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Senator Sylvia B. Larsen, D-Concord
Senate District 15
 Senator
Sylvia B. Larsen is serving her seventh term representing District 15.
Senator
Larsen is currently serving as the President of the Senate.
She
is a member of the Finance Committee and Joint Fiscal Committee
During her 14 years in the Senate, Larsen was the prime sponsor of a
first-in-the-nation college tuition savings plan, the Unique Plan. More
recently, she co-sponsored legislation to raise the high school dropout
age, to ban the burning of demolition debris, to establish a research and
development tax credit for business and to reinstate the state's job
training fund.
Her
legislative priorities include funding education, to include kindergarten;
promoting job growth; expanding workforce housing; establishing affordable
health care; safeguarding our environment; and advancing property-tax
relief.
Larsen
served
as the Senate's representative for 10 years to the New Hampshire Children's Trust Fund
and the Healthy Kids Corporation. In addition, she was chairwoman of the
New Hampshire College Tuition Savings Plan Commission for many years, a member of
the Land and Community Heritage Commission and the Christa McAuliffe
Planetarium Commission. She continues to serve on the
New Hampshire Workforce
Opportunity Council, and the New Hampshire Youth Council.
In 2007, Larsen was named Outstanding Legislator of the Year by the New
Hampshire Association of Counties. In 2008, she was one of three senators recognized as Legislators of the Year by the Home Builders and Remodelers Association of New
Hampshire. She also received the New Hampshire Award to End Homelessness in 2008. Her successful efforts 10 years ago to
establish the Unique college savings program led the New Hampshire College
and University Council to recognize her with a New Hampshire
Higher Education Partnership Award in 2007. She also was named Democratic
Legislator of the Year in 2007 by the New Hampshire Social Workers
Association. Other honors include the Woman of Achievement Award by
the Business and Professional Women's Association of Concord, as well as
the Dunfey-Kanteres Award for exemplary service to the people of New
Hampshire and the 2007 Woman of Distinction Award for New Hampshire
Remarkable Women.
Larsen served the city of Concord as a councilor-at-large from 1989 to
1998. In that capacity, she was a member of the Economic Development, the
Solid Waste and the Fiscal Goals committees, and was chairwoman of the
Community Development Advisory Committee.
In
addition to her responsibilities in the Senate, Larsen was co-chairwoman
of the Capitol Center for the Arts capital campaign drive and the Concord
Boys and Girls Club Teen Center drive. She is a member of the board of
directors of the Concord Regional Development Corporation, and is an incorporator of the Merrimack County Savings
Bank. Larsen is chairwoman of Families in Transition-Concord Advisory
Board. Past participation on boards includes service as a trustee of
Concord Hospital and as president of Bancroft Products Inc.
A
graduate of the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Larsen worked for
seven years in the Wisconsin state Senate. In New Hampshire, she served as
the legislative liaison for Gov. Hugh Gallen. Past professional experience
includes positions with the New Hampshire Historical Society, the New
Hampshire Disability Council and the New Hampshire Council on World
Affairs.
Larsen
and her husband, Robert, live in Concord. They have two adult children.
Senate District 15 comprises:
Concord, Hopkinton and Pembroke.
Contact
Information:
Senate
Office:
Statehouse
107 N. Main St., Room 302
Concord, N.H. 03301
(603) 271-2111
sylvia.larsen@leg.state.nh.us
Home:
23
Kensington Road
Concord, N.H. 03301
(603) 225-6130
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