---
type: "Bill"
title: "establishing a foster care oversight subcommittee within the oversight commission on children's services."
description: "establishing a foster care oversight subcommittee within the oversight commission on children's services."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nh"
legislature: "New Hampshire General Court"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 478"
citation: "New Hampshire HB 478 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Peter Petrigno"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-13"
last_action: "2025-05-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fb68d42e-731f-4ddd-a14e-d0fb24fc1988"
source_url: "https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/bill_docket.aspx?lsr=0765&sy=2025&sortoption=&txtsessionyear=2025"
source_hash: "055dc13c56f207600a73497bab1f01bf624e1bfadc1b205527a3d3c1cec70fd0"
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 478 (2025) — establishing a foster care oversight subcommittee within the oversight commission on children's services.

## Version chain

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


## Sponsors

- Peter Petrigno — primary (person)
- Alicia C Gregg — cosponsor (person)
- Cassandra N Levesque — cosponsor (person)
- Debra Altschiller — cosponsor (person)
- Debra L DeSimone — cosponsor (person)
- Gaby M Grossman — cosponsor (person)
- Mark A Pearson — cosponsor (person)
- Nancy A Murphy — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Long — 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 Children and Family Law HJ 3 P. 12 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-15** Public Hearing: 01/28/2025 01:00 pm LOB 206-208
- **2025-01-29** Executive Session: 01/28/2025 01:00 pm LOB 206-208
- **2025-01-29** Committee Report: Ought to Pass 01/28/2025 (Vote 15-0; CC) HC 10 P. 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-06** Ought to Pass: MA VV 02/06/2025 HJ 4 P. 4 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2025-03-11** 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, 10:10 am; SC 15
- **2025-04-08** Committee Report: Ought to Pass, 04/17/2025; Vote 3-0; CC; SC 17 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-17** HB 478 was Removed from the Consent Calendar; 04/17/2025; SJ 10
- **2025-04-17** Ought to Pass: MA, VV; OT3rdg; 04/17/2025; SJ 10 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2025-05-06** Enrolled (in recess of) 05/01/2025 HJ 13 P. 31
- **2025-05-06** Enrolled Adopted, VV, (In recess 05/01/2025); SJ 12 `enrolled`
- **2025-05-21** Signed by Governor Ayotte 05/14/2025; Chapter 31; eff.07/13/2025 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fb68d42e-731f-4ddd-a14e-d0fb24fc1988`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Hampshire legislature records).