---
type: "Bill"
title: "relative to the management and regulation of town real property."
description: "relative to the management and regulation of town real property."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nh"
legislature: "New Hampshire General Court"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 373"
citation: "New Hampshire HB 373 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Diane Pauer"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-08"
last_action: "2025-06-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c05168ee-742e-4d11-9e39-430b2fdbeb9c"
source_url: "https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/bill_docket.aspx?lsr=0426&sy=2025&sortoption=&txtsessionyear=2025"
source_hash: "760f6e7e9acffaa298f0946aaf0a6c9b487382a29f3a12a1c9195059e47358a3"
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 373 (2025) — relative to the management and regulation of town real property.

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment #2025-0836h** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/billText.aspx?sy=2025&id=2025-0836h&txtFormat=amend)

## Sponsors

- Diane Pauer — primary (person)
- Brian D Cole — cosponsor (person)
- Chris Muns — cosponsor (person)
- David Fracht — cosponsor (person)
- David H. Watters — cosponsor (person)
- David Rochefort — cosponsor (person)
- Linda Franz — cosponsor (person)
- Linda McGrath — cosponsor (person)
- Michael A Edgar — cosponsor (person)
- Tom Dolan — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-08** Introduced 01/08/2025 and referred to Municipal and County Government HJ 2 P. 17 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-27** Public Hearing: 03/03/2025 09:20 am LOB 301-303
- **2025-03-05** Executive Session: 03/10/2025 09:30 am LOB 301-303
- **2025-03-19** Majority Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2025-0836h 03/10/2025 (Vote 10-8; RC) HC 17 P. 63 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-19** Minority Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate
- **2025-03-27** Amendment # 2025-0836h: AA VV 03/27/2025 HJ 11 P. 83
- **2025-03-27** FLAM # 2025-1289h (Rep. Pauer): AA VV 03/27/2025 HJ 11 P. 83
- **2025-03-27** Ought to Pass with Amendment 2025-0836h 2025-1289h: MA DV 190-167 03/27/2025 HJ 11 P. 84 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2025-03-28** Introduced 03/27/2025 and Referred to Election Law and Municipal Affairs; SJ 10 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-30** Hearing: 05/06/2025, Room 103, LOB, 09:45 am; SC 20
- **2025-05-07** Committee Report: Ought to Pass, 05/15/2025; Vote 5-0; CC; SC 21 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-15** Ought to Pass: MA, VV; OT3rdg; 05/15/2025; SJ 13 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2025-06-16** Enrolled Adopted, VV, (In recess 06/12/2025); SJ 17 `enrolled`
- **2025-06-16** Enrolled (in recess of) 06/12/2025 HJ 17 P. 24
- **2025-06-25** Signed by Governor Ayotte 06/23/2025; Chapter 127; eff. 08/23/2025 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c05168ee-742e-4d11-9e39-430b2fdbeb9c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Hampshire legislature records).