# Michael Cahill

Michael Cahill is a Democratic member of the New Hampshire House for district Rockingham 10.

- Party: Democrat
- Seat: New Hampshire House, district Rockingham 10
- Serving since: 2022-12-07
- Current term: NH 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/facb5409-244f-4381-8452-e6a1078bb1c5

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/facb5409-244f-4381-8452-e6a1078bb1c5 (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

Cahill sits at −0.33 on the CSIP scale, more conservative than 89% of State House Democrats.

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score −0.33 (standard error 0.01), from 0 donors and 1,133 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 89% of State House Democrats score lower.

## Votes (NH 2025–26 session)

557 roll calls. Attendance 92.1% (New Hampshire House 89%). Party unity 97.6% (95.3%). 19 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 nay · 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 nay · 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 11 bills: 11 reached committee, 2 passed one chamber, 0 passed both, 0 became law. Cosponsored 2. 18.2% of sponsored bills got out of committee (New Hampshire House 47.9%; rank 113 of 128).

Recent sponsored bills:

- HB 1482: authorizing the department of motor vehicles to adopt seasonal tourism-themed license plates. (in committee, 2026-02-19) https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2026/HB1482/
- HB 1480: raising the meals and rooms tax rate. (in committee, 2026-02-12) https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2026/HB1480/
- HB 1257: requiring that candidates for state representative and state senator live in the district for which they seek election for at least 2 years. (in committee, 2026-03-05) https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2026/HB1257/
- HB 757: relative to tip pooling and sharing and automatic service charges. (in committee, 2025-03-20) https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2025/HB757/
- HB 719: repealing the use of unused district facilities by chartered public schools. (in committee, 2025-03-06) https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2025/HB719/
- HB 515: repealing the chartered public school eligibility for state school building aid. (in committee, 2025-03-06) https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2025/HB515/
- HB 378: relative to an employee's unused earned time. (passed one chamber, 2025-03-06) https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2025/HB378/
- HB 379: relative to youth employment during the school year and at night. (in committee, 2025-03-20) https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2025/HB379/
- HB 366: relative to school building aid for eligible projects. (in committee, 2025-11-20) https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2025/HB366/
- HB 295: making school building aid program funds nonlapsing. (passed one chamber, 2026-01-07) https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2026/HB295/

## Links

- Official site: https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/house/members/member.aspx?member=377079

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/facb5409-244f-4381-8452-e6a1078bb1c5