Michael Garcia
Historical Details
Position on Issues
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Voting Record, 2014
Voted against banning cell phone use while driving (HB 1360)
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Voting Record, 2013
Voted to consider a casino (SB 152)
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Voting Record, 2014
Voted in favor of terminating New Hampshire's participation in Common Core (HB 1508)
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Voting Record, 2014
Voted for decriminalization of marijuana (HB 1625)
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Voting Record, 2014
Voted against broadening campaign finance disclosure laws to include more organizations, particularly nonprofits (SB 120)
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Voting Record, 2014
Voted against increasing the minimum wage (HB 1403)
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Voting Record, 2014
Voted to repeal the death penalty (HB 1170)
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Voting Record, 2014
Voted against requiring labeling of genetically engineered foods (HB 660)
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Voting Record, 2013
Voted for considering 'Right to Work' (HB 323)
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Voting Record, 2013
Voted to consider repealing the license to carry a concealed firearm (HB 451)
Voting Record
HB 1411 (2014)
Sends some of last year's budget surplus to the Department of Health and Human Services.
SB 413 (2014)
Expands Medicaid eligibility, using private insurance wherever possible.
HB 1503 (2014)
Originally written to include fetuses eight weeks and older as potential victims under first and second degree murder, manslaughter, negligent homicide, and causing or aiding suicide. The House amended the bill to instead increase penalties for for manslaughter or negligent homicide causing a miscarriage or stillbirth.
SB 319 (2014)
Authorizes "buffer zones" for protestors around reproductive health clinics.
HB 1633 (2014)
Authorizes one casino in New Hampshire, regulated by the Gaming Commission.
SB 3 (2014)
Removes all tolls in Merrimack.
SB 318 (2014)
Establishes the crime of domestic violence.
HB 1325 (2014)
Allows physician-assisted suicide.
SB 367 (2014)
Increases the gas tax by four-cents per gallon and removes the toll at Exit 12 in Merrimack.
SB 207 (2014)
“Pay Equity Law,” a bill to combat pay discrimination based on gender, forbidding employers from restricting employees from discussing wages, and allowing a three year deadline to report pay discrimination to the state (current deadline is one year).
HB 1360 (2014)
Forbids cell phone use while driving, unless hands-free.
HB 1403 (2014)
Raises the minimum wage, starting at $9 per hour.
SB 203 (2014)
Forbids the use of EBT cards or cash from EBT cards for alcohol, tobacco, lottery tickets, firearms, or adult entertainment.
HB 1602 (2014)
Givies the Public Utilities Commission the power to force PSNH to sell its power plants. This bill also requires the state Site Evaluation Committee to address scenic impacts, sound impacts, fire protection plans, and more when evaluating wind farm proposals.
HB 1625 (2014)
Decriminalizes possession of one ounce or less of marijuana, with additional penalties for violators under age twenty-one.
HB 1170 (2014)
Repeals the death penalty.
HB 1294 (2014)
Requires Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield to allow any health provider into their network for the purpose of participating in the online health insurance exchange.
HB 1508 (2014)
Terminates New Hampshire’s participation in the Common Core educational standards.
HB 1486 (2014)
Decreases the fine for underage drinking from $300 to $100 on first offense and from $600 to $300 on a subsequent offense.
SB 153 (2013)
Gives the legislature power to review collective bargaining agreements entered into by the state.
HB 443 (2013)
Bans prison privatization.
HB 1 (2013)
Final 2014-2015 state budget, including increased funding for higher education, increased funding for services for individuals with mental illness and/or other disabilities, no Medicaid expansion, and no gas tax increase.
HB 306 (2013)
Changes RGGI to dedicate some of the proceeds to ratepayer rebates, and lowering the cap on carbon emissions, which will raise the cost of carbon credits to utilities and utility bills to consumers.
HB 659 (2013)
Increases the tobacco tax.
HB 135 (2013)
Limits the use of deadly force, repealing "Stand Your Ground" in favor of the "Castle Doctrine." Under this bill victims could use deadly force within their homes without retreating, but anywhere else they would have to attempt retreat before resorting to deadly force.
HB 271 (2013)
Forbids NH from expanding Medicaid eligibility under the federal Affordable Care Act.
HB 501 (2013)
Sets the state minimum wage at $7.25, in place of federal minimum wage.
HB 630 (2013)
Reallocates proceeds from RGGI to the low-income energy efficiency program.
HB 370 (2013)
Repeals the education tax credit program, in which businesses receive tax breaks for contributing to a scholarship fund for low income students that wish to attend private school.
HB 2 (2013)
Makes various appropriations related to the budget bill, and establishes commissions to study Medicaid expansion and casino regulations.
SB 163 (2013)
Establishes a commission to recommend legislation to prepare for projected sea level rise and other coastal and coastal watershed hazards.
HB 573 (2013)
Allows medicinal use of marijuana, without allowing home growing.
SB 1 (2013)
Increases the Research and Development tax credit.
HB 451 (2013)
Increases the length of time for which a license to carry a concealed firearm is valid, and repeals the requirement to obtain a license to carry a concealed firearm.
HB 323 (2013)
Right-to-Work bill that prohibits collective bargaining agreements that require employees to join or contribute to a labor union.
SB 152 (2013)
Authorizes a casino.
HB 595 (2013)
Revises 2011 voter ID law to delay requirement that poll workers photograph voters without ID; also allows student ID at polls.
