NH HB 1793

died on adjournment

prohibiting public colleges and universities from regulating the possession or carrying of certain weapons on campus and establishing a committee to study the feasibility of allowing guns on campuses of public institutions of higher education.

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 1793 pass?

No. NH HB 1793 died when the 2026 Regular Session adjourned without final action on it. Bills that die this way are sometimes reintroduced in a later session. Latest recorded action (2026-05-21): Sen. Gannon Refused to Accede to House Request for Committee of Conference, MA, VV; 05/21/2026; SJ 13

What is NH HB 1793 about?

NH HB 1793 is a bill in the 2026 Regular Session titled “prohibiting public colleges and universities from regulating the possession or carrying of certain weapons on campus and establishing a committee to study the feasibility of allowing guns on campuses of public institutions of higher education.”.

Who sponsors NH HB 1793?

Samuel G Farrington, Samuel Farrington are the primary sponsors of NH HB 1793, joined by 21 cosponsors.

Introduced: 2025-12-17
Latest action: 2026-05-21 — Sen. Gannon Refused to Accede to House Request for Committee of Conference, MA, VV; 05/21/2026; SJ 13
Bill type: bill
Last updated: —

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

Newest first

2026-05-21
Sen. Gannon Refused to Accede to House Request for Committee of Conference, MA, VV; 05/21/2026; SJ 13
2026-05-18
Speaker Appoints: Reps. Roy, Rhodes, Paquette, Osborne 05/14/2026 HJ 13
2026-05-18
Speaker Appoints: Reps. Roy, Rhodes, Paquette, Osborne 05/14/2026 HJ 13 P. 147
2026-05-18
House Non-Concurs with Senate Amendment 2026-1882s and Requests CofC (Rep. Roy): MA VV 05/14/2026 HJ 13
2026-05-18
House Non-Concurs with Senate Amendment 2026-1882s and Requests CofC (Rep. Roy): MA VV 05/14/2026 HJ 13 P. 147
2026-05-14
Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2026-1882s, RC 14Y-8N, MA; OT3rdg; 05/14/2026; SJ 12
committee-passage-favorable,passage
2026-05-14
Sen. Gannon Floor Amendment # 2026-1882s, AA, VV; 05/14/2026; SJ 12
2026-05-14
Committee Amendment # 2026-1775s, AF, VV; 05/14/2026; SJ 12
2026-05-07
Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2026-1775s, 05/14/2026, Vote 3-2; SC 18
committee-passage-favorable
2026-05-07
Special Order to 05/14/2026, Without Objection, MA; 05/07/2026 SJ 11
2026-04-30
Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2026-1775s, 05/07/2026, Vote 3-2; SC 17
committee-passage-favorable
2026-04-01
Hearing: 04/14/2026, Room 100, SH, 01:45 pm; SC 13
2026-02-09
Introduced 02/05/2026 and Referred to Judiciary; SJ 4
introduction,referral-committee
2026-02-05
Referral Waived by Committee Chair per House Rule 47(f) 02/05/2026 HJ 3 P. 57
2026-02-05
Ought to Pass: MA RC 188-165 02/05/2026 HJ 3 P. 27
committee-passage-favorable,passage
2026-02-05
Referred to Finance 02/05/2026 HJ 3 P. 29
referral-committee
2026-01-22
Minority Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate
2026-01-22
Majority Committee Report: Ought to Pass 01/14/2026 (Vote 7-6; RC) HC 5 P. 20
committee-passage-favorable
2026-01-20
Executive Session: 01/14/2026 10:00 am GP 159
2026-01-08
Public Hearing: 01/14/2026 10:00 am GP 159
2025-12-17
Introduced 01/07/2026 and referred to Criminal Justice and Public Safety HJ 1 P. 36
introduction,referral-committee

Versions

As Amended by the SenateCompare
IntroducedCompare

Documents

application/pdf(no extracted text yet)
application/pdf

Votes

OTP
2026-02-05 · pass · 188-165
Member-level votes (386)
- 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: no
- Marjorie K. Smith: no
- Michael D Harrington: yes
- Charles E McMahon: no
- Maureen C. Mooney: yes
- 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: yes
- Gregory G. Hill: other
- David C Lundgren: other
- 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: no
- Aboul B Khan: yes
- Dennis J Malloy: no
- David E Milz: yes
- Chris Muns: no
- 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: other
- Christopher J. Herbert: other
- David J. Luneau: no
- Alexis H Simpson: no
- Thomas L Southworth: no
- Michael A Edgar: no
- 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: yes
- Kevin G. Verville: other
- Jess Edwards: yes
- Richard P Tripp: yes
- John C Janigian: yes
- Cathryn A Harvey: no
- Mark S MacKenzie: no
- Sue A Newman: no
- Catherine M Sofikitis: other
- Beth S. Richards: no
- Ellen D Read: other
- Julie D Gilman: no
- Kate Rushford Murray: no
- Mark A Pearson: yes
- Kris Schultz: no
- Charlie G. St. Clair: no
- Brian M Sullivan: no
- Anita D Burroughs: no
- Stephen L Woodcock: no
- John T MacDonald: yes
- Jerry M. Stringham: no
- Sallie D Fellows: no
- Laurel Stavis: no
- Keith Erf: yes
- Nancy A Murphy: no
- Rosemarie Rung: no
- Wendy Ellen N Thomas: no
- Ray E Newman: no
- Fred E Davis: no
- 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: yes
- Mark A Vallone: other
- Robert D Harb: yes
- Charles R Melvin: no
- Gaby M Grossman: other
- Jim V. Maggiore: no
- David James Meuse: no
- 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: yes
- Juliet Harvey-Bolia: other
- 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: other
- Lex Berezhny: yes
- Mary A Hakken-Phillips: no
- Russell Muirhead: other
- Jim A Kofalt: yes
- Lisa C.M. Post: yes
- Ted Gorski: other
- 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: no
- Glenn Bailey: yes
- Aidan Ankarberg: other
- Walter Spilsbury: yes
- Wayne D. MacDonald: yes
- Paul A Terry: other
- 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: yes
- Bill R Bolton: no
- Richard R Brown: yes
- Claudine R Burnham: yes
- Matthew Coker: other
- Riché Colcombe: yes
- Travis James Corcoran: yes
- Thomas H Cormen: no
- Hope E Damon: no
- Will Darby: no
- William Dolan: no
- 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: other
- Molly C Howard: no
- 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: no
- 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: other
- David Paige: no
- William S Palmer: no
- Stephanie R Payeur: other
- Kristine Perez: yes
- Katy Peternel: yes
- Yury Polozov: yes
- Daniel Popovici-Muller: other
- 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: no
- Carry Spier: no
- Kathy Staub: no
- Jared Sullivan: no
- James Summers: yes
- Trinidad Tellez: no
- Jeffrey Tenczar: yes
- Eric S Turer: no
- David E Walker: yes
- Lilli M Walsh: yes
- Jonah Orion Wheeler: no
- 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: no
- 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: other
- 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: other
- Joseph Hamblen: yes
- Tim Hartnett: no
- Karen A Hegner: no
- Wayne J Hemingway: other
- 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: no
- Patrick N Long: no
- Darrell A Louis: yes
- Janet Marie Lucas: other
- Amy L Malone: other
- 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: yes
- Sheri Minor: yes
- Pete Morency: yes
- Bryan Morse: other
- Mary Murphy: yes
- Denis Vincent Murphy: yes
- Brian G Nadeau: other
- 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: no
- John Schneller: yes
- Donald Evan Selby: yes
- Jeremy Slottje: yes
- Jim Snodgrass: no
- Carrie Sorensen: no
- Terry Spahr: no
- John Joseph Stone: other
- John W. Suiter: yes
- Dale Swanson: no
- Brian R. Taylor: no
- James R Thibault: yes
- Travis J Toner: yes
- Alice Wade: no
- Toni Weinstein: no
- Vicki A Wilson: other
- Billie Butler: no
- David John Preece: no
Ought to Pass w/Amendment
2026-05-14 · pass · 14-8
Member-level votes (24)
- Sharon M. Carson: yes
- David H. Watters: no
- Kevin A. Avard: yes
- Regina Birdsell: yes
- Cindy Rosenwald: no
- James P. Gray: yes
- Ruth Ward: yes
- Bill M. Gannon: yes
- Daniel E. Innis: other
- Suzanne M. Prentiss: no
- Denise Ricciardi: other
- Rebecca Perkins Kwoka: no
- Timothy Lang: yes
- Donovan Fenton: no
- Keith R. Murphy: yes
- Howard Pearl: yes
- Daryl Abbas: yes
- Debra Altschiller: no
- David Rochefort: yes
- Mark McConkey: yes
- Tim McGough: yes
- Tara Reardon: no
- Victoria Sullivan: yes
- Pat Long: no

Related bills

No related bills recorded for this bill.

Official source

https://gc.nh.gov/bill_Status/billinfo.aspx?id=2361&inflect=2

Attribution

Data from openstates_api_sync, retrieved 2026-09-30T07:24:32.233308Z

Inspect retained evidence for changes recorded after evidence tracking began:

Source and document changes Status and relationship changes

Session-wide evidence can include changes to other bills:

Bulk imports for this session Session 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 1793. 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.
Some documents have no extracted text yet, so version comparison may be limited.

See the methodology page for data sources and limitations.