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RState Representative · District Rockingham 31
On the ballot Nov 3, 2026: New Hampshire House Rockingham 31
Terry Roy is the incumbent Republican candidate for the New Hampshire House of Representatives, Rockingham 31, in the November 3, 2026 general election. Ballotpedia lists his tenure in the House as beginning in 2018, and his career experience as including police work.[1][2]
Roy served in the U.S. Army.[1] His career experience includes working as a police officer and a special state investigator.[1] He has served on the New Hampshire Law Enforcement Accreditation Commission.[1] In the 2023-2024 session he chaired the Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee, and in 2021-2022 he was vice chair of the House Executive Departments and Administration Committee.[1]
Researched from the cited sources on 2026-10-21. Not yet independently fact-checked.
Terry Roy is on the Nov 3, 2026 ballot for New Hampshire House Rockingham 31 as R. Not researched in depth — candidate list only.
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
Most contested
relative to parental notice for non-academic surveys in public schools.
Dec 17, 2025 · Failed 181–170 · with most RepublicansOfficial 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 RepublicansOfficial record ↗
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 ↗
Most contested
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 ↗
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 ↗
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 ↗
Most contested
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 RepublicansOfficial record ↗
allowing a reimbursement anticipation note to be used as collateral in certain circumstances.
Lets school districts borrow against expected state reimbursements and count the borrowed money as revenue when tax rates are set, after a public hearing, if it is spent only for the same purpose; the borrowing is exempt from debt limits.
Mar 5, 2026 · Passed 185–162 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
Mar 13, 2025 · Passed 190–185 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
Most contested
Mar 12, 2026 · Passed 179–161 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
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 ↗
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 ↗
Most contested
As introduced, appropriates $15 million in each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027 to the Department of Environmental Services for wastewater projects approved by June 30, 2026, with unspent money carrying over.
Jan 7, 2026 · Passed 175–156 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
increasing penalties for violations of the shoreland and water quality protection act.
As introduced, raises the maximum court penalty and administrative fine for violating the state's shoreland water quality protection law from $5,000 to $15,000 for violators who don't restore a site within a year of notice; existing doubling of fines for repeat violations still applies.
Feb 13, 2025 · Passed 196–175 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
relative to the state energy policy.
Rewrites the state energy policy to promote affordable, reliable, diverse, and secure energy, favoring market-based approaches, limiting government support for one technology over another, and calling for removal of regulatory barriers.
Feb 20, 2025 · Passed 204–165 · with most RepublicansOfficial 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 · against most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
relative to eviction safeguards for tenants whose Social Security payments are disrupted.
As introduced, gives residential tenants who miss rent because their monthly Social Security benefits are unexpectedly halted a 90-day grace period to find other housing or funding, starting January 1, 2027.
Mar 12, 2026 · Passed 186–155 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
relative to a tenant's right to notification prior to the sale of a multi-family home.
As introduced, requires owners of certain multi-family rental properties to give each tenant 60 days' notice and a chance to make a purchase offer before accepting an offer to sell the property.
Feb 6, 2025 · Passed 213–144 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
Most contested
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 ↗
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 RepublicansOfficial record ↗
As introduced, requires new residents with out-of-state driver's licenses to notify the state if they leave within 60 days or their license expires, directs motor vehicle officials to send notices to people over 30 days past deadlines, and appropriates $40,000 for computer upgrades.
Feb 6, 2025 · Passed 206–147 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
Most contested
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 ↗
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 ↗
establishing consumer protections for digital access transaction kiosks.
Apr 23, 2026 · Passed 214–140 · against most RepublicansOfficial 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 RepublicansOfficial record ↗
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 ↗
Voted against most of their party on 18 of 309 party-divided votes on file.
Most often on: Health & care (6), Jobs & cost of living (3), Education & families (2)
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) relative to regulated conditional deposits.
What it does: 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…
Voted no · most Republicans voted yes · Democrats 1–158, Republicans 178–3
May 21, 2026Official record ↗
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 no · most Republicans voted yes · Democrats 40–113, Republicans 133–57
May 7, 2026Official record ↗
establishing consumer protections for digital access transaction kiosks.
Voted yes · most Republicans voted no · Democrats 157–3, Republicans 57–136
Apr 23, 2026Official record ↗
(New Title) authorizing parents to enroll their children in any public school in the state and creating a limited exemption from parental consent required for certain recordings under the parental bill of rights.
What it does: As amended by the House, requires each school district to adopt an open enrollment policy letting parents apply to any public school, subject to district-set capacity and limited denial grounds; the state pays aid to…
Voted no · most Republicans voted yes · Democrats 0–162, Republicans 167–22
Apr 23, 2026Official record ↗
The votes in their chamber that came out closest and most divided by party, among those they voted on. How we rank
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 ↗
With most of their party · Passed 181–164 · Yes 181–No 164 · Democrats 0–160, Republicans 180–4
Mar 5, 2026Official 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 176–162 · Yes 176–No 162 · Democrats 0–156, Republicans 175–6
Mar 12, 2026Official record ↗
With most of their party · Passed 179–161 · Yes 179–No 161 · Democrats 0–157, Republicans 178–4
Mar 12, 2026Official record ↗
(New Title) relative to regulated conditional deposits.
Against 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 · Failed 168–180 · Yes 168–No 180 · Democrats 160–0, Republicans 8–179
Mar 5, 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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