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Legislator > Tony Caplan
State Representative
Tony Caplan
(D) - New Hampshire
New Hampshire House Merrimack 08
In Office - Started: 12/07/2022
contact info
Home Address
810 Ray Road
Henniker, NH 03242-6175
Henniker, NH 03242-6175
Phone: 603-428-7042
General Capitol Building Address
State House
107 N. Main St.
Concord, NH 03301
107 N. Main St.
Concord, NH 03301
Phone: 603-271-3661
| Bill | Bill Name | Summary | Progress |
|---|---|---|---|
| HB138 | Relative to tax impact notation on warrant articles with multi-year tax impacts. | This bill requires a notation stating the estimated tax impact for any special warrant article with a multi-year tax impact in towns that have voted to require a notation stating the estimated tax impact of the annual budget and all special warrant articles. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB156 | Relative to the duties of the advisory committee on state procurement. | This bill creates an advisory committee on state procurement of agricultural products to review state procurement policies and make recommendations to encourage local food production and conservation. | Crossed Over |
| SB272 | Relative to electric-vehicle charging station funding. | This bill authorizes towns to create revolving funds for installation and maintenence of electric vehicle charging stations. This bill prohibits any person not driving an emergency vehicle from stopping, standing, or parking in a parking place designated for electric vehicles. | Crossed Over |
| SB228 | Relative to the limitations on community customer generators. | This bill: I. Modifies the scope and capacity limits of the community solar projects, as well as the terminology used to describe the beneficiaries. II. Places limits on the size of the solar arrays for low-moderate income community solar projects. III. Ensures that group net metering members can sign agreements with multiple group hosts, regardless of on-bill crediting participation, as long as the combined load doesn't exceed their total load. IV. Expands the definition of "political subdivision" to include not-for-profits, while removing the previous specification about special purpose entities. | Crossed Over |
| HB674 | Relative to non-wire alternatives, time-of-use tariffs, and multi-year rate settings. | This bill: I. Defines non-wire alternatives, time-of-use pricing, and time-of-use tariffs. II. Requires the department of energy and public utilities commission to regulate non-wire alternatives, time-of-use pricing, time-of-use tariffs, and multi-year rate cases. | In Committee |
| HB760 | Relative to utility default service. | This bill clarifies certain policy principles regarding electric utility default service, including default service rates and recovery for over or under collection. The bill also repeals certain electric utility restructuring policy principles regarding universal service and the provision of default service. | In Committee |
| HB761 | Relative to customer energy storage. | This bill provides that the department of energy shall adopt rules relative to installation and use of energy storage systems. The bill also provides that the public utilities commission may approve tariffs and issue orders in adjudicated proceedings consistent with, or in the absence of such rules. | In Committee |
| HB755 | Relative to the state's electric utility market. | This bill revises the definition of grid modernization to reference cost-effective measures intended to create a competitive market place of electricity suppliers, defines "load reducer" for purposes of electric utility restructuring; and establishes certain retail market reforms intended to enable innovation. | In Committee |
| HB462 | Establishing a cause of action for unwarranted video imaging of residential premises. | This bill establishes a private right of action against a person who installs a video imaging device on property adjoining residential real property in order to video activities in the backyard of the property in order to harass, annoy, alarm, or threaten another person. | In Committee |
| HB556 | Relative to the sale of products labeled as biodegradable or compostable. | This bill prohibits the sale or offering for sale of certain products labeled biodegradable or compostable unless the product meets third-party certification standards | In Committee |
| HB601 | Relative to causes of action against companies that misstate the impacts of their business on the environment. | This bill: I. Creates a private cause of action against companies that misstate the impacts of their business on the environment. II. Creates criminal penalties for companies that misstate the impacts of their business on the environment. | In Committee |
| HB654 | Relative to allowing small customer-generators the ability to participate in group-net metering. | This bill: I. Allows group hosts who are customer-generators to form a group with any customer, including those who are also customer-generators. II. Requires any future rules by the commission to allow small customer-generators to be members of a group for net metering. III. Requires any agency that issues rules affecting group net metering must also ensure that small customer-generators are allowed to be members of a group for net metering. | In Committee |
| HR10 | Recognizing the importance of clean air, clean water, and a healthy environment with regard to our fundamental rights. | Recognizing the importance of clean air, clean water, and a healthy environment with regard to our fundamental rights. | In Committee |
| SB111 | Authorizing a reliability indexing credit pilot program. | This bill establishes a reliability indexing credit pilot program for the procurement of reliability indexing credits from qualified energy storage resources, defines related terms, and authorizes the public utilities commission to approve multi-year agreements and cost recovery mechanisms. | In Committee |
| SB234 | Relative to the electric assistance program. | This bill: I. Establishes an advisory council for the electric assistance program. II. Caps the system benefits charge for the program at 2 mills (or 0.2 cents) per kilowatt-hour, with adjustments based on the Consumer Price Index. The bill is a request of the office of the consumer advocate. | Dead |
| HB106 | Establishing a commission to determine the monetary costs of climate damage to the state of New Hampshire and the best means of recouping such costs. | This bill establishes a commission to determine the financial cost of climate damage to New Hampshire and methods of recouping such costs. | 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. | Adopt CofC Report | 06/26/2025 | 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. | Reconsider | 06/26/2025 | 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 CofC Report | 06/26/2025 | Nay |
| HB115 | Making temporary appropriations for the expenses and encumbrances of the state of New Hampshire. | Concur | 06/26/2025 | Nay |
| HB282 | Increasing the maximum benefits for first responders critically injured in the line of duty, relative to the determination of education adequacy grants and calculation of certain group II benefits within the retirement system. | Concur | 06/26/2025 | Yea |
| HB273 | Relative to a parent's access to their minor child's library records. | Adopt CofC Report | 06/26/2025 | Nay |
| HB377 | Relative to health care professionals administering hormone treatments and puberty blockers and relative to recognizing the second Thursday in October as children's environmental health day. | Adopt CofC Report | 06/26/2025 | Nay |
| HB712 | Limiting breast surgeries for minors, relative to residential care and health facility licensing, and relative to the collection and reporting of abortion statistics by health care providers and medical facilities. | Adopt CofC Report | 06/26/2025 | Nay |
| HB2 | Relative to state fees, funds, revenues, and expenditures. | Adopt CofC Report | 06/26/2025 | Nay |
| HB2 | Relative to state fees, funds, revenues, and expenditures. | Limit Debate | 06/26/2025 | Nay |
| HB2 | Relative to state fees, funds, revenues, and expenditures. | Remover From Table | 06/26/2025 | 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 CofC Report | 06/26/2025 | Nay |
| HB1 | Making appropriations for the expenses of certain departments of the state for fiscal years ending June 30, 2026 and June 30, 2027. | Reconsider | 06/26/2025 | 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 CofC Report | 06/26/2025 | Nay |
| HB342 | Relative to the approval process for new construction and to the adoption of energy efficient and clean energy districts by municipalities. | Concur | 06/12/2025 | Abstain |
| HB358 | Relative to exemption from immunization requirements on the basis of religious belief. | Concur | 06/12/2025 | Abstain |
| HB358 | Relative to exemption from immunization requirements on the basis of religious belief. | Concur | 06/12/2025 | Abstain |
| HB468 | Establishing the crime of and penalties for unlawful use of unmanned aircraft systems and changing the reckless driving minimum penalties. | Concur | 06/12/2025 | Abstain |
| HB468 | Establishing the crime of and penalties for unlawful use of unmanned aircraft systems and changing the reckless driving minimum penalties. | Concur | 06/12/2025 | Abstain |
| HB672 | To allow for off-grid electricity providers in New Hampshire. | Concur | 06/12/2025 | Abstain |
| HB672 | To allow for off-grid electricity providers in New Hampshire. | Concur | 06/12/2025 | Abstain |
| HB690 | Directing the department of energy to investigate the state's withdrawal from ISO-New England and other strategy decisions that impact ratepayers in relation to New England's environmental policy. | Concur | 06/12/2025 | Abstain |
| HB768 | Allowing public schools to contract with any approved nonpublic school. | Concur | 06/12/2025 | Abstain |
| HB768 | Allowing public schools to contract with any approved nonpublic school. | Concur | 06/12/2025 | Abstain |
| HB771 | Relative to funding for open enrollment schools. | Concur | 06/12/2025 | Abstain |
| HB771 | Relative to funding for open enrollment schools. | Concur | 06/12/2025 | Abstain |
| 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 | 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 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 | 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. | Table | 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. | OTPA | 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 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 | 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. | Table | 06/05/2025 | Yea |
| HB10 | Establishing a parental bill of rights. | Concur | 06/05/2025 | Nay |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| HB551 | Repealing the license to sell pistols and revolvers and limiting liability for certain design features of firearms. | Concur | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | Yea |
| 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 |
| 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 | Absent |
| SB23 | Expanding the crime of endangering the welfare of a child. | OTP | 05/01/2025 | Absent |
| 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 | Absent |
| 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 | Absent |
| SB228 | Relative to the limitations on community customer generators. | ITL | 05/01/2025 | Absent |
| Committee | Position | Rank | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detail | New Hampshire House Science, Technology and Energy Committee | 3 |
| State | District | Chamber | Party | Status | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NH | New Hampshire House Merrimack 08 | House | Democrat | In Office | 12/07/2022 | |
| NH | New Hampshire House Merrimack 06 | House | Democrat | Out of Office | 12/02/2020 | 02/05/2024 |