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Ways and Means

The Senate Committee on Ways and Means, chaired by Timothy Lang.

Members

Bills Referred, 2025-2026

  • HB 155-FN: relative to business enterprise tax returns and appropriating funds to the department of health and human services for licensed nursing facilities. (Signed into law)
  • HB 163: relative to state funds. (Signed into law)
  • HB 247-LOCAL: authorizing municipalities to hold a referendum on whether to allow historic horse racing. (Killed)
  • HB 302: relative to enabling the state treasury to invest in precious metals and digital assets. (Signed into law)
  • HB 328-FN: establishing a charitable gaming oversight commission. (Signed into law)
  • HB 451-FN: establishing the paint product stewardship program. (Vetoed, override failed)
  • HB 591-FN: relative to hours for keno gaming. (Signed into law)
  • HB 617: relative to the homestead right. (Signed into law)
  • HB 629-FN: raising the cost of a boat decal fee and allocating the funds collected by such fees to the dam maintenance fund. (Killed)
  • HB 647-FN: relative to the fee for a newborn lifetime hunting and fishing license. (Signed into law)
  • HB 658-FN: raising the cap on certain reimbursements from the oil discharge and disposal cleanup fund. (Signed into law)
  • HB 696-FN: relative to the application of utility property taxes and statewide education property taxes to electric generating facilities. (Signed into law)
  • HB 737-LOCAL: creating local options for games of chance, authorizing keno throughout the state, and changing charitable gaming license fees and reporting requirements. (Signed into law)
  • HB 1068: taxing certain occupants who have established permanent residences under the meals and rooms tax. (Referred for interim study)
  • HB 1090-FN: relative to meals and rooms taxes. (Killed)
  • HB 1102-FN: increasing the research and development tax credit cap and relative to state park fees for state residents. (Veto overridden, became law)
  • HB 1194-FN: relative to credits for assessments paid by insurers and relative to the application of criminal gambling statutes. (Signed into law)
  • HB 1301-FN: increasing certain mooring fees and directing such funds to the cyanobacteria mitigation loan and grant fund. (Killed)
  • HB 1433-FN: creating a child care tax credit for qualifying businesses. (Signed into law)
  • HB 1477-FN: relative to the permitting and regulation of anchored seasonal floating platforms on public waters. (Killed)
  • HB 1597-FN: relative to business profits tax expense deductions. (Died on the table)
  • HB 1602-FN: creating a safe battery recycling stewardship program. (Referred for interim study)
  • SB 60-FN: relative to advanced deposit account wagering and the department of health and human services' rulemaking authority regarding immunization requirements. (Died: the chambers did not agree on a version)
  • SB 63-FN: relative to funding for the division of travel and tourism. (Killed)
  • SB 73-FN: relative to the operation of bingo games. (Signed into law)
  • SB 83-FN: relative to licenses for primary and secondary game operators. (Signed into law)
  • SB 147-FN: relative to licenses to sell pari-mutuel pools on simulcast horse races. (Killed)
  • SB 158-FN: raising the funding cap for the New Hampshire community development finance authority. (Died on the table)
  • SB 159-FN: establishing a marine habitat fee. (Killed)
  • SB 160-FN: relative to the administration of raffles. (Signed into law)
  • SB 168-FN-LOCAL: regulating online gambling and directing net proceeds to the education trust fund, the general fund, and to reimburse municipalities for elderly, disabled, blind, and deaf tax exemptions. (Died on the table)
  • SB 275: providing property tax relief for some child care agencies. (Killed)
  • SB 276-FN: relative to raising the research and development tax credit. (Died on the table)
  • SB 277-FN: relative to the application of utility property taxes and statewide education property taxes to electric generating facilities. (Died on the table)
  • SB 291: relative to the religious use of land property tax exemption. (Signed into law)
  • SB 404-FN: relative to economic revitalization zone tax credits. (Died on the table)
  • SB 471-FN: relative to affordable housing investment fees. (Killed)
  • SB 505-FN: relative to applications for guide licenses and repealing the fee for temporary registration of nonresidents relative to OHRVs. (Signed into law)
  • SB 511-FN: relative to state park fee discounts for state residents. (Killed)
  • SB 542: limiting the game dates available to charities at gaming facilities. (Referred for interim study)
  • SB 561: relative to change of address for certain game operator employer licensees. (Died on the table)
  • SB 633-FN: relative to donations received by the granite patron of the arts fund. (Signed into law)
  • SB 634: enabling municipalities to adopt a municipal occupancy fee. (Killed)
  • SB 635-FN: establishing a health reimbursement arrangement tax credit program and making an appropriation for improvements in the department of revenue administration's information management system. (Died on the table)
  • SB 636-FN: establishing tax credits for qualifying small businesses against documented tariff-related costs. (Killed)
  • SB 637-FN: relative to certain tax credits for purchase from New Hampshire farms. (Referred for interim study)
  • SB 638-FN: relative to establishing a small business tariff stabilization fund. (Killed)
  • SB 652-FN: changing the maximum award of tax credits for overpayment of due taxes. (Signed into law)
  • SB 654-FN: creating tax credits for businesses that have on-site child care services and for businesses that provide health care coverage for certain employees. (Died on the table)

And 929 bills in 18 earlier terms.

Recent Meetings

  • The Committee on Ways and Means met on April 22, 2026 for a hearing on HB 155-FN.
  • The Committee on Ways and Means met on April 15, 2026 for hearings on HB 629-FN, HB 1301-FN, HB 1477-FN and HB 1602-FN.
  • The Committee on Ways and Means met on April 1, 2026 for hearings on HB 1068, HB 1194-FN, HB 1090-FN, HB 1102-FN, HB 1597-FN and HB 1433-FN.
  • The Committee on Ways and Means met on February 4, 2026 for hearings on HB 155-FN, SB 652-FN and SB 654-FN.
  • The Committee on Ways and Means met on January 21, 2026 for hearings on SB 471-FN, SB 404-FN, SB 505-FN, SB 511-FN, SB 542, SB 561 and SB 635-FN.
  • The Committee on Ways and Means met on January 14, 2026 for hearings on SB 471-FN, SB 633-FN, SB 634, SB 636-FN, SB 637-FN and SB 638-FN.
  • The Committee on Ways and Means met on May 21, 2025 for a hearing on HB 123.
  • The Committee on Ways and Means met on April 23, 2025 for hearings on HB 696-FN and HB 302.
  • The Committee on Ways and Means met on April 16, 2025 for hearings on HB 647-FN, HB 658-FN, HB 737-LOCAL and HB 617.
  • The Committee on Ways and Means met on April 2, 2025 for hearings on HB 247-LOCAL, HB 328-FN, HB 737-LOCAL and HB 451-FN.
  • The Committee on Ways and Means met on March 19, 2025 for hearings on HB 163 and HB 591-FN.
  • The Committee on Ways and Means met on February 12, 2025 for hearings on SB 276-FN, SB 291 and SB 277-FN.
  • The Committee on Ways and Means met on February 5, 2025 for hearings on SB 60-FN, SB 63-FN, SB 275 and SB 168-FN-LOCAL.
  • The Committee on Ways and Means met on January 29, 2025 for hearings on SB 158-FN, SB 159-FN, SB 73-FN, SB 160-FN and SB 147-FN.
  • The Committee on Ways and Means met on May 15, 2024 for a hearing on HB 1525.
  • The Committee on Ways and Means met on April 24, 2024 for hearings on HB 1151 and HB 1223.
  • The Committee on Ways and Means met on April 10, 2024 for hearings on HB 1191-FN, HB 450-FN, HB 1533-FN, HB 1536-FN and HB 1613-FN.
  • The Committee on Ways and Means met on March 27, 2024 for hearings on HB 1525, HB 1549, HB 1203 and HB 1631.
  • The Committee on Ways and Means met on February 21, 2024 for a hearing on SB 597.
  • The Committee on Ways and Means met on January 24, 2024 for hearings on SB 586, SB 434-FN, SB 433 and SB 435.
  • The Committee on Ways and Means met on January 17, 2024 for hearings on SB 305-FN, SB 514-FN, SB 584-FN, SB 585-FN and SB 432-FN.
  • The Committee on Ways and Means met on January 10, 2024 for hearings on SB 364-FN, SB 363-FN, SB 472-FN and SB 473-FN.
  • The Committee on Ways and Means met on January 3, 2024 for hearings on SB 513, SB 324, SB 326-FN and SB 432-FN.
  • The Committee on Ways and Means met on May 17, 2023 for a hearing on HB 607-FN.
  • The Committee on Ways and Means met on April 12, 2023 for a hearing on HB 607-FN.
  • The Committee on Ways and Means met on March 29, 2023 for hearings on HB 285, HB 440-FN and HB 297.
  • The Committee on Ways and Means met on February 8, 2023 for hearings on SB 189-FN and SB 260-FN.
  • The Committee on Ways and Means met on February 1, 2023 for hearings on SB 191-FN, SB 192-FN, SB 190-FN, SB 261-FN, SB 262-LOCAL and SB 139.
  • The Committee on Ways and Means met on January 25, 2023 for hearings on SB 119-FN, SB 120-FN, SB 112-FN, SB 90-A and SB 104-FN-A.
  • The Committee on Ways and Means met on January 18, 2023 for hearings on SB 20-FN, SB 17, SB 18, SB 51-FN and SB 19-FN.

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