---
type: "Bill"
title: "relative to the formation of fraudulent businesses."
description: "relative to the formation of fraudulent businesses."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nh"
legislature: "New Hampshire General Court"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 406"
citation: "New Hampshire HB 406 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Luz Bay"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-10"
last_action: "2025-07-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9d97477c-0a72-4307-af34-45baac986cd7"
source_url: "https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/bill_docket.aspx?lsr=0850&sy=2025&sortoption=&txtsessionyear=2025"
source_hash: "ab5858fa3baffbafd950700186ac587959f67db755e367d87b06f6693f1586ee"
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 406 (2025) — relative to the formation of fraudulent businesses.

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment #2025-2872e** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/billText.aspx?sy=2025&id=2025-2872e&txtFormat=amend)

## Sponsors

- Luz Bay — primary (person)
- Anita D Burroughs — cosponsor (person)
- Donovan Fenton — cosponsor (person)
- Jessica Grill — cosponsor (person)
- John B. Hunt — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-10** Introduced (in recess of) 01/09/2025 and referred to Commerce and Consumer Affairs HJ 3 P. 8 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-15** Public Hearing: 01/23/2025 11:30 am LOB 302-304
- **2025-03-07** Subcommittee Work Session: 03/12/2025 10:00 am LOB 302-304
- **2025-03-13** Executive Session: 03/19/2025 10:00 am LOB 302-304
- **2025-03-19** Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2025-0960h 03/19/2025 (Vote 16-0; CC) HC 17 P. 7 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-26** Amendment # 2025-0960h: AA VV 03/26/2025 HJ 10 P. 5
- **2025-03-26** Ought to Pass with Amendment 2025-0960h: MA VV 03/26/2025 HJ 10 P. 5 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2025-03-27** Introduced 03/27/2025 and Referred to Commerce; SJ 10 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02** Hearing: 04/08/2025, Room 100, SH, 10:45 am; SC 16
- **2025-04-30** Committee Report: Ought to Pass, 05/08/2025; Vote 5-0; CC; SC 20 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-08** Ought to Pass: MA, VV; OT3rdg; 05/08/2025; SJ 12 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2025-06-27** Enrolled Bill Amendment # 2025-2872e Adopted, VV, (In recess of 06/26/2025); SJ 18 `amendment-passage`
- **2025-06-27** Enrolled Bill Amendment # 2025-2872e: AA VV (in recess of) 06/26/2025 HJ 18 P. 56
- **2025-07-02** Enrolled (in recess of) 06/26/2025 HJ 18 P. 59
- **2025-07-02** Enrolled Adopted, VV, (In recess 06/26/2025); SJ 18 `enrolled`
- **2025-07-22** Signed by Governor Ayotte 07/15/2025; Chapter 185; eff. 01/01/2026 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/9d97477c-0a72-4307-af34-45baac986cd7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Hampshire legislature records).