---
type: "Bill"
title: "relative to qualifications for issuing veteran license plates to include General Discharge Under Honorable Conditions."
description: "relative to qualifications for issuing veteran license plates to include General Discharge Under Honorable Conditions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nh"
legislature: "New Hampshire General Court"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 271"
citation: "New Hampshire SB 271 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Denise Ricciardi"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 12
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-23"
last_action: "2025-07-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c49dfd41-c4e9-42fc-b3ec-8baa33960a51"
source_url: "https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/bill_docket.aspx?lsr=0446&sy=2025&sortoption=&txtsessionyear=2025"
source_hash: "b1d1500019766d001d5d0747d6def373f0149f4b4bd59e1cb707f1198a0123a6"
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 SB 271 (2025) — relative to qualifications for issuing veteran license plates to include General Discharge Under Honorable Conditions.

## Version chain

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


## Sponsors

- Denise Ricciardi — primary (person)
- Bill M. Gannon — cosponsor (person)
- Catherine A Rombeau — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel E. Innis — cosponsor (person)
- David H. Watters — cosponsor (person)
- David Rochefort — cosponsor (person)
- Donovan Fenton — cosponsor (person)
- Howard Pearl — cosponsor (person)
- Keith R. Murphy — cosponsor (person)
- Loren E Foxx — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Long — cosponsor (person)
- Rebecca Perkins Kwoka — cosponsor (person)
- Suzanne M. Prentiss — cosponsor (person)
- Tara Reardon — cosponsor (person)
- Victoria Sullivan — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-23** Introduced 01/09/2025 and Referred to Transportation; SJ 3 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-12** Hearing: 02/18/2025, Room 101, LOB, 02:15 pm; SC 10
- **2025-02-24** Committee Report: Ought to Pass, 03/06/2025, Vote 5-0; SC 11 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-06** Ought to Pass: MA, VV; OT3rdg; 03/06/2025; SJ 6 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2025-03-28** Introduced (in recess of) 03/27/2025 and referred to Transportation HJ 11 P. 113 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-23** Public Hearing: 05/06/2025 10:20 am LOB 203
- **2025-04-23** Executive Session: 05/06/2025 01:00 pm LOB 203
- **2025-05-07** Committee Report: Ought to Pass 05/06/2025 (Vote 15-0; CC) `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-22** Ought to Pass: MA VV 05/22/2025 HJ 15 P. 8 `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 the Governor on 07/15/2025; Chapter 0253; Effective 09/13/2025 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c49dfd41-c4e9-42fc-b3ec-8baa33960a51`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Hampshire legislature records).