---
type: "Bill"
title: "relative to workers' compensation claims involving emergency responders with acute stress disorder or post-traumatic stress disorder."
description: "relative to workers' compensation claims involving emergency responders with acute stress disorder or post-traumatic stress disorder."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nh"
legislature: "New Hampshire General Court"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 28"
citation: "New Hampshire SB 28 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Regina Birdsell"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 12
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-07"
last_action: "2025-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/220cb0c0-63ec-4e14-9196-855cffb24022"
source_url: "https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/bill_docket.aspx?lsr=0353&sy=2025&sortoption=&txtsessionyear=2025"
source_hash: "8d40faf84704cca7c27680757f4fa3c5d9f8947efd2da74bdde2995394371c29"
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 28 (2025) — relative to workers' compensation claims involving emergency responders with acute stress disorder or post-traumatic stress disorder.

## Version chain

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


## Sponsors

- Regina Birdsell — primary (person)
- Bill M. Gannon — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Long — cosponsor (person)
- Stephen C. Pearson — cosponsor (person)
- Suzanne M. Prentiss — cosponsor (person)
- Timothy A. Soucy — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-07** Introduced 01/08/2025 and Referred to Executive Departments and Administration; SJ 2 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-09** Hearing: 01/15/2025, Room 103, SH, 10:00 am; SC 5
- **2025-01-15** Committee Report: Ought to Pass, 01/30/2025; Vote 5-0; CC; SC 7 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-01-30** Ought to Pass: MA, VV; OT3rdg; 01/30/2025; SJ 4 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2025-03-28** Introduced (in recess of) 03/27/2025 and referred to Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services HJ 11 P. 109 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** Executive Session: 04/08/2025 02:00 pm LOB 307
- **2025-03-31** Public Hearing: 04/08/2025 09:30 am LOB 307
- **2025-04-17** Committee Report: Ought to Pass 04/08/2025 (Vote 18-0; CC) HC 22 P. 10 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-01** Ought to Pass: MA VV 05/01/2025 HJ 13 P. 7 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2025-06-03** Enrolled (in recess of) 05/22/2025 HJ 15 P. 53
- **2025-06-03** Enrolled Adopted, VV, (In recess 05/22/2025); SJ 15 `enrolled`
- **2025-06-11** Signed by the Governor on 06/10/2025; Chapter 0081; Effective 08/09/2025 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/220cb0c0-63ec-4e14-9196-855cffb24022`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Hampshire legislature records).