Terri Cortvriend

Representative Terri Cortvriend (D) was first elected to represent District 72 in Portsmouth and Middletown in November 2018. She is the first vice chair of the House Small Business Committee and is a member of the House Finance Committee and the House Environment and Natural Resources Committee. She is the chair of the Finance Environment/Transportation Subcommittee, and also chairs the Legislative Study Commission on Climate Change Impacts and Solutions. In the House, Representative Cortvriend has been a leader in efforts to mitigate climate change and pollution, address public shoreline access, support education, and prevent substance abuse, particularly among youth. In 2023, the General Assembly adopted her legislation clarifying that the area of the shoreline that is guaranteed to the public under the state constitution begins 10 feet landward of the recognizable high tide line. The legislation stemmed from a commission she led in 2021 and 2022 to settle the long-debated issue. She has since focused on legislation protecting public access via rights of way to the shore. Her years-long effort resulted in the 2022 passage of legislation prohibiting polyfluoroalkyl substances…