CONCORD, NH - On August 1, 2025, Governor Kelly Ayotte signed the following bills into law:

• HB 60 - relative to the termination of tenancy at the expiration of the tenancy or lease term
• HB 67 - relative to agreements with the secretary of state for the use of accessible voting systems
• HB 71 - prohibiting school facilities from being used to provide shelter for aliens; relative to department of health and human services contracts; and requiring the use of public notices before reassessment of property values for tax purposes.
• HB 118 - repealing certain committees and commissions and relative to the membership of the New Hampshire rare disease advisory council
• HB 132 - eliminating liability for support and recover over certain indigent relations
• HB 142 - relative to Gold Star Mother's Day
• HB 143 - criminalizing and creating a private right of action for the facilitation, encouragement, offer, solicitation, or recommendation of certain acts or actions through a responsive generative communication to a child
• HB 144 - relative to the practice of dental hygiene
• HB 154 - enabling voters to request to have their ballots hand-counted
• HB 250 - enabling local governing bodies to regulate the muzzling of dogs
• HB 273 - relative to a parent's access to their minor child's library records
• HB 328 - establishing a charitable gaming oversight commission
• HB 377 - relative to health care professionals administering hormone treatments and puberty blockers and relative to recognizing the second Thursday in October as children's environmental health day
• HB 428 - relative to the state building code
• HB 464 - prohibiting certain candidates for political office from participating in counting ballots
• HB 468 - establishing the crime of and penalties for unlawful use of unmanned aircraft systems and changing the reckless driving minimum penalties
• HB 485 - authorizing persons who win the state lottery to remain anonymous
• HB 506 - relative to background checks during motions to return firearms and ammunition and relative to invalidating out-of-school driver's licenses issued to undocumented immigrants and relative to requiring school to engage an owners project manager for construction of school building aid projects at the time of application
• HB 557 - relative to the information that appears on the school budget ballot
• HB 617 - relative to the homestead right
• HB 650 - removing references to repealed funds and relative to state park and robotics educational funds
• HB 658 - raising the cap on certain reimbursements from the oil discharge and disposal cleanup fund
• HB 672 - to allow for off-grid electricity providers in New Hampshire
• HB 682 - relative to the office of offshore wind industry, the offshore and port development commission, and the office of energy innovation
• HB 712 - limiting breast surgeries for minors, relative to residential care and health facility licensing, and relative to the collection and reporting of abortion statistics by health care providers and medical facilities
• HB 737 - creating local options for games of chance, authorizing keno throughout the state, and changing charitable gaming license fees and reporting requirements
• HB 752 - relative to procedures for the closing of a charter school
• HB 776 - relative to the crime of aggravated driving while intoxicated and relative to proclaiming the Virginia opossum the state marsupial of New Hampshire
• SB 26 - allowing the department of justice to authorize the preclosing use of a portion of a deposit held in escrow for the payment of certain construction customizations, upgrades, or change orders
• SB 87 - relative to one day liquor license requirements and making salons and barber shops eligible for on premise licenses
• SB 97 - relative to intra-district public school transfers
• SB 108 - relative to the department of energy
• SB 118 - relative to the personal needs allowance of residents of nursing homes; making an appropriation to the department of health and human services for Hampstead hospital and residential treatment facility staff, establishing the Hampstead hospital and residential treatment facility capital investment fund; and permitting qualifying patients and designated caregivers to cultivate cannabis for therapeutic use.
• SB 124 - relative to continuing care retirement communities
• SB 195 - relative to the composition and duties of the New Hampshire advisory council on career and technical education
• SB 218 - relative to absentee ballots
• SB 221 - relative to verification of voter rolls annually
• SB 232 - clarifying certain net metering terms and conditions
• SB 245 - prohibiting surprise ambulance billing and regulating ground ambulance reimbursement
• SB 267 - relative to the penalty for engaging in prostitution as a patron
• SB 283 - relative to the calculation of floor-area-ratios under local building ordinances
• SB 287 - requiring applicants for absentee ballots to present a copy of their photo identification with their application
• SB 291 - relative to the religious use of land property tax exemption

Governor Ayotte also vetoed the following bills:

• HB 613 - relative to use of accessible voting systems
• SB 213 - relative to electioneering by public employees

The Governor's veto statement for HB 613 is below:

"This legislation impacts people with disabilities and would conflict with federal law that requires accessible voting systems be available at all polling places during federal elections."

The Governor's veto statement for SB 213 is below:

"I am vetoing this legislation as it conflicts with other bills I have recently signed into law regarding absentee ballots. Additionally, I intend to work the with the bill sponsors on the issue of electioneering to ensure that public employees can engage in public discourse without misusing their official positions for political purposes."