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Legislator > Claudine Burnham
State Representative
Claudine Burnham
(R) - New Hampshire
New Hampshire House Strafford 02
In Office - Started: 12/07/2022
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Home Address
156 Governors Road
Milton, NH 03851-4747
Milton, NH 03851-4747
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HB288 | Limiting how far in advance of an election an absentee ballot may be requested. | This bill limits how far in advance an absentee ballot may be requested. Federal law requires that UOCAVA voters complete a new federal official post card no earlier than January of the calendar year in which a federal election occurs. Other applications for absentee ballots are limited to no earlier than 6 months prior to the election. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB474 | Requiring a second witness at the counting of write-in votes. | This bill requires a second witness who is another sworn-in election official if a moderator uses a ballot counting device's printed or digitally displayed images to count write-in votes in place of examining each ballot to obtain the name of the person who received a write-in vote. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB80 | Allowing a public body member's presence at a meeting by electronic or other means of communication only if physical presence is unavoidable. | This bill requires a public body's member to be physically present at a meeting unless physical presence is unavoidable and provides that physical presence is required for voting. | Dead |
| HB369 | Relative to misdemeanor sexual assault prosecutions and relative to the duty to report for sexual offenders and offenders against children. | This bill: 1. Requires a defendant charged with a misdemeanor sexual assault of a minor under the age of 18 to elect whether to proceed in circuit court and waive his or her right to a jury trial or to immediately appeal to superior court for a jury trial. 2. Clarifies a sexual offender or offender against children's duty to report to local law enforcement. | Crossed Over |
| HB274 | Relative to the verification of voter rolls annually. | This bill provides for the annual verification of voter rolls. | Dead |
| HB270 | Requiring the preservation of electronic ballot counting device external storage devices. | This bill requires preservation of electronic ballot counting device external storage devices with other election material until the contest is settled and all appeals have expired or at least 22 months after elections, whichever is longer. | Crossed Over |
| HB200 | Relative to the procedure for overriding a local tax cap. | This bill requires a supermajority vote of the legislative body to override a local tax cap. | Crossed Over |
| HB78 | Requiring a person to have a domicile in the district from which they serve as county commissioner. | This bill requires a person to have a domicile in the county where they seek to hold the office of county commissioner. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| SB246 | Providing maternal depression screening for new mothers; increasing access to health care services for new mothers; enabling new parents to attend infant pediatric medical appointments; and developing a plan for perinatal peer support certification. | This bill provides maternal depression screening for new mothers; makes an appropriation to the department of health and human services for a perinatal psychiatric provider consult line and to the department of safety for rural maternal health EMS services; directs the department of health and human services to study barriers to independent birth centers; requires insurance coverage for perinatal home visiting services; expands employee protection to attend medical appointments for postpartum care and an infants medical appointments; and directs the department of health and human services to develop a plan for a perinatal peer support certification program. | In Committee |
| HB160 | Relative to the contents of the pre-election certificate. | This bill adds to the contents of the pre-election certificate. | In Committee |
| HB472 | Requiring voters to prove domicile. | This bill requires the supervisor of the checklist to review proof of a voter's domicile before the voter is allowed to vote. | In Committee |
| HB574 | Requiring background checks of the private companies and their contractors who program and maintain New Hampshire voting machines. | This bill requires background checks of employees, contractors, directors, and partners of private companies that program and maintain the electronic ballot counting machines in the state. This bill also allows the public inspection of such records. | In Committee |
| HB684 | Preventing the use of student identification cards as a means to obtain a ballot. | This bill: I. Prevents student identification cards from being used to obtain a ballot. II. Changes the period for which expired identification can be used to obtain a ballot. | In Committee |
| HB497 | Requiring the periodic evaluation of the forms and procedures related to performing voter checklist duties. | This bill requires the secretary of state to periodically review the forms and procedures related to performing voter checklist duties. | In Committee |
| CACR7 | Relating to the presumption of innocence. Providing that in all cases and suits of the state against one of the people, the defendant shall be innocent unless proven guilty. | Relating to the presumption of innocence. Providing that in all cases and suits of the state against one of the people, the defendant shall be innocent unless proven guilty. | In Committee |
| HB693 | Relative to ballot counting procedures and permitting the hand counting of ballots. | This bill provides that a voter may request to have their ballot counted by hand rather than by an electronic ballot counting device. The bill also provides that the selectmen and town clerk are permitted to hand count ballots cast in an election. | In Committee |
| HB686 | Requiring a voter to provide identification when requesting an absentee ballot. | This bill: I. Requires anyone who requests an absentee ballot to provide a copy of government issued photo identification alongside their absentee ballot application. II. Requires that absentee ballot applications be notarized. III. Requires a person to cure any errors in their application in person and prove their domicile to their city or town clerk. | In Committee |
| HB764 | Prohibiting the intentional release of polluting emissions, including cloud seeding, weather modification, excessive electromagnetic radio frequency, and microwave radiation and making penalties for violation of such prohibition. | This bill prohibits geoengineering, including the intentional release of polluting emissions, makes an exception for the use of cloud seeding during a catastrophic drought, makes penalties for violation of such a prohibition, and requires the commissioner of the department of environmental services to notify federal agencies of the prohibition and penalties for violating such prohibition. | In Committee |
| HB562 | Relative to the filling of vacant positions on elected municipal boards and school boards. | This bill requires vacancies on elected municipal boards and school boards to be first offered to the runner up in the most recent prior election if the appointing authority chooses to fill the vacancy with an applicant who ran in any of the least 3 elections for the office. | In Committee |
| HB317 | Preventing a supervisor of the checklist from verifying a person's identity without identification, even if they personally know that person. | This bill prevents a supervisor of the checklist from verifying a person's identity without identification, even if they personally know that person. | In Committee |
| HB709 | Allowing parents or guardians to admit their children into any school district where they pay any property or school district taxes. | This bill allows parents or guardians to admit their children into any school district where they pay any property tax or school district taxes. | In Committee |
| HB314 | Prohibiting the use of federal, state, or local funds for lobbying activities. | This bill regulates the use of public funds for lobbying activities and establishes certain additional enforcement mechanisms. | In Committee |
| HB579 | Requiring applicants for a fish and game guide license to take and pass a standardized test provided by the fish and game department before receiving their license. | This bill requires applicants for a fish and game guide license to take an exam in a standardized test format, administered by a specifically qualified fish and game officer. | In Committee |
| HB476 | Relative to restrictions on elective abortion. | This bill clarifies the definition of “fetus” for the purpose of abortion laws. The bill leaves in statute the subdivision located at RSA 329:43 through RSA 329:50 which makes abortions illegal after 24 weeks gestational age except in the case of a medical emergency or a fetal abnormality incompatible with life, but adds an additional differing subdivision that makes abortions illegal after 15 weeks gestational age except in the case of a medical emergency or a fetal abnormality incompatible with life. This bill also adds that no regulatory or law enforcement agency has the authority to penalize a health care provider for performing an abortion before 15 weeks gestational age except as specifically provided by law. | 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 | 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 | 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 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 | Nay |
| HB10 | Establishing a parental bill of rights. | Concur | 06/05/2025 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| SB72 | Establishing a parental bill of rights. | OTPA | 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. | Adopt Floor Amendment | 06/05/2025 | Yea |
| SB72 | Establishing a parental bill of rights. | Table | 06/05/2025 | Nay |
| SB99 | Relative to regional career and technical education agreements. | OTPA | 06/05/2025 | Yea |
| SB99 | Relative to regional career and technical education agreements. | Adopt Floor Amendment | 06/05/2025 | Yea |
| SB99 | Relative to regional career and technical education agreements. | Adopt Amendment | 06/05/2025 | Yea |
| SB100 | Relative to the prohibition on teaching discrimination. | OTPA | 06/05/2025 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| SB218 | Relative to absentee ballots. | OTPA | 06/05/2025 | Yea |
| SB222 | Relative to moving the state primary date. | Remove From Table | 06/05/2025 | Yea |
| SB206 | Requiring school districts and chartered public schools to adopt policies establishing a cell phone-free education. | Adopt Amendment | 06/05/2025 | Nay |
| SB221 | Relative to the verification of voter rolls annually. | OTPA | 06/05/2025 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| 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 | Nay |
| SB287 | Requiring applicants for absentee ballots to present a copy of their photo identification with their application. | OTPA | 06/05/2025 | Yea |
| SB287 | Requiring applicants for absentee ballots to present a copy of their photo identification with their application. | Adopt Amendment | 06/05/2025 | Yea |
| SB295 | Relative to education freedom accounts. | Reconsider | 06/05/2025 | Nay |
| SB295 | Relative to education freedom accounts. | OTPA | 06/05/2025 | Yea |
| SB295 | Relative to education freedom accounts. | Adopt Floor Amendment | 06/05/2025 | 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 | Yea |
| HB551 | Repealing the license to sell pistols and revolvers and limiting liability for certain design features of firearms. | Concur | 05/22/2025 | Yea |
| SB119 | Relative to Medicaid pharmaceutical services and relative to standing orders for Ivermectin. | Adopt Amendment | 05/22/2025 | Yea |
| SB97 | Relative to intra-district public school transfers. | OTPA | 05/22/2025 | Yea |
| SB272 | Relative to electric-vehicle charging station funding. | ITL | 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. | OTPA | 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. | Table | 05/22/2025 | Yea |
| 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 | Nay |
| SB62 | Relative to law enforcement participation in a federal immigration program and relative to cooperation with federal immigration authorities. | OTPA | 05/08/2025 | Yea |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| SB295 | Relative to education freedom accounts. | Adopt Floor Amendment | 05/08/2025 | Nay |
| SB295 | Relative to education freedom accounts. | Previous Question | 05/08/2025 | Yea |
| SB23 | Expanding the crime of endangering the welfare of a child. | ITL | 05/01/2025 | Yea |
| SB23 | Expanding the crime of endangering the welfare of a child. | OTP | 05/01/2025 | Nay |
| 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 | Yea |
| SB228 | Relative to the limitations on community customer generators. | ITL | 05/01/2025 | Yea |
| SB171 | Relative to required pay for remote work. | Remove From Table | 05/01/2025 | Yea |
| SB284 | Relative to authority for municipalities to regulate mandatory on-site parking requirements. | OTPA | 05/01/2025 | Nay |
| HB66 | Relative to material subject to disclosure under the right to know law. | OTPA | 04/10/2025 | Yea |
| HB66 | Relative to material subject to disclosure under the right to know law. | Table | 04/10/2025 | Nay |
| 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 | Yea |
| HB115 | Relative to universal eligibility for the education freedom account program. | OTP | 04/10/2025 | Yea |
| HB282 | Increasing the maximum benefits for first responders critically injured in the line of duty. | OTP | 04/10/2025 | Nay |
| HB511 | Relative to cooperation with federal immigration authorities. | OTP | 04/10/2025 | Yea |
| 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 | 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 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 Floor Amendment | 04/10/2025 | Nay |
| HB2 | Relative to state fees, funds, revenues, and expenditures. | Previous Queston | 04/10/2025 | Yea |
| HB2 | Relative to state fees, funds, revenues, and expenditures. | Remove From Table | 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 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 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 | 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 Amendment | 04/10/2025 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| HB25 | Making appropriations for capital improvements. | Adopt Floor Amendment | 04/10/2025 | Yea |
| HB274 | Relative to the verification of voter rolls annually. | OTP | 03/27/2025 | Yea |
| HB274 | Relative to the verification of voter rolls annually. | OTP | 03/27/2025 | Yea |
| HB251 | Allowing the ownership of certain squirrels and raccoons. | Table | 03/27/2025 | Nay |
| HB251 | Allowing the ownership of certain squirrels and raccoons. | Table | 03/27/2025 | Nay |
| HB284 | Requiring tax impact statements on municipal warrant articles. | OTPA | 03/27/2025 | Yea |
| HB284 | Requiring tax impact statements on municipal warrant articles. | OTPA | 03/27/2025 | Yea |
| HB363 | Establishing redistricting criteria. | ITL | 03/27/2025 | Yea |
| Committee | Position | Rank | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detail | New Hampshire House Election Law Committee | Clerk | 3 |
| State | District | Chamber | Party | Status | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NH | New Hampshire House Strafford 02 | House | Republican | In Office | 12/07/2022 |