---
type: "Bill"
title: "relative to the penalty for trafficking in persons under 18 years of age."
description: "relative to the penalty for trafficking in persons under 18 years of age."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nh"
legislature: "New Hampshire General Court"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 262"
citation: "New Hampshire SB 262 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Victoria Sullivan"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 14
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2025-01-23"
last_action: "2025-06-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2df604a8-14f6-4d65-806e-5c38f9850449"
source_url: "https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/bill_docket.aspx?lsr=1138&sy=2025&sortoption=&txtsessionyear=2025"
source_hash: "6bc738085996b5d4685159b758f748834fa5779f9da8e59a5273c263077129d1"
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 262 (2025) — relative to the penalty for trafficking in persons under 18 years of age.

## Version chain

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


## Votes

- OTP — **290–71** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Victoria Sullivan — primary (person)
- Howard Pearl — cosponsor (person)
- Katherine J. Prudhomme-O'Brien — cosponsor (person)
- Keith R. Murphy — cosponsor (person)
- Kristin Noble — cosponsor (person)
- Lisa R Mazur — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-23** Introduced 01/09/2025 and Referred to Judiciary; SJ 3 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-12** Hearing: 02/20/2025, Room 100, SH, 01:15 pm; SC 10
- **2025-02-21** Committee Report: Ought to Pass, 03/06/2025; Vote 4-0; CC; SC 11 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-06** Ought to Pass: MA, VV; OT3rdg; 03/06/2025; SJ 6 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2025-03-28** Introduced (in recess of) 03/27/2025 and referred to Criminal Justice and Public Safety HJ 11 P. 113 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01** Public Hearing: 04/11/2025 12:00 pm LOB 202-204
- **2025-04-14** Executive Session: 04/23/2025 11:00 am LOB 202-204
- **2025-04-14** ==CANCELLED== Executive Session: 04/25/2025 10:00 am LOB 202-204
- **2025-04-30** Majority Committee Report: Ought to Pass 04/23/2025 (Vote 9-7; RC) HC 23 P. 12 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-30** Minority Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate
- **2025-05-08** Ought to Pass: MA RC 290-71 05/08/2025 HJ 14 P. 25 `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 06/24/2025; Chapter 0124; 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/2df604a8-14f6-4d65-806e-5c38f9850449`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Hampshire legislature records).