---
type: "Bill"
title: "relative to child protection staffing and making an appropriation therefor."
description: "relative to child protection staffing and making an appropriation therefor."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nh"
legislature: "New Hampshire General Court"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 6"
citation: "New Hampshire SB 6 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jon Morgan"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-14"
last_action: "2019-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b78b29c0-1b9c-4b22-8837-e225414e5467"
source_url: "http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_Status/bill_status.aspx?lsr=1115&sy=2019&sortoption=&txtsessionyear=2019"
source_hash: "e3c69d87f3344829e86644fb14f7225b96e132aa78d39d7b89cc5b31fefefd73"
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 6 (2019) — relative to child protection staffing and making an appropriation therefor.

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment #2019-0188s** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/billText.aspx?sy=2019&id=2019-0188s&txtFormat=amend)

## Votes

- OTP — **272–87** (pass) · lower
- Ought to Pass w/Amendment — **23–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jon Morgan — primary (person)
- Cindy Rosenwald — cosponsor (person)
- Dan Feltes — cosponsor (person)
- David H Watters — cosponsor (person)
- Donna M. Soucy — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Kahn — cosponsor (person)
- Jeanne Dietsch — cosponsor (person)
- Kevin Cavanaugh — cosponsor (person)
- Martha Fuller Clark — cosponsor (person)
- Martha S. Hennessey — cosponsor (person)
- Mary Jane Wallner — cosponsor (person)
- Melanie Levesque — cosponsor (person)
- Shannon E Chandley — cosponsor (person)
- Tom Sherman — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-14** Introduced 01/03/2019 and Referred to Finance; SJ 4 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-01-17** Hearing: 01/22/2019, Room 103, SH, 01:30 pm; SC 7
- **2019-02-04** Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2019-0188s, 02/14/2019; SC 10 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-14** Committee Amendment # 2019-0188s, AA, VV; 02/14/2019; SJ 5
- **2019-02-14** Ought to Pass with Amendment 2019-0188s, RC 23Y-0N, MA; OT3rdg; 02/14/2019; SJ 5 `passage`
- **2019-03-11** Introduced 03/07/2019 and referred to Children and Family Law HJ 8 P. 61 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-26** ==TIME CHANGE== Public Hearing: 04/09/2019 02:30 pm LOB 206
- **2019-03-26** ==CANCELLED== Executive Session: 04/09/2019 02:30 pm LOB 206
- **2019-04-10** Executive Session: 04/16/2019 01:00 pm LOB 206
- **2019-04-17** Committee Report: Ought to Pass for 05/02/2019 (Vote 16-0; RC) HC 22 P. 8 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-05-10** Enrolled (In recess 05/02/2019); SJ 16
- **2019-05-14** Enrolled 05/08/2019 HJ 15 P. 100
- **2019-05-02** Ought to Pass: MA RC 272-87 05/02/2019 HJ 14 P. 9 `passage`
- **2019-06-04** Signed by the Governor on 06/03/2019; Chapter 0043; Effective 06/03/2019 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b78b29c0-1b9c-4b22-8837-e225414e5467`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Hampshire legislature records).