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Legislator > Donald McFarlane
State Representative
Donald McFarlane
(R) - New Hampshire
New Hampshire House Grafton 18 - Floterial District
In Office - Started: 12/04/2024
contact info
Home Address
280 Burnt Hill Road
Orange, NH 03741-5206
Orange, NH 03741-5206
Phone: 603-523-7412
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HB417 | Relative to repealing the communications services tax. | This bill: I. Reduces the rate of the communications services tax for the 2026 tax year. II. Abolishes the communications services tax in the 2027 tax year. | In Committee |
| HB610 | Relative to repealing the office of the consumer advocate. | This bill repeals the office of the consumer advocate. | In Committee |
| HB348 | Relative to eligibility for local assistance. | This bill provides that municipalities may establish a residency requirement of up to 90 days for local assistance. | In Committee |
| HB323 | Requiring the presentation of a government-issued photographic means of identification in order to vote. | This bill requires the presentation of a government-issued photographic means of identification to vote. | In Committee |
| 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 |
| HB696 | Relative to the application of utility property taxes and statewide education property taxes to electric generating facilities. | This bill provides: I. That an electric generating facility exempt from the utility property tax and making a payment in lieu of taxes to the municipality shall not be responsible for payment of the state education tax until such agreement expires or until July 1, 2032, whichever occurs first. II. For calculation and payment of the utility property tax in future agreements. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB626 | Directing the secretary of state to implement a vulnerability disclosure program for certain election systems. | This bill directs the secretary of state to implement a vulnerability disclosure program for certain election systems. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB374 | Relative to local tax cap and budget laws. | This bill clarifies references to the procedure for adopting a local tax and budget cap and clarifies warrant language for adopting such a cap and budget. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB504 | Relative to the state energy policy. | This bill revises the state energy policy to promote affordable, reliable, diverse, and secure energy resources for the health, safety, and welfare of its citizens. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB710 | Enabling electric utilities to own, operate, and offer advanced nuclear resources, and relative to purchased power agreements for electric distribution utilities and limitations on community customer generators. | This bill: I. Defines "advanced nuclear resource" (ANR) and includes ANR options alongside renewable energy sources for utility services. II. Sets limitations and guidelines for investments in distributed electric generation. III. Clarifies the coordinator's duties in nuclear development and regulatory activities. IV. Allows the department of energy or the electric distribution utilities, or both, to issue requests for proposals (RFPs) for multi-year agreements for energy, in conjunction with or independent of any attendant environmental attributes from electric energy sources, and coordinate with one or more New England states in issuing this RFP. V. Modifies the scope and capacity limits of community solar projects, including expanding the annual cap for low-moderate income community solar projects from 6 MW to 18 MW. VI. Allows group net metering members to sign agreements with multiple group hosts, as long as their combined allocated load does not exceed their total load. VII. Expands the definition of "political subdivision" to include public housing authorities and explains eligibility for participation in group net metering. | Crossed Over |
| HB327 | Relative to filing for office and witnessing affidavits. | This bill: I. Allows the secretary of state to serve as a filing official. II. Allows town clerks to witness affidavits regardless of whether they are a notary public. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB511 | Relative to cooperation with federal immigration authorities. | This bill: I. Requires law enforcement agencies to comply with immigration detainers of inmates if safe to do so and prohibits state and local government entities from adopting sanctuary policies to prohibit or impede the enforcement of federal immigration law. II. Prohibits New Hampshire law enforcement agencies from investigating an inmate's citizenship status unless subsequent to an alleged violation of New Hampshire law or pursuant to an authorization by law. III. Prohibits blanket policies against compliance with immigration detainers for inmates and prohibits any government entity or law enforcement agency from restricting the use and transmission of inmate immigration information used in compliance with the chapter. IV. Provides exceptions for certain witnesses to or victims of crime. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB517 | Repealing certain outreach and marketing requirements under the Granite State paid family leave plan. | This bill repeals the requirement that the state engage in certain outreach and marketing activities to increase awareness of the Granite State paid family leave plan. | Passed |
| HB211 | Relative to the use of air rifles for hunting game. | This bill: I. Allows the taking of game in New Hampshire with air rifles. II. Further defines "air rifle." III. Requires the fish and game commission to make rules creating and administering a hunting tag program for air rifle hunting. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB435 | Relative to the definition of professional engineer. | This bill clarifies that the "practice of engineering" for purposes of the regulation of professional engineers does not include any professional service or creative work performed in the fields of information technology, information security, electronics, digital systems, or computing. | Dead |
| HB723 | Repealing the multi-use energy data platform. | This bill repeals the multi-use energy data platform. | Crossed Over |
| HB94 | Relative to coverage of circumcision under the state Medicaid plan. | This bill provides that the state Medicaid plan shall not include circumcision unless the child has a specific diagnosis for which the procedure is determined to be medically necessary. | Dead |
| HB251 | Allowing the ownership of certain squirrels and raccoons. | This bill allows the ownership of squirrels and raccoons deemed unable to survive in the wild. | In Committee |
| HB620 | Relative to the exercise of the freedom of religion. | This bill enacts a religious freedom restoration act, prohibiting the government from substantially burdening a person's exercise of religion unless it is in furtherance of a compelling government interest and is the least restrictive means of furthering such interest. The bill further provides for remedies for violations of the act's provisions. | In Committee |
| HB229 | Repealing the alternative procedure for adoption of zoning ordinances. | This bill repeals the authority for non-charter towns, village districts, or counties with unincorporated places to adopt zoning ordinances through alternative procedures. | In Committee |
| HR14 | Relative to litigation concerning healthcare monopolies. | Relative to litigation concerning healthcare monopolies. | In Committee |
| HB609 | Relative to the general court's authority over the sale, purchase, ownership, use, possession, transportation, licensing, permitting, taxation, and other matter pertaining to firearms, stun guns, Tasers, pepper spray devices, knives and other self-defense tools. | This bill provides that the general court has authority and jurisdiction over the regulation of firearms, stun guns, Tasers, pepper spray devices, knives and other self-defense tools. | In Committee |
| HB743 | Relative to patient access to health care prices and billing practices. | This bill requires health care entities to provide an estimate of the price of health care services to be provided. The bill also requires health care entities to post notice of a patient's right to request this information and requires health insurance carriers to provide an insured patient with an advanced explanation of benefits withing 3 business days of receiving a good faith estimate from a health care entity. The bill also requires hospitals to comply with federal price transparency requirements, directs the department of health and human services to adopt rules regarding the disclosure requirements, and provides for the assessment of fines for noncompliance. | In Committee |
| HB735 | Relative to elections in collective bargaining. | This bill provides for changes to public employee bargaining unit voting. | In Committee |
| HB541 | Establishing a committee to study energy and telecommunications infrastructure survivability and resiliency. | This bill establishes a committee to study energy and telecommunications infrastructure survivability and resiliency. | In Committee |
| HB209 | Allowing a new vehicle purchased in the model year or before to be inspected in the second year after purchase. | This bill allows new vehicles purchased in the model year or before to be inspected in the second year after purchase. | In Committee |
| HB238 | Prohibiting collective bargaining agreements from requiring employees join or contribute to a labor union. | This bill prohibits collective bargaining agreements that require employees to join or contribute to a labor union. | 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 | 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. | Reconsider | 06/26/2025 | 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 CofC Report | 06/26/2025 | Abstain |
| 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 | Nay |
| HB273 | Relative to a parent's access to their minor child's library records. | Adopt CofC Report | 06/26/2025 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| HB2 | Relative to state fees, funds, revenues, and expenditures. | Adopt CofC Report | 06/26/2025 | Yea |
| HB2 | Relative to state fees, funds, revenues, and expenditures. | Limit Debate | 06/26/2025 | Yea |
| HB2 | Relative to state fees, funds, revenues, and expenditures. | Remover From Table | 06/26/2025 | 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 CofC Report | 06/26/2025 | Yea |
| HB1 | Making appropriations for the expenses of certain departments of the state for fiscal years ending June 30, 2026 and June 30, 2027. | Reconsider | 06/26/2025 | 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 CofC Report | 06/26/2025 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| HB358 | Relative to exemption from immunization requirements on the basis of religious belief. | 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 | 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 | Nay |
| HB672 | To allow for off-grid electricity providers in New Hampshire. | Concur | 06/12/2025 | Yea |
| HB672 | To allow for off-grid electricity providers in New Hampshire. | Concur | 06/12/2025 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| HB768 | Allowing public schools to contract with any approved nonpublic school. | Concur | 06/12/2025 | Yea |
| HB768 | Allowing public schools to contract with any approved nonpublic school. | Concur | 06/12/2025 | Yea |
| HB771 | Relative to funding for open enrollment schools. | Concur | 06/12/2025 | Yea |
| HB771 | Relative to funding for open enrollment schools. | Concur | 06/12/2025 | 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 | 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. | Adopt Floor Amendment | 06/05/2025 | 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. | 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 | 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 | 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. | Adopt Floor Amendment | 06/05/2025 | 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. | 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 | Abstain |
| HB10 | Establishing a parental bill of rights. | Concur | 06/05/2025 | Absent |
| HB10 | Establishing a parental bill of rights. | Concur | 06/05/2025 | Abstain |
| 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 | Abstain |
| 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 | Abstain |
| SB99 | Relative to regional career and technical education agreements. | Adopt Floor Amendment | 06/05/2025 | Abstain |
| SB99 | Relative to regional career and technical education agreements. | Adopt Amendment | 06/05/2025 | Abstain |
| 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 | 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 | Abstain |
| 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 | Abstain |
| 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 |
| 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 | Abstain |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| HB551 | Repealing the license to sell pistols and revolvers and limiting liability for certain design features of firearms. | Concur | 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 |
| 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 | 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 | Nay |
| SB267 | Relative to the penalty for engaging in prostitution as a patron. | Table | 05/22/2025 | Yea |
| SB23 | Expanding the crime of endangering the welfare of a child. | Reconsider | 05/08/2025 | Absent |
| SB62 | Relative to law enforcement participation in a federal immigration program and relative to cooperation with federal immigration authorities. | OTPA | 05/08/2025 | Absent |
| 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 | Absent |
| 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 | Absent |
| 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 | Absent |
| 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 | Absent |
| 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 | Absent |
| SB105 | Enabling towns to adopt budget caps. | OTPA | 05/08/2025 | Absent |
| SB262 | Relative to the penalty for trafficking in persons under 18 years of age. | OTP | 05/08/2025 | Absent |
| SB295 | Relative to education freedom accounts. | OTPA | 05/08/2025 | Absent |
| SB295 | Relative to education freedom accounts. | Adopt Floor Amendment | 05/08/2025 | Absent |
| SB295 | Relative to education freedom accounts. | Previous Question | 05/08/2025 | Absent |
| SB295 | Relative to education freedom accounts. | OTPA | 05/08/2025 | Absent |
| SB295 | Relative to education freedom accounts. | Adopt Floor Amendment | 05/08/2025 | Absent |
| SB295 | Relative to education freedom accounts. | Previous Question | 05/08/2025 | Absent |
| 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 Judiciary Committee | 9 |
| State | District | Chamber | Party | Status | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NH | New Hampshire House Grafton 18 - Floterial District | House | Republican | In Office | 12/04/2024 |