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RState Representative · District Rockingham 16
On the ballot Nov 3, 2026: New Hampshire House Rockingham 16
Sherm Packard (Sherman Packard on Ballotpedia) is a Republican member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives for Rockingham 16 who is seeking re-election in the November 3, 2026 general election.[1][2] Ballotpedia says he was first elected to the House in 1990 and became House speaker after the death of Speaker Dick Hinch in December 2020.[2]
Sherman Packard was born in 1949 in Manchester, New Hampshire, and is the son of Norman Packard, a Republican who previously served as president of the state Senate.[2] He worked for more than 30 years as a small business owner of an auto upholsterer, was a member of the New Hampshire Motorcyclists' Rights Organization, and served on the Rockingham County Executive Committee for 12 years.[2]
Packard was elected to the New Hampshire House of Representatives in 1990 and held leadership positions including deputy Republican leader, House minority leader and speaker pro tempore.[2] He began serving as acting speaker upon the death of Speaker Dick Hinch on December 9, 2020, and was officially elected speaker on January 6, 2021.[2] For the 2023-2024 session, Ballotpedia lists him as chair of the Rules Committee.[2]
Researched from the cited sources on 2026-10-21. Not yet independently fact-checked.
Sherm Packard is on the Nov 3, 2026 ballot for New Hampshire House Rockingham 16 as R. Not researched in depth — candidate list only.
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Wayne MacDonaldState Representative · District Rockingham 16RAlso on the 2026 ballot: New Hampshire House Rockingham 16New HampshireTheir 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
Most contested
Makes school district transportation for half-day kindergarten students optional rather than required, while districts must still transport full-day students in kindergarten through grade 8 who live more than two miles from school.
Dec 17, 2025 · Failed 182–173 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
(New Title) limiting the authority of school districts to make certain appropriations.
Jan 8, 2026 · Passed 177–176 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
establishing local school district special education parent advisory councils.
Revises local audit rules with fines up to $500 a day for late audits, ends the election of school district auditors, and lets the state board of education put a school district on probation, with the education department appointing an administrator if a remedial plan fails.
Jan 7, 2026 · Passed 187–154 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
Most contested
relative to state fees, funds, revenues, and expenditures.
On the version voted Jun 26, 2025: Makes the law, fee and program changes that carry out the state budget for fiscal 2026 and 2027, including allowing video lottery terminals, adding Medicaid premiums for enrollees above set income levels, barring diversity, equity and inclusion programs in public entities, and changing education aid.
Apr 10, 2025 · Passed 195–175 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
relative to the funding of the SNAP program by the department of health and human services.
Directs the state health department, through June 2027, to shift funds among its accounts as needed to cover any cut in federal funding for the SNAP food assistance program, with transfers of $100,000 or more needing legislative fiscal committee and executive council approval.
May 7, 2026 · Passed 186–158 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
Sets the state's operating budget for fiscal years 2026 and 2027, appropriating money for state departments and agencies for July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2027 as agreed in the final House-Senate conference report.
Jun 26, 2025 · Passed 185–180 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
Most contested
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 ↗
relative to health care professionals administering hormone treatments and puberty blockers.
On the version voted Jun 26, 2025: Bans giving minors puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones for gender transition starting January 2026, except for treatment begun earlier or for disorders of sex development, allowing medical board discipline and lawsuits. Also creates an annual Children's Environmental Health Day proclamation.
Mar 27, 2025 · Failed 168–203 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
relative to certification requirements for school nurses.
Lets school boards, on a superintendent's nomination, appoint any registered nurse licensed by the state board of nursing as a school nurse, ending the separate education department certification requirement.
Mar 6, 2025 · Passed 211–163 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
Most contested
On the version voted Aug 19, 2026: Provides that classifying people by biological sex, defined as male and female, is not unlawful discrimination in multi-user restrooms and locker rooms, sports where strength, speed or endurance favors biological males, and prisons and involuntary-commitment facilities. Does not require entities to separate by sex.
May 14, 2026 · Passed 179–159 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
As introduced, lowers the marriage age to 17 when one party is an active-duty service member, the other is at least 17, and one is a state resident, requiring parental permission for a non-military 17-year-old. Removes outdated age-waiver language.
Mar 20, 2025 · Passed 193–178 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
permitting classification of individuals based on biological sex under certain circumstances.
On the version voted Dec 17, 2025: Lets public and private entities separate people by biological sex in shared bathrooms and locker rooms, in sports where strength, speed or endurance generally gives males an advantage, and in prisons, juvenile detention and mental health facilities, without violating state anti-discrimination law.
Mar 20, 2025 · Passed 201–166 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
Most contested
relative to assessment of cost effectiveness of the systems benefit charge.
Mar 20, 2025 · Passed 195–151 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
establishing a funding source for maintaining state owned dams.
On the version voted Mar 26, 2026: Creates a $100 yearly fee on waterfront property, and a $50 fee on property with deeded water access, on water bodies formed by state-owned dams, with proceeds going to dam maintenance; current-use land and working farms are exempt.
Feb 12, 2026 · Passed 208–146 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
Most contested
Mar 6, 2025 · Passed 225–147 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
Apr 9, 2026 · Passed 259–94 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
Voted against most of their party on 1 of 45 party-divided votes on file.
(New Title) relative to the approval process for new construction and to the adoption of energy efficient and clean energy districts by municipalities.
What it does: Lets property owners build without a variance for minimum lot size or lot coverage when the building conforms to zoning and to neighborhood density, and lets governing bodies of non-charter towns and village districts…
Voted yes · most Republicans voted no · Democrats 104–51, Republicans 50–143
Jun 12, 2025Official record ↗
The votes in their chamber that came out closest and most divided by party, among those they voted on. How we rank
With most of their party · Passed 179–159 · Yes 179–No 159 · Democrats 1–155, Republicans 177–4
May 14, 2026Official record ↗
repealing the New Hampshire vaccine association.
With most of their party · Passed 189–181 · Yes 188–No 181 · Democrats 0–166, Republicans 187–15
Mar 6, 2025Official record ↗
With most of their party · Failed 182–173 · Yes 182–No 173 · Democrats 1–161, Republicans 180–12
Dec 17, 2025Official record ↗
(New Title) limiting the authority of school districts to make certain appropriations.
With most of their party · Passed 177–176 · Yes 177–No 176 · Democrats 1–158, Republicans 175–17
Jan 8, 2026Official record ↗
relative to state fees, funds, revenues, and expenditures.
With most of their party · Passed 195–175 · Yes 195–No 175 · Democrats 0–164, Republicans 194–10
Apr 10, 2025Official record ↗
establishing local school district special education parent advisory councils.
With most of their party · Passed 187–154 · Yes 187–No 154 · Democrats 1–154, Republicans 185–0
Jan 7, 2026Official record ↗
With most of their party · Passed 193–178 · Yes 193–No 178 · Democrats 0–165, Republicans 192–13
Mar 20, 2025Official record ↗
relative to the funding of the SNAP program by the department of health and human services.
With most of their party · Passed 186–158 · Yes 186–No 158 · Democrats 0–153, Republicans 185–5
May 7, 2026Official record ↗
Substantive votes concern legislation or nominations; procedural votes concern how the chamber considers them. A Yes vote applies to the motion shown, which may not be final passage.
Motion: Veto Override
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, including funding less reliant on local property taxes, with a report due November 1, 2026.
Motion: Veto Override
Motion: Veto Override
Removes the 3-year deadline for new-trial petitions by people with felony or class A misdemeanor convictions who are serving or affected by the sentence and allege innocence from newly discovered evidence; adds prima facie review and victim services. Effective January 1, 2027.
Motion: Veto Override
Motion: Table
As amended by conference committee, extends the local-rule bar to stun guns, Tasers, pepper spray and other self-defense tools, allows damages suits (actual or $1,000, if greater) by aggrieved people, and limits state agency rules to expressly authorized ones, lapsing July 1, 2029 unless renewed.
Motion: Adopt CofC Report
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.
Motion: Adopt CofC Report
Provides that raising a child consistent with the child's biological sex, including related medical and mental health decisions, is not by itself abuse, neglect or child endangerment, and cannot disqualify adoptive or foster parents or count against a parent in custody cases.
Motion: Concur
Motion: Concur
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.
Motion: Concur
Showing 10 of 293 votes in this collection. Coverage may be incomplete; each entry links to the official record.