portfolio standards.

    Repeals the separate Class II (solar) requirement of the state's renewable portfolio standard and replaces inflation-adjusted alternative compliance payments with fixed rates of $42 for Classes I and III ($30 for Class I thermal) and $37 for Class IV.

    Jan 7, 2026 · Passed 175–152 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗

  • No

    (New Title) relative to relative to the participation of large customer-generators in net metering and relative to energy storage in connection with net metering.

    Requires electric utilities to offer alternative net metering tariffs under a 2017 utility commission order, sets terms for industrial customer-generators between 1 and 5 megawatts, and allows energy storage with net metering under Department of Energy installation rules.

    Apr 23, 2026 · Passed 181–158 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗

  All climate & energy votes
• ›Housing & rent10 with · 0 against10 votes

  Most contested

  • No

    relative to expanding the housing finance authority's community heroes program and makes an appropriation therefor.

    As introduced, requires the housing finance authority to run a homebuying assistance program for essential workers such as health care workers, first responders, educators, and service members, appropriating $750,000 for fiscal 2027 and $1.5 million a year starting July 2028.

    Feb 5, 2026 · Passed 179–166 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗

  • No

    repealing the state housing champion designation and grant program.

    As introduced, repeals the state's housing champion designation and grant program, along with its dedicated fund and related reporting requirements.

    Feb 5, 2026 · Passed 185–166 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗

  • No

    (New Title) relative to regulated conditional deposits.

    On the version voted Aug 19, 2026: Lets landlords accept an extra deposit of up to one month's rent from applicants who fail disclosed screening criteria such as credit score, income, prior evictions, unpaid judgments or references, with written notice and a right to re-screening; also says advance rent need not be escrowed.

    May 21, 2026 · Passed 180–162 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗

  All housing & rent votes
• ›Transportation8 with · 2 against10 votes

  Most contested

  • No

    requiring the department of motor vehicles to only administer the skills test for commercial driver's licenses in English and prohibiting the support of an interpreter for the administration of the skills test for commercial driver's licenses.

    As passed by the House, requires commercial driver's license tests in English only, without interpreters except under federal exemptions, and makes drivers licensed in the past five years who tested in another language or with an interpreter retest in English within 90 days or lose their license.

    Mar 12, 2026 · Passed 194–156 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗

  • Yes

    relative to parent-taught driver education as an alternative to traditional driver education programs.

    As introduced, lets the safety commissioner waive the driver education course for license applicants under 18 if a licensed parent or guardian, or another responsible adult when there is none, provides equivalent classroom and behind-the-wheel instruction.

    Feb 5, 2026 · Passed 178–155 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗

  • No

    relative to permissible window tinting on motor vehicles.

    As introduced, allows aftermarket tinting on a vehicle's front side windows if it lets through at least 35 percent of light, and lets the state issue medical permits for similar tinting on the windshield or front side windows.

    Mar 12, 2026 · Passed 204–143 · against most DemocratsOfficial record ↗

  All transportation votes
• ›Foreign affairs & defense1 with · 1 against2 votes

  Most contested

  • No

    prohibiting nationals of the People's Republic of China from attending state institutions of higher education.

    Bars nationals of the People's Republic of China from enrolling in master's or doctoral programs, taking part in research, or holding full-time jobs at New Hampshire's public colleges and universities, with penalties for individuals and institutions that violate the ban.

    Mar 11, 2026 · Failed 157–173 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗

  • No

    relative to requiring an official declaration of war for the activation of the New Hampshire national guard in a foreign state.

    Bars releasing New Hampshire National Guard members from the state into active-duty combat unless Congress has declared war or formally called out the Guard under the U.S. Constitution, and requires the governor to comply.

    Jan 8, 2026 · Failed 159–182 · against most DemocratsOfficial record ↗

  All foreign affairs & defense votes
• ›Technology & privacy2 with · 0 against2 votes

  Most contested

  • No

    prohibiting the sale of location and other sensitive data regarding children.

    As introduced, bars businesses covered by the state's consumer data privacy law from selling location data and other sensitive data about children, starting January 1, 2027.

    Feb 12, 2026 · Passed 214–145 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗

  • Yes

    establishing consumer protections for digital access transaction kiosks.

    Apr 23, 2026 · Passed 214–140 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗

  All technology & privacy votes

Where they stood out

Voted against most of their party on 10 of 265 party-divided votes on file.

Most often on: Jobs & cost of living (4), Rights & public safety (3), Transportation (1)

• (Second New Title) relative to the processing of cattle, swine, sheep, and goats at facilities not certified by the United States Department of Agriculture.

  Voted yes · most Democrats voted no · Democrats 32–112, Republicans 171–4

  Aug 19, 2026Official record ↗

• (Second New Title) relative to the processing of cattle, swine, sheep, and goats at facilities not certified by the United States Department of Agriculture.

  Voted yes · most Democrats voted no · Democrats 33–106, Republicans 168–1

  Aug 19, 2026Official record ↗

• relative to the offense of loitering or prowling.

  What it does: Makes it a class B felony for tier III registered offenders whose victims were minors to knowingly be within 500 feet of schools, child care centers, public parks, playgrounds, public pools or school bus stops without…

  Voted yes · most Democrats voted no · Democrats 43–118, Republicans 181–10

  Apr 23, 2026Official record ↗

• relative to permissible window tinting on motor vehicles.

  What it does: As introduced, allows aftermarket tinting on a vehicle's front side windows if it lets through at least 35 percent of light, and lets the state issue medical permits for similar tinting on the windshield or front side…

  Voted no · most Democrats voted yes · Democrats 149–10, Republicans 55–132

  Mar 12, 2026Official record ↗

• relative to repealing the prohibition on the possession or sale of blackjacks, slung shots, and metallic knuckles except by or to minors.

  What it does: Repeals the general ban on possessing or selling blackjacks, slung shots and metal knuckles, keeping it a violation only for people under 18 to carry them or for anyone to sell or give them to minors, starting January…

  Voted yes · most Democrats voted no · Democrats 7–150, Republicans 184–4

  Mar 5, 2026Official record ↗

How this is counted

Their votes on the most contested roll calls

The votes in their chamber that came out closest and most divided by party, among those they voted on. How we rank

• No

  repealing the refugee resettlement program in the department of health and human services and prohibiting expenditure of state funds on refugee resettlement.

  With most of their party · Passed 170–164 · Yes 170–No 164 · Democrats 0–156, Republicans 169–8

  Mar 11, 2026Official record ↗

• Yes

  permitting classification of individuals based on biological sex under certain limited circumstances and establishing that certain biological sex distinctions do not qualify as discrimination.

  With most of their party · Failed 156–171 · Yes 156–No 171 · Democrats 154–1, Republicans 2–169

  Mar 11, 2026Official record ↗

• No

  relative to eligibility for public assistance, including the New Hampshire employment program, family assistance program, and SNAP.

  With most of their party · Passed 172–161 · Yes 172–No 161 · Democrats 0–155, Republicans 171–6

  Mar 11, 2026Official record ↗

• No

  relative to parental notice for non-academic surveys in public schools.

  With most of their party · Failed 181–170 · Yes 181–No 170 · Democrats 0–163, Republicans 180–7

  Dec 17, 2025Official record ↗

• No

  relative to expanding the housing finance authority's community heroes program and makes an appropriation therefor.

  With most of their party · Passed 179–166 · Yes 179–No 166 · Democrats 0–160, Republicans 178–6

  Feb 5, 2026Official record ↗

• No

  limiting the use of certain facilities on the basis of sex and redefining the term "gender identity."

  With most of their party · Passed 181–164 · Yes 181–No 164 · Democrats 0–160, Republicans 180–4

  Mar 5, 2026Official record ↗

• No

  relative to the reductions from the default budget for official ballot town meetings.

  With most of their party · Failed 178–175 · Yes 178–No 175 · Democrats 0–163, Republicans 177–12

  Dec 17, 2025Official record ↗

• No

  relative to prohibiting obscene or harmful sexual materials in schools.

  With most of their party · Failed 183–167 · Yes 183–No 167 · Democrats 0–162, Republicans 182–5

  Dec 17, 2025Official record ↗