New Hampshire House of Representatives

The New Hampshire House of Representatives is the lower house in the New Hampshire General Court, the bicameral legislature of the state of New Hampshire. The chamber consists of 400 members representing 203 legislative districts across the state, created from divisions of the state's counties. On average, each legislator represents about 3,300 residents, the smallest state legislative population-to-representative ratio in the country.
New Hampshire has by far the largest lower house of any American state; the second-largest, the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, has 203 members. The House is the fourth-largest lower house in the English-speaking world.
Districts vary in number of seats based on their populations, with the least-populous districts electing only one member and the most populous electing ten, not counting floterial seats.
Voters are allowed to cast as many votes as there are seats to be filled in the district. For instance, in a two-member district, a voter can vote for up to two candidates, in a ten-seat district, for up to ten candidates. Plurality block voting often results in one party winning all of the seats in the district, as the results below for the current representation attest. Like in the districts elected by first-past-the-post voting, proportionality of party represention is not generally produced.
Some municipalities are in multiple districts, including floterial districts, so as to achieve more equal apportionment by population.
Unlike in many state legislatures, there is no single "aisle" to cross per se, as members of both parties sit partially segregated in five sections. The seat section and number is put on the legislator's motor vehicle license plate, which they pay for if they wish to put one on their personal automobiles, or in the case of the chairpersons and party leaders, their title is put on the legislative plate. Seating location is enforced, as seating is pre-assigned. Although the personal preference of the legislator is asked, usually chairmen and those with special needs are given the preferred aisle seats. The sixth section is the Speaker's seat at the head of the hall.
The House of Representatives has met in Representatives Hall of the New Hampshire State House since 1819. Representatives Hall is thus the oldest chamber in the United States still in continuous legislative use. Large arched windows line the walls. On the rostrum hang portraits of John P. Hale, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Franklin Pierce, and Daniel Webster.

Composition

Leadership

The current leadership of the house is as follows:

Position	Representative	Town	Party
Speaker of the House	Sherman Packard	Londonderry	Rep
Majority Leader	Jason Osborne	Auburn	Rep
Deputy Speaker	Steven D. Smith	Charlestown	Rep
Speaker Pro Tempore	Jim Kofalt	Wilton	Rep
Majority Senior Advisor	Jim Kofalt	Wilton	Rep
Deputy Majority Leader	Joseph Sweeney	Salem	Rep
Majority Whip	Mike Drago	Raymond	Rep
Majority Floor Leader	Keith Ammon	New Boston	Rep
Deputy Majority Floor Leader	Juliet Harvey-Bolia	Tilton	Rep
Assistant Majority Leader	Jeanine Notter	Merrimack	Rep
Assistant Majority Leader	Lex Berezhny	Grafton	Rep
Deputy Majority Whip	Claudine Burnham	Milton	Rep
Assistant Majority Whip	Larry Gagne	Manchester	Rep
Assistant Majority Whip	Lisa Freeman	Tilton	Rep
Assistant Majority Whip	Tom Mannion	Pelham	Rep
Assistant Majority Whip	Tanya Donnelly	Salem	Rep
Assistant Majority Whip	Steven Bogert	Laconia	Rep
Minority Leader	Alexis Simpson	Exeter	Dem
Deputy Minority Leader	Laura Telerski	Nashua	Dem
Minority Caucus Chair	Matt Wilhelm	Manchester	Dem
Minority Leader Pro Tempore	Karen Ebel	New London	Dem
Minority Floor Leader	Lucy Weber	Walpole	Dem
Deputy Minority Floor Leader	Nicholas Germana	Keene	Dem
Senior Minority Advisor	Mary Jane Wallner	Concord	Dem
Senior Minority Advisor	Brian Sullivan	Grantham	Dem
Minority Advisor	Dave Luneau	Hopkinton	Dem
Minority Advisor	Jaci Grote	Rye	Dem

Committees

The current committee leadership in the New Hampshire House of Representatives is listed below.
The chair is the presiding officer of the committee, responsible for leading hearings, maintaining order, and enforcing committee rules. In the absence of the chair, the vice chair becomes presiding officer for the hearing. The clerk is responsible for all administrative matters for the committee, including attendance, minutes, and recording votes. The ranking member is the chief representative of the minority party on the committee, and is traditionally appointed chair when the majority changes hands. Chairs and vice chairs are appointed by and serve at the pleasure of the speaker, while ranking members are appointed by the speaker on recommendation of the minority leader. The committee clerk is selected by the committee chair. The speaker can unilaterally remove or reassign any committee member, chair, vice chair or clerk.

Committee	Chair	Vice Chair	Clerk	Ranking Member	Deputy Ranking Member
Children and Family Law	Mark Pearson	Debra DeSimone	Jodi Nelson	Peter Petrigno	Gaby Grossman
Commerce and Consumer Affairs	John B. Hunt	John Potucek	Lisa Post	Anita Burroughs	Carry Spier
Criminal Justice and Public Safety	Terry Roy	Jennifer Rhodes	Alissandra Murray	Linda Harriott-Gathright	David Meuse
Education Funding	Rick Ladd	Walter Spilsbury		David Luneau	Hope Damon
Education Policy and Administration	Glenn Cordelli	Kristin Noble	Margaret Drye	Patricia Cornell	Muriel Hall
Election Law	Ross Berry	James Qualey	Claudine Burnham	Connie Lane	Russell Muirhead
Environment and Agriculture	Judy Aron	Jim Creighton	Seth King	Peter Bixby	Nick Germana
Executive Departments and Administration	Carol McGuire	Erica Layon	John Sytek	Jaci Grote	Heath Howard
Finance	Kenneth Weyler	Dan McGuire	Gerald Griffin	Mary Jane Wallner	Karen Ebel
Finance – Division I	Dan McGuire	Jose Cambrils	Peter Leishman	Karen Ebel
Finance – Division II	Keith Erf	Daniel Popovici-Muller		Kate Murray
Finance – Division III	Jess Edwards	Maureen Mooney	Rich Nalevanko	Laura Telerski
Fish and Game and Marine Resources	James Spillane	Mike Ouellet	Sayra DeVito	Cathryn Harvey	Loren Foxx
Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs	Wayne MacDonald	Lisa Mazur	David Nagel	Lucy Weber	Jessica Lamontagne
Housing	Joe Alexander	Brian Cole	Sherri Reinfurt	David Paige	Ellen Read
Judiciary	Robert Lynn	Dennis Mannion	Katy Peternel	Margorie Smith	Paul Berch
Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services	James Creighton	Lino Avellani	Steven Kesselring	Brian Sullivan	Timothy Soucy
Legislative Administration	Gregory Hill	Vanessa Sheehan	Shane Sirois	Janet Wall	Stephanie Payeur
Municipal and County Government	Diane Pauer	John MacDonald	Marie Louise Bjelobrk	Laurel Stavis	Jim Maggiore
Public Works and Highways	David Milz	Charles Melvin	Bill Boyd	John Cloutier	Michael Edgar
Resources, Recreation and Development	Robert Harb	Arnold Davis	Ron Dunn	Allison Knab	Heather Baldwin
Rules	Sherman Packard	Steve Shurtleff	Paul Smith	Alexis Simpson
Science, Technology and Energy	Michael Vose	Douglas Thomas	JD Bernardy	Kat Mcghee	Tom Cormen
State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs	Michael Moffett	Skip Rollins	Jennifer Mandelbaum	Christine Seibert	Christal Lloyd
Transportation	Thomas Walsh	Ted Gorski	Karel Crawford	George Sykers	Dan Veilleux
Ways and Means	John Janigian	Jordan Ulery	Bill Ohm	Susan Almy	Dennis Malloy