# Terry Spilsbury

Terry Spilsbury is a Republican member of the New Hampshire House for district Sullivan 3.

- Party: Republican
- Seat: New Hampshire House, district Sullivan 3
- Serving since: 2022-12-07
- Current term: NH 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/236f5df6-87b6-488d-86cd-a1ed3a5adb81

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/236f5df6-87b6-488d-86cd-a1ed3a5adb81 (America’s Political Pulse, Polarization Research Lab), data through 2026-10-27. Data under CC BY 4.0. Cite as: Westwood, Sean J., and Yphtach Lelkes. 2024. America's Political Pulse [data set].

## Headline

Spilsbury sits at +0.12 on the CSIP scale, more liberal than 86% of State House Republicans.

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score +0.12 (standard error 0.01), from 0 donors and 876 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 14% of State House Republicans score lower.

## Votes (NH 2025–26 session)

557 roll calls. Attendance 95.1% (New Hampshire House 89%). Party unity 94.1% (95.3%). 36 votes against the party majority.

Key votes:

- 2026-08-19 · voted not voting · Veto Override · HB 2026 relative to the state 10-year transportation improvement plan; relative to toll rate adjustments and periodic toll reviews for the New Hampshire… · pass · https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2026/HB2026/
- 2026-08-19 · voted not voting · Veto Override · HB 1358 establishing a commission to study transitioning all public schools to public charter schools. · fail · https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2026/HB1358/
- 2026-08-19 · voted not voting · Veto Override · HB 1610 allowing school districts to annually retain year-end unassigned general funds. · pass · https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2026/HB1610/
- 2026-08-19 · voted not voting · Veto Override · HB 1336 relative to regulated conditional deposits. · pass · https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2026/HB1336/
- 2026-08-19 · voted not voting · Veto Override · HB 1726 relative to the sale of surplus state-owned land and establishing a commission to study the sale of state-owned property. · fail · https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2026/HB1726/
- 2026-08-19 · voted not voting · Veto Override · HB 1766 relative to cruelty to livestock. · pass · https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2026/HB1766/
- 2026-08-19 · voted not voting · Veto Override · HB 1102 increasing the research and development tax credit cap and relative to state park fees for state residents. · pass · https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2026/HB1102/
- 2026-08-19 · voted not voting · Veto Override · SB 468 relative to enabling alternative treatment centers to operate a greenhouse cultivation location. · pass · https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2026/SB468/
- 2026-08-19 · voted not voting · Veto Override · HB 1097 requiring legislative approval of the amendment or permanent removal of historical markers. · pass · https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2026/HB1097/
- 2026-08-19 · voted not voting · Veto Override · HB 232 relative to the rights of conscience for medical professionals. · pass · https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2026/HB232/

## Legislation (NH 2025–26 session)

Sponsored 8 bills: 8 reached committee, 4 passed one chamber, 1 passed both, 1 became law. Cosponsored 13. 50.0% of sponsored bills got out of committee (New Hampshire House 47.9%; rank 62 of 128).

Recent sponsored bills:

- HB 1800: relative to statewide education property taxes. (in committee, 2026-10-22) https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2026/HB1800/
- HB 739: relative to excess funds paid to municipalities for use in school districts. (passed one chamber, 2025-05-15) https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2025/HB739/
- HB 488: relative to limiting conflicts of interest for municipal board and committee members. (in committee, 2025-11-13) https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2025/HB488/
- HB 491: establishing a committee to study alternative funding methods for public education and how to reduce its reliance on local real estate property taxes. (in committee, 2025-11-20) https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2025/HB491/
- HB 491: establishing a committee to study alternative funding methods for public education and how to reduce its reliance on local real estate property taxes. (passed one chamber, 2026-01-07) https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2026/HB491/
- HB 488: relative to limiting conflicts of interest and concentrations of power for municipalboard and committee members. (passed one chamber, 2026-03-20) https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2026/HB488/
- HB 412: relative to elections and appointments to fill vacancies of local cooperative school boards. (in committee, 2025-03-26) https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2025/HB412/
- HB 394: relative to the powers and duties of cooperative school district budget committees and the role of cooperative school district board member representatives on… (became law, 2025-06-25) https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2025/HB394/
- HB 1642: relative to the role of cooperative school district board member representatives on school district budget committees. (passed one chamber, 2024-10-31) https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2024/HB1642/
- HB 1481: relative to appointments to fill vacancies to at large cooperative school board seats. (passed one chamber, 2024-10-31) https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2024/HB1481/

## Links

- Official site: https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/house/members/member.aspx?member=409050
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Spilsbury4NH

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/236f5df6-87b6-488d-86cd-a1ed3a5adb81