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Legislator > Tom Cormen
State Representative
Tom Cormen
(D) - New Hampshire
New Hampshire House Grafton 15
In Office - Started: 12/07/2022
contact info
Home Address
55 Westview Lane
Lebanon, NH 03766-2015
Lebanon, NH 03766-2015
Phone: 603-448-2442
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HB672 | To allow for off-grid electricity providers in New Hampshire. | This bill defines "off-grid electricity providers" and establishes a specific category for off-grid electricity providers, exempting them from certain regulations as long as they remain independent from the regulated electric grid. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB627 | Relative to permitting the public utilities commission to approve new providers for the Lifeline program. | This bill permits the public utilities commission to designate any commercial mobile service provider or telecommunications company as eligible for federal universal service support and to create rules for implementing this authority. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB210 | Establishing a commission to study the state flag and its history. | This bill establishes a commission to study the state flag, its history, and vexillological principles to determine if the state flag should be redesigned. | Dead |
| 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 |
| SB237 | Relative to the office of the consumer advocate and the site evaluation committee. | This bill adds the interests represented by the consumer advocate into the definition of "material interest" resulting in the consumer advocate having a role in the proceedings of the site evaluation committee, particularly in matters affecting residential utility consumers. | Dead |
| HB537 | Relative to electric rates approved by the public utilities commission for residential condominium property. | This bill requires that public utilities charge the same electric rates for certain condominium associations as they do for residential units, and it amends provisions related to rural electric cooperatives and condominium use for commercial enterprises. | In Committee |
| HB460 | Relative to utility investments in distributed energy resources. | This bill further defines a factor that the public utilities commission must consider to determine public interest prior to authorizing a utility's rate recovery for its portion of investments. | In Committee |
| HB539 | Requiring electric utilities to use residential electric rates for certain types of residential condominiums. | This bill provides that the residential electric rate for domestic consumption shall apply to the well pump and septic system of residential condominium units. | In Committee |
| HB680 | Relative to standardizing homeowners associations' electricity billing for shared meter usage. | This bill standardizes homeowners associations' electricity billing by ensuring that all residential units, including those with shared meters, are billed at the residential electricity rate and establishes a chargeback system for shared meter usage. | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| HB759 | Relative to community energy generators. | This bill defines community generators as customer-generators serving municipal or county aggregations or serving competitive electricity suppliers and clarifies how such generators are accounted for. The bill provides that such customer-generators are not on utility default service and specifies how line loss adjustments are to be accounted for. | In Committee |
| HB535 | Relative to defining the role of the public utilities commission. | This bill clarifies and eliminates certain grants of authority to the public utilities commission, and requires, in any contested case before the commission to which the department of energy and the office of the consumer advocate are parties, the commission to approve by order any settlement agreement to which all parties are a signatory, unless the commission determines after hearing that any settlement provision is contrary to law. This bill is at the request of the office of the consumer advocate. | In Committee |
| HB630 | Preventing the dissemination of deepfake materials of political candidates before an election. | This bill prevents the dissemination of deepfake materials of political candidates before an election. | 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 |
| HB681 | Establishing a statewide online energy data platform. | This bill outlines the framework and operational guidelines for an online energy data platform, as approved by the commission in Order No. 26,589 on March 2, 2022. | 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 |
| HB169 | Relative to a quorum of the public utilities commission. | This bill defines "majority" of the public utilities commission to be a 2/3 majority regardless of any vacancies and further defines the commission as a regulatory agency. | In Committee |
| 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 | Nay |
| HB358 | Relative to exemption from immunization requirements on the basis of religious belief. | Concur | 06/12/2025 | Nay |
| HB358 | Relative to exemption from immunization requirements on the basis of religious belief. | Concur | 06/12/2025 | Nay |
| 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 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| HB672 | To allow for off-grid electricity providers in New Hampshire. | Concur | 06/12/2025 | Nay |
| HB672 | To allow for off-grid electricity providers in New Hampshire. | Concur | 06/12/2025 | Nay |
| 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 | Nay |
| HB768 | Allowing public schools to contract with any approved nonpublic school. | Concur | 06/12/2025 | Nay |
| HB768 | Allowing public schools to contract with any approved nonpublic school. | Concur | 06/12/2025 | Nay |
| HB771 | Relative to funding for open enrollment schools. | Concur | 06/12/2025 | Nay |
| HB771 | Relative to funding for open enrollment schools. | Concur | 06/12/2025 | 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. | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 |
| Committee | Position | Rank | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detail | New Hampshire House Science, Technology and Energy Committee | 5 |
| State | District | Chamber | Party | Status | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NH | District Grafton 15 | House | Democrat | In Office | 12/07/2022 |