---
type: "Bill"
title: "relative to establishing the veteran licensing acceleration program and making an appropriation therefor."
description: "relative to establishing the veteran licensing acceleration program and making an appropriation therefor."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nh"
legislature: "New Hampshire General Court"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 1385"
citation: "New Hampshire HB 1385 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Carroll M Brown"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 19
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-12-06"
last_action: "2024-07-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d7b48ce9-1792-4c55-8f67-7c22cee3b30f"
source_url: "https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/bill_status.aspx?lsr=2495&sy=2024&sortoption=&txtsessionyear=2024"
source_hash: "3542f236386dfc163e10809a2cacaab5f2d30ce9467f2b8f4e4c709f7e808b5f"
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 1385 (2024) — relative to establishing the veteran licensing acceleration program and making an appropriation therefor.

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment #2024-1876s** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/billText.aspx?sy=2024&id=2024-1876s&txtFormat=amend)
2. **latest version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/billText.aspx?sy=2024&id=1582&txtFormat=html)

## Sponsors

- Carroll M Brown — primary (person)
- Arlene Quaratiello — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel Popovici-Muller — cosponsor (person)
- John Sellers — cosponsor (person)
- Lisa R Mazur — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Birdsell — cosponsor (person)
- Riché Colcombe — cosponsor (person)
- Ron Dunn — cosponsor (person)
- Yury Polozov — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-12-06** Introduced 01/03/2024 and referred to Executive Departments and Administration HJ 1 P. 18 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-31** Public Hearing: 02/06/2024 11:15 am LOB 210-211
- **2024-02-12** ==CANCELLED== Subcommittee Work Session: 02/20/2024 10:00 am LOB 306-308
- **2024-02-14** Subcommittee Work Session: 02/20/2024 01:30 pm LOB 307
- **2024-03-06** Executive Session: 03/13/2024 10:00 am LOB 306-308
- **2024-03-07** Subcommittee Work Session: 03/08/2024 10:00 am LOB 306-308
- **2024-03-11** Subcommittee Work Session: 03/13/2024 09:00 am LOB 306-308
- **2024-03-18** Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2024-1090h (NT) 03/13/2024 (Vote 19-1; CC) HC 12 P. 15 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-28** Amendment # 2024-1090h: AA VV 03/28/2024 HJ 10 P. 85
- **2024-03-28** Ought to Pass with Amendment 2024-1090h: MA VV 03/28/2024 HJ 10 P. 85 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2024-04-02** Introduced 03/21/2024 and Referred to Executive Departments and Administration; SJ 8 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-05-02** Hearing: 05/08/2024, Room 103, SH, 09:30 am; SC 18
- **2024-05-09** Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment #2024-1876s, 05/16/2024; Vote 5-0; CC; SC 19 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-13** Committee Amendment # 2024-1876s, AA, VV; 05/15/2024; SJ 12
- **2024-05-13** Ought to Pass with Amendment 2024-1876s, MA, VV; OT3rdg; 05/15/2024; SJ 12 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2024-05-30** House Concurs with Senate Amendment 2024-1876s (Rep. C. McGuire): MA VV 05/30/2024 HJ 15 P. 16
- **2024-07-02** Enrolled Adopted, VV, (In recess 06/13/2024); SJ 18 `enrolled`
- **2024-07-02** Enrolled (in recess of) 06/13/2024 HJ 16
- **2024-07-26** Signed by Governor Sununu 07/19/2024; Chapter 240; eff. 07/01/2024 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d7b48ce9-1792-4c55-8f67-7c22cee3b30f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Hampshire legislature records).