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DState Representative · District Merrimack 8
On the ballot Nov 3, 2026: New Hampshire House Merrimack 8
Stephanie Payeur is a Democratic state representative from Merrimack 8 who is seeking re-election in the November 3, 2026 general election.[1][2] She works in healthcare management.[1]
Stephanie Payeur was born in Manchester, New Hampshire, and lives in Henniker.[1] She earned an M.B.A. from the University of New Hampshire in 2010, and her career experience includes working in healthcare management.[1] She has been affiliated with the Henniker Food Pantry and the Henniker Rotary Club.[1]
Ballotpedia lists Payeur's tenure in the New Hampshire House as beginning in 2022.[1]
Researched from the cited sources on 2026-10-21. Not yet independently fact-checked.
Stephanie Payeur is on the Nov 3, 2026 ballot for New Hampshire House Merrimack 8 as D. Not researched in depth — candidate list only.
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Tony CaplanState Representative · District Merrimack 8DAlso on the 2026 ballot: New Hampshire House Merrimack 8New 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 Democrats voted. How topics are assigned
Most contested
relative to parental notice for non-academic surveys in public schools.
Dec 17, 2025 · Failed 181–170 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
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 ↗
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 ↗
Most contested
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 DemocratsOfficial record ↗
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 ↗
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 DemocratsOfficial 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 DemocratsOfficial record ↗
authorizing online voter registration.
Requires the secretary of state to set up online voter registration for applicants with a New Hampshire motor vehicle ID, verified against motor vehicle records; online registrants must submit an original signature before voting in their first election.
Mar 13, 2025 · Passed 202–169 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Proposes a state constitutional amendment, for the November 2026 ballot, giving the right to vote to every "legal resident" 18 or older instead of every "inhabitant," and requiring voters to actually live where they claim domicile; needs two-thirds voter approval.
Jan 7, 2026 · Failed 184–157 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Most contested
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 ↗
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 DemocratsOfficial record ↗
relative to the rights of conscience for medical professionals.
On the version voted Aug 19, 2026: Requires health care institutions to notify employees who provide abortion services each year that they may request an accommodation for religious or moral objections to directly participating in abortions and may complain to the attorney general, who must report substantiated complaints annually.
Jan 8, 2026 · Passed 184–164 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Most contested
Mar 26, 2026 · Passed 189–162 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
relative to the phasing out of the minimum electric renewable portfolio standard.
Mar 13, 2025 · Passed 189–173 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
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 ↗
Most contested
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 DemocratsOfficial record ↗
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 DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Raises tolls at the Hooksett, Bedford, Hampton, Dover and Rochester turnpike plazas starting January 1, 2027, setting separate cash and E-ZPass rates such as $2.00 and $0.70 for cars at Hooksett, and offers free E-ZPass transponders for 210 days.
May 14, 2026 · Failed 151–157 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Most contested
(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 ↗
relative to additional grounds for eviction under the landlord and tenant statute.
Lets landlords evict tenants who used someone else's identification to get or keep a rental, or when a tenant or occupant has certain convictions, including illegal entry into the U.S., recent felonies or offenses requiring sex offender registration, unless disclosed before the lease began.
Feb 19, 2026 · Passed 193–154 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Most contested
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 DemocratsOfficial record ↗
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 DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Most contested
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 ↗
establishing consumer protections for digital access transaction kiosks.
Apr 23, 2026 · Passed 214–140 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Voted against most of their party on 5 of 350 party-divided votes on file.
Most often on: Transportation (3), Jobs & cost of living (1), Rights & public safety (1)
relative to on-premises licenses for licensed barbershops and salons.
What it does: Splits the liquor license for barbershops and salons into two tiers: a $100 license to serve one free drink per customer appointment and a $480 license to sell one drink per appointment, and requires an annual state r…
Voted yes · most Democrats voted no · Democrats 40–113, Republicans 133–57
May 7, 2026Official record ↗
reducing the minimum allowable speed limit on locally controlled roads.
Voted yes · most Democrats voted no · Democrats 46–105, Republicans 171–5
Apr 23, 2026Official record ↗
allowing an older prisoner serving a sentence of life without parole to be eligible for parole upon meeting certain criteria.
Voted yes · most Democrats voted no · Democrats 28–126, Republicans 185–1
Mar 26, 2025Official record ↗
requiring vehicle headlights to be on when windshield wipers are also on.
Voted yes · most Democrats voted no · Democrats 28–128, Republicans 198–1
Mar 6, 2025Official record ↗
removing the requirement for physical safety inspections and on-board diagnostic tests for passenger vehicles and eliminating funding for the motor vehicle air pollution abatement fund.
What it does: As introduced, ends required physical safety inspections and on-board diagnostic emissions tests for passenger vehicles and repeals the motor vehicle air pollution abatement fund, starting January 1, 2026.
Voted yes · most Democrats voted no · Democrats 29–128, Republicans 182–15
Mar 6, 2025Official record ↗
The votes in their chamber that came out closest and most divided by party, among those they voted on. How we rank
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 ↗
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 ↗
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 ↗
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 ↗
With most of their party · Passed 164–150 · Yes 164–No 150 · Democrats 0–145, Republicans 163–5
May 14, 2026Official record ↗
With most of their party · Passed 179–161 · Yes 179–No 161 · Democrats 0–156, Republicans 179–4
Jun 4, 2026Official record ↗
(New Title) relative to regulated conditional deposits.
With most of their party · Passed 180–162 · Yes 180–No 162 · Democrats 1–158, Republicans 178–3
May 21, 2026Official record ↗
With most of their party · Passed 189–162 · Yes 189–No 162 · Democrats 0–162, Republicans 188–0
Mar 26, 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
Motion: Veto Override
Motion: Veto Override
Requires health care institutions to notify employees who provide abortion services each year that they may request an accommodation for religious or moral objections to directly participating in abortions and may complain to the attorney general, who must report substantiated complaints annually.
Motion: Veto Override
Motion: Veto Override
Requires the labor commissioner to give employers at least 30 days' notice before a visit or inspection and at least 30 days to answer document or interview demands, with exceptions for recent violators, imminent safety risks, likely evidence destruction, certain safety inspections and owner consent.
Motion: Veto Override
Motion: Veto Override
Motion: Veto Override
Lets public bodies issue emergency no-trespass orders for public property lasting up to 35 days, with longer orders needing a roll call vote, a one-year maximum, and a right to a hearing and appeal to superior court.
Motion: Veto Override
Requires school boards and charter school trustees to adopt a policy barring non-school persons, and school-employed attorneys, paralegals or law enforcement, from questioning a minor student without written parental permission, and to ask adult students whether to notify parents; child-welfare inquiries excepted.
Motion: Veto Override
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.
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