---
type: "Bill"
title: "relative to providing victims of crime with a free police report of the investigation."
description: "relative to providing victims of crime with a free police report of the investigation."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nh"
legislature: "New Hampshire General Court"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 218"
citation: "New Hampshire HB 218 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["John T MacDonald"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 19
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-07"
last_action: "2025-07-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/40ea546c-5481-48ed-ba31-f4de664f8c06"
source_url: "https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/bill_docket.aspx?lsr=0110&sy=2025&sortoption=&txtsessionyear=2025"
source_hash: "9221f7205fc64c79c465f8bc128167cf7b22754e13cd3cc7eb4d76aa99c0c810"
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 218 (2025) — relative to providing victims of crime with a free police report of the investigation.

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment #2025-1711s** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/billText.aspx?sy=2025&id=2025-1711s&txtFormat=amend)

## Sponsors

- John T MacDonald — primary (person)
- Daryl Abbas — cosponsor (person)
- Diane Pauer — cosponsor (person)
- Jim V. Maggiore — cosponsor (person)
- Karel A. Crawford — cosponsor (person)
- Rosemarie Rung — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-07** Introduced 01/08/2025 and referred to Criminal Justice and Public Safety HJ 2 P. 11 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-15** ==CANCELLED== Public Hearing: 01/24/2025 04:00 pm LOB 202-204
- **2025-01-16** Public Hearing: 01/24/2025 02:30 pm LOB 202-204
- **2025-02-20** ==RECESSED== Executive Session: 03/05/2025 10:00 am LOB 202-204
- **2025-03-06** ==CONTINUED== Executive Session: 03/14/2025 10:00 am LOB 202-204
- **2025-03-12** Majority Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2025-0765h 03/07/2025 (Vote 12-4; RC) `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-12** Minority Committee Report: Ought to Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-20** Amendment # 2025-0765h: AA VV 03/20/2025 HJ 9 P. 19
- **2025-03-20** FLAM # 2025-0948h (Rep. Meuse): AF DV 157-213 03/20/2025 HJ 9 P. 20
- **2025-03-20** Ought to Pass with Amendment 2025-0765h: MA VV 03/20/2025 HJ 9 P. 20 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2025-03-24** Introduced 03/20/2025 and Referred to Judiciary; SJ 9 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-27** Hearing: 04/03/2025, Room 100, SH, 01:15 pm; SC 15
- **2025-04-24** Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2025-1711s, 05/01/2025; Vote 4-0; CC; SC 19 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-01** Ought to Pass with Amendment #2025-1711s, MA, VV; OT3rdg; 05/01/2025; SJ 11 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2025-05-01** Committee Amendment # 2025-1711s, AA, VV; 05/01/2025; SJ 11
- **2025-06-12** House Concurs with Senate Amendment 2025-1711s (Rep. Roy): MA VV 06/12/2025 HJ 17 P. 2
- **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 171; 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/40ea546c-5481-48ed-ba31-f4de664f8c06`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Hampshire legislature records).