New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session Status: In Committee Bipartisan · 7 R · 1 I cosponsors

HB 686 — requiring a voter to provide identification when requesting an absentee ballot.

Last action — Minority Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate

  1. ✓
    Introduced
  2. 2
    In Committee
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    Passed House
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    Passed Senate
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    To Executive
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    Enacted

This bill died with 2025 Regular Session. It reached “In Committee” 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This bill is no longer active — its legislative session has ended, so there are no live odds of enactment.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

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Action History

  1. Minority Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate

  2. Majority Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2025-2935h (NT) 09/16/2025 (Vote 10-7; RC)

  3. Public Hearing on non-germane Amendment # 2025-2935h: 09/16/2025 10:00 am GP 158

  4. Executive Session: 09/16/2025 10:15 am GP 158

  5. Retained in Committee

  6. Subcommittee Work Session: 03/18/2025 09:00 am LOB 307

  7. Subcommittee Work Session: 03/14/2025 09:00 am LOB 306-308

  8. Executive Session: 03/18/2025 10:00 am LOB 306-308

  9. Subcommittee Work Session: 03/07/2025 01:00 pm LOB 306-308

  10. Subcommittee Work Session: 02/21/2025 09:30 am LOB 302-304

  11. Subcommittee Work Session: 02/14/2025 09:30 am LOB 306-308

  12. Executive Session: 02/11/2025 10:10 am LOB 306-308

  13. Public Hearing: 02/04/2025 02:30 pm LOB 306-308

  14. Introduced (in recess of) 01/09/2025 and referred to Election Law HJ 3 P. 23

Sponsors

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1 sponsors · 7 co-sponsors · 407 not signed on

Sponsors (1)

Co-sponsors (7)

Not signed on (407)

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Frequently asked questions

Who sponsors HB 686?
HB 686 is sponsored by Ross Berry (Republican), Aidan Ankarberg (Independent), Robert Wherry (Republican), Claudine Burnham (Republican), Kelley Potenza (Republican), Susan DeRoy (Republican), Katelyn Kuttab (Republican), and Len Turcotte (Republican).
What is the current status of HB 686?
This bill died with 2025 Regular Session. It reached “In Committee” 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.
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