Megan Cotter

Rep. Megan L. Cotter was elected November 8, 2022, to represent District 39 in Exeter, Hopkinton, and Richmond. She is a member of both the House Education Committee, the House Health and Human Services Committee, and the House Small Business Committee. Representative Cotter has been a strong advocate for forests, farms and conservation. In her first year in the House, she sponsored legislation that created a legislative commission to help the state determine the best action for improving forest management . In 2023 and 2024, she chaired that commission, which issued recommendations that included funding forest fire prevention programs and more forestry staff in the Department of Environmental Management, state and local collaboration to map accessible routes for firefighting in forested lands, and helping owners of forested lands to develop fire management plans. Her leadership and advocacy helped add funding in the 2025 state budget for additional forest rangers at DEM, and led to the addition of land conservation funding to the “green bond" proposal on the ballot in November 2024. She continues to push for property tax relief , as well as for education, children and rural…