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+type: "Bill"
+title: "permitting residential building in commercial zoning."
+description: "permitting residential building in commercial zoning."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/nh"
+legislature: "New Hampshire General Court"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 631"
+citation: "New Hampshire HB 631 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Alissandra Murray"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2025-01-16"
+last_action: "2025-07-22"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/59818807-2dbc-4364-919d-81b90fb525bc"
+source_url: "https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/bill_docket.aspx?lsr=0683&sy=2025&sortoption=&txtsessionyear=2025"
+source_hash: "0925dd5ce998ab0d8d207975cd5f9baa83905fdb2f5aac0c24deb1956cf22761"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-nh"]
+---
+
+# New Hampshire HB 631 (2025) — permitting residential building in commercial zoning.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Amendment #2025-0667h** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/billText.aspx?sy=2025&id=2025-0667h&txtFormat=amend)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Indefinitely Postpone — **128–211** (fail) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Alissandra Murray — primary (person)
+- Christine Seibert — cosponsor (person)
+- David H. Watters — cosponsor (person)
+- Diane Pauer — cosponsor (person)
+- Heath Howard — cosponsor (person)
+- Jessica Grill — cosponsor (person)
+- Jodi K Newell — cosponsor (person)
+- Joe Sweeney — cosponsor (person)
+- Kris Schultz — cosponsor (person)
+- Ross Berry — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-16** Introduced (in recess of) 01/09/2025 and referred to Housing HJ 3 P. 19 `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-29** Public Hearing: 02/04/2025 01:30 pm LOB 305
+- **2025-02-05** Full Committee Work Session: 02/11/2025 10:00 am LOB 305
+- **2025-03-10** Executive Session: 02/11/2025 10:00 am LOB 305
+- **2025-03-10** Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2025-0667h (NT) 03/04/2025 (Vote 17-0; CC) `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-17** Removed from Consent (Reps. Kuttab, Bridle, Bordes, Panek, Coker, Popovici-Muller, Tenczar, Seidel, L. Walsh, Perez) 03/17/2025 HJ 8 P. 3
+- **2025-03-20** Amendment # 2025-0667h (NT): AA VV 03/20/2025 HJ 9 P. 93
+- **2025-03-20** Indefinitely Postpone (Rep. Kuttab): MF RC 128-211 03/20/2025 HJ 9 P. 94
+- **2025-03-20** Ought to Pass with Amendment 2025-0667h: MA DV 204-134 03/20/2025 HJ 9 P. 96 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
+- **2025-03-24** Introduced 03/20/2025 and Referred to Commerce; SJ 9 `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-03** Hearing: 04/10/2025, Room 100, SH, 10:15 am; SC 16
+- **2025-04-29** Committee Report: Ought to Pass, 05/08/2025, Vote 5-1; SC 20 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-05-08** Ought to Pass: MA, VV; OT3rdg; 05/08/2025; SJ 12 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
+- **2025-06-30** Enrolled Adopted, VV, (In recess 06/26/2025); SJ 18 `enrolled`
+- **2025-06-30** Enrolled (in recess of) 06/26/2025 HJ 18 P. 58
+- **2025-07-22** Signed by Governor Ayotte 07/15/2025; Chapter 201; eff. 07/01/2026 HJ 18 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/59818807-2dbc-4364-919d-81b90fb525bc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Hampshire legislature records).
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