---
type: "Bill"
title: "relative to home day care licensing requirements."
description: "relative to home day care licensing requirements."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nh"
legislature: "New Hampshire General Court"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 1584"
citation: "New Hampshire HB 1584 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Katy Peternel"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-12-15"
last_action: "2024-07-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0ec00746-0a9d-43a4-a236-6bfe376e6d22"
source_url: "https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/bill_status.aspx?lsr=2224&sy=2024&sortoption=&txtsessionyear=2024"
source_hash: "8896cce1ce6a7a96315b0c8e32a8b34b26a913c414ec50c92195e099046dee25"
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 1584 (2024) — relative to home day care licensing requirements.

## Version chain

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

1. **latest version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/billText.aspx?sy=2024&id=1313&txtFormat=html)

## Votes

- Ought to Pass — **14–10** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Katy Peternel — primary (person)
- Leah P. Cushman — cosponsor (person)
- Margaret M. Drye — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Vose — cosponsor (person)
- Sheila C Seidel — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-12-15** Introduced 01/03/2024 and referred to Special Committee on Childcare HJ 1 P. 25 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-31** Public Hearing: 02/07/2024 02:00 pm LOB 209
- **2024-02-15** ==RECESSED== Executive Session: 02/21/2024 10:00 am LOB 104
- **2024-02-28** ==CONTINUED== Executive Session: 03/06/2024 11:00 am LOB 104
- **2024-03-11** Majority Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate 03/06/2024 (Vote 5-4; RC) `committee-failure`
- **2024-03-11** Minority Committee Report: Ought to Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-21** Inexpedient to Legislate: MF DV 159-167 03/21/2024 HJ 9 P. 123 `failure`
- **2024-03-21** Ought to Pass: MA VV 03/21/2024 HJ 9 P. 123 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2024-03-21** Reconsider HB1584 (Rep. Sweeney): MF DV 159-167 03/21/2024 HJ 9 P. 126
- **2024-03-26** Introduced 03/21/2024 and Referred to Health and Human Services; SJ 8 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-05-01** Hearing: 05/08/2024, Room 101, LOB, 09:15 am; SC 19
- **2024-05-15** Committee Report: Ought to Pass, 05/22/2024, Vote 3-2; SC 20 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-22** Ought to Pass: RC 14Y-10N, MA; OT3rdg; 05/22/2024; SJ 14 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2024-06-27** Enrolled Adopted, VV, (In recess 06/13/2024); SJ 18 `enrolled`
- **2024-06-27** Enrolled (in recess of) 06/13/2024 HJ 16
- **2024-07-22** Signed by Governor Sununu 07/12/2024; Chapter 203; eff.07/12/2024 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0ec00746-0a9d-43a4-a236-6bfe376e6d22`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Hampshire legislature records).