# Matt Sabourin dit Choinière

Matt Sabourin dit Choinière is a Republican member of the New Hampshire House for district Rockingham 30.

- Party: Republican
- Seat: New Hampshire House, district Rockingham 30
- Serving since: 2024-12-04
- Current term: NH 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/5709592a-7c88-41e3-8295-7c05146327e2

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/5709592a-7c88-41e3-8295-7c05146327e2 (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

4.8% of the 21 bills Choinière sponsored got out of committee, in the bottom tenth of the New Hampshire House.

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score +0.11 (standard error 0.02), from 4 donors and 300 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 13% of State House Republicans score lower.

## Votes (NH 2025–26 session)

557 roll calls. Attendance 100% (New Hampshire House 89%). Party unity 96.0% (95.3%). 25 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 yea · 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 yea · 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 yea · 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 yea · 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 21 bills: 21 reached committee, 1 passed one chamber, 0 passed both, 0 became law. Cosponsored 88. 4.8% of sponsored bills got out of committee (New Hampshire House 47.9%; rank 122 of 128).

Recent sponsored bills:

- HB 1825: relative to the regulation of the practice of law, establishing an independent legal licensing board, and making an appropriation therefor. (in committee, 2026-02-19) https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2026/HB1825/
- HB 1740: relative to the protection of persons from domestic violence. (in committee, 2026-02-19) https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2026/HB1740/
- HB 1762: relative to the calculation of child support. (in committee, 2026-02-12) https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2026/HB1762/
- HB 1746: subjecting taxpayer funded investigations to the right-to-know law. (in committee, 2026-10-06) https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2026/HB1746/
- HB 1770: relative to the allocation of parental rights and responsibilities and establishing a presumption of equal parenting time. (in committee, 2026-03-11) https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2026/HB1770/
- HB 1717: relative to the jurisdiction of the circuit court, family division. (in committee, 2026-02-12) https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2026/HB1717/
- HB 1615: permitting consenting adults to enter into contract-based marriage agreements as an alternative to the requirement of a marriage license. (in committee, 2026-02-05) https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2026/HB1615/
- HB 1587: requiring police body-worn camera footage be subject to the right-to-know law. (in committee, 2026-10-14) https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2026/HB1587/
- CACR 31: relating to ballot reconciliation. Providing that the state adopt certain provisions and penalties relative to the ballot reconciliation process. (in committee, 2026-03-05) https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2026/CACR31/
- HB 1443: allowing retired state employees to defer earned retirement medical benefits to their surviving spouse. (in committee, 2026-02-12) https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2026/HB1443/

## Campaign money (2026 cycle)

Itemized receipts $3,216 (State House Republicans median $33.7K). 100% of itemized individual money came from in state. Aggregates only; no individual donors.

## Links

- Official site: https://gc.nh.gov/house/members/member.aspx?member=409289
- Campaign site: https://matt4nh.com
- X: https://x.com/matt4nh
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61558370266534#

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/5709592a-7c88-41e3-8295-7c05146327e2
