---
type: "Bill"
title: "relative to the commission on the primary care workforce and the state office of rural health."
description: "relative to the commission on the primary care workforce and the state office of rural health."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nh"
legislature: "New Hampshire General Court"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 1609"
citation: "New Hampshire HB 1609 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["James Michael Murphy"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-12-15"
last_action: "2024-07-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c0f112e1-56a2-4656-9a86-e8820e249c2b"
source_url: "https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/bill_status.aspx?lsr=2402&sy=2024&sortoption=&txtsessionyear=2024"
source_hash: "144f70ae2c6c89194235a5e87750ca9b93c952c14a4eabca751056a773df1997"
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 1609 (2024) — relative to the commission on the primary care workforce and the state office of rural health.

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment #2024-1477s** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/billText.aspx?sy=2024&id=2024-1477s&txtFormat=amend)
2. **latest version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/billText.aspx?sy=2024&id=1489&txtFormat=html)

## Sponsors

- James Michael Murphy — primary (person)
- David J Nagel — cosponsor (person)
- Gary Merchant — cosponsor (person)
- Gerri D. Cannon — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Schapiro — cosponsor (person)
- Mark A. Pearson — cosponsor (person)
- Sharon M. Carson — cosponsor (person)
- Suzanne M. Prentiss — cosponsor (person)
- Trinidad Tellez — cosponsor (person)
- William S Palmer — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-12-15** Introduced 01/03/2024 and referred to Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs HJ 1 P. 26 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-07** Public Hearing: 02/15/2024 10:20 am LOB 210-211
- **2024-02-15** Executive Session: 02/21/2024 11:00 am LOB 203
- **2024-02-29** Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2024-0755h 02/21/2024 (Vote 19-0; CC) `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-14** Amendment # 2024-0755h: AA VV 03/14/2024 HJ 8 P. 8
- **2024-03-14** Ought to Pass with Amendment 2024-0755h: MA VV 03/14/2024 HJ 8 P. 8 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2024-03-26** Introduced 03/21/2024 and Referred to Health and Human Services; SJ 8 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-02** ==ROOM CHANGE== Hearing: 04/03/2024, Room 100, SH, 09:30 am; SC 13A
- **2024-04-10** Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment #2024-1477s, 04/18/2024, Vote 5-0; SC 15 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-18** Committee Amendment # 2024-1477s, AA, VV; 04/18/2024; SJ 10
- **2024-04-18** Ought to Pass with Amendment 2024-1477s, MA, VV; OT3rdg; 04/18/2024; SJ 10 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2024-05-31** House Concurs with Senate Amendment 2024-1477s (Rep. W. MacDonald): MA VV 05/30/2024 HJ 15 P. 19
- **2024-07-11** Enrolled Adopted, VV, (In recess 06/13/2024); SJ 18 `enrolled`
- **2024-07-15** Enrolled (in recess of) 06/13/2024 HJ 16 P. 51
- **2024-07-30** Signed by Governor Sununu 07/26/2024; Chapter 273; 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/c0f112e1-56a2-4656-9a86-e8820e249c2b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Hampshire legislature records).