Resources

• Find your representativesWho represents your town in the House and the Senate, and what the district numbers mean.
• Contact your legislatorsEmail or call the people who represent you, and write a message they can act on.
• Attend or speak at a public hearingFind a bill’s hearing, go in person or watch it, and ask to speak.
• Send testimony online or in writingTell a committee where you stand on a bill without going to Concord.
• Learn how hearings work before you goThe notices, signing in, speaking, written testimony and what follows a hearing, in one place.
• Read a billWhat the parts of a bill are, and how its text shows what it changes.
• Use this site to follow a billWhat each tab holds, how to follow a bill, and how to tell us when something is wrong.

• VoteCheck that you are registered, register if you are not, and find what to bring and where to go.
• Run for officeWho files where and when, and what it takes, from governor to town offices.

• Renew your driver’s licenseOnline or at a DMV appointment, and what to do if it has expired.
• Register a carAt your town or city clerk and then for the state, and renewing it.
• Get a REAL IDWhether you need one, and the documents to bring.
• Move to New HampshireYour license, your vehicle’s registration and registering to vote.

• Apply for food or health assistanceSNAP and Medicaid, online at NH Easy or on paper.
• File for unemploymentYour claim, the weekly claims that follow, and how to appeal.
• Get help with heating and electric billsFuel assistance, help with electric bills, weatherization, and what to do with no heat.

• Appeal your property tax assessmentAsk your town for an abatement, and appeal if it says no.
• Get property tax relief on a low or moderate incomeWho qualifies for the state’s relief, and how to apply.
• Get a public recordAsk a town, school district, county or state agency for its records.
• Get a birth, death, marriage or divorce certificateFrom your town or city clerk or the state: who may ask and what to bring.

• Tour the State HouseArrange a visit through the Visitor Center, bring a class, and know what to expect.

• How a Bill Becomes LawThe course a bill runs, and the stages it can die at.
• The General CourtThe 400 representatives and 24 senators, and how a two-year term is shaped.
• The Legislature's YearWhen bills are filed, when the House and Senate sit, and the deadlines between.

The institutions, in the order they act on a bill.

• The Governor and the Executive Council

  The Governor signs or vetoes. The Council — five members, elected by district — approves contracts, nominations and pardons.

• The Courts

  Supreme, Superior and Circuit; how judges are appointed and how long they serve; and where the legislature and the courts meet.

• The Constitution

  One of the oldest still in force, and it is not amended the way statutes are: a CACR needs three fifths of both chambers and then the voters.

• State Agencies

  Who actually carries out what the legislature passes, and how a commissioner gets the job.

• Administrative Rules

  A statute says what shall happen; the rules say how, and the agency writes them. This is the least visible part of the process and one of the most consequential.

• Town Meeting and Local Government

  Where warrant articles, default budgets and “SB 2 towns” come from.

• County Government

  Ten counties, and the body that sets each one's budget is the state representatives you already elected, meeting under a second name.

• Cities, Towns and Who Runs Them

  A town meeting and a selectboard, or a council and a mayor, or a council and a manager.

Finding who represents you, speaking on a bill and following one are How-To Guides now, step by step, with the rest of the guides.

• Find your representatives

  Who represents your town in the House and the Senate, and what the district numbers mean.

• Learn how hearings work before you go

  The notices, signing in, speaking, written testimony and what follows a hearing, in one place.

• Use this site to follow a bill

  What each tab holds, how to follow a bill, and how to tell us when something is wrong.

Counted from the General Court’s own record.

How bills end, committees’ workloads and passage rates, amendments, hearings, attendance, vetoes, the closest votes and the amendments sent to the voters.

The record’s words and abbreviations, A to Z.

Every chapter of the state’s laws, searchable by number or subject, each section with the bills that changed it and the bills that would.

• New Hampshire Revised Statutes Annotatedgc.nh.gov
• Administrative rules, RSA 541-Agc.nh.gov
• House Rulesgc.nh.gov · PDF
• Senate Rulesgc.nh.gov · PDF
• House calendars and journalsgc.nh.gov
• Senate calendars and journalsgc.nh.gov
• House meeting schedulegc.nh.gov
• Senate meeting schedulegc.nh.gov
• House online testimony sign-ingc.nh.gov
• Senate online sign-ingc.nh.gov
• Joint Legislative Committee on Administrative Rulesgc.nh.gov

• The Governor's officegovernor.nh.gov
• The Executive Councilcouncil.nh.gov
• State agencies, A to Znh.gov
• New Hampshire Department of Justicedoj.nh.gov

• New Hampshire Judicial Branchcourts.nh.gov

• Secretary of Statesos.nh.gov
• The New Hampshire Constitutionnh.gov
• 2024 general election resultssos.nh.gov
• 2022 general election resultssos.nh.gov
• 2018 general election resultssos.nh.gov

• Guidance for towns and citiesNew Hampshire Municipal Association, a membership body
• County government, county by countyNew Hampshire Association of Counties, a membership body

From the legislature itself:

• The General CourtThe legislature’s own site, which publishes every bill, the House and Senate calendars and journals, and each chamber’s pages.gc.nh.gov

And from independent sites, run apart from the General Court and from Granite Record, in alphabetical order:

• Citizen in a RepublicReporting on the State House, with a briefing page for each bill, a tracker of bills being drafted, and a search of written testimony to the House.citizeninarepublic.com
• Citizens CountPlain-language summaries of New Hampshire bills, legislators’ voting records and candidates’ positions, from the Live Free or Die Alliance, a nonprofit.citizenscount.org
• FastDemocracyBill tracking with a daily or weekly email when the bills you follow move, free; paid plans add real-time alerts.fastdemocracy.com
• Granite DocketA guide to New Hampshire’s public records, among them bills, committees and roll calls, free to read.granitedocket.com
• LegiScanEvery bill in the fifty state legislatures and Congress, with bill tracking for registered users.legiscan.com