---
type: "Bill"
title: "permitting residential building in commercial zoning."
description: "permitting residential building in commercial zoning."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nh"
legislature: "New Hampshire General Court"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 631"
citation: "New Hampshire HB 631 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alissandra Murray"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2025-01-16"
last_action: "2025-07-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/59818807-2dbc-4364-919d-81b90fb525bc"
source_url: "https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/bill_docket.aspx?lsr=0683&sy=2025&sortoption=&txtsessionyear=2025"
source_hash: "0925dd5ce998ab0d8d207975cd5f9baa83905fdb2f5aac0c24deb1956cf22761"
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 631 (2025) — permitting residential building in commercial zoning.

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment #2025-0667h** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/billText.aspx?sy=2025&id=2025-0667h&txtFormat=amend)

## Votes

- Indefinitely Postpone — **128–211** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Alissandra Murray — primary (person)
- Christine Seibert — cosponsor (person)
- David H. Watters — cosponsor (person)
- Diane Pauer — cosponsor (person)
- Heath Howard — cosponsor (person)
- Jessica Grill — cosponsor (person)
- Jodi K Newell — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Sweeney — cosponsor (person)
- Kris Schultz — cosponsor (person)
- Ross Berry — 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 Housing HJ 3 P. 19 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-29** Public Hearing: 02/04/2025 01:30 pm LOB 305
- **2025-02-05** Full Committee Work Session: 02/11/2025 10:00 am LOB 305
- **2025-03-10** Executive Session: 02/11/2025 10:00 am LOB 305
- **2025-03-10** Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2025-0667h (NT) 03/04/2025 (Vote 17-0; CC) `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-17** Removed from Consent (Reps. Kuttab, Bridle, Bordes, Panek, Coker, Popovici-Muller, Tenczar, Seidel, L. Walsh, Perez) 03/17/2025 HJ 8 P. 3
- **2025-03-20** Amendment # 2025-0667h (NT): AA VV 03/20/2025 HJ 9 P. 93
- **2025-03-20** Indefinitely Postpone (Rep. Kuttab): MF RC 128-211 03/20/2025 HJ 9 P. 94
- **2025-03-20** Ought to Pass with Amendment 2025-0667h: MA DV 204-134 03/20/2025 HJ 9 P. 96 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2025-03-24** Introduced 03/20/2025 and Referred to Commerce; SJ 9 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03** Hearing: 04/10/2025, Room 100, SH, 10:15 am; SC 16
- **2025-04-29** Committee Report: Ought to Pass, 05/08/2025, Vote 5-1; SC 20 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-08** Ought to Pass: MA, VV; OT3rdg; 05/08/2025; SJ 12 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2025-06-30** Enrolled Adopted, VV, (In recess 06/26/2025); SJ 18 `enrolled`
- **2025-06-30** Enrolled (in recess of) 06/26/2025 HJ 18 P. 58
- **2025-07-22** Signed by Governor Ayotte 07/15/2025; Chapter 201; eff. 07/01/2026 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/59818807-2dbc-4364-919d-81b90fb525bc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Hampshire legislature records).