---
type: "Bill"
title: "relative to expanded safe haven protections."
description: "relative to expanded safe haven protections."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nh"
legislature: "New Hampshire General Court"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 1607"
citation: "New Hampshire HB 1607 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Glenn Cordelli"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 21
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2023-12-15"
last_action: "2024-07-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bd777cd6-f995-4239-8f6f-2d7dc1f98ead"
source_url: "https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/bill_status.aspx?lsr=2399&sy=2024&sortoption=&txtsessionyear=2024"
source_hash: "cef0b4c62df6be5da8b28af585cf13b76c14d35f460359b4da80ce9a242ca03a"
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 1607 (2024) — relative to expanded safe haven protections.

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment #2024-1965s** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/billText.aspx?sy=2024&id=2024-1965s&txtFormat=amend)
2. **latest version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/billText.aspx?sy=2024&id=1486&txtFormat=html)

## Votes

- Committee Amendment — **14–10** (pass) · upper
- Section 5 OTPA — **185–188** (fail) · lower
- Concur — **185–174** (pass) · lower
- Interim Study — **182–189** (fail) · lower
- Section 1-4 and 6 OTPA — **372–1** (pass) · lower
- Table — **183–187** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Glenn Cordelli — primary (person)
- Candace Gibbons — cosponsor (person)
- Dianne E. Schuett — cosponsor (person)
- Gerri D. Cannon — cosponsor (person)
- Jeb Bradley — cosponsor (person)
- Jodi L Nelson — cosponsor (person)
- Jonah O Wheeler — cosponsor (person)
- Katy Peternel — cosponsor (person)
- Mark A. Pearson — cosponsor (person)
- Matthew Coker — cosponsor (person)
- Maureen C. Mooney — cosponsor (person)
- Regina Birdsell — cosponsor (person)
- Sharon M. Carson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-12-15** Introduced 01/03/2024 and referred to Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs HJ 1 P. 26 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-25** Public Hearing: 02/07/2024 02:45 pm LOB 206-208
- **2024-02-28** ==RECESSED== Executive Session: 03/06/2024 10:00 am LOB 203
- **2024-03-07** Executive Session: 03/20/2024 09:30 am LOB 203
- **2024-03-20** Majority Committee Report: Refer for Interim Study 03/20/2024 (Vote 19-1; RC) HC 12 P. 33
- **2024-03-20** Minority Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2024-1220 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-28** Lay HB1607 on Table (Rep. Weber): MF RC 183-187 03/28/2024 HJ 10 P. 174 `deferral`
- **2024-03-28** Refer for Interim Study: MF RC 182-189 03/28/2024 HJ 10 P. 176
- **2024-03-28** FLAM # 2024-1351h (Reps. Cordelli, Peternel): AA VV 03/28/2024 HJ 10 P. 178
- **2024-03-28** Divide Section 5 (Rep. Hoell): MA DV 289-82 03/28/2024 HJ 10 P. 180
- **2024-03-28** Divide Section 1-4 and 6 (Rep. Hoell): MA RC 372-1 03/28/2024 HJ 10 P. 180
- **2024-03-28** Divide Section 5 (Rep. Hoell): MF RC 185-188 03/28/2024 HJ 10 P. 184
- **2024-04-02** Introduced 03/21/2024 and Referred to Judiciary; SJ 8 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-24** Hearing: 04/30/2024, Room 100, SH, 02:00 pm; SC 17
- **2024-05-15** Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2024-1965s, 05/22/2024, Vote 3-2; SC 20 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-22** Committee Amendment # 2024-1965s, RC 14Y-10N, AA; 05/22/2024; SJ 14
- **2024-05-22** Ought to Pass with Amendment 2024-1965s, MA, VV; OT3rdg; 05/22/2024; SJ 14 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2024-05-31** House Concurs with Senate Amendment 2024-1965s (Rep. W. MacDonald): MA RC 185-174 05/30/2024 HJ 15 P. 17
- **2024-07-11** Enrolled Adopted, VV, (In recess 06/13/2024); SJ 18 `enrolled`
- **2024-07-15** Enrolled (in recess of) 06/13/2024 HJ 16 P. 51
- **2024-07-30** Signed by Governor Sununu 07/26/2024; Chapter 272; eff. 09/24/2024 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bd777cd6-f995-4239-8f6f-2d7dc1f98ead`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Hampshire legislature records).