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State Representative
Richard Ames
(D) - New Hampshire
New Hampshire House Cheshire 13
In Office - Started: 12/07/2022

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Home Address

12 Blackberry Lane
Jaffrey, NH 03452-5100
Phone: 603-532-6781

General Capitol Building Address

State House
107 N. Main St.
Concord, NH 03301

Bill Bill Name Summary Progress
HB328 Establishing a charitable gaming oversight commission. This bill changes the membership and duties of the charitable gaming oversight commission, extends it by 10 years, and makes an appropriation to the lottery commission to support the work of the commission. Crossed Over
SB160 Relative to the administration of raffles. This bill changes requirements for the sale of raffle tickets held in conjuction with bingo games and raises the maximum value tickets may be sold for. Crossed Over
HB402 Relative to liability as taxable income of education freedom account payments. This bill: I. Repeals the statement that education freedom account funds shall not constitute taxable income to the parent of the education freedom account student. II. Requires the timely delivery of IRS 1099 forms to parties responsible for tax liabilities incurred from payments made from a education freedom account. In Committee
HB531 Setting annual limits on the amount of charitable gaming revenue which may be distributed to one charitable organization. This bill limits the amount which may be awarded to any one charity from historic horse race wagering and games of chance to $50,000, and provides that excess revenue shall be paid to the lottery commission. In Committee
HB734 Relative to the state education property tax and the low- and moderate-income homeowners property tax relief program. This bill: I. Requires the department of revenue administration to receive the revenues from the state education property tax and deposit them in the education trust fund. II. Revises the procedures for calculating state education grants. III. Modifies the criteria for relief under the low- and moderate-income homeowners property tax relief program. IV. Establishes a committee to study the low- and moderate-income homeowners property tax relief program. In Committee
HB772 Establishing a foundation opportunity budget program for funding public education. This bill modifies the determination and funding for an opportunity for a constitutionally adequate education by establishing foundation opportunity budgets and state foundation opportunity grants. In Committee
Bill Bill Name Motion Vote Date Vote
SB14 Relative to the penalty for certain fentanyl-related offenses; relative to establishing a mandatory minimum sentence for the crime of distribution of a controlled drug with death resulting; and relative to amending the penalties for the possession and use of a quantity of psilocybin for persons 18 years of age or older. OTPA 06/05/2025 Nay
SB14 Relative to the penalty for certain fentanyl-related offenses; relative to establishing a mandatory minimum sentence for the crime of distribution of a controlled drug with death resulting; and relative to amending the penalties for the possession and use of a quantity of psilocybin for persons 18 years of age or older. Adopt Floor Amendment 06/05/2025 Yea
SB14 Relative to the penalty for certain fentanyl-related offenses; relative to establishing a mandatory minimum sentence for the crime of distribution of a controlled drug with death resulting; and relative to amending the penalties for the possession and use of a quantity of psilocybin for persons 18 years of age or older. Adopt Amendment 06/05/2025 Nay
SB14 Relative to the penalty for certain fentanyl-related offenses; relative to establishing a mandatory minimum sentence for the crime of distribution of a controlled drug with death resulting; and relative to amending the penalties for the possession and use of a quantity of psilocybin for persons 18 years of age or older. Table 06/05/2025 Yea
HB10 Establishing a parental bill of rights. Concur 06/05/2025 Nay
SB25 Allowing credit union members to pay members of the board of directors for their services as a board member and relative to the use of and disputes over blockchain and digital currencies. Adopt Floor Amendment 06/05/2025 Nay
SB72 Establishing a parental bill of rights. OTPA 06/05/2025 Nay
SB72 Establishing a parental bill of rights. Adopt Floor Amendment 06/05/2025 Yea
SB72 Establishing a parental bill of rights. Adopt Floor Amendment 06/05/2025 Nay
SB72 Establishing a parental bill of rights. Table 06/05/2025 Yea
SB99 Relative to regional career and technical education agreements. OTPA 06/05/2025 Nay
SB99 Relative to regional career and technical education agreements. Adopt Floor Amendment 06/05/2025 Nay
SB99 Relative to regional career and technical education agreements. Adopt Amendment 06/05/2025 Nay
SB100 Relative to the prohibition on teaching discrimination. OTPA 06/05/2025 Nay
SB96 Relative to mandatory disclosure by school district employees to parents and relative to enforcement of parental rights against school districts and school employees. OTPA 06/05/2025 Nay
SB96 Relative to mandatory disclosure by school district employees to parents and relative to enforcement of parental rights against school districts and school employees. Adopt Floor Amendment 06/05/2025 Nay
SB180 Designating Coos county as a distressed place-based economy and requiring the department of environmental services to revise the rules for proposed new landfills. Adopt Floor Amendment 06/05/2025 Nay
SB210 Relative to bullying and cyberbullying prevention and relative to allowing parents to send their children to any school district they choose. OTPA 06/05/2025 Nay
SB210 Relative to bullying and cyberbullying prevention and relative to allowing parents to send their children to any school district they choose. Adopt Floor Amendment 06/05/2025 Nay
SB218 Relative to absentee ballots. OTPA 06/05/2025 Nay
SB222 Relative to moving the state primary date. Remove From Table 06/05/2025 Nay
SB206 Requiring school districts and chartered public schools to adopt policies establishing a cell phone-free education. Adopt Amendment 06/05/2025 Yea
SB221 Relative to the verification of voter rolls annually. OTPA 06/05/2025 Nay
SB263 Criminalizing and creating a private right of action for the facilitation, encouragement, offer, solicitation, or recommendation of certain acts or actions through a responsive generative communication to a child, and relative to the termination of tenancy at the expiration of the tenancy or lease term. OTPA 06/05/2025 Nay
SB263 Criminalizing and creating a private right of action for the facilitation, encouragement, offer, solicitation, or recommendation of certain acts or actions through a responsive generative communication to a child, and relative to the termination of tenancy at the expiration of the tenancy or lease term. Table 06/05/2025 Yea
SB287 Requiring applicants for absentee ballots to present a copy of their photo identification with their application. OTPA 06/05/2025 Nay
SB287 Requiring applicants for absentee ballots to present a copy of their photo identification with their application. Adopt Amendment 06/05/2025 Nay
SB295 Relative to education freedom accounts. Reconsider 06/05/2025 Yea
SB295 Relative to education freedom accounts. OTPA 06/05/2025 Nay
SB295 Relative to education freedom accounts. Adopt Floor Amendment 06/05/2025 Yea
SB13 Invalidating out-of-state driver's licenses issued to undocumented immigrants and prohibiting driver's license issuance and renewal to individuals with pending asylum claims, regardless of a grant of temporary work authorization. OTPA 05/22/2025 Nay
HB551 Repealing the license to sell pistols and revolvers and limiting liability for certain design features of firearms. Concur 05/22/2025 Nay
SB119 Relative to Medicaid pharmaceutical services and relative to standing orders for Ivermectin. Adopt Amendment 05/22/2025 Nay
SB97 Relative to intra-district public school transfers. OTPA 05/22/2025 Nay
SB272 Relative to electric-vehicle charging station funding. ITL 05/22/2025 Nay
SB174 Prohibiting planning boards from considering the number of bedrooms a given unit or development has during the hearing and approval process. OTPA 05/22/2025 Yea
SB174 Prohibiting planning boards from considering the number of bedrooms a given unit or development has during the hearing and approval process. Table 05/22/2025 Nay
SB267 Relative to the penalty for engaging in prostitution as a patron. OTPA 05/22/2025 Yea
SB267 Relative to the penalty for engaging in prostitution as a patron. Table 05/22/2025 Nay
SB23 Expanding the crime of endangering the welfare of a child. Reconsider 05/08/2025 Yea
SB62 Relative to law enforcement participation in a federal immigration program and relative to cooperation with federal immigration authorities. OTPA 05/08/2025 Nay
SB62 Relative to law enforcement participation in a federal immigration program and relative to cooperation with federal immigration authorities. Adopt Floor Amendment 05/08/2025 Nay
SB62 Relative to law enforcement participation in a federal immigration program and relative to cooperation with federal immigration authorities. Adopt Floor Amendment 05/08/2025 Yea
SB141 Extending the time to petition for a new trial in certain cases and relative to adding library cards and membership status to the list of confidential library user records. Adopt Floor Amendment 05/08/2025 Nay
SB153 Relative to expedited driveway permitting of major entrances for residential use of 20 units or greater and the time frame for approval or denial of permit applications. OTPA 05/08/2025 Yea
SB105 Enabling towns to adopt budget caps. OTPA 05/08/2025 Nay
SB262 Relative to the penalty for trafficking in persons under 18 years of age. OTP 05/08/2025 Nay
SB295 Relative to education freedom accounts. OTPA 05/08/2025 Nay
SB295 Relative to education freedom accounts. Adopt Floor Amendment 05/08/2025 Yea
SB295 Relative to education freedom accounts. Previous Question 05/08/2025 Nay
SB23 Expanding the crime of endangering the welfare of a child. ITL 05/01/2025 Nay
SB23 Expanding the crime of endangering the welfare of a child. OTP 05/01/2025 Yea
SB60 Relative to advanced deposit account wagering and the department of health and human services' rulemaking authority regarding immunization requirements. Adopt Floor Amendment 05/01/2025 Nay
SB228 Relative to the limitations on community customer generators. ITL 05/01/2025 Nay
SB171 Relative to required pay for remote work. Remove From Table 05/01/2025 Nay
SB284 Relative to authority for municipalities to regulate mandatory on-site parking requirements. OTPA 05/01/2025 Yea
HB66 Relative to material subject to disclosure under the right to know law. OTPA 04/10/2025 Nay
HB66 Relative to material subject to disclosure under the right to know law. Table 04/10/2025 Yea
HB71 Prohibiting the use of the facilities of a public elementary school, a public secondary school, or an institution of higher education to provide shelter for aliens who have not been admitted into the United States and relative to department of health and human services contracts. OTPA 04/10/2025 Nay
HB115 Relative to universal eligibility for the education freedom account program. OTP 04/10/2025 Nay
HB282 Increasing the maximum benefits for first responders critically injured in the line of duty. OTP 04/10/2025 Yea
HB511 Relative to cooperation with federal immigration authorities. OTP 04/10/2025 Nay
HB511 Relative to cooperation with federal immigration authorities. Adopt Amendment 04/10/2025 Nay
HB2 Relative to state fees, funds, revenues, and expenditures. OTPA 04/10/2025 Nay
HB2 Relative to state fees, funds, revenues, and expenditures. Adopt Floor Amendment 04/10/2025 Yea
HB2 Relative to state fees, funds, revenues, and expenditures. Adopt Floor Amendment 04/10/2025 Yea
HB2 Relative to state fees, funds, revenues, and expenditures. Adopt Floor Amendment 04/10/2025 Yea
HB2 Relative to state fees, funds, revenues, and expenditures. Adopt Floor Amendment 04/10/2025 Yea
HB2 Relative to state fees, funds, revenues, and expenditures. Adopt Floor Amendment 04/10/2025 Yea
HB2 Relative to state fees, funds, revenues, and expenditures. Adopt Floor Amendment 04/10/2025 Yea
HB2 Relative to state fees, funds, revenues, and expenditures. Adopt Floor Amendment 04/10/2025 Yea
HB2 Relative to state fees, funds, revenues, and expenditures. Adopt Floor Amendment 04/10/2025 Yea
HB2 Relative to state fees, funds, revenues, and expenditures. Adopt Floor Amendment 04/10/2025 Yea
HB2 Relative to state fees, funds, revenues, and expenditures. Previous Queston 04/10/2025 Nay
HB2 Relative to state fees, funds, revenues, and expenditures. Remove From Table 04/10/2025 Nay
HB2 Relative to state fees, funds, revenues, and expenditures. Adopt Floor Amendment 04/10/2025 Yea
HB2 Relative to state fees, funds, revenues, and expenditures. Adopt Floor Amendment 04/10/2025 Yea
HB2 Relative to state fees, funds, revenues, and expenditures. Adopt Floor Amendment 04/10/2025 Yea
HB2 Relative to state fees, funds, revenues, and expenditures. Adopt Floor Amendment 04/10/2025 Yea
HB2 Relative to state fees, funds, revenues, and expenditures. Adopt Floor Amendment 04/10/2025 Yea
HB2 Relative to state fees, funds, revenues, and expenditures. Adopt Floor Amendment 04/10/2025 Yea
HB2 Relative to state fees, funds, revenues, and expenditures. Adopt Floor Amendment 04/10/2025 Yea
HB2 Relative to state fees, funds, revenues, and expenditures. Adopt Floor Amendment 04/10/2025 Yea
HB2 Relative to state fees, funds, revenues, and expenditures. Adopt Floor Amendment 04/10/2025 Nay
HB2 Relative to state fees, funds, revenues, and expenditures. Adopt Floor Amendment 04/10/2025 Yea
HB2 Relative to state fees, funds, revenues, and expenditures. Adopt Floor Amendment 04/10/2025 Nay
HB2 Relative to state fees, funds, revenues, and expenditures. Adopt Floor Amendment 04/10/2025 Nay
HB2 Relative to state fees, funds, revenues, and expenditures. Adopt Floor Amendment 04/10/2025 Nay
HB2 Relative to state fees, funds, revenues, and expenditures. Adopt Floor Amendment 04/10/2025 Nay
HB2 Relative to state fees, funds, revenues, and expenditures. Adopt Amendment 04/10/2025 Nay
HB1 Making appropriations for the expenses of certain departments of the state for fiscal years ending June 30, 2026 and June 30, 2027. OTPA 04/10/2025 Nay
HB1 Making appropriations for the expenses of certain departments of the state for fiscal years ending June 30, 2026 and June 30, 2027. Adopt Amendment 04/10/2025 Nay
HB25 Making appropriations for capital improvements. Adopt Floor Amendment 04/10/2025 Nay
HB274 Relative to the verification of voter rolls annually. OTP 03/27/2025 Nay
HB274 Relative to the verification of voter rolls annually. OTP 03/27/2025 Nay
HB251 Allowing the ownership of certain squirrels and raccoons. Table 03/27/2025 Yea
HB251 Allowing the ownership of certain squirrels and raccoons. Table 03/27/2025 Yea
HB284 Requiring tax impact statements on municipal warrant articles. OTPA 03/27/2025 Nay
HB284 Requiring tax impact statements on municipal warrant articles. OTPA 03/27/2025 Nay
HB363 Establishing redistricting criteria. ITL 03/27/2025 Nay
  Committee Position Rank
Detail New Hampshire House Education Funding Committee 12
State District Chamber Party Status Start Date End Date
NH New Hampshire House Cheshire 13 House Democrat In Office 12/07/2022
NH New Hampshire House Cheshire 09 House Democrat Out of Office 01/01/2013 12/08/2024