State · New Hampshire Senate
David Watters
State Senator · Senate District 4 · Party: Democratic
111 final-passage votes on record.
A member of New Hampshire's state Senate, which votes on the state's laws and budget.
- Voted No on HB 551 (repealing the license to sell pistols and revolvers and limiting liability for certain design features of firearms.). It passed. May 8, 2025
- Voted No on HB 381 (limiting liability for certain design features of firearms.). It passed. May 8, 2025
- Voted No on HB 190 (relative to therapeutic cannabis possession limits.). It passed. May 8, 2025
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Office
- Office
- State Senator
- District
- Senate District 4
- Party
- Democratic
- Term
- Since 2012-12-05
- Website
- Official site ↗
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HB 551
repealing the license to sell pistols and revolvers and limiting liability for certain design features of firearms.
Ought to Pass w/Amendment
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HB 198
relative to legalizing certain quantities of cannabis and establishing penalties for the smoking or vaping of cannabis in public.
Laid on Table
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HB 319
relative to the responsibility of local school districts to provide transportation for pupils in kindergarten.
Ought to Pass
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HB 53
permitting qualifying patients and designated caregivers to cultivate cannabis for therapeutic use.
Laid on Table
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HB 231
prohibiting school district personnel from transporting students to medical or mental health appointments, visits, or procedures without parental consent.
Ought to Pass
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HB 53
permitting qualifying patients and designated caregivers to cultivate cannabis for therapeutic use.
Inexpedient to Legislate
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SB 96
relative to mandatory disclosure by school district employees to parents and relative to enforcement of parental rights against school districts and school employees.
Ought to Pass
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SB 268
permitting classification of individuals based on biological sex under certain limited circumstances.
Ought to Pass w/Amendment
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SB 304
directing the commissioner of the department of business and economic affairs to assemble a report on the effects of tariffs on Canada and New Hampshire residents.
Laid on Table
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SB 287
requiring applicants for absentee ballots to present a copy of their photo identification with their application.
Ought to Pass
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SB 83
establishing an elderly, disabled, blind, and deaf property tax exemption reimbursement fund, authorizing video lottery terminals, renaming the lottery commission, and creating a voluntary statewide self-exclusion database.
Floor Amendment
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SB 83
establishing an elderly, disabled, blind, and deaf property tax exemption reimbursement fund, authorizing video lottery terminals, renaming the lottery commission, and creating a voluntary statewide self-exclusion database.
Floor Amendment
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HB 592
relative to magistrates and the standards applicable to and the administration of bail.
Ought to Pass
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SB 144
authorizing the state to report mental health data for firearms background check purposes and providing for processes for confiscation of firearms following certain mental health-related court proceedings and for relief from mental health-related firearms disabilities.
Inexpedient to Legislate
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CACR 8
relating to sheriffs. Providing that no person shall hold the office of county sheriff after he or she has attained the age of seventy-five years.
Ought to Pass
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SB 203
relative to administration of the education freedom accounts program.
Inexpedient to Legislate
No Source ↗ -
SB 207
requiring the department of education to administer the education freedom account program.
Inexpedient to Legislate
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SB 219
requiring the secretary of state to enter into a membership agreement with the Electronic Registration Information Center.
Inexpedient to Legislate
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No Source ↗
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SB 119
relative to Medicaid pharmaceutical services and relative to standing orders for Ivermectin.
Shall the Decision of the President Stand
No Source ↗ -
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SB 34
relative to parental consent for student participation in Medicaid to schools program.
Ought to Pass
No Source ↗ -
No Source ↗
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