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Amanda Bouldin (born December 27, 1984) is an American politician from Manchester, New Hampshire who has served in the New Hampshire House of Representatives since January 2015. Bouldin, a Democrat, represents Hillsborough County's 12th district. She is a member of the New Hampshire Liberty Alliance and a Free State Project participant.
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Early life and education
Bouldin moved to New Hampshire from Carrollton, Texas, a suburb of Dallas, in 2009.
Politics
Bouldin was briefly a member of a Tea Party group in Texas, but she left that group when she realized they did not share her values. Bouldin's ideals led her to become a Free State Project participant and move to New Hampshire. She later became a member of the New Hampshire Liberty Alliance.
As a freshman representative, she introduced two bills addressing increasing heroin use in New Hampshire. HB 270 provided legal protection against arrest and prosecution for individuals calling for medical assistance for someone with an opiate-related medical problem. HB 271 relaxed restrictions on prescribing naloxone, granting authorized health care professionals the power to write a prescription for anyone at risk of an opiate overdose or for a person who knows someone at risk of an opiate overdose. The bills were passed by the legislature, signed by the governor, and became key planks of the state's response.
In December 2015, Bouldin commented on Facebook that a proposed change in New Hampshire's public nudity law that would have allowed men to expose their nipples in public while prohibiting women from exposing their breasts while not breastfeeding was sexist. The comment drew crude comments about Bouldin's breasts from two Republican representatives, Josh Moore and Al Baldasaro.
Nonpolitical
In November 2015, she reportedly had a job in sales.
In 2011 Bouldin founded the private charity Shire Sharing to honor her late father who had organized and run a similar charity in Texas. In 2015, the group raised over $17,000 and brought Thanksgiving meals to over 600 families in New Hampshire, their best year ever.