New New Hampshire laws taking effect July 1, 2026

23 laws take effect July 1, 2026.

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.

Housing (9)

  • HB1010 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished

    (New Title) relative to multi-family residential development on commercially zoned land.

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: 7/1/2026 12:01 a.m..

    How effective dates are worked out

  • HB1159 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished

    relative to updating the state building code.

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: 07/01/2026.

    How effective dates are worked out

  • HB1195 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished

    relative to municipal zoning requirements for child day care providers.

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: 7/1/2026.

    How effective dates are worked out

  • HB244 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished

    updating and recodifying the municipal enforcement of the building and fire code.

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: 7/1/2026 12:01 a.m..

    How effective dates are worked out

  • HB428 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    (New Title) relative to the state building code.

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: 07/01/2026.

    How effective dates are worked out

  • HB60 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    relative to the termination of tenancy at the expiration of the tenancy or lease term.

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: 07/01/2026.

    How effective dates are worked out

  • HB631 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    (New Title) permitting residential building in commercial zoning.

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: 07/01/2026.

    How effective dates are worked out

  • SB281 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    prohibiting municipalities from denying building or occupancy permits for property adjacent to class VI roads under certain circumstances.

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: ective 07/01/2026.

    How effective dates are worked out

  • SB94 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished

    (New Title) repealing municipal amendments to technical requirements of the state building code in certain circumstances.

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: ective 07/01/2026 at 12:01 AM.

    How effective dates are worked out

Education (4)

  • HB1051 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished

    (New Title) modifying the procedures and requirements for school bus driver criminal history records checks and expanding the personnel subject to such checks.

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: 07/01/2026.

    How effective dates are worked out

  • HB1268 · 2026 Regular SessionStated

    (Second New Title) modifying the structure and administration of home education programs and relative to pharmacy benefits managers, managed care laws, notice of drug pricing options and pharmacy benefit manager business practices.

    How we got this date
    The remainder of this act shall take effect July 1, 2026.

    Parts of this act take effect on other dates.

    How effective dates are worked out

  • SB429 · 2026 Regular SessionStated

    (New Title) relative to the placement of trauma kits in public schools and making an appropriation therefor and relative to the parental bill of rights concerning the creation of student media recordings.

    How we got this date

    The date of the act's main provisions (Sections 1-3).

    Sections 1-3: Section 1-3 of this act shall take effect July 1, 2026.

    Parts of this act take effect on other dates.

    How effective dates are worked out

  • SB586 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished

    (New Title) requiring chartered public schools, school administrative units, and cities or school districts not audited under RSA 671:5 to be audited by an independent public accountant after the end of the fiscal year and requiring the results of such audits to be made available to the public.

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: ective 07/01/2026.

    How effective dates are worked out

Defense (3)

  • HB1025 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished

    relative to the designation of the chief financial officer as a civilian employee within the department of military affairs and veterans services.

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: 07/1/2026.

    How effective dates are worked out

  • HB1101 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished

    relative to the membership and governance of the state veterans council.

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: 07/01/2026.

    How effective dates are worked out

  • HB1152 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished

    designating the funds account for donations and bequests received by the department of military affairs and veterans services to be non-lapsing funds.

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: 07/01/2026.

    How effective dates are worked out

Budget (2)

  • HB1515 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished

    (New Title) repealing the requirement that the department of health and human services' biennial budget request include funding for certain child care workforce programs.

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: 07/01/2026.

    How effective dates are worked out

  • SB541 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished

    (New Title) relative to capital appropriations for regional drinking water infrastructure.

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: ective 07/01/2026.

    How effective dates are worked out

Taxes (2)

  • HB1433 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished

    creating a child care tax credit for qualifying businesses.

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: 7/1/2026.

    How effective dates are worked out

  • HB1774 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished

    (New Title) relative to qualifying scholarship granting organizations and federal workforce Pell grants.

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: 7/1/2026.

    How effective dates are worked out

Agriculture (1)

Finance (1)

  • SB56 · 2026 Regular SessionStated

    (New Title) relative to consolidating the New Hampshire health and education facilities authority within the business finance authority and establishing a surplus land revitalization program.

    How we got this date
    The remainder of this act shall take effect July 1, 2026.

    Parts of this act take effect on other dates.

    How effective dates are worked out

Government (1)

  • SB427 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished

    relative to the joint committee on employee classification.

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: ective 07/01/2026.

    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, 2026 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