William Skipworth, New Hampshire Bulletin

“New Hampshire has the lowest vaccination rate for measles in New England,” Rep. Jessica LaMontagne, a Dover Democrat, said in a floor speech before the vote. “Do you want to be the legislature that ushers in the next outbreak of measles?”

One bill seeks to eliminate nearly all vaccine requirements. But others are more limited in scope and don’t target the requirements as much as specific aspects of the state’s broader vaccine policy.

Former U.S. Marshal William Hart was appointed by Gov. Kelly Ayotte in August 2025 to be commissioner of the New Hampshire Department of Corrections.

The Republican-backed bill sought to create exceptions to the state’s antidiscrimination law, which protects people from discrimination on the basis of “gender identity” and other characteristics. Gov. Kelly Ayotte vetoed a nearly identical bill last year.

Cassandra Sanchez said she is ‘pretty confident’ she is losing her job over statements she made to oppose anti-LGBTQ legislation.

In 2025, the New Hampshire Bulletin published a series of articles outlining abuse and neglect — sometimes fatal — committed by caretakers against people with disabilities. The stories also uncovered systemic failures of oversight and prevention that allowed the abuse and neglect to happen.

The Alliance for Women’s Health and Prevention wrote a letter to Gov. Ayotte urging her to reconsider the decision. The organization noted that approximately 30% of women in New Hampshire experience obesity.

This is the third in a three-part series by the NH Bulletin on New Hampshire’s intellectual and developmental disability care system.

At the time of his death, Stephen “Stevie” Weidlich Jr. in a home run by PathWays with a live-in caregiver, a service people with intellectual and developmental disabilities are legally entitled to receive through Medicaid and other state and federal dollars.

State records show 119 people died in New Hampshire’s intellectual and developmental disability system from January 2023 through the first six months of 2025. Of those deaths, at least 22 were categorized under “unknown” cause of death.