---
type: "Bill"
title: "establishing a domestic violence fatality review committee."
description: "establishing a domestic violence fatality review committee."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nh"
legislature: "New Hampshire General Court"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 140"
citation: "New Hampshire SB 140 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Regina Birdsell"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-22"
last_action: "2025-07-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/80c86d19-2cd8-42ab-92b6-e27cad11ec88"
source_url: "https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/bill_docket.aspx?lsr=0995&sy=2025&sortoption=&txtsessionyear=2025"
source_hash: "b7d7a04a36cffeb9a2ef280147164b618ba31749d6f34431191a2cdcc750d8a2"
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 SB 140 (2025) — establishing a domestic violence fatality review committee.

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment #2025-2721e** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/billText.aspx?sy=2025&id=2025-2721e&txtFormat=amend)

## Sponsors

- Regina Birdsell — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-22** Introduced 01/09/2025 and Referred to Judiciary; SJ 3 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-05** ==CANCELLED== Hearing: 02/06/2025, Room 100, SH, 01:30 pm; SC 8
- **2025-02-05** Hearing: 02/11/2025, Room 100, SH, 01:30 pm; SC 9
- **2025-02-12** Committee Report: Ought to Pass, 03/06/2025; Vote 4-0; CC; SC 11 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-06** Ought to Pass: MA, VV; OT3rdg; 03/06/2025; SJ 6 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2025-03-28** Introduced (in recess of) 03/27/2025 and referred to Criminal Justice and Public Safety HJ 11 P. 111 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01** Public Hearing: 04/09/2025 02:30 pm LOB 202-204
- **2025-04-14** Executive Session: 04/23/2025 11:00 am LOB 202-204
- **2025-04-14** ==CANCELLED== Executive Session: 04/25/2025 10:00 am LOB 202-204
- **2025-05-01** Committee Report: Ought to Pass 04/23/2025 (Vote 16-0; CC) HC 23 P. 7 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-08** Ought to Pass: MA VV 05/08/2025 HJ 14 P. 4 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2025-06-16** Enrolled Bill Amendment # 2025-2721e: AA VV (in recess of) 06/12/2025 HJ 17
- **2025-06-16** Enrolled Bill Amendment # 2025-2721e Adopted, VV, (In recess of 06/12/2025); SJ 17 `amendment-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 the Governor on 07/15/2025; Chapter 0234; Effective 07/15/2025 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/80c86d19-2cd8-42ab-92b6-e27cad11ec88`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Hampshire legislature records).