---
type: "Bill"
title: "relative to women's school sports."
description: "relative to women's school sports."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nh"
legislature: "New Hampshire General Court"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 1205"
citation: "New Hampshire HB 1205 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Louise Andrus"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-12-01"
last_action: "2024-07-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f8143751-7fc7-4a63-ba93-693527d989a6"
source_url: "https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/bill_status.aspx?lsr=2414&sy=2024&sortoption=&txtsessionyear=2024"
source_hash: "040cffb7c725323a8f0a5bbd66b515f86cc2cdf31dd584559a0ad5d2bf5c55a7"
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 1205 (2024) — relative to women's school sports.

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment #2024-0973h** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/billText.aspx?sy=2024&id=2024-0973h&txtFormat=amend)
2. **latest version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/billText.aspx?sy=2024&id=1501&txtFormat=html)

## Votes

- Ought to Pass — **13–10** (pass) · upper
- OTPA — **189–182** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Louise Andrus — primary (person)
- Bill M. Gannon — cosponsor (person)
- Clayton D Wood — cosponsor (person)
- Howard Pearl — cosponsor (person)
- John Sellers — cosponsor (person)
- Kristine Perez — cosponsor (person)
- Len P. Turcotte — cosponsor (person)
- Michael I Moffett — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Ouellet — cosponsor (person)
- Riché Colcombe — cosponsor (person)
- Ruth Ward — cosponsor (person)
- Sheila C Seidel — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-12-01** Introduced 01/03/2024 and referred to Education `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-25** Public Hearing: 01/29/2024 02:00 pm LOB 205-207
- **2024-02-22** Executive Session: 03/06/2024 09:30 am LOB 205-207
- **2024-03-13** Committee Report: Without Recommendation 03/06/2024 (Vote 10-10; RC)
- **2024-03-21** Amendment # 2024-0973h: AA DV 190-177 03/21/2024 HJ 9 P. 30
- **2024-03-21** Ought to Pass with Amendment 2024-0973h: MA RC 189-182 03/21/2024 HJ 9 P. 31 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2024-03-21** Reconsider (Rep. Sweeney): MF DV 178-194 03/21/2024 HJ 9 P. 35
- **2024-03-26** Introduced 03/21/2024 and Referred to Education; SJ 8 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-24** Hearing: 04/30/2024, Room 101, LOB, 09:00 am; SC 17
- **2024-05-07** Committee Report: Ought to Pass, 05/16/2024, Vote 3-1; SC 19 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-16** Special Order to 05/16/2024, Without Objection, MA; 05/15/2024 SJ 12
- **2024-05-16** Ought to Pass: RC 13Y-10N, MA; OT3rdg; 05/16/2024; SJ 13 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2024-06-19** Enrolled Adopted, VV, (In recess 06/13/2024); SJ 18 `enrolled`
- **2024-06-19** Enrolled (in recess of) 06/13/2024 HJ 16 P. 43
- **2024-07-26** Signed by Governor Sununu 07/19/2024; Chapter 228; eff. 08/18/2024 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f8143751-7fc7-4a63-ba93-693527d989a6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Hampshire legislature records).