---
type: "Bill"
title: "relative to the fish and game commission."
description: "relative to the fish and game commission."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nh"
legislature: "New Hampshire General Court"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 32"
citation: "New Hampshire SB 32 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Howard Pearl"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-07"
last_action: "2025-07-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d9eba680-644e-4f3b-a250-ab40ad162202"
source_url: "https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/bill_docket.aspx?lsr=0368&sy=2025&sortoption=&txtsessionyear=2025"
source_hash: "a2e219b58fb8604faf946876c300348fac709c90dd205c4c1eeb595e7e860141"
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 32 (2025) — relative to the fish and game commission.

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment #2025-2727e** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/billText.aspx?sy=2025&id=2025-2727e&txtFormat=amend)

## Sponsors

- Howard Pearl — primary (person)
- Daniel E. Innis — cosponsor (person)
- David Rochefort — cosponsor (person)
- Kevin A. Avard — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Birdsell — cosponsor (person)
- Tara Reardon — cosponsor (person)
- Timothy Lang — 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, 09:00 am; SC 5
- **2025-01-16** Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2025-0014s, 01/30/2025; Vote 5-0; CC; SC 7 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-01-30** Ought to Pass with Amendment #2025-0014s, MA, VV; OT3rdg; 01/30/2025; SJ 4 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2025-01-30** Committee Amendment # 2025-0014s, AA, VV; 01/30/2025; SJ 4
- **2025-03-28** Introduced (in recess of) 03/27/2025 and referred to Fish and Game and Marine Resources HJ 11 P. 109 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** Public Hearing: 04/23/2025 10:20 am LOB 307
- **2025-04-25** Executive Session: 04/23/2025 10:20 am LOB 307
- **2025-04-25** Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2025-1720h 04/23/2025 (Vote 12-0; CC) `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-08** Amendment # 2025-1720h: AA VV 05/08/2025 HJ 14 P. 5
- **2025-05-08** Ought to Pass with Amendment 2025-1720h: MA VV 05/08/2025 HJ 14 P. 5 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2025-05-15** Sen. Pearl Moved to Concur with the House Amendment, MA, VV; 05/15/2025; SJ 13
- **2025-06-16** Enrolled Bill Amendment # 2025-2727e: AA VV (in recess of) 06/12/2025 HJ 17
- **2025-06-16** Enrolled Bill Amendment # 2025-2727e Adopted, VV, (In recess of 06/12/2025); SJ 17 `amendment-passage`
- **2025-06-30** Enrolled Adopted, VV, (In recess 06/26/2025); SJ 18 `enrolled`
- **2025-06-30** Enrolled (in recess of) 06/26/2025 HJ 18 P. 58
- **2025-07-22** Signed by the Governor on 07/15/2025; Chapter 0215; Effective 09/13/2025 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d9eba680-644e-4f3b-a250-ab40ad162202`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Hampshire legislature records).