---
type: "Bill"
title: "relative to the religious use of land property tax exemption."
description: "relative to the religious use of land property tax exemption."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nh"
legislature: "New Hampshire General Court"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 291"
citation: "New Hampshire SB 291 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Daryl Abbas"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 27
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-24"
last_action: "2025-08-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1664552b-c93c-4ea5-a724-82ebb437d33a"
source_url: "https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/bill_docket.aspx?lsr=1073&sy=2025&sortoption=&txtsessionyear=2025"
source_hash: "216592c8993be5f89b53c7dff1fb7c7f0ba30fb9e037746bc550221edc357cc8"
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 291 (2025) — relative to the religious use of land property tax exemption.

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment #2025-1925h** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/billText.aspx?sy=2025&id=2025-1925h&txtFormat=amend)

## Sponsors

- Daryl Abbas — primary (person)
- Bill M. Gannon — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel E. Innis — cosponsor (person)
- David Rochefort — cosponsor (person)
- John C Janigian — cosponsor (person)
- Kevin A. Avard — cosponsor (person)
- Mark A Pearson — cosponsor (person)
- Victoria Sullivan — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-24** Introduced 01/09/2025 and Referred to Ways and Means; SJ 3 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-05** Hearing: 02/12/2025, Room 100, SH, 09:30 am; SC 9
- **2025-03-07** Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2025-0769s, 03/13/2025; Vote 5-0; CC; SC 12 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-13** Special Order to 03/27/2025, Without Objection, MA; 03/13/2025 SJ 7
- **2025-03-20** Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2025-0769s, 03/27/2025, Vote 5-0; SC 14 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-21** SB 291 was Removed from the Consent Calendar; 03/13/2025; SJ 7
- **2025-03-27** Committee Amendment # 2025-0769s, AA, VV; 03/27/2025; SJ 9
- **2025-03-27** Ought to Pass with Amendment #2025-0769s, 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 10:00 am LOB 202-204
- **2025-04-30** Full Committee Work Session: 05/06/2025 10:00 am LOBO 202-204
- **2025-05-07** Executive Session: 05/06/2025 10:00 am LOBO 202-204
- **2025-05-07** Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2025-1925h 05/06/2025 (Vote 15-1; CC) `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-22** Amendment # 2025-1925h: AA VV 05/22/2025 HJ 15 P. 49
- **2025-05-22** Ought to Pass with Amendment 2025-1925h: MA VV 05/22/2025 HJ 15 P. 49 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2025-05-22** Removed from Consent (Reps. McGrath, Mattson, Granger, Sirois, D. Kelley, D. Murphy, Sabourin, Turcotte, Colcombe, Comtois) 05/21/2025 HJ 15 P. 4
- **2025-06-11** Sen. Lang Moved Nonconcur with the House Amendment; Requests C of C, MA, VV; (In Recess 06/05/2025); SJ 16
- **2025-06-11** President Appoints: Senators Abbas, Sullivan, Prentiss; (In Recess 06/05/2025); SJ 16
- **2025-06-11** House Accedes to Senate Request for CofC (Rep. Kofalt): MA VV 06/05/2025 HJ 16 P. 171
- **2025-06-11** Speaker Appoints: Reps. Janigian, Ulery, M. Pearson, Almy 06/05/2025 HJ 16 P. 171
- **2025-06-11** Committee of Conference Meeting: 06/16/2025, 01:00 pm, Room 100, SH
- **2025-06-18** Conference Committee Report # 2025-2773c Filed 06/18/2025; House Amendment + New Amendment HJ 17
- **2025-06-26** Conference Committee Report 2025-2773c: Adopted, VV 06/26/2025 HJ 18 P. 3
- **2025-06-24** Conference Committee Report # 2025-2773c, Adopted, VV; 06/26/2025; SJ 17
- **2025-07-16** Enrolled Adopted, VV, (In recess 06/26/2025); SJ 18 `enrolled`
- **2025-07-16** Enrolled (in recess of) 06/26/2025 HJ 18 P. 64
- **2025-08-04** Signed by the Governor on 08/01/2025; Chapter 0303; 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/1664552b-c93c-4ea5-a724-82ebb437d33a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Hampshire legislature records).