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Children and Family Law

The Senate Committee on Children and Family Law, chaired by Daryl Abbas.

Members

Bills Referred, 2025-2026

  • HB 132-FN: eliminating liability for support and recovery over certain indigent relations. (Signed into law)
  • HB 177: relative to children in placement pursuant to an episode of treatment for which the department of health and human services has a financial responsibility. (Signed into law)
  • HB 178: relative to foster parent representation of foster children with disabilities. (Signed into law)
  • HB 187-FN: relative to restraining orders sought by a parent on behalf of a minor child. (Signed into law)
  • HB 194-FN: relative to the crime of interference with custody and relative to the practice of pharmacy and the dispensing of certain medications by pharmacists. (Died: conferees could not agree)
  • HB 204: relative to criteria for reporting child support delinquencies to federal agencies. (Signed into law)
  • HB 213: relative to wage garnishment for child support. (Signed into law)
  • HB 243-FN: relative to relative to the penalty for false reports of suspected abuse and neglect made to the division for children, youth, and families, and relative to the maternal mortality review committee, electric vehicle charging stations and fees for annual testing by the division of weights and measures, and relative to the acceptance of portraits of Senator Sylvia Larsen and Senator Jeb Bradley for the state house. (Died: conferees could not agree)
  • HB 257-FN: relative to the crime of endangering the welfare of a child or incompetent. (Referred for interim study)
  • HB 273: relative to a parent's access to their minor child's library records. (Signed into law)
  • HB 320-FN: relative to enforcement of marital property settlements. (Signed into law)
  • HB 473-FN: criminalizing multiple forms of exposing children to controlled substances and allowing law enforcement to take a child into protective custody for screening and testing in an instance of suspected or actual criminal exposure to controlled substances. (Signed into law)
  • HB 478: establishing a foster care oversight subcommittee within the oversight commission on children's services. (Signed into law)
  • HB 486-FN: relative to grandparents' visitation rights. (Referred for interim study)
  • HB 560: relative to parental access to a minor child's medical records, relative to refusal of consent to testing to determine alcohol concentration and penalties for aggravated driving while intoxicated, 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. (Died: conferees could not agree)
  • HB 1039: relative to the contents of parenting plans. (Signed into law)
  • HB 1225: relative to the definition of adjusted gross income with respect to child support guidelines. (Referred for interim study)
  • HB 1228: relative to the enforcement of alimony orders and relative to waivers of alimony. (Signed into law)
  • HB 1229: relative to waivers of alimony. (Referred for interim study)
  • HB 1323-FN: relative to parental alienation, limiting certain prior authorization requirements for physical therapy, occupational therapy, and similar rehabilitative services, relative to children's mental health services for persons 18 years of age and younger. (Died: conferees could not agree)
  • HB 1376: relative to a parent's ability to raise their child in a manner consistent with the child's biological sex and relative to breast surgeries for minors. (Signed into law)
  • HB 1460-FN: prohibiting the sale of a child's personal data. (Signed into law)
  • HB 1565-FN: relative to the penalty for false reports of suspected abuse and neglect made to the division for children, youth, and families, relative to owner's project manager services for school building aid projects, and relative to long-term care eligibility and making an appropriation therefor. (Vetoed, override failed)
  • HB 1643: relative to the report of a guardian ad litem. (Vetoed, override failed)
  • SB 22-FN: relative to disclosure of criminal history and criminal records to the child care licensing unit of the department of health and human services. (Signed into law)
  • SB 23-FN: expanding the crime of endangering the welfare of a child. (Killed)
  • SB 72-FN: establishing a parental bill of rights. (Died: the chambers did not agree on a version)
  • SB 76: relative to the office of the child advocate. (Killed)
  • SB 77-FN: providing children in delinquency and children in need of services (CHINS) cases the identical types of psychological evaluations as children in child protection matters. (Signed into law)
  • SB 161: making technical corrections to statutes governing out-of-state placements for children. (Signed into law)
  • SB 278-FN: including qualifying convictions from other states as grounds for termination of parental rights petitions. (Signed into law)
  • SB 412: relative to the conditional release of delinquent minors and children in need of services. (Signed into law)
  • SB 413: relative to the detention of a minor attaining the age of 18 during the pendency of a delinquency action. (Signed into law)
  • SB 515-FN: relative to judicial determinations related to children placed in a qualified residential treatment program in certain juvenile matters and appointment of counsel in certain circumstances. (Signed into law)

Recent Meetings

  • The Committee on Children and Family Law met on April 2, 2026 for hearings on HB 1039, HB 1643, HB 1565-FN and HB 1376.
  • The Committee on Children and Family Law met on March 19, 2026 for hearings on HB 194-FN, HB 257-FN, HB 1323-FN, HB 1460-FN, HB 1225, HB 1228 and HB 1229.
  • The Committee on Children and Family Law met on January 15, 2026 for hearings on SB 412, SB 413 and SB 515-FN.
  • The Committee on Children and Family Law met on May 8, 2025 for a hearing on HB 187-FN.
  • The Committee on Children and Family Law met on April 24, 2025 for hearings on HB 178, HB 177, HB 132-FN, HB 473-FN, HB 560 and HB 273.
  • The Committee on Children and Family Law met on April 3, 2025 for hearings on HB 204, HB 213, HB 243-FN, HB 320-FN, HB 478 and HB 486-FN.
  • The Committee on Children and Family Law met on February 20, 2025 for hearings on SB 278-FN and SB 161.
  • The Committee on Children and Family Law met on February 3, 2025 for a hearing on SB 72-FN.
  • The Committee on Children and Family Law met on January 14, 2025 for hearings on SB 22-FN, SB 23-FN, SB 76 and SB 77-FN.

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