Bill Commons

NH HB 1737

dead

relative to reinstating the death penalty for certain offenses against minors under 13 years of age.

New Hampshire · 2026 Regular Session · lower

Follow this bill’s action updates (Atom)

Subscribe in a feed reader. The feed covers recorded actions from the last 30 days; Bill Commons may record an action after it happened at the legislature.

Quick answers

Did NH HB 1737 pass?

No. NH HB 1737 did not pass — it was defeated or died in the legislative process. Latest recorded action (2026-02-19): Inexpedient to Legislate: MA VV 02/19/2026 HJ 5 P. 10

What is NH HB 1737 about?

NH HB 1737 is a bill in the 2026 Regular Session titled “relative to reinstating the death penalty for certain offenses against minors under 13 years of age.”.

Who sponsors NH HB 1737?

Mike S Belcher, Mike Belcher are the primary sponsors of NH HB 1737, joined by 5 cosponsors.

Introduced
2025-12-17
Latest action
2026-02-19 — Inexpedient to Legislate: MA VV 02/19/2026 HJ 5 P. 10
Bill type
bill
Last updated
—

Sponsors

  • Mike S Belcherprimary
  • Mike Belcherprimary
  • Kristine Perezcosponsor
  • Shane Siroiscosponsor
  • Paul Terrycosponsor
  • Paul A Terrycosponsor
  • Shane A Siroiscosponsor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

Newest first

  1. 2026-02-19

    Inexpedient to Legislate: MA VV 02/19/2026 HJ 5 P. 10

    failure

  2. 2026-02-10

    Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate 02/04/2026 (Vote 13-0; CC) HC 7 P. 8

    committee-failure

  3. 2026-01-28

    Executive Session: 02/04/2026 10:00 am GP 159

  4. 2026-01-15

    ==CONTINUED== Public Hearing: 01/23/2026 01:00 pm GP 159

  5. 2026-01-08

    ==RECESSED== Public Hearing: 01/14/2026 03:30 pm GP 159

  6. 2025-12-17

    Introduced 01/07/2026 and referred to Criminal Justice and Public Safety HJ 1 P. 33

    introduction,referral-committee

Versions

Documents

Votes

Not provided by source.

Related bills

No related bills recorded for this bill.

Official source

https://gc.nh.gov/bill_Status/billinfo.aspx?id=1562&inflect=2

Attribution

Data from openstates_api_sync, retrieved 2026-09-29T18:48:30.646570Z

Inspect retained evidence for changes recorded after evidence tracking began:

Source and document changesStatus and relationship changes

Session-wide evidence can include changes to other bills:

Bulk imports for this sessionSession dates and activity

Use this data

Every field on this page is available from the free public API — no key or licence required. Fetch this bill as JSON: GET /api/v1/bills?jurisdiction=NH&identifier=HB 1737. See the API docs or the MCP server for AI assistants.

Known limitations

  • Sponsor party and chamber affiliation are not yet captured by this API.
  • Committee referrals are not yet captured.

See the methodology page for data sources and limitations.