---
type: "Bill"
title: "relative to the uncompensated care and Medicaid fund."
description: "relative to the uncompensated care and Medicaid fund."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nh"
legislature: "New Hampshire General Court"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 249"
citation: "New Hampshire SB 249 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Regina Birdsell"]
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/08d27327-c605-4466-b6a3-2cce93e76d52"
source_url: "https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/bill_docket.aspx?lsr=1011&sy=2025&sortoption=&txtsessionyear=2025"
source_hash: "9ae20413aad92f7f7c7370a06ded889656d2908508ab83a3a12c630b1cc1dd65"
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 249 (2025) — relative to the uncompensated care and Medicaid fund.

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment #2025-2465h** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/billText.aspx?sy=2025&id=2025-2465h&txtFormat=amend)

## Sponsors

- Regina Birdsell — primary (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`
- **2025-02-12** Hearing: 02/19/2025, Room 100, SH, 10:30 am; SC 10
- **2025-03-07** Committee Report: Ought to Pass, 03/13/2025, Vote 3-2; SC 12 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-13** Ought to Pass with Amendment #2025-0915s, MA, VV; Refer to Finance Rule 4-5; 03/13/2025; SJ 7 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2025-03-13** Sen. Birdsell Floor Amendment # 2025-0915s, AA, VV; 03/13/2025; SJ 7
- **2025-03-19** Committee Report: Ought to Pass, 03/27/2025, Vote 4-1; 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 Ways and Means HJ 11 P. 113 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-23** Public Hearing: 04/29/2025 10:20 am LOB 202-204
- **2025-04-30** ==RECESSED== Full Committee Work Session: 05/06/2025 10:00 am LOBO 202-204
- **2025-05-21** Executive Session: 05/27/2025 10:00 am LOB 202-204
- **2025-05-28** Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2025-2465h 05/27/2025 (Vote 18-0; CC) HC 27 P. 12 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-30** Removed from Consent (Reps. Notter, Tim Mannion, Granger, Sabourin, Slottje, Spillane, Osborne, Cordelli, DeVito, Polozov) 05/30/2025 HJ 16 P. 2
- **2025-06-05** Amendment # 2025-2465h: AA VV 06/05/2025 HJ 16 P. 103
- **2025-06-05** Special Order to next order of business (Rep. Osborne): MA VV 06/05/2025 HJ 16 P. 102
- **2025-06-05** Ought to Pass with Amendment 2025-2465h: MA VV 06/05/2025 HJ 16 P. 103 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2025-06-12** Sen. Rochefort 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 0250; Effective 07/01/2025 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/08d27327-c605-4466-b6a3-2cce93e76d52`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Hampshire legislature records).