---
type: "Bill"
title: "relative to the impaired driver care management program and recovery residences."
description: "relative to the impaired driver care management program and recovery residences."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nh"
legislature: "New Hampshire General Court"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 143"
citation: "New Hampshire SB 143 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Suzanne M. Prentiss"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-22"
last_action: "2025-07-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c7a19a90-09bd-45a0-971a-503532091803"
source_url: "https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/bill_docket.aspx?lsr=1085&sy=2025&sortoption=&txtsessionyear=2025"
source_hash: "1597cfd09a932b8f357644bfc2c38025a5ca54363332f4ba787ebc50cd707b31"
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 143 (2025) — relative to the impaired driver care management program and recovery residences.

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment #2025-0739s** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/billText.aspx?sy=2025&id=2025-0739s&txtFormat=amend)

## Sponsors

- Suzanne M. Prentiss — primary (person)
- Cindy Rosenwald — cosponsor (person)
- David H. Watters — cosponsor (person)
- Debra Altschiller — cosponsor (person)
- Denise Ricciardi — cosponsor (person)
- Donovan Fenton — cosponsor (person)
- George E Sykes — cosponsor (person)
- Mark L Proulx — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Long — cosponsor (person)
- Rebecca Perkins Kwoka — cosponsor (person)
- Tara Reardon — cosponsor (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`
- **2025-01-23** Hearing: 01/28/2025, Room 100, SH, 01:45 pm; SC 7
- **2025-02-26** Hearing: 03/04/2025, Room 100, SH, 01:20 pm, on proposed amendment # 2025-0137ss; SC 11
- **2025-03-07** Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2025-0739s, 03/13/2025; Vote 4-0; CC; SC 12 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-13** Committee Amendment # 2025-0739s, AA, VV; 03/13/2025; SJ 7
- **2025-03-13** Ought to Pass with Amendment #2025-0739s, MA, VV; OT3rdg; 03/13/2025; SJ 7 `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: 04/11/2025 10:00 am LOB 202-204
- **2025-04-14** ==RECESSED== 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
- **2025-05-15** Committee Report: Ought to Pass 04/23/2025 (Vote 16-0; CC) HC 27 P. 9 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-05** Ought to Pass: MA VV 06/05/2025 HJ 16 P. 11 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2025-07-03** Enrolled Adopted, VV, (In recess 06/26/2025); SJ 18 `enrolled`
- **2025-07-07** Enrolled (in recess of) 06/26/2025 HJ 18 P. 59
- **2025-07-22** Signed by the Governor on 07/15/2025; Chapter 0235; 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/c7a19a90-09bd-45a0-971a-503532091803`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Hampshire legislature records).