New New Hampshire laws taking effect July 1, 2025

31 laws take effect July 1, 2025.

Of the 649 bills enacted since 2025, 647 have an effective date and 2 don't yet (listed below). A law here takes effect that day by its main provisions; parts of a staggered act may take effect on other dates.

Updated Oct 31, 2026 at 11:40 a.m. EDT.

Education (8)

  • HB10 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    (New Title) establishing a parental bill of rights.

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: 07/01/2025.

    How effective dates are worked out

  • HB394 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    relative to the powers and duties of cooperative school district budget committees and the role of cooperative school district board member representatives on such committees.

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: 07/01/2025.

    How effective dates are worked out

  • HB484 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    relative to reallocation or repurposing of career and technical education classroom space by local school districts.

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: 07/01/2025.

    How effective dates are worked out

  • HB494 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    (New Title) relative to the math learning communities program.

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: 07/01/2025.

    How effective dates are worked out

  • HB677 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    (Second New Title) relative to the possession and use of epinephrine at recreation camps, schools, and institutions of higher education.

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: 07/01/2025.

    How effective dates are worked out

  • HB763 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    relative to school emergency plans for sports related injuries.

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: 07/01/2025.

    How effective dates are worked out

  • SB97 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    relative to intra-district public school transfers.

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: ective 07/01/2025.

    How effective dates are worked out

  • SB99 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    relative to regional career and technical education agreements.

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: ective 07/01/2025.

    How effective dates are worked out

Government (5)

  • HB399 · 2025 Regular SessionStated

    (New Title) establishing a commission to study the New Hampshire zoning enabling act and relative to the effective date of the C-PACER program.

    How we got this date

    The date of the act's main provisions (Section 1).

    Section 1: Section 1 of this act shall take effect July 1, 2025.

    Parts of this act take effect on other dates.

    How effective dates are worked out

  • HB737 · 2025 Regular SessionStated

    (New Title) creating local options for games of chance, authorizing keno throughout the state, and changing charitable gaming license fees and reporting requirements.

    How we got this date
    The remainder of this act shall take effect July 1, 2025.

    Parts of this act take effect on other dates.

    How effective dates are worked out

  • SB160 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    relative to the administration of raffles.

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: ective 07/01/2025.

    How effective dates are worked out

  • SB269 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    removing references to matrimonial age and time waivers in the vital records act.

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: ective 07/01/2025.

    How effective dates are worked out

  • SB80 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    consolidating licensing, auditing, and enforcement responsibilities for wholesale and retail e-cigarettes sales under the liquor commission.

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: ective 07/01/2025.

    How effective dates are worked out

Crime (4)

  • SB145 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    (Second New Title) establishing an evidence shipping pilot program.

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: ective 07/01/2025.

    How effective dates are worked out

  • SB22 · 2025 Regular SessionStated

    relative to disclosure of criminal history and criminal records to the child care licensing unit of the department of health and human services.

    How we got this date
    The remainder of this act shall take effect July 1, 2025.

    Parts of this act take effect on other dates.

    How effective dates are worked out

  • SB58 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    (New Title) relative to venue in criminal prosecutions of distribution of a controlled drug with death resulting.

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: ective 07/01/2025.

    How effective dates are worked out

  • SB73 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    relative to the operation of bingo games.

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: ective 07/01/2025.

    How effective dates are worked out

Taxes (4)

  • HB123 · 2025 Regular SessionStated

    (Second New Title) defining pre-sequestration timber tax revenue, establishing a moratorium on carbon sequestration and establishing a commission to study the effects of carbon sequestration in New Hampshire forests upon state and local tax revenue, effective forest management, and the health of New Hampshire’s logging industry.

    How we got this date
    The remainder of this act shall take effect July 1, 2025.

    Parts of this act take effect on other dates.

    How effective dates are worked out

  • HB508 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    relative to decreasing assessment rates for entities providing VoIP and IP-enabled services, as well as certain local exchange carriers and their affiliates.

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: 07/01/2025.

    How effective dates are worked out

  • SB173 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    relative to residential property subject to housing covenants under the low income housing tax credit program.

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: ective 07/01/2025.

    How effective dates are worked out

  • SB291 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    relative to the religious use of land property tax exemption.

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: ective 07/01/2025.

    How effective dates are worked out

Budget (3)

  • HB1 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    making appropriations for the expenses of certain departments of the state for fiscal years ending June 30, 2026 and June 30, 2027.

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: 07/01/2025.

    How effective dates are worked out

  • HB2 · 2025 Regular SessionStated

    relative to state fees, funds, revenues, and expenditures.

    How we got this date
    Unless otherwise specified, the remainder of this act shall take effect July 1, 2025.

    Parts of this act take effect on other dates.

    How effective dates are worked out

  • HB25 · 2025 Regular SessionStated

    making appropriations for capital improvements.

    How we got this date
    The remainder of this act shall take effect July 1, 2025.

    Parts of this act take effect on other dates.

    How effective dates are worked out

Housing (3)

  • HB134 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    relative to the state building code.

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: 07/01/2025.

    How effective dates are worked out

  • HB413 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    relative to subdivision regulations on the completion of improvements and the regulation of building permits.

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: 07/01/2025.

    How effective dates are worked out

  • HB577 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    relative to modifying the definition of ADUs.

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: 07/01/2025.

    How effective dates are worked out

Healthcare (2)

  • HB455 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    relative to reports by the department of health and human services regarding Medicaid enhancement for children and pregnant women.

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: 07/01/2025.

    How effective dates are worked out

  • SB249 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    relative to the uncompensated care and Medicaid fund.

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: ective 07/01/2025.

    How effective dates are worked out

Finance (1)

Public Lands (1)

  • SB178 · 2025 Regular SessionStated

    relative to the department of health and human services laboratory services for testing of water supplies.

    How we got this date
    The remainder of this act shall take effect July 1, 2025.

    Parts of this act take effect on other dates.

    How effective dates are worked out

Enacted, but not yet dated (2)

These laws' texts tie their dates to something outside the legislative record (Contingent), or not enough is recorded yet to give one (Unresolved). They may take effect July 1, 2025 too; the record doesn't say.

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  • HB282Unresolved(New Title) increasing the maximum benefits for first responders critically injured in the line of duty, relative to the determination of education adequacy grants and calculation of certain group II benefits within the retirement system.two clauses set different dates for the same provision
  • HB705Contingentrelative to health care cost transparency.6 months after finalization of federal guidance under United States Presidential Executive Order 14221