---
type: "Bill"
title: "prohibiting discharge of volunteer firefighters or volunteer emergency medical technicians from other employment."
description: "prohibiting discharge of volunteer firefighters or volunteer emergency medical technicians from other employment."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nh"
legislature: "New Hampshire General Court"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 182"
citation: "New Hampshire HB 182 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dan H. Wolf"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-01-03"
last_action: "2024-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/534057cf-8627-4a0c-a5fc-7581e559fdf3"
source_url: "https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/bill_status.aspx?lsr=0389&sy=2024&sortoption=&txtsessionyear=2024"
source_hash: "23703f56840519ef6855d0fcfe18e4012568bc402bde89fed087b8282ccab19a"
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 182 (2024) — prohibiting discharge of volunteer firefighters or volunteer emergency medical technicians from other employment.

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment #2023-2404h** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/billText.aspx?sy=2024&id=2023-2404h&txtFormat=amend)

## Sponsors

- Dan H. Wolf — primary (person)
- Bill Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Hope Damon — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Bordes — cosponsor (person)
- Suzanne M. Prentiss — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-03** Introduced 01/04/2023 and referred to Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-01-11** Public Hearing: 01/26/2023 10:00 am LOB 305-307
- **2023-02-09** Executive Session: 02/16/2023 11:00 am LOB 307
- **2023-03-03** Executive Session: 03/15/2023 02:30 pm LOB 305-307
- **2023-03-16** Retained in Committee
- **2023-06-07** Full Committee Work Session: 06/23/2023 11:00 am LOB 305-307
- **2023-10-16** ==CANCELLED== Executive Session: 10/24/2023 02:00 pm LOB 302-304
- **2023-10-24** Executive Session: 11/02/2023 02:00 pm LOB 301-303 HC 43
- **2023-11-17** Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2023-2404 11/02/2023 (Vote 19-1; CC) HC 49 P. 17 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-03** Amendment # 2023-2404h: AA VV 01/03/2024 HJ 1 P. 61
- **2024-01-03** Ought to Pass with Amendment 2023-2404h: MA VV 01/03/2024 HJ 1 P. 61 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2024-02-16** Introduced 02/15/2024 and Referred to Commerce; SJ 5 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-19** Hearing: 03/26/2024, Room 100, SH, 10:45 am; SC 12
- **2024-04-24** Committee Report: Ought to Pass, 05/02/2024; Vote 5-0; CC; SC 17 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-26** Ought to Pass: MA, VV; OT3rdg; 05/02/2024; SJ 11 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2024-05-30** Enrolled Adopted, VV, (In recess 05/23/2024); SJ 15 `enrolled`
- **2024-05-30** Enrolled 05/30/2024 HJ 15 P. 10
- **2024-06-20** Signed by Governor Sununu 06/14/2024; Chapter 45; eff. 8/13/2024 HJ 16 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/534057cf-8627-4a0c-a5fc-7581e559fdf3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Hampshire legislature records).