---
type: "Bill"
title: "relative to the audit requirements for consumer cooperative associations."
description: "relative to the audit requirements for consumer cooperative associations."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nh"
legislature: "New Hampshire General Court"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 165"
citation: "New Hampshire SB 165 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kevin A. Avard"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-23"
last_action: "2025-07-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f7cb3695-9c27-4653-8c4e-6583d3299d63"
source_url: "https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/bill_docket.aspx?lsr=0853&sy=2025&sortoption=&txtsessionyear=2025"
source_hash: "9cd32df0e6b155c69d598a102295ace3bbdb7978f829ae20dbf41fd5b80cf06a"
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 165 (2025) — relative to the audit requirements for consumer cooperative associations.

## Version chain

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


## Sponsors

- Kevin A. Avard — primary (person)
- Bill M. Gannon — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel E. Innis — cosponsor (person)
- David H. Watters — cosponsor (person)
- David Rochefort — cosponsor (person)
- Howard Pearl — cosponsor (person)
- Jim A Kofalt — cosponsor (person)
- Keith R. Murphy — cosponsor (person)
- Mark McConkey — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Birdsell — cosponsor (person)
- Tara Reardon — cosponsor (person)
- Timothy Lang — 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`
- **2025-02-13** Hearing: 02/20/2025, Room 100, SH, 10:30 am; SC 10
- **2025-03-12** Committee Report: Ought to Pass, 03/20/2025; Vote 6-0; CC; SC 13 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-20** Ought to Pass: MA, VV; OT3rdg; 03/20/2025; SJ 8 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2025-03-28** Introduced (in recess of) 03/27/2025 and referred to Commerce and Consumer Affairs HJ 11 P. 112 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-10** Vacated and Referred to Housing (Rep. Hunt): MA VV 04/10/2025 HJ 12 P. 41 `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-10** Public Hearing: 04/15/2025 02:30 pm LOB 302-304
- **2025-04-23** Executive Session: 05/06/2025 10:00 am LOB 305
- **2025-05-07** Committee Report: Ought to Pass 05/06/2025 (Vote 16-0; CC) `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-27** Ought to Pass: MA VV 05/22/2025 HJ 15 P. 6 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **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 0243; 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/f7cb3695-9c27-4653-8c4e-6583d3299d63`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Hampshire legislature records).