---
type: "Bill"
title: "relative to record requests by health care providers."
description: "relative to record requests by health care providers."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nh"
legislature: "New Hampshire General Court"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 138"
citation: "New Hampshire SB 138 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tim McGough"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2025-01-22"
last_action: "2025-07-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d961a0a9-55a2-449e-a446-a747341694af"
source_url: "https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/bill_docket.aspx?lsr=1063&sy=2025&sortoption=&txtsessionyear=2025"
source_hash: "a3ff2f967658ad12c7a02718ebdb0b0170c94062932e05fa19e06aed03d1e4ce"
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 138 (2025) — relative to record requests by health care providers.

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment #2025-1764h** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/billText.aspx?sy=2025&id=2025-1764h&txtFormat=amend)

## Votes

- Concur — **15–8** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Tim McGough — primary (person)
- Bill M. Gannon — cosponsor (person)
- Cindy Rosenwald — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel E. Innis — cosponsor (person)
- David J Nagel — cosponsor (person)
- John Michael Potucek — cosponsor (person)
- Julie Miles — cosponsor (person)
- Keith R. Murphy — cosponsor (person)
- Lilli M Walsh — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Birdsell — cosponsor (person)
- Susan M Porcelli — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-22** Introduced 01/09/2025 and Referred to Health and Human Services; SJ 3 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-14** ==TIME CHANGE== Hearing: 03/19/2025, Room 101, LOB, 09:30 am; SC 14
- **2025-03-19** Committee Report: Ought to Pass, 03/27/2025, Vote 5-0; SC 14 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-27** Sen. Birdsell Floor Amendment # 2025-1393s, AA, VV; 03/27/2025; SJ 9
- **2025-03-27** Ought to Pass with Amendment #2025-1393s, MA, VV; OT3rdg; 03/27/2025; SJ 9 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2025-03-28** Introduced (in recess of) 03/27/2025 and referred to Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs HJ 11 P. 111 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-08** Public Hearing: 04/16/2025 10:30 am LOB 205-207
- **2025-04-23** Executive Session: 04/30/2025 09:30 am LOB 205-207
- **2025-05-01** Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2025-1764h (NT) 04/30/2025 (Vote 16-1; CC) HC 23 P. 8 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-08** Amendment # 2025-1764h (NT): AA VV 05/08/2025 HJ 14 P. 10
- **2025-05-08** Ought to Pass with Amendment 2025-1764h: MA VV 05/08/2025 HJ 14 P. 10 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2025-05-15** Sen. Rochefort Moved to Concur with the House Amendment, RC 15Y-8N, MA; 05/15/2025; SJ 13
- **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 the Governor on 07/15/2025; Chapter 0233; Effective 09/13/2025 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d961a0a9-55a2-449e-a446-a747341694af`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Hampshire legislature records).