NH HB 1279

enacted

relative to the use of physical force in defense of a person.

New Hampshire · 2026 Regular Session · lower

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Quick answers

Did NH HB 1279 pass?

Yes. NH HB 1279 has been enacted into law. Latest recorded action (2026-07-20): Signed by Governor Ayotte 07/15/2026; Chapter 323; eff.01/01/2027

What is NH HB 1279 about?

NH HB 1279 is a bill in the 2026 Regular Session titled “relative to the use of physical force in defense of a person.”.

Who sponsors NH HB 1279?

Yury Polozov is the primary sponsor of NH HB 1279, joined by 17 cosponsors.

Introduced: 2025-12-01
Latest action: 2026-07-20 — Signed by Governor Ayotte 07/15/2026; Chapter 323; eff.01/01/2027
Bill type: bill
Last updated: —

Committees

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Action timeline

Newest first

2026-07-20
Signed by Governor Ayotte 07/15/2026; Chapter 323; eff.01/01/2027
2026-07-06
Enrolled Adopted, VV, (In recess 06/04/2026); SJ 15
enrolled
2026-07-06
Enrolled (in recess of) 06/04/2026 HJ 15
2026-07-06
Enrolled (in recess of) 06/04/2026 HJ 15 P. 56
2026-06-23
Enrolled Bill Amendment # 2026-2186e: AA VV (in recess of) 06/04/2026 HJ 15
2026-06-23
Enrolled Bill Amendment # 2026-2186e: AA VV (in recess of) 06/04/2026 HJ 15 P. 52
2026-06-23
Enrolled Bill Amendment # 2026-2186e Adopted, VV, (In recess of 06/04/2026); SJ 14
amendment-passage
2026-06-04
Removed from Consent (Reps. Selig, Harriott-Gathright, Newell, R. Newman, Schultz, Parshall, Lane, Weber, Horrigan, Vail) 06/04/2026 HJ 14
2026-06-04
Removed from Consent (Reps. Selig, Harriott-Gathright, Newell, R. Newman, Schultz, Parshall, Lane, Weber, Horrigan, Vail) 06/04/2026 HJ 15 P. 12
2026-06-04
Conference Committee Report 2026-2115c: Adopted, RC 208-140 06/04/2026 HJ 15
2026-06-04
Conference Committee Report 2026-2115c: Adopted, RC 208-140 06/04/2026 HJ 15 P. 19
2026-05-29
Conference Committee Report # 2026-2115c, Adopted, VV; 06/04/2026; SJ 14
2026-05-28
Conference Committee Report Filed, # 2026-2115c; 06/04/2026
2026-05-28
Conferee Change: Rep. S. Smith Replaces Rep. Proulx 05/28/2026 HJ 14
2026-05-28
Conferee Change: Rep. S. Smith Replaces Rep. Proulx 05/28/2026 HJ 14 P. 36
2026-05-28
Conference Committee Meeting: 05/28/2026 10:30 am GP 231
2026-05-27
Conferee Change; Senator Perkins Kwoka Replaces Senator Prentiss; SJ 14
2026-05-27
Conferee Change; Senator Abbas Replaces Senator Gannon; SJ 14
2026-05-27
Conference Committee Meeting: 05/27/2026 11:30 am GP 234
2026-05-21
President Appoints: Senators Gannon, Rochefort, Prentiss; (In Recess 05/14/2026); SJ 13
2026-05-21
Sen. Gray Accedes to House Request for Committee of Conference, MA, VV; (In recess 05/14/2026); SJ 13
2026-05-20
Speaker Appoints: Reps. Roy, Rhodes, Proulx, Kofalt 05/14/2026 HJ 13
2026-05-20
Speaker Appoints: Reps. Roy, Rhodes, Proulx, Kofalt 05/14/2026 HJ 13 P. 152
2026-05-20
House Non-Concurs with Senate Amendment 2026-1545s and 2026-1944s and Requests CofC (Rep. Roy): MA VV 05/14/2026 HJ 13
2026-05-20
House Non-Concurs with Senate Amendment 2026-1545s and 2026-1944s and Requests CofC (Rep. Roy): MA VV 05/14/2026 HJ 13 P. 152
2026-05-14
Ought to Pass with Amendments #2026-1545s and #2026-1944s, MA, VV; OT3rdg; 05/14/2026; SJ 12
committee-passage-favorable,passage
2026-05-14
Sen. Prentiss Floor Amendment # 2026-1944s, AA, VV; 05/14/2026; SJ 12
2026-05-14
Committee Amendment # 2026-1545s, AA, VV; 05/14/2026; SJ 12
2026-05-14
HB 1279 was Removed from the Consent Calendar; 05/14/2026; SJ 12
2026-04-20
Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2026-1545s, 05/14/2026; Vote 4-1; CC; SC 18
committee-passage-favorable
2026-04-01
Hearing: 04/09/2026, Room 100, SH, 01:00 pm; SC 13
2026-03-17
Introduced 03/12/2026 and Referred to Judiciary; SJ 7
introduction,referral-committee
2026-03-11
Ought to Pass: MA DV 183-144 03/11/2026 HJ 7 P. 78
committee-passage-favorable,passage
2026-03-02
Minority Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate
2026-03-02
Majority Committee Report: Ought to Pass 02/13/2026 (Vote 7-6; RC) HC 10 P. 33
committee-passage-favorable
2026-03-02
Executive Session: 02/13/2026 03:30 pm GP 159
2026-01-21
Public Hearing: 01/29/2026 03:30 pm GP 159
2025-12-01
Introduced 01/07/2026 and referred to Criminal Justice and Public Safety HJ 1 P. 13
introduction,referral-committee

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Votes

Adopt CofC Report
2026-06-04 · pass · 208-140
Member-level votes (387)
- Phyllis M Katsakiores: yes
- Mary Jane Wallner: no
- John B. Hunt: yes
- Janet G Wall: no
- Wayne M. Burton: no
- Gary R Gilmore: no
- Kenneth L Weyler: yes
- Gary L. Daniels: yes
- Sherman A. Packard: other
- John J Sytek: yes
- John R Cloutier: no
- James R MacKay: other
- Susan W Almy: no
- Joseph A. Guthrie: yes
- Peter R Leishman: yes
- Marjorie K. Smith: other
- Michael D Harrington: yes
- Charles E McMahon: yes
- Maureen C. Mooney: other
- Peter B Schmidt: no
- Ralph G Boehm: yes
- Jordan G. Ulery: yes
- Thomas L Buco: other
- Jean L. Jeudy: no
- Lucy McVitty Weber: no
- Debra L DeSimone: yes
- Larry G Gagne: yes
- Timothy O. Horrigan: no
- Rick M Ladd: yes
- Carol M McGuire: yes
- Timothy A. Soucy: no
- Susan C DeLemus: yes
- Jack B. Flanagan: other
- Gregory G. Hill: yes
- David C Lundgren: yes
- Dan McGuire: yes
- Jeanine M Notter: yes
- Bill H Ohm: yes
- Mark L Proulx: yes
- Brian Seaworth: yes
- Steven D Smith: yes
- Marc D Tremblay: yes
- Mark Warden: yes
- Dick Ames: no
- Paul S. Berch: no
- Peter W Bixby: no
- Efstathia S Booras: no
- Michael D Cahill: no
- Karel A. Crawford: yes
- Linda A. DiSilvestro: no
- Karen E Ebel: no
- Linda C Harriott-Gathright: no
- Martin L. Jack: yes
- Aboul B Khan: yes
- Dennis J Malloy: no
- David E Milz: yes
- Chris Muns: other
- Skip A. Rollins: yes
- Thomas C Schamberg: no
- Joe Sweeney: yes
- George E Sykes: no
- Thomas C Walsh: yes
- Gerald W.R. Ward: no
- Glen C Aldrich: yes
- Keith Michael Ammon: yes
- Lino M Avellani: yes
- Russell Dumais: other
- Thomas L Kaczynski: yes
- Mark McLean: yes
- Jason M. Osborne: yes
- John Michael Potucek: yes
- Katherine J. Prudhomme-O'Brien: yes
- Kimberly A Rice: yes
- James A Spillane: yes
- Douglas W. Thomas: yes
- Len P Turcotte: yes
- Peter R. Varney: other
- Michael Vose: yes
- Patricia Cornell: no
- Linda R Gould: yes
- Christopher J. Herbert: other
- David J. Luneau: no
- Alexis H Simpson: no
- Thomas L Southworth: no
- Michael A Edgar: yes
- Michael I Moffett: yes
- Barry Faulkner: no
- Barbara Comtois: yes
- Jim L Fedolfi: yes
- Gerald Griffin: yes
- Lisa M Freeman: yes
- Richard W. Lascelles: yes
- Kevin J Scully: yes
- Andrew J. Prout: yes
- John A Leavitt: other
- Kevin G. Verville: yes
- Jess Edwards: yes
- Richard P Tripp: other
- John C Janigian: yes
- Cathryn A Harvey: other
- Mark S MacKenzie: yes
- Sue A Newman: no
- Catherine M Sofikitis: other
- Beth S. Richards: other
- Ellen D Read: other
- Julie D Gilman: no
- Kate Rushford Murray: no
- Mark A Pearson: other
- Kris Schultz: no
- Charlie G. St. Clair: yes
- Brian M Sullivan: no
- Anita D Burroughs: no
- Stephen L Woodcock: other
- John T MacDonald: yes
- Jerry M. Stringham: yes
- Sallie D Fellows: no
- Laurel Stavis: no
- Keith Erf: yes
- Nancy A Murphy: yes
- Rosemarie Rung: yes
- Wendy Ellen N Thomas: no
- Ray E Newman: no
- Fred E Davis: other
- Laura Damphousse Telerski: no
- Matthew B. Wilhelm: no
- Connie Boyles Lane: no
- Gary L Woods: no
- Tom Dolan: yes
- David C Love: yes
- Stephen C. Pearson: other
- Mark A Vallone: other
- Robert D Harb: yes
- Charles R Melvin: yes
- Gaby M Grossman: other
- Jim V. Maggiore: no
- David James Meuse: other
- Terry W Roy: yes
- Cassandra N Levesque: no
- Judy F. Aron: yes
- Megan A Murray: no
- Kat McGhee: no
- Joe H. Alexander: yes
- Paul P Dargie: no
- Peter Petrigno: no
- Tom Ploszaj: yes
- Mike Bordes: other
- Juliet Harvey-Bolia: yes
- Douglas R. Trottier: other
- Jonathan H Smith: yes
- Chris R McAleer: no
- Dru Fox: no
- Lucius Parshall: no
- James R Qualey: yes
- Jennifer M Rhodes: yes
- Arnold G Davis: yes
- Lex Berezhny: yes
- Mary A Hakken-Phillips: no
- Russell Muirhead: no
- Jim A Kofalt: yes
- Lisa C.M. Post: yes
- Ted Gorski: yes
- Daniel T. Veilleux: no
- Vanessa L Sheehan: yes
- Diane E. Kelley: yes
- Diane Pauer: yes
- James L Creighton: yes
- Ross Berry: yes
- Louise Andrus: yes
- Tony M Caplan: no
- Jose E Cambrils: yes
- Eric B Gallager: no
- Matthew Pitaro: yes
- Stephen E. Boyd: yes
- Paul D Tudor: yes
- Erica J Layon: yes
- Julius F Soti: yes
- Bob J. Lynn: yes
- Susan J Vandecasteele: yes
- Melissa A. Litchfield: yes
- JD Bernardy: yes
- Mark Paige: other
- Glenn Bailey: yes
- Aidan Ankarberg: no
- Walter Spilsbury: yes
- Wayne D. MacDonald: yes
- Paul A Terry: yes
- Bill Boyd: yes
- Muriel C Hall: no
- Catherine A Rombeau: no
- Jodi L Nelson: yes
- Cyril Nicholas Aures: yes
- Deborah Aylward: other
- Peggy Balboni: no
- Heather P Baldwin: no
- Lorie Ball: yes
- Luz Bay: no
- Steven T Bogert: other
- Bill R Bolton: no
- Richard R Brown: yes
- Claudine R Burnham: yes
- Matthew Coker: yes
- Riché Colcombe: yes
- Travis James Corcoran: yes
- Thomas H Cormen: no
- Hope E Damon: no
- Will Darby: no
- William Dolan: other
- Tanya Donnelly: yes
- Mike Drago: yes
- Margaret M Drye: yes
- Ron C Dunn: yes
- Susan A Elberger: no
- Charles H Foote: yes
- Loren E Foxx: no
- Nicholas A Germana: no
- Merryl Gibbs: no
- Michael E Granger: yes
- Alicia C Gregg: no
- Jessica Grill: no
- Matthew S Hicks: no
- Molly C Howard: other
- Heath Howard: no
- Allan Howland: no
- Philip M Jones: no
- Louis C Juris: no
- Catherine M Kenny: yes
- Seth King: yes
- Allison Knab: no
- Katelyn T Kuttab: yes
- Jessica Finn LaMontagne: no
- Nicole M Leapley: no
- Daniel J LeClerc: yes
- Christal R Lloyd: no
- Peter Lovett: no
- Tom D Mannion: yes
- Dennis Mannion: yes
- Zoe R Manos: no
- Lisa R Mazur: yes
- Valerie E McDonnell: yes
- Alissandra Murray: no
- David J Nagel: no
- Jodi K Newell: no
- Kristin Noble: yes
- Mike Ouellet: yes
- David Paige: no
- William S Palmer: no
- Stephanie R Payeur: no
- Kristine Perez: yes
- Katy Peternel: yes
- Yury Polozov: yes
- Daniel Popovici-Muller: yes
- Susan M Porcelli: yes
- Kelley L Potenza: yes
- Heather Raymond: no
- Ned Raynolds: no
- James Leon Roesener: no
- Linda V Ryan: no
- Alvin B See: yes
- Christine Seibert: no
- Loren Selig: no
- John Sellers: yes
- Shane A Sirois: yes
- Geoffrey Smith: other
- Carry Spier: no
- Kathy Staub: no
- Jared Sullivan: no
- James Summers: other
- Trinidad Tellez: no
- Jeffrey Tenczar: yes
- Eric S Turer: no
- David E Walker: yes
- Lilli M Walsh: yes
- Jonah Orion Wheeler: yes
- Robert J Wherry: yes
- Clayton D Wood: yes
- Dick H Thackston: yes
- James W Tierney: yes
- Brian D Cole: yes
- Mike S Belcher: yes
- Marc W Plamondon: no
- David Fracht: no
- Paige Beauchemin: no
- Sean C Durkin: yes
- Erik R Johnson: no
- Jennifer Mandelbaum: other
- Michael Aron: yes
- Liz F Barbour: yes
- Joseph J Barton: yes
- Calvin Beaulier: yes
- Cindy Lynn Bennett: yes
- Dan H Bergeron: other
- Marie Louise Bjelobrk: yes
- Tracy Anne Bricchi: no
- Nicholas D. Bridle: yes
- Pam Brown: yes
- Scott R Bryer: yes
- Manoj Chourasia: no
- Suzanne L Chretien: no
- Eleana Marie Colby: no
- Erica R de Vries: no
- Denise DeDe-Poulin: yes
- Susan G DeRoy: yes
- Sayra Lynn DeVito: yes
- Ricky J Devoid: yes
- Matt Drew: yes
- Dillon J Dumont: yes
- Pierre M Dupont: yes
- Myles England: no
- Samuel G Farrington: yes
- Mary J Ford: yes
- Lily M Foss: no
- Linda Franz: yes
- Mary Ngwanda Georges: no
- Henry R Giasson: yes
- Dale R Girard: yes
- Ernesto L Gonzalez: yes
- George C Grant: yes
- James Gruber: no
- Stephanie Grund: no
- James H Guzofski: yes
- Robley Hall: yes
- Joseph Hamblen: yes
- Tim Hartnett: yes
- Karen A Hegner: no
- Wayne J Hemingway: yes
- Samantha Jacobs: no
- Sly Karasinski: yes
- Eileen S Kelly: no
- Erin Kerwin: no
- Steven Kesselring: yes
- Lee Ann Kluger: no
- Lori E Korzen: yes
- Brian H Labrie: yes
- John H Larochelle: yes
- Patrick N Long: yes
- Darrell A Louis: other
- Janet Marie Lucas: no
- Amy L Malone: no
- Tim E Mannion: other
- Sanjeev K Manohar: no
- Jay D Markell: yes
- Rita G Mattson: yes
- Donald S McFarlane: yes
- Linda McGrath: yes
- Peter L. Mehegan: yes
- Julie Miles: yes
- Seth B Miller: no
- Laurence A Miner: other
- Sheri Minor: other
- Pete Morency: yes
- Bryan Morse: other
- Mary Murphy: yes
- Denis Vincent Murphy: yes
- Brian G Nadeau: yes
- Rich M Nalevanko: yes
- James Newsom: no
- Terri O'Rorke: no
- Thomas Oppel: no
- Kathleen Paquette: yes
- Wayne Pearson: no
- Raymond C. Peeples: yes
- Raymond S Plante: yes
- Adam Joseph Presa: yes
- Sherri L Reinfurt: yes
- Ellen B Rockmore: no
- Matt R Sabourin dit Choinière: yes
- Santosh Salvi: no
- Gregory M Sargent: no
- Buzz Scherr: yes
- John Schneller: yes
- Donald Evan Selby: other
- Jeremy Slottje: yes
- Jim Snodgrass: no
- Carrie Sorensen: no
- Terry Spahr: other
- John Joseph Stone: other
- John W. Suiter: yes
- Dale Swanson: no
- Brian R. Taylor: yes
- James R Thibault: yes
- Travis J Toner: other
- Alice Wade: no
- Toni Weinstein: no
- Vicki A Wilson: yes
- Billie Butler: no
- Bobbi Boudman: yes
- David John Preece: no

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