---
type: "Bill"
title: "extending the commission to study telehealth services."
description: "extending the commission to study telehealth services."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nh"
legislature: "New Hampshire General Court"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 72"
citation: "New Hampshire HB 72 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jess Edwards"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 12
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-12-23"
last_action: "2025-05-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e6e10ac4-45c0-4cd7-9fdf-f7e9a44fe08e"
source_url: "https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/bill_docket.aspx?lsr=0076&sy=2025&sortoption=&txtsessionyear=2025"
source_hash: "a0748dea26a99b94d9f2d67bda51978c025f926c09b8ca730544776d173710b7"
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 72 (2025) — extending the commission to study telehealth services.

## Version chain

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


## Sponsors

- Jess Edwards — primary (person)
- Jennifer Mandelbaum — cosponsor (person)
- William S Palmer — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-12-23** Introduced 01/08/2025 and referred to Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs HJ 2 P. 4 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-15** Public Hearing: 01/23/2025 09:30 am LOB 201
- **2025-02-03** Executive Session: 01/23/2025 09:30 am LOB 201
- **2025-02-03** Committee Report: Ought to Pass 01/29/2025 (Vote 17-1; CC) HC 11 P. 6 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-13** Ought to Pass: MA VV 02/13/2025 HJ 5 P. 10 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2025-03-11** Introduced 03/06/2025 and Referred to Health and Human Services; SJ 7 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-19** Hearing: 03/26/2025, Room 100, SH, 10:00 am; SC 14
- **2025-03-26** Committee Report: Ought to Pass, 04/17/2025; Vote 5-0; CC; SC 17 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-17** Ought to Pass: MA, VV; OT3rdg; 04/17/2025; SJ 10 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2025-04-29** Enrolled Adopted, VV, (In recess 04/17/2025); SJ 11 `enrolled`
- **2025-04-30** Enrolled (in recess of) 04/10/2025 HJ 12 P. 163
- **2025-05-08** Signed by Governor Ayotte 05/08/2025; Chapter 5; eff. I. Sec 3 eff 6/30/2026 II. Rem eff 5/8/2025 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e6e10ac4-45c0-4cd7-9fdf-f7e9a44fe08e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Hampshire legislature records).