---
type: "Bill"
title: "requiring certain offenders to participate in a victim impact program."
description: "requiring certain offenders to participate in a victim impact program."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nh"
legislature: "New Hampshire General Court"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 602"
citation: "New Hampshire HB 602 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nancy A Murphy"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-16"
last_action: "2025-06-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/881a5ad2-5e6b-4779-8f95-72cbe092b667"
source_url: "https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/bill_docket.aspx?lsr=0864&sy=2025&sortoption=&txtsessionyear=2025"
source_hash: "472324bbc0c2bd5377ad23aba859cab81b3d050cff1772fe77420c5305d7d498"
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 602 (2025) — requiring certain offenders to participate in a victim impact program.

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment #2025-1096h** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/billText.aspx?sy=2025&id=2025-1096h&txtFormat=amend)

## Sponsors

- Nancy A Murphy — primary (person)
- David James Meuse — cosponsor (person)
- Denise Ricciardi — cosponsor (person)
- Donovan Fenton — cosponsor (person)
- Rebecca Perkins Kwoka — cosponsor (person)
- Suzanne M. Prentiss — 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 10:45 am LOB 202-204
- **2025-02-07** Public Hearing: 02/12/2025 10:45 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 with Amendment # 2025-1096h 03/19/2025 (Vote 16-0; CC) HC 17 P. 10 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-26** Amendment # 2025-1096h: AA VV 03/26/2025 HJ 10 P. 13
- **2025-03-26** Ought to Pass with Amendment 2025-1096h: MA VV 03/26/2025 HJ 10 P. 13 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2025-03-28** Introduced 03/27/2025 and Referred to Judiciary; SJ 10 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-10** Hearing: 04/17/2025, Room 100, SH, 01:20 pm; SC 17
- **2025-04-18** Committee Report: Ought to Pass, 05/01/2025; Vote 5-0; CC; SC 19 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-01** Ought to Pass: MA, VV; OT3rdg; 05/01/2025; SJ 11 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2025-05-23** 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 71; eff. 01/01/2026 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/881a5ad2-5e6b-4779-8f95-72cbe092b667`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Hampshire legislature records).