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2025 New Hampshire legislative session

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2025 New Hampshire legislative session
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General information
Scheduled session start:    January 8, 2025

Scheduled session end:    June 30, 2025

Leadership
Senate President
Sharon Carson (R)

House Speaker
Sherman Packard (R)
Majority Leader
Senate: Regina Birdsell (R)
House: Jason Osborne (R)
Minority Leader
Senate: Rebecca Perkins Kwoka (D)
House: Alexis Simpson (D)

Elections
Next Election:    November 3, 2026

Last Election:    November 5, 2024

Previous legislative sessions
2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018
Other 2025 legislative sessions


In 2025, the New Hampshire General Court was scheduled to convene on January 8 and adjourn on June 30.

The legislators serving in this session took office following the 2024 elections. Republicans won a 16-8 majority in the Senate and a 222-178 majority in the House. The party also controlled the governorship, creating a Republican state government trifecta. At the start of the 2025 session, New Hampshire was one of 23 state legislatures where neither party had a veto-proof supermajority in both chambers.

At the beginning of the 2025 legislative session:
  • Republicans held a majority in the New Hampshire state House and state Senate.
  • New Hampshire was one of 23 Republican state government trifectas.
  • New Hampshire's governor was Republican Kelly Ayotte.

    • Leadership in 2025

    See also: Leadership positions in state legislatures

    New Hampshire State Senate

    New Hampshire House of Representatives

    Partisan control in 2025

    See also: State government trifectas

    New Hampshire was one of 23 Republican state government trifectas at the start of 2025 legislative sessions. A state government trifecta occurs when one political party holds the governor's office, a majority in the state Senate, and a majority in the state House. For more information about state government trifectas, click here.

    New Hampshire was also one of X state legislatures where neither party had a veto-proof supermajority in both chambers. Veto overrides occur when a legislature votes to reverse a veto issued by an executive such as a governor or the president. If one party has a majority in a state legislature that is large enough to override a gubernatorial veto without any votes from members of the minority party, it is called a veto-proof majority or, sometimes, a supermajority. To read more about veto-proof supermajorities in state legislatures, click here.

    The following tables show the partisan breakdown of the New Hampshire General Court in the 2025 legislative session.

    New Hampshire State Senate

    Party As of January 2025
         Democratic Party 8
         Republican Party 16
    Total 24

    New Hampshire House of Representatives

    Party As of January 2025
         Democratic Party 178
         Republican Party 222
    Total 400

    Regular session

    The list below shows up to 25 pieces of legislation in the 2025 legislative session that most recently passed both chambers of the legislature, were signed by the governor, or were approved by the legislature in a veto override. If no bills are displayed below, no legislation has met these criteria yet in 2025. This information is provided by BillTrack50.

    Legislation trackers

    See also: Legislation Trackers

    Ballotpedia’s legislation trackers are your go-to resource for staying on top of key legislative topics. We capture any bill introduced on the topic across all of the 50 state legislatures, and we track the movement of the bill every step of the way. We provide real-time updates and translate legislative legalese into easily understandable language. As of the 2025 session, Ballotpedia provided tracking on the following topics. Click on the links below to view related bills from the 2025 session:

    Standing legislative committees

    See also: Standing committee and List of committees in New Hampshire state government


    A standing committee of a state legislature is a committee that exists on a more-or-less permanent basis, from legislative session to session, that considers and refines legislative bills that fall under the committee's subject matter.

    At the beginning of the 2025 legislative session, there were 51 standing committees in New Hampshire's state government, including 14 joint legislative committees, 12 state Senate committees, and 25 state House committees.

    Joint legislative committees

    Senate committees

    House committees

    Legislatively referred constitutional amendments

    In every state but Delaware, voter approval is required to enact a constitutional amendment. In each state, the legislature has a process for referring constitutional amendments before voters. In 18 states, initiated constitutional amendments can be put on the ballot through a signature petition drive. There are also many other types of statewide measures.

    The methods by which the New Hampshire Constitution can be amended:

    See also: Article 100 of the New Hampshire Constitution and Laws governing ballot measures in New Hampshire

    There are two paths to altering the New Hampshire Constitution: A legislatively referred constitutional amendment or a constitutional convention.

    Legislature

    See also: Legislatively referred constitutional amendment

    A 60% vote is required during one legislative session for the New Hampshire State Legislature to place a constitutional amendment on the ballot. That amounts to a minimum of 240 votes in the New Hampshire House of Representatives and 15 votes in the New Hampshire State Senate, assuming no vacancies. Amendments do not require the governor's signature to be referred to the ballot.

    In New Hampshire, an amendment needs to receive support from two-thirds (66.67%) of the votes cast on the measure.

    Convention

    See also: Convention-referred constitutional amendment

    According to the New Hampshire Constitution, a question about whether to hold a state constitutional convention is to automatically appear on the state's ballot every 10 years starting in 1972. New Hampshire is one of 14 states that provides for an automatic constitutional convention question.

    The table below shows the last and next constitutional convention question election years:

    State Interval Last question on the ballot Next question on the ballot
    New Hampshire 10 years 2022 2032


    Historical partisan control

    The table below depicts the historical trifecta status of New Hampshire.

    New Hampshire Party Control: 1992-2025
    Four years of Democratic trifectas  •  Fourteen years of Republican trifectas
    Scroll left and right on the table below to view more years.

    Year 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
    Governor R R R R R D D D D D D R R D D D D D D D D D D D D R R R R R R R R R
    Senate R R R R R R R D S R R R R R R D D D D R R R R R R R R D D R R R R R
    House R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R D D D D R R D D R R R R D D R R R R R

    Historical Senate control

    Republicans won control of the New Hampshire State Senate in 2020. In 2024, they won a 16-8 majority.

    The table below shows the partisan history of the New Hampshire Senate following every general election from 1992 to 2024. All data from 2006 or earlier comes from Michael Dubin's Party Affiliations in the State Legislatures (McFarland Press, 2007). Data after 2006 was compiled by Ballotpedia staff.

    New Hampshire State Senate election results: 1992-2024

    Year '92 '94 '96 '98 '00 '02 '04 '06 '08 '10 '12 '14 '16 '18 '20 '22 '24
    Democrats 11 6 9 13 11 6 8 14 14 5 11 10 10 14 10 10 8
    Republicans 13 18 15 11 13 18 16 10 10 19 13 14 14 10 14 14 16

    Historical House control

    Republicans won control of the New Hampshire House of Representatives in 2020. In 2024, they won a 221-177 majority with one independent and one vacancy.

    The table below shows the partisan history of the New Hampshire House following every general election from 1992 to 2024. All data from 2006 or earlier comes from Michael Dubin's Party Affiliations in the State Legislatures (McFarland Press, 2007). Data after 2006 was compiled by Ballotpedia staff.

    New Hampshire House of Representatives election results: 1992-2024

    Year '92 '94 '96 '98 '00 '02 '04 '06 '08 '10 '12 '14 '16 '18 '20 '22 '24
    Democrats 136 112 143 154 140 119 148 239 224 102 221 160 173 233 187 199 177
    Republicans 258 286 255 242 256 281 252 161 176 298 179 239 227 167 213 201 221
    Other 6 2 2 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1

    Analysis

    Adopted legislation, 2011-2024

    See also: The State Legislative Decade - New Hampshire

    In 2024, Ballotpedia released analysis of bills enacted in each state in the preceding decade. The charts and table below detail legislation passed each year by party sponsorship.

    See also

    Elections New Hampshire State Government State Legislatures State Politics
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