---
type: "Bill"
title: "adjusting the minimum fine for attacks by nuisance dogs."
description: "adjusting the minimum fine for attacks by nuisance dogs."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nh"
legislature: "New Hampshire General Court"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 670"
citation: "New Hampshire HB 670 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Len P Turcotte"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-21"
last_action: "2025-07-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cf4d994b-ab42-4e8c-9868-ac072cdf903b"
source_url: "https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/bill_docket.aspx?lsr=0550&sy=2025&sortoption=&txtsessionyear=2025"
source_hash: "994dabf5967b35b26f4b6c2c433592007190f0098df91a3474311049bf63714a"
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 670 (2025) — adjusting the minimum fine for attacks by nuisance dogs.

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment #2025-1712s** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/billText.aspx?sy=2025&id=2025-1712s&txtFormat=amend)

## Sponsors

- Len P Turcotte — primary (person)
- David Rochefort — cosponsor (person)
- Katelyn T Kuttab — cosponsor (person)
- Lorie Ball — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-21** Introduced (in recess of) 01/09/2025 and referred to Criminal Justice and Public Safety HJ 3 P. 22 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-29** Public Hearing: 02/07/2025 11:00 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 with Amendment # 2025-0325h (NT) 03/19/2025 (Vote 16-0; CC) HC 17 P. 10 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-26** Amendment # 2025-0325h (NT): AA VV 03/26/2025 HJ 10 P. 15
- **2025-03-26** Ought to Pass with Amendment 2025-0325h: MA VV 03/26/2025 HJ 10 P. 15 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2025-03-28** Introduced 03/27/2025 and Referred to Judiciary; SJ 10 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-17** Hearing: 04/22/2025, Room 100, SH, 01:15 pm; SC 19
- **2025-04-24** Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2025-1712s, 05/01/2025; Vote 4-0; CC; SC 19 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-01** Ought to Pass with Amendment #2025-1712s, MA, VV; OT3rdg; 05/01/2025; SJ 11 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2025-05-01** Committee Amendment # 2025-1712s, AA, VV; 05/01/2025; SJ 11
- **2025-06-12** House Concurs with Senate Amendment 2025-1712s (Rep. Roy): MA VV 06/12/2025 HJ 17 P. 4
- **2025-07-08** Enrolled (in recess of) 06/26/2025 HJ 18 P. 60
- **2025-07-08** Enrolled Adopted, VV, (In recess 06/26/2025); SJ 18 `enrolled`
- **2025-07-22** Signed by Governor Ayotte 07/15/2025; Chapter 203; 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/cf4d994b-ab42-4e8c-9868-ac072cdf903b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Hampshire legislature records).