---
type: "Bill"
title: "relative to the processing of absentee ballots."
description: "relative to the processing of absentee ballots."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nh"
legislature: "New Hampshire General Court"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 294"
citation: "New Hampshire HB 294 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gary L. Daniels"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 12
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-07"
last_action: "2025-05-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5c4cb5ff-33e7-497e-b302-4b0750c8229e"
source_url: "https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/bill_docket.aspx?lsr=0659&sy=2025&sortoption=&txtsessionyear=2025"
source_hash: "b2d69117f782c74d7572671a0094ded472ee776908ec062d528c25ad504ea9a6"
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 294 (2025) — relative to the processing of absentee ballots.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.


## Sponsors

- Gary L. Daniels — primary (person)
- Brian M Sullivan — cosponsor (person)
- Jack B. Flanagan — cosponsor (person)
- Paul P Dargie — cosponsor (person)
- Peter Petrigno — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas C Schamberg — cosponsor (person)
- Vanessa L Sheehan — cosponsor (person)
- Wayne D. MacDonald — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2025-01-07** Introduced 01/08/2025 and referred to Election Law HJ 2 P. 14 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-29** Public Hearing: 02/04/2025 02:00 pm LOB 306-308
- **2025-02-07** Executive Session: 02/11/2025 10:10 am LOB 306-308
- **2025-02-14** Committee Report: Ought to Pass 02/11/2025 (Vote 18-0; CC) HC 14 P. 7 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-06** Ought to Pass: MA VV 03/06/2025 HJ 7 P. 8 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2025-03-12** Introduced 03/06/2025 and Referred to Election Law and Municipal Affairs; SJ 7 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-26** Hearing: 04/01/2025, Room 103, LOB, 09:45 am; SC 15
- **2025-04-01** Committee Report: Ought to Pass, 04/17/2025; Vote 5-0; CC; SC 17 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-17** Ought to Pass: MA, VV; OT3rdg; 04/17/2025; SJ 10 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2025-05-12** Enrolled Adopted, VV, (In recess 05/08/2025); SJ 13 `enrolled`
- **2025-05-13** Enrolled (in recess of) 05/08/2025 HJ 14 P. 59
- **2025-05-30** Signed by Governor Ayotte 05/29/2025; Chapter 45; eff. 07/28/2025 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5c4cb5ff-33e7-497e-b302-4b0750c8229e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Hampshire legislature records).