---
type: "Bill"
title: "enabling a municipal forest committee or conservation commission to offer surplus money to the municipality for deposit in the municipal unreserved fund balance."
description: "enabling a municipal forest committee or conservation commission to offer surplus money to the municipality for deposit in the municipal unreserved fund balance."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nh"
legislature: "New Hampshire General Court"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 124"
citation: "New Hampshire HB 124 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Arnold G Davis"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-06"
last_action: "2025-07-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/931fcfdb-974c-489a-8655-34421bec580e"
source_url: "https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/bill_docket.aspx?lsr=0101&sy=2025&sortoption=&txtsessionyear=2025"
source_hash: "e685789915f92a5ae57b3bc02e297c789de511a3ba295fbca381420426734def"
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 124 (2025) — enabling a municipal forest committee or conservation commission to offer surplus money to the municipality for deposit in the municipal unreserved fund balance.

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment #2025-1707s** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/billText.aspx?sy=2025&id=2025-1707s&txtFormat=amend)

## Sponsors

- Arnold G Davis — primary (person)
- Brian D Cole — cosponsor (person)
- James W Tierney — cosponsor (person)
- Lori E Korzen — cosponsor (person)
- Michael P Murphy — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Ouellet — cosponsor (person)
- Sean C Durkin — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-06** Introduced 01/08/2025 and referred to Municipal and County Government HJ 2 P. 6 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-19** Public Hearing: 02/27/2025 03:30 pm LOB 301-303
- **2025-03-05** Executive Session: 03/10/2025 09:30 am LOB 301-303
- **2025-03-19** Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2025-0861h (NT) 03/10/2025 (Vote 18-0; CC) HC 17 P. 23 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-26** Amendment # 2025-0861h (NT): AA VV 03/26/2025 HJ 10 P. 42
- **2025-03-26** Ought to Pass with Amendment 2025-0861h: MA VV 03/26/2025 HJ 10 P. 42 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2025-03-28** Introduced 03/27/2025 and Referred to Election Law and Municipal Affairs; SJ 10 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-16** Hearing: 04/22/2025, Room 103, LOB, 09:15 am; SC 18
- **2025-04-24** Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2025-1707s, 05/01/2025; Vote 5-0; CC; SC 19 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-01** Ought to Pass with Amendment #2025-1707s, MA, VV; OT3rdg; 05/01/2025; SJ 11 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2025-05-01** Committee Amendment # 2025-1707s, AA, VV; 05/01/2025; SJ 11
- **2025-06-12** House Concurs with Senate Amendment 2025-1707s (Rep. Pauer): MA VV 06/12/2025 HJ 17 P. 14
- **2025-07-03** Enrolled Adopted, VV, (In recess 06/26/2025); SJ 18 `enrolled`
- **2025-07-07** Enrolled (in recess of) 06/26/2025 HJ 18 P. 59
- **2025-07-22** Signed by Governor Ayotte 07/15/2025; Chapter 165; eff. 09/13/2025 HJ 18 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/931fcfdb-974c-489a-8655-34421bec580e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Hampshire legislature records).