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Legislator > Richard Ames
State Representative
Richard Ames
(D) - New Hampshire
New Hampshire House Cheshire 13
In Office - Started: 12/07/2022
contact info
Home Address
12 Blackberry Lane
Jaffrey, NH 03452-5100
Jaffrey, NH 03452-5100
Phone: 603-532-6781
General Capitol Building Address
State House
107 N. Main St.
Concord, NH 03301
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. | Passed |
| 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 school facilities to be used to provide shelter for aliens, relative to department of health and human services contracts, requiring the use of public notices before re-assessment of property values for tax purposes, and relative to construction of a public pier on Hampton Beach and making an appropriation therefor. | 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 |