Kristine Perez

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 Republicans voted. How topics are assigned

• ›Education & families110 with · 11 against121 votes

  Most contested

  • Yes

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

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

  • Yes

    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 RepublicansOfficial record ↗

  • Yes

    (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 RepublicansOfficial record ↗

  All education & families votes
• ›Rights & public safety103 with · 6 against109 votes

  Most contested

  • Yes

    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 RepublicansOfficial record ↗

  • Yes

    relative to the right to marry. Providing that the right to marry is a fundamental civil right and that the state shall protect the right of every individual, regardless of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, or race, to marry and to have their ma

    As introduced, proposes a state constitutional amendment making marriage a fundamental civil right and barring the state from denying or limiting marriage based on sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, or race, for voters to decide in November 2026.

    Mar 12, 2026 · Passed 176–162 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗

  • No

    permitting classification of individuals based on biological sex under certain limited circumstances.

    As introduced, allows public and private entities to separate people by biological sex in multi-user bathrooms and locker rooms and in sports where strength, speed, or endurance generally gives males an advantage, and states that doing so is not unlawful discrimination.

    Mar 5, 2026 · Failed 168–180 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗

  All rights & public safety votes
• ›Jobs & cost of living75 with · 17 against92 votes

  Most contested

  • Yes

    enabling counties to change the dates of their biennial budgets.

    Lets counties, if commissioners agree and a majority of county voters approve, move their two-year budget to years without a state election, and revises how towns adopt, rescind and elect budget committees and how first cooperative school budget committee members are appointed.

    May 14, 2026 · Passed 164–145 · with most RepublicansOfficial 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 · against most RepublicansOfficial record ↗

  • Yes

    (New Title) requiring municipalities to hold a public hearing and conduct a roll call vote when seeking to override a tax or spending cap.

    Requires cities and council-run towns to hold a public hearing and roll-call vote before overriding a tax or spending cap and to print the vote on tax bills, and has the state revenue department check and enforce local budget caps.

    May 14, 2026 · Passed 164–150 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗

  All jobs & cost of living votes
• ›Health & care57 with · 10 against67 votes

  Most contested

  • Yes

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

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

  • Yes

    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 RepublicansOfficial record ↗

  • Yes

    repealing the New Hampshire vaccine association.

    Repeals the state law that establishes the New Hampshire Vaccine Association, eliminating the association's chapter of state law entirely.

    Mar 6, 2025 · Passed 189–181 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗

  All health & care votes
• ›Climate & energy33 with · 4 against37 votes

  Most contested

  • Yes

    (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 RepublicansOfficial record ↗

  • Yes

    relative to the phasing out of the minimum electric renewable portfolio standard.

    Mar 13, 2025 · Passed 189–173 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗

  • Yes

    (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 RepublicansOfficial record ↗

  All climate & energy votes
• ›Housing & rent17 with · 3 against20 votes

  Most contested

  • Yes

    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 RepublicansOfficial record ↗

  • Yes

    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 RepublicansOfficial record ↗

  • Yes

    (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 RepublicansOfficial record ↗

  All housing & rent votes
• ›Transportation14 with · 4 against18 votes

  Most contested

  • Yes

    relative to department of safety and department of motor vehicle training and testing materials.

    Requires driver's license exams and related materials to be in English only, with American Sign Language allowed, bars translators and translation devices during exams, and stops the motor vehicle division from acquiring or distributing other-language materials, starting January 1, 2026.

    Mar 26, 2025 · Passed 187–159 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗

  • Yes

    relative to electric-vehicle charging station funding.

    Lets towns use revolving funds to install and maintain electric-vehicle charging stations, and bars parking in signed charging spaces unless the vehicle is charging, with a minimum $62 fine.

    May 22, 2025 · Passed 195–163 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗

  • Yes

    relative to the issuance of drivers' licenses for aliens temporarily residing in New Hampshire.

    Tightens rules for driver's licenses issued to noncitizens living in the state temporarily, bars renewals for noncitizens without proof of permanent residency, bars licenses for asylees until permanent residency is granted, and requires a distinct marking on such licenses.

    Mar 13, 2025 · Passed 198–162 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗

  All transportation votes
• ›Foreign affairs & defense3 with · 0 against3 votes

  Most contested

  • Yes

    urging the United States to reject compliance with the European Union's Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive.

    Urges the federal government to reject compliance with the European Union's Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive and asks other state legislatures to join in that request.

    Feb 13, 2025 · Passed 204–163 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗

  • Yes

    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 RepublicansOfficial 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 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗

  All foreign affairs & defense votes
• ›Technology & privacy2 with · 1 against3 votes

  Most contested

  • Yes

    preventing the dissemination of deepfake materials of political candidates before an election.

    As introduced, bars distributing deepfakes of candidates, election officials or parties within 90 days of an election unless labeled as manipulated, and lets depicted candidates and officials sue. Exempts news reports, satire, parody and platforms hosting others' content.

    Mar 20, 2025 · Passed 201–169 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗

  • Yes

    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 RepublicansOfficial record ↗

  • Yes

    establishing consumer protections for digital access transaction kiosks.

    Apr 23, 2026 · Passed 214–140 · against most RepublicansOfficial record ↗

  All technology & privacy votes

Where they stood out

Voted against most of their party on 52 of 491 party-divided votes on file.

Most often on: Jobs & cost of living (17), Education & families (11), Health & care (11)

• (New Title) establishing a commission to study transitioning all public schools to public charter schools.

  What it does: Creates an eight-member commission of legislators, the education commissioner and school representatives to study the feasibility and effects of converting all New Hampshire public schools into public charter schools,…

  Voted no · most Republicans voted yes · Democrats 0–143, Republicans 149–23

  Aug 19, 2026Official record ↗

• (Third New Title) establishing a school district local tax cap question for the state general elections of 2026 and 2028 and related limitations on central office administrative expenses in school districts.

  Voted no · most Republicans voted yes · Democrats 1–159, Republicans 181–10

  Jun 4, 2026Official record ↗

• (New Title) establishing a commission to study transitioning all public schools to public charter schools.

  What it does: On the version voted Aug 19, 2026: Creates an eight-member commission of legislators, the education commissioner and school representatives to study the feasibility and effects of converting all New Hampshire public s…

  Voted no · most Republicans voted yes · Democrats 0–159, Republicans 183–4

  May 21, 2026Official record ↗

• relative to the practice of pharmacy and the dispensing of certain medications by pharmacists.

  What it does: Changes pharmacy rules, including letting supervised pharmacy technicians give vaccines to adults and letting prescribers dispense up to 30 days of oral cancer drugs, and lets state-authorized centers provide experime…

  Voted no · most Republicans voted yes · Democrats 9–148, Republicans 178–5

  May 14, 2026Official record ↗

• relative to the practice of pharmacy and the dispensing of certain medications by pharmacists.

  What it does: Changes pharmacy rules, including letting supervised pharmacy technicians give vaccines to adults and letting prescribers dispense up to 30 days of oral cancer drugs, and lets state-authorized centers provide experime…

  Voted no · most Republicans voted yes · Democrats 13–144, Republicans 183–1

  May 14, 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

• Yes

  enabling counties to change the dates of their biennial budgets.

  With most of their party · Passed 164–145 · Yes 164–No 145 · Democrats 0–144, Republicans 163–1

  May 14, 2026Official record ↗

• Yes

  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 ↗

• Yes

  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 ↗

• Yes

  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.

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

  Dec 17, 2025Official record ↗

• Yes

  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 ↗

• Yes

  (New Title) requiring municipalities to hold a public hearing and conduct a roll call vote when seeking to override a tax or spending cap.

  With most of their party · Passed 164–150 · Yes 164–No 150 · Democrats 0–145, Republicans 163–5

  May 14, 2026Official record ↗

• Yes

  relative to the right to marry. Providing that the right to marry is a fundamental civil right and that the state shall protect the right of every individual, regardless of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, or race, to marry and to have their ma

  With most of their party · Passed 176–162 · Yes 176–No 162 · Democrats 0–156, Republicans 175–6

  Mar 12, 2026Official record ↗