---
type: "Bill"
title: "relative to child day care, residential care, and child-placing agency licensing."
description: "relative to child day care, residential care, and child-placing agency licensing."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nh"
legislature: "New Hampshire General Court"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 478"
citation: "New Hampshire SB 478 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sharon M. Carson"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-12-13"
last_action: "2024-06-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/97cb6ba7-9519-4bba-bb9b-517fda032e9c"
source_url: "https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/bill_status.aspx?lsr=2877&sy=2024&sortoption=&txtsessionyear=2024"
source_hash: "5df9b3eb0348be230e4dd5cf55983d4eb37869501952e1ed87ecc19436a53911"
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 SB 478 (2024) — relative to child day care, residential care, and child-placing agency licensing.

## 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=1968&txtFormat=html)

## Sponsors

- Sharon M. Carson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-12-13** To Be Introduced 01/03/2024 and Referred to Executive Departments and Administration; SJ 1 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-12-18** Hearing: 01/03/2024, Room 103, SH, 02:00 pm; SC 49
- **2024-03-08** Committee Report: Ought to Pass, 03/21/2024; Vote 5-0; CC; SC 11 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-21** Ought to Pass: MA, VV; OT3rdg; 03/21/2024; SJ 7 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2024-04-02** Introduced (in recess of) 03/28/2024 and referred to Special Committee on Childcare HJ 10 P. 227 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-10** Public Hearing: 04/10/2024 10:00 am LOB 104
- **2024-04-10** Executive Session: 04/10/2024 10:15 am LOB 104
- **2024-04-10** Committee Report: Ought to Pass 04/10/2024 (Vote 7-0; CC) HC 17 P. 13 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-02** Ought to Pass: MA VV 05/02/2024 HJ 12 P. 21 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2024-05-23** Enrolled Adopted, VV, (In recess 05/22/2024); SJ 15 `enrolled`
- **2024-05-23** Enrolled (in recess of) 05/23/2024 HJ 14 P. 176
- **2024-06-03** Signed by the Governor on 05/31/2024; Chapter 0041 `executive-signature`
- **2024-06-03** I. Sections 1 2 4 5 & 9 Effective 07/01/2024
- **2024-06-03** II. Sections 3 6 7 & 8 Effective 07/30/2024

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/97cb6ba7-9519-4bba-bb9b-517fda032e9c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Hampshire legislature records).