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Energy and Natural Resources

The Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, chaired by Kevin Avard.

Members

Bills Referred, 2025-2026

  • HB 87: prohibiting the posting of land not owned by the poster. (Signed into law)
  • HB 123: defining pre-sequestration timber tax revenue, establishing a moratorium on carbon sequestration and establishing a commission to study the effects of carbon sequestration in New Hampshire forests upon state and local tax revenue, effective forest management, and the health of New Hampshire’s logging industry. (Signed into law)
  • HB 127-FN: extending the closing date of the OHRV trails on the Connecticut Lakes headwaters working forest property. (Signed into law)
  • HB 153-FN: establishing a committee to study adding statewide resources to assist with the investigation, training, prosecution, and prompt response of animal cruelty. (Signed into law)
  • HB 167-FN: prohibiting the sale of ski, boat, and board waxes that contain intentionally added per and polyfluorinated alkyl substances. (Signed into law)
  • HB 171: establishing a moratorium on the issuance of permits for new landfills. (Killed)
  • HB 179-FN: relative to hazardous waste accident fees. (Signed into law)
  • HB 189: relative to the department of energy's 10-year state energy strategy and removing references to the energy efficiency and sustainable energy board. (Signed into law)
  • HB 211-FN: relative to the use of air rifles for hunting game. (Signed into law)
  • HB 215-FN: requiring a landfill permit applicant to submit a report listing potential harms and benefits of the project. (Referred for interim study)
  • HB 219-FN: relative to changes to the minimum electric renewable portfolio standards. (Referred for interim study)
  • HB 221: enabling electric utilities to own, operate, and offer advanced nuclear resources, and relative to purchased power agreements for electric distribution utilities and limitations on community customer generators. (Vetoed, override failed)
  • HB 250: enabling local governing bodies to regulate the muzzling of dogs. (Signed into law)
  • HB 272: exempting certain agricultural practices from municipal noise regulation. (Signed into law)
  • HB 277: relative to the use of the term "foal" and "colt.". (Signed into law)
  • HB 355: relative to the membership of the solid waste working group. (Signed into law)
  • HB 404: relative to information on the hike safe card. (Signed into law)
  • HB 416-FN: prohibiting the intentional disposal of yard waste into the surface waters of the state. (Signed into law)
  • HB 504: relative to the state energy policy. (Signed into law)
  • HB 508-FN: relative to decreasing assessment rates for entities providing VoIP and IP-enabled services, as well as certain local exchange carriers and their affiliates. (Signed into law)
  • HB 566-FN: requiring permit applications for new landfills to contain a detailed plan for leachate management. (Signed into law)
  • HB 627: relative to permitting the public utilities commission to approve new providers for the Lifeline program. (Signed into law)
  • HB 655-FN: relative to fish and game violations, permits, and licenses. (Signed into law)
  • HB 672-FN: to allow for off-grid electricity providers in New Hampshire. (Signed into law)
  • HB 682: relative to the office of offshore wind industry, the offshore and port development commission, and the office of energy innovation. (Signed into law)
  • HB 690-FN: directing the department of energy to investigate the state's withdrawal from ISO-New England and other strategy decisions that impact ratepayers in relation to New England's environmental policy. (Signed into law)
  • HB 707-FN: establishing a solid waste site evaluation committee. (Signed into law)
  • HB 710-FN: enabling electric utilities to own, operate, and offer advanced nuclear resources, and relative to purchased power agreements for electric distribution utilities and limitations on community customer generators. (Died: conferees could not agree)
  • HB 723-FN: repealing the multi-use energy data platform. (Signed into law)
  • HB 779-FN: allowing the sale of rabbit meat in intrastate commerce. (Became law unsigned)
  • HB 1013-FN: relative to games wherein the object is to capture a pig. (Signed into law)
  • HB 1086-FN: creating a committee to study neonicotinoid seed treatments. (Killed)
  • HB 1089: extending the authorization of the department of environmental services for the evaluation and mitigation of new community water system contamination risks. (Signed into law)
  • HB 1128: restricting the use of weather modification technologies to declared emergencies. (Died on the table)
  • HB 1138: limiting the placement of out-of-state waste going into New Hampshire landfills. (Referred for interim study)
  • HB 1140: enabling certain disabled persons to hunt from a motor vehicle. (Signed into law)
  • HB 1141-FN: relative to permitting and fee authority for mining and prospecting. (Signed into law)
  • HB 1148: adding cyanobacteria and algae blooms to the study of the exotic aquatic weeds and species committee. (Signed into law)
  • HB 1153-FN-LOCAL: establishing a committee to study New Hampshire statutes relative to cats and dogs. (Signed into law)
  • HB 1186: relative to the sale and labeling of eggs. (Signed into law)
  • HB 1189-FN: establishing a solid waste site evaluation committee. (Referred for interim study)
  • HB 1192: exempting certain household pharmaceutical wastes from the definition of hazardous waste. (Signed into law)
  • HB 1199-FN: enabling the fish and game department to create a permit and fee for the use of fish and game staff by other state agencies and departments. (Signed into law)
  • HB 1205: prohibiting state and county owned lands from participating in timber carbon sequestration projects. (Signed into law)
  • HB 1253: exempting dogs guarding livestock or crops from nuisance dog statutes when engaged in such work. (Signed into law)
  • HB 1275: relative to the effects of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances on agriculture, exempting certain per- and polyfluoroalkyl products from use restrictions, and relative to the definition of "drinking water standard". (Signed into law)
  • HB 1425-FN: relative to the development of an online wetlands permit processing system. (Signed into law)
  • HB 1431-FN: restricting the use of neonicotinoid pesticides. (Referred for interim study)
  • HB 1478-FN: requiring the department of environmental services to revise the rules for proposed new landfills. (Referred for interim study)
  • HB 1535: relative to clarifying eligible renewable energy classes under the renewable portfolio standard. (Signed into law)
  • HB 1539-FN: authorizing electric utilities to issue AAA-rated bonds for the purpose of storm cost recovery and infrastructure resilience. (Signed into law)
  • HB 1542-FN: establishing a committee to study New Hampshire's electric renewable portfolio standard and the renewable energy fund. (Died: the chambers did not agree on a version)
  • HB 1577: relative to the disclosure of utility customer data to municipalities for emergency response planning. (Signed into law)
  • HB 1603-FN: requiring the executive director of the department of fish and game to adopt rules relative to procedures for verifying accuracy of records collected relative to threatened and endangered wildlife and ensuring landowner permission is granted for the gathering of such record. (Signed into law)
  • HB 1620: requiring the removal of residential heating oil underground after 12 consecutive months of non-use except in certain circumstances. (Signed into law)
  • HB 1622-FN: requiring the state to develop additional solid waste disposal capacity. (Referred for interim study)
  • HB 1676: limiting consumer access to certain high-risk rodenticides. (Referred for interim study)
  • HB 1718-FN: relative to authorizing energy storage in connection with net metering. (Signed into law)
  • HB 1723-FN: requiring utilities and electric grid operators to assess and report the vulnerability of high-voltage transformers to geomagnetic and electromagnetic disturbances, and to recommend mitigation measures to protect the state electric infrastructure. (Signed into law)
  • HB 1733: relative to the reconciliation of default electric service rates. (Signed into law)
  • HB 1738-FN: relative to ratepayer benefits from the regional greenhouse gas initiative and relative to energy procurement and nuclear regulatory duties. (Signed into law)
  • HB 1742: relative to customer-generators inadvertently enrolled in a municipal or county aggregation program. (Signed into law)
  • HB 1766-FN: relative to cruelty to livestock. (Vetoed, override failed)
  • HB 1775-FN: relative to utility ownership of natural gas and nuclear power generation facilities. (Signed into law)
  • HB 1780: relative to seed laws. (Signed into law)
  • HB 1833-FN: creating a special license for non-resident vessel operators participating in tuna tournaments. (Killed)
  • HB 1837-FN: relative to the New Hampshire marine patrol. (Signed into law)
  • SB 65-FN: relative to stormwater management for solar arrays. (Signed into law)
  • SB 106-FN: relative to the participation of customer generators in net energy metering. (Indefinitely postponed)
  • SB 107-FN: enabling the state treasurer to invest certain fish and game funds. (Signed into law)
  • SB 108-FN: relative to the department of energy. (Signed into law)
  • SB 109-FN: relative to alteration of terrain permits. (Referred for interim study)
  • SB 110-FN: relative to terrain permitting. (Signed into law)
  • SB 111-FN: authorizing a reliability indexing credit pilot program. (Killed)
  • SB 112-FN: relative to purchased power agreements for electric distribution utilities. (Referred for interim study)
  • SB 226-FN: suspending applications for new landfills and establishing a committee to study the feasibility of incinerating solid waste. (Referred for interim study)
  • SB 227-FN: relative to site setbacks for landfills. (Died on the table)
  • SB 228-FN: relative to the limitations on community customer generators. (Killed)
  • SB 229-FN: relative to the sale of uninspected bison, red deer, and elk meat. (Signed into law)
  • SB 230-FN: relative to electric utility restructuring and investment in distributed energy resources. (Killed)
  • SB 231: relative to road frontage requirements and setbacks for wetlands. (Killed)
  • SB 232: clarifying certain net metering terms and conditions. (Signed into law)
  • SB 233-FN: relative to the grid modernization advisory group. (Signed into law)
  • SB 234-FN: relative to the electric assistance program. (Killed)
  • SB 235: enabling funds from the Pitman-Robertson Act to be spent by the fish and game department on threatened and endangered species in New Hampshire and allowing the fish and game department to collect donations at sites approved by the executive director. (Signed into law)
  • SB 236: relative to transferring control of the Electric Assistance Program to the department of energy. (Signed into law)
  • SB 237: relative to the office of the consumer advocate and the site evaluation committee. (Killed)
  • SB 299: relative to penalties for contractors violating water pollution and waste disposal regulations. (Signed into law)
  • SB 442: relative to pet transfers. (Signed into law)
  • SB 443: relative to wastewater engineering. (Signed into law)
  • SB 445: relative to adjudicative proceedings where there is a council or board with jurisdiction. (Signed into law)
  • SB 447: enabling electric utilities to own, operate, and offer advanced nuclear resources, and relative to purchased power agreements for electric distribution utilities and limitations on community customer generators. (Killed)
  • SB 449-FN: relative to relative to the participation of large customer-generators in net metering and relative to energy storage in connection with net metering. (Killed)
  • SB 450-FN: relative to a state parks pass pilot program for recovery centers and community mental health centers. (Killed)
  • SB 475: relative to pet vendor foster homes, defining pet vendor foster facility, and relative to cruelty to livestock. (Vetoed, override failed)
  • SB 493: relative to cyanobacteria and other emerging environmental water quality issues. (Referred for interim study)
  • SB 518: relative to asset condition projects. (Referred for interim study)
  • SB 535: defining residential breeder and imported animal for the purposes of animal transfers and removing references to commercial kennels. (Vetoed, override failed)
  • SB 536-FN: relative to the solid waste facility site evaluation committee. (Referred for interim study)
  • SB 537: repealing the authorization for the public utilities commission to approve alternative forms of regulation. (Killed)
  • SB 538-FN: extending net metering eligibility terms for municipal energy projects. (Signed into law)
  • SB 539-FN: relative to eligible biomass technology in the renewable portfolio standards. (Referred for interim study)
  • SB 540-FN: relative to plug-in solar generation systems. (Signed into law)
  • SB 589-FN: relative to port electrification, microgrid development, and cybersecurity standards for energy and water systems. (Signed into law)
  • SB 590-FN: relative to electric aggregation plans. (Signed into law)
  • SB 591-FN: allowing utility companies to own or build generation facilities. (Signed into law)
  • SB 592-FN: enabling regional, conservation, and energy resource planning for habitat strongholds and wildlife corridors and creating a commission to study transferring ownership of the Winnipesaukee River Basin program to an alternative authority. (Signed into law)
  • SB 593-FN: enabling the use of solid waste management funds by solid waste management districts. (Signed into law)
  • SB 594-FN: eliminating the use of agitators in instances where temporary docks have been removed from bodies of water. (Signed into law)
  • SB 595: relative to rulemaking for transient non-community water systems. (Signed into law)
  • SB 596-FN: prohibiting smoking in Hampton Beach State Park. (Killed)
  • SB 597-FN: relative to utility rate increases to inflation-adjusted thresholds and performance incentive metrics for utilities. (Referred for interim study)
  • SB 598: establishing the cyanobacteria mitigation loan and grant fund task force. (Signed into law)
  • SB 599-FN: relative to the renewable energy fund. (Signed into law)
  • SB 644-FN: requiring background checks for solid waste and hazardous waste facility owners. (Signed into law)

And 743 bills in 7 earlier terms.

Recent Meetings

  • The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources met on April 21, 2026 for hearings on HB 1140, HB 1141-FN, HB 1275, HB 1128 and HB 1577.
  • The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources met on April 16, 2026 for hearings on HB 1189-FN, HB 1192, HB 215-FN and HB 1138.
  • The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources met on April 14, 2026 for hearings on HB 1775-FN, HB 1542-FN, HB 1622-FN and HB 1478-FN.
  • The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources met on April 9, 2026 for hearings on HB 1718-FN and HB 1738-FN.
  • The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources met on April 7, 2026 for hearings on HB 1086-FN, HB 1431-FN, HB 1013-FN and HB 1425-FN.
  • The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources met on April 2, 2026 for hearings on HB 1186, HB 1833-FN, HB 1780 and HB 1766-FN.
  • The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources met on March 31, 2026 for hearings on HB 1723-FN, HB 1676, HB 1837-FN and HB 1253.
  • The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources met on March 24, 2026 for hearings on HB 1742, HB 1620, HB 1733 and HB 1535.
  • The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources met on March 19, 2026 for hearings on HB 1089, HB 1148, HB 1153-FN-LOCAL and HB 219-FN.
  • The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources met on March 17, 2026 for hearings on SB 593-FN and HB 1603-FN.
  • The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources met on March 10, 2026 for hearings on HB 1199-FN, HB 1603-FN, HB 1539-FN and HB 1205.
  • The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources met on February 17, 2026 for hearings on SB 475, SB 535 and SB 442.
  • The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources met on February 10, 2026 for hearings on SB 597-FN, SB 594-FN, SB 595, SB 598 and SB 493.
  • The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources met on February 3, 2026 for hearings on SB 518, SB 536-FN and SB 593-FN.
  • The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources met on January 27, 2026 for hearings on SB 597-FN, SB 591-FN, SB 537 and SB 518.
  • The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources met on January 20, 2026 for hearings on SB 596-FN, SB 644-FN and SB 443.
  • The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources met on January 15, 2026 for hearings on SB 450-FN, SB 445 and SB 589-FN.
  • The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources met on January 13, 2026 for hearings on SB 590-FN, SB 449-FN and SB 538-FN.
  • The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources met on January 8, 2026 for hearings on SB 539-FN, SB 592-FN, SB 540-FN, SB 599-FN and SB 447.
  • The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources met on May 6, 2025 for a hearing on HB 123.
  • The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources met on April 22, 2025 for hearings on HB 566-FN and HB 723-FN.
  • The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources met on April 15, 2025 for hearings on HB 171 and HB 707-FN.
  • The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources met on April 10, 2025 for hearings on HB 272, HB 355 and HB 404.
  • The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources met on April 8, 2025 for hearings on HB 416-FN, HB 690-FN, HB 167-FN and HB 250.
  • The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources met on April 3, 2025 for hearings on HB 189, HB 504, HB 627 and HB 682.
  • The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources met on April 1, 2025 for hearings on HB 277, HB 221, HB 672-FN, HB 710-FN and HB 779-FN.
  • The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources met on March 25, 2025 for hearings on HB 87, HB 508-FN, HB 655-FN and HB 211-FN.
  • The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources met on March 18, 2025 for hearings on HB 127-FN, HB 153-FN and HB 179-FN.
  • The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources met on March 11, 2025 for a hearing on SB 299.
  • The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources met on March 4, 2025 for hearings on SB 231, SB 232, SB 235, SB 236 and SB 237.

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