---
type: "Bill"
title: "relative to homeowners and prohibiting certain types of listing agreements."
description: "relative to homeowners and prohibiting certain types of listing agreements."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nh"
legislature: "New Hampshire General Court"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 164"
citation: "New Hampshire SB 164 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Denise Ricciardi"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 20
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-23"
last_action: "2025-07-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b32072a3-ff46-42eb-9a25-7148b3d3ad5c"
source_url: "https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/bill_docket.aspx?lsr=0627&sy=2025&sortoption=&txtsessionyear=2025"
source_hash: "ff59115015c13b02117653c87fe18d22e2451855719590d14914d45db6b25c74"
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 164 (2025) — relative to homeowners and prohibiting certain types of listing agreements.

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment #2025-2222h** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/billText.aspx?sy=2025&id=2025-2222h&txtFormat=amend)

## Sponsors

- Denise Ricciardi — primary (person)
- Howard Pearl — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-23** Introduced 01/09/2025 and Referred to Commerce; SJ 3 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-04** Hearing: 02/11/2025, Room 100, SH, 10:30 am; SC 9
- **2025-03-07** Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2025-0723s, 03/13/2025, Vote 4-2; SC 12 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-13** Committee Amendment # 2025-0723s, AA, VV; 03/13/2025; SJ 7
- **2025-03-13** Ought to Pass with Amendment #2025-0723s, MA, VV; OT3rdg; 03/13/2025; SJ 7 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2025-03-28** Introduced (in recess of) 03/27/2025 and referred to Housing HJ 11 P. 112 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01** Vacated and Referred to Commerce and Consumer Affairs (Rep. Alexander Jr.): MA VV (in recess of) 03/27/2025 HJ 11 P. 114 `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-16** Public Hearing: 04/22/2025 02:15 pm LOB 302-304
- **2025-04-30** Subcommittee Work Session: 05/06/2025 10:00 am LOB 302-304
- **2025-05-07** Subcommittee Work Session: 05/14/2025 10:45 am LOB 302-304
- **2025-05-14** Subcommittee Work Session: 05/20/2025 10:45 am LOB 302-304
- **2025-05-20** ==CANCELLED== Subcommittee Work Session: 05/21/2025 10:45 am LOB 302-304
- **2025-05-21** Executive Session: 05/27/2025 01:15 pm LOB 302-304
- **2025-05-28** Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2025-2222h (NT) 05/27/2025 (Vote 16-0; CC) HC 27 P. 7 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-05** Amendment # 2025-2222h (NT): AA VV 06/05/2025 HJ 16 P. 5
- **2025-06-05** Ought to Pass with Amendment 2025-2222h: MA VV 06/05/2025 HJ 16 P. 5 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2025-06-12** Sen. Innis Moved to Concur with the House Amendment, MA, VV; 06/12/2025; SJ 16
- **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 the Governor on 07/15/2025; Chapter 0242; Effective 01/01/2026 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b32072a3-ff46-42eb-9a25-7148b3d3ad5c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Hampshire legislature records).