Citizen in a RepublicNH House Testimony

HB1687

House · 2026 sessionRepublicanKilled in House

Removing family court criminal powers

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Restricts the jurisdiction of the judicial branch family division so that it may not issue criminal determinations, judgments, or penalties in matters over which it presides.

removing the power of courts within the judicial branch family division to issue criminal determinations, judgments, and penalties. Official record

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14 submissions

All 2 written submissions were individually written — no organized campaign detected.

Status

Killed in the House — Inexpedient to Legislate · March 11, 2026
  1. Introduced
  2. House
  3. Senate
  4. Governor
  5. Law
Sponsors, hearings & roll-call votes

The record · every submission as filed

14 submissions
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Hannah Meiselman
for Myself
Manchester

HB 1687-FN could unintentionally weaken enforcement mechanisms that protect domestic-violence survivors, because it removes criminal authority from the court that handles DV cases, it introduces delays and jurisdictional complexity, and tt may reduce the immediacy of consequences for violations

Oppose
James Gardner
for Myself
Keene

Title IV-D contractors should never be making any criminal determinations, judgments, or penalties relative to matters which they may preside over.

Support
Leigh Hutchinson
for Myself
Derry

Position recorded without written comment.

Oppose
Margaret Konze
for Myself
Pembroke

Position recorded without written comment.

Oppose
Lauren Warner
for Judicial Branch
Concord

Position recorded without written comment.

Neutral
Tami Lanzillo Zeimetz
for Myself
Gilford

Position recorded without written comment.

Oppose
Georgina Lambert
for Myself
Belmont

Position recorded without written comment.

Oppose
bonnie bruno
for Myself
hollis

Position recorded without written comment.

Oppose
Randall Collier
for Myself
surry

Position recorded without written comment.

Support
Jesse Medeiros
for Myself
Plainfield

Position recorded without written comment.

Support
Timothy Finney
for Myself
Bridgewater

Position recorded without written comment.

Support
Curtis Howland
for Myself
Manchester

Position recorded without written comment.

Support
Pamela Harders
for Myself
Manchester

Position recorded without written comment.

Support
Karen Burnett-Kurie
for Myself
Wolfeboro

Position recorded without written comment.

Oppose