Sue Vandecasteele

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 & families98 with · 8 against106 votes

  Most contested

  • 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 ↗

  • Yes

    repealing the child care grant program administered by the department of health and human services.

    Repeals a 2025 requirement that the Department of Health and Human Services include full funding for certain child care workforce programs in its two-year budget request.

    Mar 11, 2026 · Passed 170–153 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗

  • Yes

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

    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 schools into public charter schools, including funding less reliant on local property taxes, with a report due November 1, 2026.

    May 21, 2026 · Passed 184–164 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗

  All education & families votes
• ›Rights & public safety78 with · 17 against95 votes

  Most contested

  • Yes

    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 RepublicansOfficial 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 · against most RepublicansOfficial record ↗

  • Yes

    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 · against most RepublicansOfficial record ↗

  All rights & public safety votes
• ›Jobs & cost of living63 with · 18 against81 votes

  Most contested

  • Yes

    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 RepublicansOfficial 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 · against most RepublicansOfficial record ↗

  • Yes

    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 · Failed 181–182 · against most RepublicansOfficial record ↗

  All jobs & cost of living votes
• ›Health & care45 with · 15 against60 votes

  Most contested

  • Yes

    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 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 ↗

  • Yes

    relative to religious exemption from immunization requirements.

    Sets the wording of the form parents or guardians sign to claim a religious exemption from childhood vaccination requirements, including a statement that they hold sincere religious beliefs requiring refusal of the vaccines.

    Mar 11, 2026 · Passed 179–150 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗

  All health & care votes
• ›Climate & energy27 with · 0 against27 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
• ›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
• ›Housing & rent14 with · 3 against17 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
• ›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 · 0 against2 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 ↗

  All technology & privacy votes

Where they stood out

Voted against most of their party on 61 of 421 party-divided votes on file.

Most often on: Health & care (17), Rights & public safety (17), Jobs & cost of living (16)

• relative to the rights of conscience for medical professionals.

  What it does: 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 com…

  Voted no · most Republicans voted yes · Democrats 0–142, Republicans 165–12

  Aug 19, 2026Official record ↗

• relative to employer notice of department of labor investigations.

  What it does: 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 safe…

  Voted no · most Republicans voted yes · Democrats 0–144, Republicans 159–15

  Aug 19, 2026Official record ↗

• (New Title) permitting classification of individuals based on biological sex under certain limited circumstances.

  Voted no · most Republicans voted yes · Democrats 1–142, Republicans 163–7

  Aug 19, 2026Official record ↗

• relative to the report of a guardian ad litem.

  What it does: Removes courts' authority to ask a guardian ad litem in a parenting case to propose how decision-making is divided, a parenting plan or a parenting schedule in the report, which must be filed by the final pretrial hea…

  Voted no · most Republicans voted yes · Democrats 0–139, Republicans 156–13

  Aug 19, 2026Official record ↗

• (Second New Title) relative to the sale of surplus state-owned land and establishing a commission to study the sale of state-owned property.

  Voted no · most Republicans voted yes · Democrats 2–135, Republicans 98–71

  Aug 19, 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

  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

  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 ↗

• 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 ↗

• No

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

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

  Mar 5, 2026Official 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.

  With most of their party · Passed 179–161 · Yes 179–No 161 · Democrats 0–156, Republicans 179–4

  Jun 4, 2026Official record ↗

• Yes

  repealing the state housing champion designation and grant program.

  With most of their party · Passed 185–166 · Yes 185–No 166 · Democrats 0–162, Republicans 184–4

  Feb 5, 2026Official record ↗

• Yes

  (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 ↗

• Yes

  repealing the child care grant program administered by the department of health and human services.

  With most of their party · Passed 170–153 · Yes 170–No 153 · Democrats 0–149, Republicans 169–4

  Mar 11, 2026Official record ↗