---
type: "Bill"
title: "relative to educator licensing."
description: "relative to educator licensing."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nh"
legislature: "New Hampshire General Court"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 440"
citation: "New Hampshire HB 440 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-10"
last_action: "2025-06-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/72dc4970-2379-4afe-be1f-a3aacb02086b"
source_url: "https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/bill_docket.aspx?lsr=0846&sy=2025&sortoption=&txtsessionyear=2025"
source_hash: "07e317ddda1539b3ef83c83d408384fd834842065f444f6265813ebc6284b829"
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 440 (2025) — relative to educator licensing.

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment #2025-1860s** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/billText.aspx?sy=2025&id=2025-1860s&txtFormat=amend)

## Sponsors

- Kristin Noble — cosponsor (person)
- Margaret M Drye — cosponsor (person)
- Michael I Moffett — 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 Education Policy and Administration HJ 3 P. 10 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-15** Public Hearing: 01/22/2025 10:30 am LOB 205-207
- **2025-02-12** Executive Session: 02/18/2025 09:30 am LOB 202-204
- **2025-02-21** Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2025-0188h 02/18/2025 (Vote 18-0; CC) HC 14 P. 5 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-06** Introduced 2025-0188h HJ 7 P. 5 `introduction`
- **2025-03-06** Ought to Pass with Amendment 2025-0188h: MA VV 03/06/2025 HJ 7 P. 5 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2025-03-12** Introduced 03/06/2025 and Referred to Education; SJ 7 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-18** Hearing: 03/25/2025, Room 101, LOB, 09:45 am; SC 14
- **2025-04-24** Committee Report: Ought to Pass, 05/01/2025, Vote 3-1; SC 19 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-01** Ought to Pass: MA, VV; OT3rdg; 05/01/2025; SJ 11 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2025-05-01** Sen. Prentiss Floor Amendment # 2025-1860s, AF, VV; 05/01/2025; SJ 11
- **2025-05-23** Enrolled Adopted, VV, (In recess 05/22/2025); SJ 15 `enrolled`
- **2025-05-23** Enrolled (in recess of) 05/22/2025 HJ 15 P. 51
- **2025-06-06** Signed by Governor Ayotte 06/02/2025; Chapter 64; eff. 06/02/2025 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/72dc4970-2379-4afe-be1f-a3aacb02086b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Hampshire legislature records).