---
type: "Bill"
title: "relative to the maximum amount of disaster relief funding provided to municipalities after a natural disaster."
description: "relative to the maximum amount of disaster relief funding provided to municipalities after a natural disaster."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nh"
legislature: "New Hampshire General Court"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 165"
citation: "New Hampshire HB 165 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Judy F. Aron"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 17
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-06"
last_action: "2025-05-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fbc99a4e-23c5-4855-8a71-0eb3d119ceac"
source_url: "https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/bill_docket.aspx?lsr=0138&sy=2025&sortoption=&txtsessionyear=2025"
source_hash: "8246bc62e17c8f1691c7d6270a43dfc3705cbffb2b5c785bc9642f3bde4b0411"
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 165 (2025) — relative to the maximum amount of disaster relief funding provided to municipalities after a natural disaster.

## Version chain

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


## Sponsors

- Judy F. Aron — primary (person)
- Carol M McGuire — cosponsor (person)
- David H. Watters — cosponsor (person)
- Howard Pearl — cosponsor (person)
- James A Spillane — cosponsor (person)
- James L Creighton — cosponsor (person)
- John R Cloutier — cosponsor (person)
- Paul A Terry — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas L Buco — 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. 8 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-15** Public Hearing: 01/23/2025 10:20 am LOB 301-303
- **2025-01-22** Executive Session: 01/30/2025 02:00 pm LOB 301-303
- **2025-02-04** Committee Report: Ought to Pass 01/30/2025 (Vote 18-0; CC) HC 11 P. 7 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-13** Ought to Pass: MA VV 02/13/2025 HJ 5 P. 13 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2025-02-13** Referred to Finance 02/13/2025 HJ 5 P. 13 `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-14** Division II Work Session: 02/24/2025 01:00 pm LOB 209
- **2025-03-14** Executive Session: 03/17/2025 01:15 pm LOB 210-211
- **2025-03-17** Committee Report: Ought to Pass 03/17/2025 (Vote 25-0; CC) HC 17 P. 18 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-26** Ought to Pass: MA VV 03/26/2025 HJ 10 P. 32 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2025-03-28** Introduced 03/27/2025 and Referred to Finance; SJ 10 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03** Hearing: 04/08/2025, Room 103, SH, 01:15 pm; SC 16
- **2025-04-09** Committee Report: Ought to Pass, 04/17/2025; Vote 6-0; CC; SC 17 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-17** Ought to Pass: MA, VV; OT3rdg; 04/17/2025; SJ 10 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2025-05-12** Enrolled Adopted, VV, (In recess 05/08/2015); SJ 13 `enrolled`
- **2025-05-13** Enrolled (in recess of) 05/08/2025 HJ 14 P. 59
- **2025-05-30** Signed by Governor Ayotte 05/29/2025; Chapter 43; eff. 07/28/2025 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fbc99a4e-23c5-4855-8a71-0eb3d119ceac`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Hampshire legislature records).