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New Hampshire · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 317: preventing a supervisor of the checklist from verifying a person's identity without identification, even if they personally know that person.

In committee Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 317 is a bill introduced in the New Hampshire House on January 8, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: preventing a supervisor of the checklist from verifying a person's identity without identification, even if they personally know that person. Primary sponsor: Claudine Burnham (Republican). It lists 5 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (November 17, 2025): Minority Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Independent 1 · Republican 4

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Claudine BurnhamPrimary sponsorRepublicanHouseStrafford 2
Aidan AnkarbergCo-sponsorIndependentHouseStrafford 7
Sandra L PanekCo-sponsorNot applicable (committee)——
Kelley PotenzaCo-sponsorRepublicanHouseStrafford 19
Robert WherryCo-sponsorRepublicanHouseHillsborough 13
Clayton WoodCo-sponsorRepublicanHouseMerrimack 13

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Minority Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate
  2. Majority Committee Report: Ought to Pass 09/16/2025 (Vote 10-7; RC)
  3. Executive Session: 09/16/2025 10:15 am GP 158
  4. Retained in Committee
  5. Executive Session: 03/11/2025 09:00 am LOB 306-308
  6. Subcommittee Work Session: 03/07/2025 01:00 pm LOB 306-308
  7. Public Hearing: 02/18/2025 03:20 pm LOB 306-308
  8. Introduced 01/08/2025 and referred to Election Law HJ 2 P. 14

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source