---
type: "Bill"
title: "relative to residential property subject to housing covenants under the low income housing tax credit program."
description: "relative to residential property subject to housing covenants under the low income housing tax credit program."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nh"
legislature: "New Hampshire General Court"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 173"
citation: "New Hampshire SB 173 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Keith R. Murphy"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-23"
last_action: "2025-06-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/46fc8f5d-7b37-40f5-a311-d7067428dec3"
source_url: "https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/bill_docket.aspx?lsr=1098&sy=2025&sortoption=&txtsessionyear=2025"
source_hash: "e7db71fbb9fcd470fc1f4b7437e904a84e0cb304cccacd419b9ab41dd9031102"
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 173 (2025) — relative to residential property subject to housing covenants under the low income housing tax credit program.

## Version chain

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


## Sponsors

- Keith R. Murphy — primary (person)
- Howard Pearl — cosponsor (person)
- Jason M. Osborne — cosponsor (person)
- Joe H. Alexander — cosponsor (person)
- Rebecca Perkins Kwoka — cosponsor (person)
- Tim McGough — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-23** Introduced 01/09/2025 and Referred to Commerce; SJ 3 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-13** Hearing: 02/20/2025, Room 100, SH, 09:45 am; SC 10
- **2025-03-12** Committee Report: Ought to Pass, 03/20/2025; Vote 6-0; CC; SC 13 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-20** Ought to Pass: MA, VV; OT3rdg; 03/20/2025; SJ 8 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2025-03-28** Introduced (in recess of) 03/27/2025 and referred to Housing HJ 11 P. 112 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01** Public Hearing: 04/08/2025 10:00 am LOB 305
- **2025-04-23** ==CANCELLED== Executive Session: 05/06/2025 10:00 am LOB 305
- **2025-05-01** Executive Session: 05/01/2025 11:40 am LOB 305
- **2025-05-01** Committee Report: Ought to Pass 05/01/2025 (Vote 15-0; CC) HC 23 P. 9 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-08** Ought to Pass: MA VV 05/08/2025 HJ 14 P. 11 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2025-05-08** Referred to Ways and Means 05/08/2025 HJ 14 P. 11 `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-08** Referral Waived by Committee Chair per House Rule 47(f) 05/08/2025 HJ 14 P. 42
- **2025-06-16** Enrolled Adopted, VV, (In recess 06/12/2025); SJ 17 `enrolled`
- **2025-06-16** Enrolled (in recess of) 06/12/2025 HJ 17 P. 24
- **2025-06-24** Signed by the Governor on 06/24/2025; Chapter 0120; Effective 07/01/2025 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/46fc8f5d-7b37-40f5-a311-d7067428dec3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Hampshire legislature records).