---
type: "Bill"
title: "relative to controlled substance inventories and relative to surrogate parent criminal history records checks."
description: "relative to controlled substance inventories and relative to surrogate parent criminal history records checks."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nh"
legislature: "New Hampshire General Court"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 254"
citation: "New Hampshire SB 254 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David Rochefort"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-23"
last_action: "2025-06-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d65dd317-2745-4474-86b9-e5696b21d099"
source_url: "https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/bill_docket.aspx?lsr=0625&sy=2025&sortoption=&txtsessionyear=2025"
source_hash: "65319821cff112e2988f6fe272524002a62a9fd79c09431e4ea5e65ed1d4827b"
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 254 (2025) — relative to controlled substance inventories and relative to surrogate parent criminal history records checks.

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment #2025-1548h** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/billText.aspx?sy=2025&id=2025-1548h&txtFormat=amend)

## Sponsors

- David Rochefort — primary (person)
- Carol M McGuire — cosponsor (person)
- David J Nagel — cosponsor (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 Health and Human Services; SJ 3 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-05** Hearing: 03/12/2025, Room 101, LOB, 10:15 am; SC 12
- **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 Executive Departments and Administration HJ 11 P. 113 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-09** Public Hearing: 04/17/2025 10:00 am LOB 306-308
- **2025-04-09** Public Hearing on non-germane Amendment # 2025-1548h: 04/17/2025 10:15 am LOB 306-308
- **2025-04-21** Executive Session: 04/17/2025 10:15 am LOB 306-308
- **2025-04-21** Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2025-1548h 04/17/2025 (Vote 15-0; CC) HC 22 P. 9 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-01** Amendment # 2025-1548h (NT): AA VV 05/01/2025 HJ 13 P. 5
- **2025-05-01** Ought to Pass with Amendment 2025-1548h: MA VV 05/01/2025 HJ 13 P. 5 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2025-05-08** Sen. Rochefort Moved to Concur with the House Amendment, MA, VV; 05/08/2025; SJ 12
- **2025-06-09** Enrolled Adopted, VV, (In recess 06/05/2025); SJ 16 `enrolled`
- **2025-06-09** Enrolled (in recess of) 06/05/2025 HJ 16 P. 167
- **2025-06-18** Signed by the Governor on 06/17/2025; Chapter 0104; Effective 08/16/2025 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d65dd317-2745-4474-86b9-e5696b21d099`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Hampshire legislature records).