---
type: "Bill"
title: "establishing a committee to study the issue of unmarried cohabitants, domestic partnerships, and common law marriage."
description: "establishing a committee to study the issue of unmarried cohabitants, domestic partnerships, and common law marriage."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nh"
legislature: "New Hampshire General Court"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 151"
citation: "New Hampshire HB 151 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jim V. Maggiore"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 13
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-12-28"
last_action: "2023-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/20be41a1-31f9-40db-aa58-850ac9c39c04"
source_url: "https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/bill_status.aspx?lsr=0224&sy=2023&sortoption=&txtsessionyear=2023"
source_hash: "2701889d3cd93b5f95b50fcc03dc5b22d9e80f66b779bced5ce6e45387ceba84"
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 151 (2023) — establishing a committee to study the issue of unmarried cohabitants, domestic partnerships, and common law marriage.

## Version chain

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


## Votes

- OTP — **199–155** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jim V. Maggiore — primary (person)
- Cindy Rosenwald — cosponsor (person)
- David H. Watters — cosponsor (person)
- Kate R. Murray — cosponsor (person)
- Peggy Balboni — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-12-28** Introduced 01/04/2023 and referred to Children and Family Law `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-01-11** Public Hearing: 01/17/2023 01:00 pm LOB 206-208
- **2023-01-20** Executive Session: 01/17/2023 02:00 pm LOB 206-208
- **2023-01-27** Majority Committee Report: Ought to Pass 01/17/23 (Vote 10-5; RC) HC 12 P. 17 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2023-01-27** Minority Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate
- **2023-02-22** Ought to Pass: MA DV 199-155 02/22/2023 HJ 6 P. 64 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2023-03-07** Introduced 02/22/2023 and Referred to Judiciary; SJ 9 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-15** Hearing: 03/21/2023, Room 100, SH, 01:45 pm; SC 14
- **2023-03-21** Committee Report: Ought to Pass, 03/30/2023; SC 15 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2023-03-30** Ought to Pass: MA, VV; OT3rdg; 03/30/2023; SJ 12 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2023-04-26** Enrolled Adopted, VV, (In recess 04/13/2023); SJ 14 `enrolled`
- **2023-04-26** Enrolled (in recess of) 04/06/2023
- **2023-05-08** Signed by Governor Sununu 05/04/2023; Chapter 14; eff: 05/04/2023 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/20be41a1-31f9-40db-aa58-850ac9c39c04`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Hampshire legislature records).