---
type: "Bill"
title: "enabling homestead operations to use commercial kitchen equipment in preparing food for sale."
description: "enabling homestead operations to use commercial kitchen equipment in preparing food for sale."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nh"
legislature: "New Hampshire General Court"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 150"
citation: "New Hampshire HB 150 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barbara Comtois"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-06"
last_action: "2025-05-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a7737e6f-4911-4901-a9ff-400626b2be4d"
source_url: "https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/bill_docket.aspx?lsr=0468&sy=2025&sortoption=&txtsessionyear=2025"
source_hash: "ab47226e254a660697328247b924be252efa6f676b5d139f71dd8090bf853b33"
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 150 (2025) — enabling homestead operations to use commercial kitchen equipment in preparing food for sale.

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment #2025-0420h** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/billText.aspx?sy=2025&id=2025-0420h&txtFormat=amend)

## Sponsors

- Barbara Comtois — primary (person)
- Daniel E. Innis — cosponsor (person)
- Deborah Aylward — cosponsor (person)
- Howard Pearl — cosponsor (person)
- Judy F. Aron — cosponsor (person)
- Peter W Bixby — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-06** Introduced 01/08/2025 and referred to Environment and Agriculture HJ 2 P. 8 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-05** Public Hearing: 02/11/2025 02:30 pm LOB 301-303
- **2025-02-12** Executive Session: 02/18/2025 10:45 am LOB 301-303
- **2025-02-12** Full Committee Work Session: 02/18/2025 09:30 am LOB 301-303
- **2025-02-19** Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2025-0420h 02/18/2025 (Vote 13-0; CC) HC 14 P. 7 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-06** Amendment # 2025-0420h: AA VV 03/06/2025 HJ 7 P. 9
- **2025-03-06** Ought to Pass with Amendment 2025-0420h: MA VV 03/06/2025 HJ 7 P. 9 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2025-03-11** Introduced 03/06/2025 and Referred to Commerce; SJ 7 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-18** ==TIME CHANGE== Hearing: 03/25/2025, Room 100, SH, 09:45 am; SC 14
- **2025-04-08** Committee Report: Ought to Pass, 04/17/2025; Vote 4-1; CC; SC 17 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-17** Ought to Pass: MA, VV; OT3rdg; 04/17/2025; SJ 10 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2025-05-06** Enrolled (in recess of) 05/01/2025 HJ 13 P. 31
- **2025-05-06** Enrolled Adopted, VV, (In recess 05/01/2025); SJ 12 `enrolled`
- **2025-05-21** Signed by Governor Ayotte 05/14/2025; Chapter 18; eff.07/13/2025 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a7737e6f-4911-4901-a9ff-400626b2be4d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Hampshire legislature records).