---
type: "Bill"
title: "relative to restoration of competency to stand trial for criminal defendants."
description: "relative to restoration of competency to stand trial for criminal defendants."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nh"
legislature: "New Hampshire General Court"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 480"
citation: "New Hampshire HB 480 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mark A Pearson"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-13"
last_action: "2026-02-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a0ff956b-45db-44d9-9d30-a92b979dc1a5"
source_url: "https://gc.nh.gov/bill_Status/advanced.aspx"
source_hash: "2f437eb9d74b80b32b0a7d07f7aabda90413d9c61269c7b9f2e8ecd1ee165971"
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 HB 480 (2026) — relative to restoration of competency to stand trial for criminal defendants.

## Version chain

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


## Sponsors

- Mark A Pearson — primary (person)
- Alicia C Gregg — cosponsor (person)
- Bill M. Gannon — cosponsor (person)
- Bob J. Lynn — cosponsor (person)
- Donovan Fenton — cosponsor (person)
- Eric S Turer — cosponsor (person)
- Jennifer M Rhodes — cosponsor (person)
- Katelyn T Kuttab — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Long — cosponsor (person)
- Terry W Roy — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-13** Introduced (in recess of) 01/09/2025 and referred to Judiciary HJ 3 P. 12 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-15** Public Hearing: 01/29/2025 11:30 am LOB 206-208
- **2025-02-04** Executive Session: 01/29/2025 11:30 am LOB 206-208
- **2025-02-04** Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2025-0061h 02/03/2025 (Vote 10-1; CC) HC 11 P. 7 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-13** Amendment # 2025-0061h: AA VV 02/13/2025 HJ 5 P. 11
- **2025-02-13** Ought to Pass with Amendment 2025-0061h: MA VV 02/13/2025 HJ 5 P. 11 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2025-03-11** Introduced 03/06/2025 and Referred to Judiciary; SJ 7 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-12** Hearing: 05/15/2025, Room 100, SH, 01:10 pm; SC 21
- **2025-05-15** Committee Report: Rereferred to Committee, 05/22/2025, Vote 3-0; SC 22
- **2025-05-22** Rereferred to Committee, MA, VV; 05/22/2025; SJ 14 `referral-committee`
- **2025-11-07** Committee Report: Ought to Pass, 01/07/2026; Vote 5-0; CC; SC 46 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-01-07** Ought to Pass: MA, VV; OT3rdg; 01/07/2026; SJ 1 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2026-01-21** Enrolled Adopted, VV, (In recess 01/07/2026); SJ 2 `enrolled`
- **2026-01-27** Enrolled (in recess of) 01/08/2026 HJ 3
- **2026-02-10** Signed by Governor Ayotte 02/06/2026; Chapter 1; eff. 02/06/2026 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a0ff956b-45db-44d9-9d30-a92b979dc1a5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Hampshire legislature records).