---
type: "Bill"
title: "establishing a committee to study palliative and hospice care in New Hampshire."
description: "establishing a committee to study palliative and hospice care in New Hampshire."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nh"
legislature: "New Hampshire General Court"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 248"
citation: "New Hampshire SB 248 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Regina Birdsell"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 12
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-23"
last_action: "2025-06-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/978db257-d570-447d-893e-36606b0dfd78"
source_url: "https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/bill_docket.aspx?lsr=1009&sy=2025&sortoption=&txtsessionyear=2025"
source_hash: "1d05e9508c29637b6e3bd06ba07d0e85a4b834b98ea428a1ac96898821fc8978"
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 248 (2025) — establishing a committee to study palliative and hospice care in New Hampshire.

## Version chain

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


## Sponsors

- Regina Birdsell — primary (person)
- Kevin A. Avard — cosponsor (person)
- Mark A Pearson — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Long — cosponsor (person)
- Samuel G Farrington — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-23** Introduced 01/09/2025 and Referred to Health and Human Services; SJ 3 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-20** Hearing: 03/05/2025, Room 101, LOB, 09:45 am; SC 11
- **2025-03-19** Committee Report: Ought to Pass, 03/27/2025; Vote 5-0; CC; SC 14 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-27** Ought to Pass: 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. 113 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-16** Public Hearing: 04/23/2025 10:30 am LOB 301-303
- **2025-04-23** Executive Session: 04/30/2025 09:30 am LOB 205-207
- **2025-05-01** Committee Report: Ought to Pass 04/30/2025 (Vote 16-2; CC) HC 23 P. 9 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-08** Ought to Pass: MA VV 05/08/2025 HJ 14 P. 10 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **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
- **2025-06-24** Signed by the Governor on 06/23/2025; Chapter 0115; Effective 06/23/2025 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/978db257-d570-447d-893e-36606b0dfd78`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Hampshire legislature records).