---
type: "Bill"
title: "establishing a charitable gaming oversight commission."
description: "establishing a charitable gaming oversight commission."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nh"
legislature: "New Hampshire General Court"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 328"
citation: "New Hampshire HB 328 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dick Ames"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 29
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-08"
last_action: "2025-08-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cbbe6098-134c-4835-9959-8e34cb04cc8b"
source_url: "https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/bill_docket.aspx?lsr=0512&sy=2025&sortoption=&txtsessionyear=2025"
source_hash: "649f4e22db1ad22450c94d7aecc1662add6b269f76aca079021081dcc1033a83"
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 328 (2025) — establishing a charitable gaming oversight commission.

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment #2025-1848s** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/billText.aspx?sy=2025&id=2025-1848s&txtFormat=amend)

## Sponsors

- Dick Ames — primary (person)
- Bill H Ohm — cosponsor (person)
- David Rochefort — cosponsor (person)
- Donovan Fenton — cosponsor (person)
- Jerry M. Stringham — cosponsor (person)
- Linda J Haskins — cosponsor (person)
- Mary A Hakken-Phillips — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Long — cosponsor (person)
- Paul S. Berch — cosponsor (person)
- Sallie D Fellows — cosponsor (person)
- Timothy Lang — cosponsor (person)
- Walter Spilsbury — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-08** Introduced 01/08/2025 and referred to Ways and Means HJ 2 P. 15 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-15** Public Hearing: 01/22/2025 11:00 am LOB 202-204
- **2025-01-22** Executive Session: 01/27/2025 03:00 pm LOB 202-204
- **2025-01-29** Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2025-0069h 01/27/2025 (Vote 18-0; RC) HC 10 P. 14 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-06** Amendment # 2025-0069h: AA VV 02/06/2025 HJ 4 P. 50
- **2025-02-06** Ought to Pass with Amendment 2025-0069h: MA VV 02/06/2025 HJ 4 P. 51 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2025-03-11** Introduced 03/06/2025 and Referred to Ways and Means; SJ 7 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-25** Hearing: 04/02/2025, Room 100, SH, 09:45 am; SC 15
- **2025-04-30** Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2025-1848s, 05/08/2025; Vote 5-0; CC; SC 20 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-15** Ought to Pass with Amendment #2025-1848s, MA, VV; Refer to Finance Rule 4-5; 05/15/2025; SJ 12 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2025-05-15** Committee Amendment # 2025-1848s, AA, VV; 05/15/2025; SJ 12
- **2025-05-08** HB 328 was Removed from the Consent Calendar; 05/08/2025; SJ 12
- **2025-05-08** Special Order to Next Session, Without Objection, MA; 05/08/2025; SJ 12
- **2025-05-08** Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2025-1848s, 05/15/2025, Vote 5-0; SC 21 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-20** Committee Report: Ought to Pass, 05/22/2025; Vote 7-0; CC; SC 22A `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-22** Ought to Pass: MA, VV; OT3rdg; 05/22/2025; SJ 14 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2025-06-10** House Non-Concurs with Senate Amendment #2025-1848s and Requests CofC (Rep. Kofalt): MA VV 06/05/2025 HJ 16 P. 169
- **2025-06-10** Speaker Appoints: Reps. Janigian, Ohm, Mary Murphy, Ames 06/05/2025 HJ 16 P. 169
- **2025-06-11** Sen. Lang Accedes to House Request for Committee of Conference, MA, VV; (In recess 06/05/2025); SJ 16
- **2025-06-11** President Appoints: Senators Lang, Sullivan, Altschiller; (In Recess 06/05/2025); SJ 16
- **2025-06-11** Conferee Change; Senator Fenton Replaces Senator Altschiller; SJ 16
- **2025-06-17** Conference Committee Meeting: 06/17/2025 10:00 am LOB 202-204
- **2025-06-12** Conferee Change: Rep. Ulery Replaces Rep. Ohm 06/12/2025 HJ 17 P. 22
- **2025-06-19** Conference Committee Report Filed, # 2025-2792c; 06/26/2025
- **2025-06-26** Conference Committee Report 2025-2792c: Adopted, VV 06/26/2025 HJ 18 P. 18
- **2025-06-26** Conference Committee Report # 2025-2792c, Adopted, VV; 06/26/2025; SJ 17
- **2025-07-14** Enrolled Adopted, VV, (In recess 06/26/2025); SJ 18 `enrolled`
- **2025-07-14** Enrolled (in recess of) 06/26/2025 HJ 18 P. 63
- **2025-08-11** Signed by Governor Ayotte 08/01/2025; Chapter 274; eff.I. Sec 1 eff 6/30/2025 II. Rem eff 08/01/2025 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cbbe6098-134c-4835-9959-8e34cb04cc8b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Hampshire legislature records).