---
type: "Bill"
title: "relative to medical benefits payments by state retirees."
description: "relative to medical benefits payments by state retirees."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nh"
legislature: "New Hampshire General Court"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 356"
citation: "New Hampshire SB 356 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lou D'Allesandro"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 11
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-12-17"
last_action: "2022-05-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/35c5e444-d7fc-4d33-b7a7-894e9e9d53b9"
source_url: "http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/bill_status.aspx?lsr=2941&sy=2022&sortoption=&txtsessionyear=2022"
source_hash: "fd1cc5804a906f27d9bf811ce0071960718289a87e8d3ddda88ffaedb94208aa"
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 356 (2022) — relative to medical benefits payments by state retirees.

## Version chain

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


## Sponsors

- Lou D'Allesandro — primary (person)
- Bill Gannon — cosponsor (person)
- Cindy Rosenwald — cosponsor (person)
- David H Watters — cosponsor (person)
- Donna M. Soucy — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Kahn — cosponsor (person)
- Jeb Bradley — cosponsor (person)
- Kevin J. Cavanaugh — cosponsor (person)
- Rebecca G. Whitley — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Birdsell — cosponsor (person)
- Sharon M Carson — cosponsor (person)
- Suzanne M Prentiss — cosponsor (person)
- Tom Sherman — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-12-17** To Be Introduced 01/05/2022 and Referred to Executive Departments and Administration; SJ 1 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-12-21** Hearing: 01/12/2022, Room 103, SH, 09:30 am; SC 50
- **2022-01-26** Committee Report: Ought to Pass, 02/03/2022; Vote 5-0; CC; SC 5 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-03** Ought to Pass: MA, VV; OT3rdg; 02/03/2022; SJ 2 `passage`
- **2022-03-23** Introduced 03/17/2022 and referred to Executive Departments and Administration `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-12** Public Hearing: 04/05/2022 11:30 am LOB 302-304
- **2022-04-12** Committee Report: Ought to Pass (Vote 15-0; CC) HC 15 P. 8 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-21** Ought to Pass: MA VV 04/21/2022 HJ 10 `passage`
- **2022-05-13** Enrolled Adopted, VV, (In recess 05/12/2022); SJ 13
- **2022-05-13** Enrolled (in recess of) 05/12/2022
- **2022-05-24** Signed by the Governor on 05/20/2022; Chapter 0094; Effective 07/19/2022 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/35c5e444-d7fc-4d33-b7a7-894e9e9d53b9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Hampshire legislature records).