New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session Status: Passed Senate 10 R cosponsors

SB 15 — relative to establishing a mandatory minimum sentence for the crime of distribution of a controlled drug with death resulting.

Last action — Minority Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate

  1. ✓
    Introduced
  2. ✓
    In Committee
  3. 3
    Passed Senate
  4. 4
    Passed House
  5. 5
    To Executive
  6. 6
    Enacted

This bill died with 2025 Regular Session. It reached “Passed Senate” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.

This bill is no longer active — its legislative session has ended, so there are no live odds of enactment. It would have to be reintroduced in the current session to move again.

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Amendments

1 amendment

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Action History

  1. Minority Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate

  2. Majority Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2025-3096h (NT) 11/13/2025 (Vote 9-7; RC)

  3. Executive Session: 11/13/2025 10:00 am GP 159

  4. Public Hearing on non-germane Amendment # 2025-3012h: 10/23/2025 10:00 am GP159

  5. ==RESCHEDULED== Full Committee Work Session: 10/22/2025 10:00 am GP 230

  6. ==RESCHEDULED== Executive Session: 10/22/2025 01:00 am GP 230

  7. Retained in Committee

  8. ==CONTINUED== Executive Session: 05/09/2025 11:01 am LOB 202-204

  9. ==CANCELLED== Executive Session: 04/25/2025 10:00 am LOB 202-204

  10. ==RECESSED== Executive Session: 04/23/2025 11:00 am LOB 202-204

  11. Public Hearing: 04/09/2025 10:30 am LOB 202-204

  12. Introduced (in recess of) 03/27/2025 and referred to Criminal Justice and Public Safety HJ 11 P. 109

  13. Ought to Pass with Amendment #2025-0165s, RC 14Y-9N, MA; OT3rdg; 01/30/2025; SJ 4

  14. Sen. Rochefort Floor Amendment # 2025-0165s, AA, VV; 01/30/2025; SJ 4

  15. Committee Amendment # 2025-0142s, AF, VV; 01/30/2025; SJ 4

  16. Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2025-0142s, 01/30/2025, Vote 3-2; SC 7A

  17. Hearing: 01/14/2025, Room 100, SH, 01:15 pm; SC 5

  18. Introduced 01/08/2025 and Referred to Judiciary; SJ 2

Sponsors

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1 sponsors · 10 co-sponsors · 404 not signed on · 9 voted No

Sponsors (1)

Co-sponsors (10)

Not signed on (404)

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Votes

Ought to Pass w/Amendment

Passed 14 Yea · 9 Nay · 1 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Republican 14101
Democrat 0800
Total 14901
% of votes cast 58%38%0%4%
How each member voted (24)
Member Party Vote
Cindy Rosenwald Democrat Nay
David Watters Democrat Nay
Debra Altschiller Democrat Nay
Donovan Fenton Democrat Nay
Pat Long Democrat Nay
Rebecca Perkins Kwoka Democrat Nay
Suzanne Prentiss Democrat Nay
Tara Reardon Democrat Nay
Bill Gannon Republican Yea
Daniel Innis Republican Yea
Daryl Abbas Republican Yea
David Rochefort Republican Yea
Denise Ricciardi Republican Yea
Howard Pearl Republican Yea
James Gray Republican Yea
Keith Murphy Republican Yea
Kevin Avard Republican Not Voting
Mark McConkey Republican Yea
Regina Birdsell Republican Yea
Ruth Ward Republican Yea
Sharon Carson Republican Yea
Tim McGough Republican Nay
Timothy Lang Republican Yea
Victoria Sullivan Republican Yea

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Subjects

public-safety
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Frequently asked questions

Who sponsors SB 15?
SB 15 is sponsored by Aboul B Khan, Michael Vose (Republican), Regina Birdsell (Republican), Kevin Avard (Republican), James Gray (Republican), Bill Gannon (Republican), Melissa Litchfield (Republican), JD Bernardy (Republican), Timothy Lang (Republican), Daryl Abbas (Republican), and Lilli Walsh (Republican).
What is the current status of SB 15?
This bill died with 2025 Regular Session. It reached “Passed Senate” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.
Where can I track SB 15?
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