# Tom Schamberg

Tom Schamberg is a Democratic member of the New Hampshire House for district Merrimack 6.

- Party: Democrat
- Seat: New Hampshire House, district Merrimack 6
- Serving since: 2022-12-07
- Current term: NH 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/29eeecd3-79b7-489c-b1a5-ace913e619f2

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/29eeecd3-79b7-489c-b1a5-ace913e619f2 (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

Schamberg sits at −0.27 on the CSIP scale, more conservative than 94% of State House Democrats.

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score −0.27 (standard error 0.01), from 0 donors and 1,052 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 94% of State House Democrats score lower.

## Votes (NH 2025–26 session)

557 roll calls. Attendance 94.9% (New Hampshire House 89%). Party unity 92.3% (95.3%). 45 votes against the party majority.

Key votes:

- 2026-08-19 · voted yea · 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 nay · 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 nay · 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 nay · Veto Override · HB 1336 relative to regulated conditional deposits. · pass · https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2026/HB1336/
- 2026-08-19 · voted nay · 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 yea · Veto Override · HB 1766 relative to cruelty to livestock. · pass · https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2026/HB1766/
- 2026-08-19 · voted yea · 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 yea · 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 yea · 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 nay · 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, 2 passed both, 2 became law. Cosponsored 7. 50.0% of sponsored bills got out of committee (New Hampshire House 47.9%; rank 62 of 128).

Recent sponsored bills:

- HB 1144: amending the excavation tax rate. (in committee, 2026-02-06) https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2026/HB1144/
- HB 1133: defining and regulating livestock guardian dogs. (in committee, 2026-03-11) https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2026/HB1133/
- HB 513: allowing the department of transportation to execute a right-of-way use agreement, subject to Federal Highway Administration approval, for snowmobile… (became law, 2025-05-21) https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2025/HB513/
- HB 503: amending how revenues from taxes are allocated to the education trust fund. (passed one chamber, 2025-03-06) https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2025/HB503/
- HB 502: relative to complete corporate reporting for unitary businesses under the business profits tax and revenues from the state education property tax. (passed one chamber, 2025-02-20) https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2025/HB502/
- HB 505: allowing the sale of freeze dried foods produced in homestead food operations. (became law, 2025-07-22) https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2025/HB505/
- HB 318: relative to the percentage of revenue from the business enterprise tax deposited in the education trust fund. (in committee, 2025-02-20) https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2025/HB318/
- HB 255: increasing the percentage of revenue deposited in the education trust fund from the business profits tax. (in committee, 2025-02-20) https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2025/HB255/
- HB 649: repealing the collection of the state education property tax. (in committee, 2023-03-22) https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2023/HB649/
- HB 450: relative to removing the net operating loss deduction limit on taxable income under the business profits tax. (passed one chamber, 2023-10-27) https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2023/HB450/

## Links

- Official site: https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/house/members/member.aspx?member=377166
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-schamberg-2019a220/

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/29eeecd3-79b7-489c-b1a5-ace913e619f2