New Hampshire · Current officeholder
Ruth Ward
Republican New Hampshire Senate, District 8
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Sponsored legislation
119 bills in the current data (12 as primary sponsor), sorted by most recent official action. Linked by Open States person ID.
| Bill | Title | Role | Stage | Last action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SB 669 | relative to on-premises licenses for licensed barbershops and salons. | Co-sponsor | Passed one chamber | October 23, 2026 |
| HB 1644 | permitting towns to unilaterally withdraw from a cooperative school district. | Co-sponsor | In committee | October 22, 2026 |
| HB 648 | relative to insurance coverage for glucose monitoring. | Co-sponsor | In committee | October 15, 2026 |
| SB 570 | relative to legislative ethics. | Co-sponsor | Passed one chamber | September 29, 2026 |
| SB 501 | relative to authorization of seclusion or restraint during a personal safety emergency by a physician, physician associate, or advanced practice registered nurse. | Co-sponsor | Did not advance | August 19, 2026 |
| SB 475 | relative to pet vendor foster homes, defining pet vendor foster facility, and relative to cruelty to livestock. | Co-sponsor | Vetoed | August 19, 2026 |
| SB 434 | relative to regulation of public school materials. | Co-sponsor | Vetoed | August 19, 2026 |
| HB 1816 | relative to the intervention of the department of education into a school or school district during a financial emergency and requiring the state school board to establish rules governing the vetting of school district business administrator candidates. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | July 16, 2026 |
| HB 1374 | modifying the procedures for withdrawal from a cooperative school district and the discontinuance of elementary and high schools and requiring the review of school district operating documents by school boards. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | July 16, 2026 |
| SB 670 | establishing a developmental services oversight commission; relative to reporting requirements regarding the death of a child in residential care; and relative to the registry of founded reports of abuse, neglect, or exploitation of vulnerable adults. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | July 9, 2026 |
| SB 586 | requiring chartered public schools, school administrative units, and cities or school districts not audited under RSA 671:5 to be audited by an independent public accountant after the end of the fiscal year and requiring the results of such audits to be made available to the public. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | July 9, 2026 |
| SB 574 | establishing a commission to study the efficiency and structure of school administrative units. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | July 9, 2026 |
| SB 573 | establishing certification standards for certified public safety comfort dogs. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | July 9, 2026 |
| SB 523 | establishing a committee to study the implementation of a residential builder registration system. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | July 9, 2026 |
| SB 453 | authorizing advanced practice registered nurses and physician associates to make certain certifications. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | July 9, 2026 |
| SB 448 | modifying the definition of veteran. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | July 9, 2026 |
| SB 430 | relative to mandatory disclosure by school district employees to parents and legal guardians. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | July 9, 2026 |
| SB 408 | relative to health insurance coverage for prosthetics. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | July 9, 2026 |
| HB 131 | relative to bullying and cyberbullying prevention. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | July 9, 2026 |
| HB 564 | relative to the adoption of school administrative unit budgets. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | June 24, 2026 |
| HB 1468 | relative to a flood resilience section in municipal master plans. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | June 24, 2026 |
| SB 655 | relative to employee leasing companies, workers' compensation coverage options, and a minimum wage exemption for minor league baseball players. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | June 22, 2026 |
| SB 644 | requiring background checks for solid waste and hazardous waste facility owners. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | June 22, 2026 |
| SB 549 | requiring certain syringe service program entities to provide options for disposal of used syringes and needles and creating reporting requirements for such entities. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | May 29, 2026 |
| SB 512 | relative to fees to annul criminal records related to charges that do not result in conviction. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | May 29, 2026 |
| SB 503 | relative to the use of spruce-pine-fir lumber. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | May 19, 2026 |
| SB 508 | relative to the zoning board of adjustments appeal period. | Co-sponsor | Did not advance | May 14, 2026 |
| SB 432 | authorizing the application of sunscreen in schools and camps without a licensed health care provider's note or prescription and establishing a skin cancer prevention education program. | Primary sponsor | Did not advance | May 14, 2026 |
| HB 1270 | clarifying the definition of part-time teacher. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | May 12, 2026 |
| HB 191 | providing criminal penalties for the transporting of an unemancipated minor in order to obtain a surgical procedure or a termination of the minor's pregnancy without parental permission. | Co-sponsor | Passed both chambers | May 7, 2026 |
| HB 1828 | requiring the department of education to establish an auditing process relative to teacher preparation programs at the post-secondary educational level. | Co-sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 7, 2026 |
| HB 1299 | permitting classification of individuals based on biological sex under certain limited circumstances and establishing that certain biological sex distinctions do not qualify as discrimination. | Co-sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 7, 2026 |
| HB 121 | relative to school district financial requirements and district probation processes. | Co-sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 7, 2026 |
| HB 1155 | repealing the home education advisory council. | Co-sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 7, 2026 |
| SB 656 | establishing a web-based occupational license application portal for veterans and military spouses. | Co-sponsor | Did not advance | April 23, 2026 |
| HB 1836 | relative to the input-based accountability system requirements and enforcement. | Co-sponsor | Did not advance | April 23, 2026 |
| HB 1121 | defining the cost of an adequate education. | Co-sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 23, 2026 |
| HB 1202 | relative to dual and concurrent enrollment requirements for courses at institutions within the community college system of New Hampshire. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | April 22, 2026 |
| HB 257 | relative to the crime of endangering the welfare of a child or incompetent. | Co-sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 16, 2026 |
| HB 1788 | holding state contracts with DEI provisions to be void as a matter of law and establishing a right of action for citizens where public entities or state agencies engage with contracts with DEI provisions. | Co-sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 16, 2026 |
| HB 1706 | repealing the refugee resettlement program in the department of health and human services and prohibiting expenditure of state funds on refugee resettlement. | Co-sponsor | Did not advance | April 16, 2026 |
| SB 521 | relative to unauthorized camping on private property. | Co-sponsor | Did not advance | April 9, 2026 |
| HB 349 | relative to the practice of optometry and authorization to perform ophthalmic laser procedures. | Co-sponsor | Vetoed | April 9, 2026 |
| HB 1370 | repealing the public school identification and accommodation of gifted and talented students reporting requirement. | Co-sponsor | Did not advance | April 9, 2026 |
| HB 1379 | relative to the reporting date for the annual complaint data. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | April 6, 2026 |
| SB 36 | relative to the collection and reporting of abortion statistics by health care providers and medical facilities. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | March 30, 2026 |
| HB 1152 | designating the funds account for donations and bequests received by the department of military affairs and veterans services to be non-lapsing funds. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | March 30, 2026 |
| SB 659 | relative to education financing. | Co-sponsor | In committee | March 26, 2026 |
| SB 664 | limiting hospital executive compensation in communities designated as distressed place-based economies under certain circumstances. | Co-sponsor | In committee | March 12, 2026 |
| SB 446 | requiring animal care center operators to notify dog owners when a dog will be left unattended and to report injuries to animals or people which occur on the premises of the animal care center. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 12, 2026 |
| HB 1658 | relative to parental consent and age verification for digital application platforms. | Co-sponsor | Did not advance | March 11, 2026 |
| SB 662 | making an appropriation to the department of natural and cultural resources for renovations to the Northwood Meadows Lake Dam. | Co-sponsor | In committee | March 5, 2026 |
| SB 609 | relative to improving screening for and treatment of blood clots, or venous thromboembolism, and establishing a statewide venous thromboembolism registry. | Co-sponsor | In committee | March 5, 2026 |
| HB 1623 | requiring charter schools to have uniform and transparent billing costs and practices for special education services. | Co-sponsor | Did not advance | March 5, 2026 |
| HB 1183 | relative to the mathematics requirement for high school graduation. | Co-sponsor | Did not advance | March 5, 2026 |
| HB 1804 | consolidating school administrative units, making chief school administrator jobs an elected position, and defining education roles. | Co-sponsor | In committee | March 4, 2026 |
| HB 1401 | amending the meaning of scholarship organization as it pertains to education freedom accounts. | Co-sponsor | In committee | March 4, 2026 |
| SB 588 | requiring that all municipalities that are served by a school district vote on the closure of schools. | Co-sponsor | In committee | February 19, 2026 |
| SB 452 | enabling health care providers to offer certain complementary and alternative health care services. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 19, 2026 |
| SB 420 | relative to the state commission for human rights. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 19, 2026 |
| SB 34 | relative to parental consent for student participation in Medicaid to schools program. | Primary sponsor | Passed both chambers | February 5, 2026 |
| SB 186 | preventing portraits depicting persons from being hung in certain places in the statehouse, unless the subject of the portrait has been dead for at least 10 years and provided exemplary and noteworthy services to the citizens of this state. | Co-sponsor | Passed both chambers | February 5, 2026 |
| SB 39 | relative to establishing an alternative driver education program. | Co-sponsor | In committee | January 7, 2026 |
| SB 211 | relative to biological sex in student athletics. | Co-sponsor | Did not advance | January 7, 2026 |
| HB 68 | making best interest placements within the same school district mandatory in the absence of a valid reason to deny the placement. | Co-sponsor | Did not advance | January 7, 2026 |
| HB 563 | relative to the cost of an opportunity for an adequate education, extraordinary need grants, fiscal capacity disparity aid, and determination of education grants. | Co-sponsor | Did not advance | January 7, 2026 |
| HB 68 | making best interest placements within the same school district mandatory in the absence of a valid reason to deny the placement. | Co-sponsor | Passed one chamber | November 25, 2025 |
| HB 564 | relative to the adoption of school administrative unit budgets. | Co-sponsor | In committee | November 20, 2025 |
| SB 34 | relative to parental consent for student participation in Medicaid to schools program. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | November 19, 2025 |
| SB 211 | relative to biological sex in student athletics. | Co-sponsor | Passed one chamber | November 19, 2025 |
| HB 131 | requiring school boards to develop and enact policies regarding personal cell phone use in schools. | Co-sponsor | In committee | November 19, 2025 |
| HB 121 | establishing local school district special education parent advisory councils. | Co-sponsor | In committee | November 19, 2025 |
| SB 36 | relative to the collection and reporting of abortion statistics by health care providers and medical facilities. | Co-sponsor | Passed one chamber | November 18, 2025 |
| HB 648 | relative to insurance coverage for glucose monitoring. | Co-sponsor | In committee | November 13, 2025 |
| HB 257 | establishing the crime of criminal neglect of a child. | Co-sponsor | In committee | November 13, 2025 |
| HB 563 | relative to the cost of an opportunity for an adequate education, extraordinary need grants, fiscal capacity disparity aid, and determination of education grants. | Co-sponsor | Passed one chamber | November 5, 2025 |
| HB 349 | relative to the practice of optometry and authorization to perform ophthalmic laser procedures. | Co-sponsor | In committee | November 5, 2025 |
| SB 186 | relative to a portrait in the likeness of Senator Jeb Bradley at the state house. | Co-sponsor | Passed one chamber | November 4, 2025 |
| SB 81 | increasing the annual real estate transfer tax revenue contribution and making an appropriation to the affordable housing fund. | Co-sponsor | Did not advance | November 3, 2025 |
| SB 35 | making an appropriation for rail trail project matching funds. | Co-sponsor | Did not advance | November 3, 2025 |
| SB 288 | establishing an advisory council on the system of care for healthy aging in New Hampshire. | Primary sponsor | Did not advance | November 3, 2025 |
| SB 276 | relative to raising the research and development tax credit. | Primary sponsor | Did not advance | November 3, 2025 |
| SB 240 | making an appropriation to the department of environmental services for eligible water projects. | Co-sponsor | Did not advance | November 3, 2025 |
| SB 158 | raising the funding cap for the New Hampshire community development finance authority. | Co-sponsor | Did not advance | November 3, 2025 |
| SB 132 | relative to health insurance coverage for prosthetics. | Co-sponsor | Did not advance | November 3, 2025 |
| SB 117 | making an appropriation to the department of education to fund the online tutoring program. | Co-sponsor | Did not advance | November 3, 2025 |
| HB 191 | providing criminal and civil penalties for the transporting of an unemancipated minor in order to obtain a surgical procedure without parental permission. | Co-sponsor | Passed one chamber | November 3, 2025 |
| SB 39 | relative to establishing an alternative driver education program. | Co-sponsor | In committee | October 29, 2025 |
| SB 98 | extending the donations to regional career and technical education center programs. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | July 22, 2025 |
| SB 57 | establishing a study committee to analyze reducing the number of school administrative units and establishing a commission to study the costs of special education. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | July 22, 2025 |
| SB 24 | allowing students under age 21 to taste wine in educational settings. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | July 22, 2025 |
| SB 102 | making informational materials regarding type 1 diabetes available on the department of education website. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | July 22, 2025 |
| HB 225 | relative to the employment of military spouses in the event of involuntary deployment of service member. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | July 22, 2025 |
| SB 236 | relative to transferring control of the Electric Assistance Program to the department of energy. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | July 21, 2025 |
| HB 115 | making temporary appropriations for the expenses and encumbrances of the state of New Hampshire. | Co-sponsor | Vetoed | July 17, 2025 |
| HB 90 | relative to the definition of part-time teachers. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | July 8, 2025 |
| HB 354 | relative to alternate certification pathways for career and technical education instructors. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | July 3, 2025 |
| HB 235 | relative to amending the educator code of ethics and code of conduct to include responsibility to parents. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | July 3, 2025 |
| SB 292 | relative to aid to school districts for the cost of special education. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | June 26, 2025 |
| 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. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| SB 72 | establishing a parental bill of rights. | Co-sponsor | Passed both chambers | June 12, 2025 |
| SB 30 | proclaiming the Virginia opossum the state marsupial of New Hampshire and relative to the penalty for incorrect application of fertilizers. | Co-sponsor | Passed both chambers | June 12, 2025 |
| SB 13 | 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. | Co-sponsor | Passed both chambers | June 12, 2025 |
| HB 554 | clarifying the placement of advertising signs on state-owned property. | Co-sponsor | Passed both chambers | June 12, 2025 |
| SB 50 | establishing a committee to study the regulation of private animal boarding facilities. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | June 11, 2025 |
| HB 76 | relative to tracking special education complaints. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | June 6, 2025 |
| SB 222 | relative to moving the state primary date. | Co-sponsor | Passed both chambers | June 5, 2025 |
| HB 120 | relative to transferring statutory authority from the department of education to the department of military affairs and veterans services regarding educational support services. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | May 30, 2025 |
| SB 217 | relative to public notice of historic tax rates and tax impacts of proposed projects. | Co-sponsor | Did not advance | May 8, 2025 |
| HB 153 | establishing a committee to study adding statewide resources to assist with the investigation, training, prosecution, and prompt response of animal cruelty. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | May 8, 2025 |
| HB 765 | consolidating school administrative units and making school superintendents jobs an elected position. | Co-sponsor | Did not advance | March 26, 2025 |
| HB 333 | requiring moderators to designate a space for electioneering at polling places and provide a schematic thereof. | Co-sponsor | Did not advance | March 26, 2025 |
| HB 147 | relative to clarifying tax exemptions for properties used by religious, educational, and charitable organizations. | Co-sponsor | In committee | March 26, 2025 |
| SB 46 | enabling municipalities to allow land impacted by new construction or reconstruction to be eligible for current use valuation only after a no cut, vegetated buffer is established and maintained. | Primary sponsor | Did not advance | March 20, 2025 |
| HB 747 | establishing a program for enrichment scholarships for gifted students and making an appropriation therefor. | Co-sponsor | Did not advance | February 20, 2025 |
| HB 447 | relative to property tax exemptions for disabled veterans. | Co-sponsor | Did not advance | February 20, 2025 |
| HB 336 | relative to the placement of political advertisements on public right-of-ways. | Co-sponsor | Did not advance | February 13, 2025 |
| HB 332 | allowing for the establishment of a village district to protect and remediate surface waters. | Co-sponsor | Did not advance | February 13, 2025 |
| HB 83 | increasing the minimum age for sports betting. | Co-sponsor | In committee | February 6, 2025 |