---
type: "Bill"
title: "relative to enforcement of marital property settlements."
description: "relative to enforcement of marital property settlements."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nh"
legislature: "New Hampshire General Court"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 320"
citation: "New Hampshire HB 320 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jay D Markell"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 12
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-08"
last_action: "2025-07-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/578a72d9-580c-4a61-ac56-b5d48c1723a2"
source_url: "https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/bill_docket.aspx?lsr=0383&sy=2025&sortoption=&txtsessionyear=2025"
source_hash: "2f5826236b6ed16a2f32ebac5124ae0115a81bfc7ca9fccd1857dbad349cc927"
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 320 (2025) — relative to enforcement of marital property settlements.

## Version chain

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


## Sponsors

- Jay D Markell — primary (person)
- Debra L DeSimone — cosponsor (person)
- JD Bernardy — cosponsor (person)
- Lilli M Walsh — cosponsor (person)
- Mark A Pearson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-08** Introduced 01/08/2025 and referred to Children and Family Law HJ 2 P. 15 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-21** Public Hearing: 02/04/2025 10:30 am LOB 206-208
- **2025-02-07** Executive Session: 02/18/2025 10:30 am LOB 206-208
- **2025-02-21** Committee Report: Ought to Pass 02/18/2025 (Vote 14-0; CC) HC 14 P. 3 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-06** Ought to Pass: MA VV 03/06/2025 HJ 7 P. 3 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2025-03-12** Introduced 03/06/2025 and Referred to Children and Family Law; SJ 7 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-26** Hearing: 04/03/2025, Room 103, SH, 10:00 am; SC 15
- **2025-05-12** Committee Report: Ought to Pass, 05/15/2025; Vote 3-0; CC; SC 21A `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-15** Ought to Pass: MA, VV; OT3rdg; 05/15/2025; SJ 13 `committee-passage-favorable, 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 Governor Ayotte 07/15/2025; Chapter 178; eff. 01/01/2026 HJ 18 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/578a72d9-580c-4a61-ac56-b5d48c1723a2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Hampshire legislature records).