Senator • Republican

Ruth Ward

New Hampshire • District SD-008

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Bills Sponsored

Aggregate Impact (Sponsored Bills):

62% Positive

Voting Pattern

Nay: 98

Yea: 394

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Ruth Ward

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Relative to the definition of part-time teachers.

Relative to tracking special education complaints.

Proclaiming the Virginia opossum the state marsupial of New Hampshire.

Relative to transferring statutory authority from the department of education to the department of military affairs and veterans services regarding educational support services.

Making best interest placements within the same school district mandatory in the absence of a valid reason to deny the placement.

Relative to a portrait in the likeness of Senator Jeb Bradley at the state house.

Relative to moving the state primary date.

Relative to the placement of political advertising on municipal property.

Relative to the collection and reporting of abortion statistics by health care providers and medical facilities.

Invalidating out-of-state driver's licenses issued to undocumented immigrants.

Relative to biological sex in student athletics.

Making informational materials regarding type 1 diabetes available on the department of education website.

Establishing a committee to study the regulation of private animal boarding facilities.

Relative to alternate certification pathways for career and technical education instructors.

Relative to universal eligibility for the education freedom account program.

Relative to amending the educator code of ethics and code of conduct to include responsibility to parents.

Authorizing a warrant for the funding of state special education aid.

Allowing students under age 21 to taste wine in educational settings.

Relative to mandatory disclosure by school district employees to parents.

Relative to transferring control of the Electric Assistance Program to the department of energy.

Relative to the cost of an opportunity for an adequate education, extraordinary need grants, fiscal capacity disparity aid, and determination of education grants.

Relative to public notice of historic tax rates and tax impacts of proposed projects.

Establishing a study committee to analyze reducing the number of school administrative units.

Relative to parental consent for student participation in Medicaid to schools program.

Extending the donations to regional career and technical education center programs.

Establishing a parents' bill of rights in education.

Providing criminal and civil penalties for the transporting of an unemancipated minor in order to obtain a surgical procedure without parental permission.

Establishing an advisory council on the system of care for healthy aging in New Hampshire.

Establishing a committee to study adding statewide resources to assist with the investigation, training, prosecution, and prompt response of animal cruelty.

Consolidating school administrative units and making school superintendents jobs an elected position.

Requiring moderators to designate a space for electioneering at polling places and provide a schematic thereof.

Relative to clarifying tax exemptions for properties used by religious, educational, and charitable organizations.

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