 Although several Republican state senators returned to the Senate chamber on June 29, 2019, leading to the cap and trade bill being sent back to committee, while other bills were passed, Boquist was missing, as he was asked not to return due to other state senators feeling unsafe from his previous comments.Boquist and his wife Peggy have six grown children and live near Dallas, Oregon.Their son Sethan Charles Sprague committed suicide in 2016 at age 31, likely related to trauma from his time in the Navy.