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New Hampshire · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 53: permitting qualifying patients and designated caregivers to cultivate cannabis for therapeutic use.

Did not advance Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted
  6. Did not advance

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 53 is a bill introduced in the New Hampshire House on December 23, 2024. According to its official title, it concerns: permitting qualifying patients and designated caregivers to cultivate cannabis for therapeutic use. Primary sponsor: Wendy Ellen N Thomas. It lists 2 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (November 3, 2025): Inexpedient to Legislate, Senate Rule 3-23, 10/31/2025; SJ 1.

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): Democratic 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Wendy Ellen N ThomasPrimary sponsorNot applicable (committee)——
Heath HowardCo-sponsorDemocraticHouseStrafford 4
Jim A KofaltCo-sponsorNot applicable (committee)——

“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. Inexpedient to Legislate, Senate Rule 3-23, 10/31/2025; SJ 1
  2. No Pending Motion; 04/17/2025 SJ 10
  3. Sen. Abbas Moved Laid on Table, RC 16Y-8N, MA; 04/17/2025; SJ 10
  4. Inexpedient to Legislate, RC 12Y-12N, MF; 04/17/2025; SJ 10
  5. Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate, 04/17/2025, Vote 3-1; SC 17
  6. Hearing: 03/25/2025, Room 100, SH, 01:15 pm; SC 14
  7. Introduced 03/06/2025 and Referred to Judiciary; SJ 7
  8. Ought to Pass with Amendment 2025-0272h: MA RC 328-42 02/20/2025 HJ 6 P. 42
  9. Amendment # 2025-0272h: AA VV 02/20/2025 HJ 6 P. 42
  10. Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2025-0272h 02/05/2025 (Vote 13-4; RC) HC 12 P. 18
  11. Executive Session: 01/22/2025 10:15 am LOB 201
  12. Public Hearing: 01/22/2025 10:15 am LOB 201

Showing 12 most recent of 13 actions. Full history

Sources

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