New New Hampshire laws taking effect July 1, 2027

10 laws take effect July 1, 2027.

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 (3)

HB1795 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished
requiring criminal history record checks for the renewal of teaching licenses.
How we got this date
Published by the legislature: 07/01/2027.
How effective dates are worked out
HB1827 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished
(New Title) requiring the department of education to conduct a confidential criminal history record check on all prospective educational personnel.
How we got this date
Published by the legislature: 07/01/2027.
How effective dates are worked out
SB491 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished
(New Title) enabling students to utilize education freedom account funds to pay for certain career and technical education funding and removing references to "curriculum frameworks" as they relate to the substantive educational content of an adequate education.
How we got this date
Published by the legislature: ective 07/01/2027.
How effective dates are worked out

Government (3)

HB1469 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished
(New Title) relative to the licensing requirements for massage therapy establishments.
How we got this date
Published by the legislature: 7/1/2027.
How effective dates are worked out
HB1555 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished
relative to the administration and enforcement of the state fire code.
How we got this date
Published by the legislature: 7/1/2027.
How effective dates are worked out
HB661 · 2026 Regular SessionStated
relative to the department of health and human services management of social security payments, supplemental security income payments, and veterans benefits for children in foster care.
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, 2027.
Parts of this act take effect on other dates.
How effective dates are worked out

Finance (1)

SB614 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished
(New Title) establishing multiple-caregiver self-insured risk coverage arrangements for nonprofit and for-profit providers and servicers.
How we got this date
Published by the legislature: ective 07/01/2027.
How effective dates are worked out

Healthcare (1)

HB1705 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished
(New Title) establishing an employee assistance program for small town and volunteer first responders.
How we got this date
Published by the legislature: 7/1/2027.
How effective dates are worked out

Housing (1)

HB1112 · 2026 Regular SessionPublished
(New Title) relative to snow removal responsibilities in lease agreements.
How we got this date
Published by the legislature: 7/1/2027.
How effective dates are worked out

Taxes (1)

HB696 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished
(New Title) relative to the application of utility property taxes and statewide education property taxes to electric generating facilities.
How we got this date
Published by the legislature: 07/01/2027.
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, 2027 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