New Hampshire · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 473: criminalizing multiple forms of exposing children to controlled substances and allowing law enforcement to take a child into protective custody for screening and testing in an instance of suspected or actual criminal exposure to controlled substances.

Enacted Last action July 22, 2025: Signed by Governor Ayotte 07/15/2025; Chapter 189; eff.01/01/2026 HJ 18

Plain-language summary

HB 473 is a bill introduced in the New Hampshire House on January 13, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: criminalizing multiple forms of exposing children to controlled substances and allowing law enforcement to take a child into protective custody for screening and testing in an instance of suspected or actual criminal exposure to controlled substances. Primary sponsor: Jodi Nelson (Republican). It lists 12 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (July 22, 2025): Signed by Governor Ayotte 07/15/2025; Chapter 189; eff.01/01/2026 HJ 18.

Sponsors

Primary sponsor: Jodi Nelson (Republican). 12 co-sponsors.