---
type: "Bill"
title: "enabling towns to adopt budget caps."
description: "enabling towns to adopt budget caps."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nh"
legislature: "New Hampshire General Court"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 105"
citation: "New Hampshire SB 105 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Keith R. Murphy"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-22"
last_action: "2025-06-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/76b217fd-0d53-4ca4-8d2b-ba0c64455af2"
source_url: "https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/bill_docket.aspx?lsr=1133&sy=2025&sortoption=&txtsessionyear=2025"
source_hash: "22a23ef0ade6f01aaff769bbf649734b4aa7784f777474fa5cf41c0ae5e63380"
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 SB 105 (2025) — enabling towns to adopt budget caps.

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment #2025-1626h** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/billText.aspx?sy=2025&id=2025-1626h&txtFormat=amend)

## Votes

- Concur — **15–8** (pass) · upper
- OTPA — **193–168** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Keith R. Murphy — primary (person)
- Daniel E. Innis — cosponsor (person)
- Diane Pauer — cosponsor (person)
- James P. Gray — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-22** Introduced 01/09/2025 and Referred to Election Law and Municipal Affairs; SJ 3 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-12** Hearing: 02/18/2025, Room 103, LOB, 09:15 am; SC 10
- **2025-02-19** Committee Report: Ought to Pass, 03/06/2025; Vote 4-1; CC; SC 11 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-06** Ought to Pass: MA, VV; OT3rdg; 03/06/2025; SJ 6 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2025-03-28** Introduced (in recess of) 03/27/2025 and referred to Municipal and County Government HJ 11 P. 111 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02** Public Hearing: 04/07/2025 10:45 am LOB 301-303
- **2025-04-23** Executive Session: 04/28/2025 10:00 am LOB 301-303
- **2025-04-30** Majority Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2025-1626h 04/28/2025 (Vote 10-8; RC) HC 23 P. 15 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-30** Minority Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate
- **2025-05-08** Amendment # 2025-1626h: AA VV 05/08/2025 HJ 14 P. 49
- **2025-05-08** Ought to Pass with Amendment 2025-1626h: MA RC 193-168 05/08/2025 HJ 14 P. 50 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2025-05-15** Sen. Gray Moved to Concur with the House Amendment, RC 15Y-8N, MA; 05/15/2025; SJ 13
- **2025-06-16** Enrolled Adopted, VV, (In recess 06/12/2025); SJ 17 `enrolled`
- **2025-06-16** Enrolled (in recess of) 06/12/2025 HJ 17 P. 24
- **2025-06-25** Signed by the Governor on 06/24/2025; Chapter 0131; Effective 08/23/2025 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/76b217fd-0d53-4ca4-8d2b-ba0c64455af2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Hampshire legislature records).