---
type: "Bill"
title: "establishing a designated behavioral health access point within the enhanced 911 system."
description: "establishing a designated behavioral health access point within the enhanced 911 system."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nh"
legislature: "New Hampshire General Court"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 597"
citation: "New Hampshire HB 597 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bill Boyd"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-16"
last_action: "2025-05-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2053cf53-a87a-4eb1-8040-f95d08c4b423"
source_url: "https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/bill_docket.aspx?lsr=0827&sy=2025&sortoption=&txtsessionyear=2025"
source_hash: "ee7733d825fa6666857b2b7cfb5b49296515aa0d39d65ae2e7bd236c884f85ee"
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 597 (2025) — establishing a designated behavioral health access point within the enhanced 911 system.

## Version chain

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


## Sponsors

- Bill Boyd — primary (person)
- Adam Joseph Presa — cosponsor (person)
- Jennifer M Rhodes — cosponsor (person)
- Jonah Orion Wheeler — cosponsor (person)
- Julie Miles — cosponsor (person)
- Kevin A. Avard — cosponsor (person)
- Nancy A Murphy — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Long — cosponsor (person)
- Peter Petrigno — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Birdsell — cosponsor (person)
- Suzanne M. Prentiss — cosponsor (person)
- Tim McGough — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-16** Introduced (in recess of) 01/09/2025 and referred to Criminal Justice and Public Safety HJ 3 P. 18 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-29** ==CANCELLED== Public Hearing: 02/06/2025 10:00 am LOB 202-204
- **2025-02-07** Public Hearing: 02/12/2025 10:00 am LOB 202-204
- **2025-03-06** ==CANCELLED== Executive Session: 03/14/2025 10:00 am LOB 202-204
- **2025-03-10** Executive Session: 03/19/2025 10:00 am LOB 202-204
- **2025-03-19** Committee Report: Ought to Pass 03/19/2025 (Vote 16-0; CC) HC 17 P. 10 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-26** Ought to Pass: MA VV 03/26/2025 HJ 10 P. 13 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2025-03-28** Introduced 03/27/2025 and Referred to Health and Human Services; SJ 10 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03** Hearing: 04/09/2025, Room 100, SH, 01:00 pm; SC 16
- **2025-04-10** Committee Report: Ought to Pass, 04/17/2025; Vote 4-0; CC; SC 17 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-17** Ought to Pass: MA, VV; 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 35; 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/2053cf53-a87a-4eb1-8040-f95d08c4b423`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Hampshire legislature records).