---
type: "Bill"
title: "prohibiting school district personnel from transporting students to medical or mental health appointments, visits, or procedures without parental consent."
description: "prohibiting school district personnel from transporting students to medical or mental health appointments, visits, or procedures without parental consent."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nh"
legislature: "New Hampshire General Court"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 231"
citation: "New Hampshire HB 231 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kristine Perez"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2025-01-07"
last_action: "2025-05-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cab35ba7-afae-4420-96cb-97a508c84300"
source_url: "https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/bill_docket.aspx?lsr=0283&sy=2025&sortoption=&txtsessionyear=2025"
source_hash: "11b0fe7aebe67a08565f95e59ccf88ba502c44461e79408fe67c0de32fab95f5"
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 231 (2025) — prohibiting school district personnel from transporting students to medical or mental health appointments, visits, or procedures without parental consent.

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment #2025-0603h** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/billText.aspx?sy=2025&id=2025-0603h&txtFormat=amend)

## Votes

- Ought to Pass — **21–3** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Kristine Perez — primary (person)
- Daniel E. Innis — cosponsor (person)
- David C Love — cosponsor (person)
- John Sellers — cosponsor (person)
- Katelyn T Kuttab — cosponsor (person)
- Kristin Noble — cosponsor (person)
- Louise Andrus — cosponsor (person)
- Ron C Dunn — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-07** Introduced 01/08/2025 and referred to Education Policy and Administration HJ 2 P. 11 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-20** ==CANCELLED== Public Hearing: 03/05/2025 01:30 pm LOB 205-207
- **2025-02-27** Public Hearing: 03/03/2025 03:00 pm LOB 205-207
- **2025-03-10** Executive Session: 03/03/2025 03:00 pm LOB 205-207
- **2025-03-10** Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2025-0603h (NT) 03/03/2025 (Vote 12-4; CC) `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-20** Amendment # 2025-0603h (NT): AA VV 03/20/2025 HJ 9 P. 10
- **2025-03-20** Ought to Pass with Amendment 2025-0603h: MA VV 03/20/2025 HJ 9 P. 10 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2025-03-24** Introduced 03/20/2025 and Referred to Education; SJ 9 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01** ==ROOM CHANGE== Hearing: 04/02/2025, Room 100, SH, 01:15 pm; SC 16
- **2025-04-10** Committee Report: Ought to Pass, 04/17/2025, Vote 3-2; SC 17 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-17** Ought to Pass: RC 21Y-3N, MA; 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 22; 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/cab35ba7-afae-4420-96cb-97a508c84300`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Hampshire legislature records).