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NH SB 557

died on adjournment

making synthetic and semisynthetic kratom illegal to prepare, distribute, manufacture, sell, possess, or advertise, with exceptions made for scientific research, and relative to the official ballot referendum form of town meetings.

New Hampshire · 2026 Regular Session · upper

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Quick answers

Did NH SB 557 pass?

No. NH SB 557 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 Moved Nonconcur with the House Amendment, MA, VV; 05/21/2026; SJ 13

What is NH SB 557 about?

NH SB 557 is a bill in the 2026 Regular Session titled “making synthetic and semisynthetic kratom illegal to prepare, distribute, manufacture, sell, possess, or advertise, with exceptions made for scientific research, and relative to the official ballot referendum form of town meetings.”.

Who sponsors NH SB 557?

Debra Altschiller is the primary sponsor of NH SB 557, joined by 8 cosponsors.

Introduced
2025-11-24
Latest action
2026-05-21 — Sen. Gannon Moved Nonconcur with the House Amendment, MA, VV; 05/21/2026; SJ 13
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Sponsors

  • Debra Altschillerprimary
  • Suzanne M. Prentisscosponsor
  • Nancy A Murphycosponsor
  • David H. Watterscosponsor
  • David Watterscosponsor
  • Suzanne Prentisscosponsor
  • Zoe Manoscosponsor
  • Zoe R Manoscosponsor
  • Nancy Murphycosponsor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

Newest first

  1. 2026-05-21

    Sen. Gannon Moved Nonconcur with the House Amendment, MA, VV; 05/21/2026; SJ 13

  2. 2026-05-14

    Ought to Pass with Amendment 2026-1971h: MA DV 176-157 05/14/2026 HJ 13

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  3. 2026-05-14

    Ought to Pass with Amendment 2026-1971h: MA DV 176-157 05/14/2026 HJ 13 P. 100

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  4. 2026-05-14

    FLAM # 2026-1971h(NT) (Rep. Pauer): AA RC 171-162 05/14/2026 HJ 13

  5. 2026-05-14

    FLAM # 2026-1971h(NT) (Rep. Pauer): AA RC 171-162 05/14/2026 HJ 13 P. 97

  6. 2026-05-14

    Amendment # 2026-1798h: AF DV 153-180 05/14/2026 HJ 13

  7. 2026-05-14

    Amendment # 2026-1798h: AF DV 153-180 05/14/2026 HJ 13 P. 97

  8. 2026-05-07

    Minority Committee Report: Ought to Pass

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  9. 2026-05-07

    Majority Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2026-1798h 05/05/2026 (Vote 13-11; RC) HC 19 P. 24

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  10. 2026-04-28

    Division I Work Session: 05/04/2026 10:00 am GP 230

  11. 2026-04-28

    Executive Session: 05/05/2026 10:30 am GP 230

  12. 2026-04-23

    Referred to Finance 04/23/2026 HJ 11 P. 15

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  13. 2026-04-23

    Ought to Pass with Amendment 2026-1473h: MA VV 04/23/2026 HJ 11 P. 6

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  14. 2026-04-23

    Amendment # 2026-1473h: AA VV 04/23/2026 HJ 11 P. 6

  15. 2026-04-15

    Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2026-1473h 04/14/2026 (Vote 13-0; CC)

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  16. 2026-04-08

    Executive Session: 04/14/2026 10:00 am GP 230

  17. 2026-04-01

    Public Hearing: 04/08/2026 11:00 am GP 159

  18. 2026-03-27

    Introduced (in recess of) 03/26/2026 and referred to Criminal Justice and Public Safety HJ 9 P. 54

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  19. 2026-03-23

    Ought to Pass with Amendment #2026-1211s, MA, VV; OT3rdg; 03/26/2026; SJ 7

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  20. 2026-03-23

    Committee Amendment # 2026-1211s, AA, VV; 03/26/2026; SJ 7

  21. 2026-03-19

    Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2026-1211s, 03/26/2026; Vote 5-2; CC; SC 11

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  22. 2026-03-12

    Ought to Pass with Amendment #2026-1159s, MA, VV; Refer to Finance Rule 4-5; 03/12/2026; SJ 6

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  23. 2026-03-12

    Sen. Abbas Floor Amendment # 2026-1159s, AA, VV; 03/12/2026; SJ 6

  24. 2026-03-12

    Without Objection, Sen. Avard Moved the Question, MA; 03/12/2026; SJ 6

  25. 2026-03-12

    Sen. Abbas Floor Amendment # 2026-1159s; 03/12/2026; SJ 6

  26. 2026-03-12

    Committee Amendment # 2026-1052s, AF, VV; 03/12/2026; SJ 6

  27. 2026-03-09

    Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2026-1052s, 03/12/2026, Vote 5-0; SC 9

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  28. 2026-02-05

    Hearing: 02/10/2026, Room 100, SH, 02:00 pm; SC 5A

  29. 2025-11-24

    Introduced 01/07/2026 and Referred to Judiciary; SJ 1

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Versions

Documents

Votes

  • Adopt Floor Amendment

    2026-05-14 · pass · 171-162

    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: other
    • Peter R Leishman: no
    • Marjorie K. Smith: other
    • Michael D Harrington: yes
    • Charles E McMahon: yes
    • Maureen C. Mooney: yes
    • Peter B Schmidt: no
    • Ralph G Boehm: yes
    • Jordan G. Ulery: yes
    • Thomas L Buco: other
    • Jean L. Jeudy: other
    • 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: yes
    • David C Lundgren: yes
    • Dan McGuire: yes
    • Jeanine M Notter: yes
    • Bill H Ohm: yes
    • Mark L Proulx: no
    • 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: no
    • 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: no
    • 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: other
    • 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: no
    • 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: other
    • Jim L Fedolfi: other
    • Gerald Griffin: yes
    • Lisa M Freeman: yes
    • Richard W. Lascelles: yes
    • Kevin J Scully: other
    • 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: other
    • Ellen D Read: no
    • Julie D Gilman: other
    • Kate Rushford Murray: no
    • Mark A Pearson: no
    • 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: yes
    • 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: yes
    • Robert D Harb: yes
    • Charles R Melvin: yes
    • Gaby M Grossman: other
    • Jim V. Maggiore: no
    • David James Meuse: no
    • Terry W Roy: other
    • 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: other
    • Lex Berezhny: yes
    • Mary A Hakken-Phillips: no
    • Russell Muirhead: no
    • Jim A Kofalt: other
    • 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: other
    • Melissa A. Litchfield: no
    • JD Bernardy: yes
    • Mark Paige: other
    • Glenn Bailey: yes
    • Aidan Ankarberg: other
    • Walter Spilsbury: yes
    • Wayne D. MacDonald: yes
    • Paul A Terry: yes
    • Bill Boyd: no
    • Muriel C Hall: no
    • Catherine A Rombeau: no
    • Jodi L Nelson: other
    • Cyril Nicholas Aures: yes
    • Deborah Aylward: yes
    • Peggy Balboni: no
    • Heather P Baldwin: other
    • Lorie Ball: yes
    • Luz Bay: no
    • Steven T Bogert: other
    • Bill R Bolton: other
    • Richard R Brown: other
    • Claudine R Burnham: yes
    • Matthew Coker: no
    • Riché Colcombe: yes
    • Travis James Corcoran: other
    • 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: other
    • Alicia C Gregg: other
    • 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: no
    • 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: other
    • Alissandra Murray: no
    • David J Nagel: other
    • 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: other
    • 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: other
    • 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: other
    • 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: other
    • Erik R Johnson: no
    • Jennifer Mandelbaum: no
    • Michael Aron: yes
    • Liz F Barbour: yes
    • Joseph J Barton: other
    • Calvin Beaulier: yes
    • Cindy Lynn Bennett: yes
    • Dan H Bergeron: other
    • Marie Louise Bjelobrk: yes
    • Tracy Anne Bricchi: no
    • Nicholas D. Bridle: no
    • 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: other
    • Susan G DeRoy: yes
    • Sayra Lynn DeVito: other
    • Ricky J Devoid: yes
    • Matt Drew: yes
    • Dillon J Dumont: yes
    • Pierre M Dupont: yes
    • Myles England: other
    • 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: no
    • Ernesto L Gonzalez: other
    • 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: no
    • 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: yes
    • Darrell A Louis: yes
    • Janet Marie Lucas: no
    • Amy L Malone: other
    • Tim E Mannion: other
    • Sanjeev K Manohar: other
    • Jay D Markell: yes
    • Rita G Mattson: yes
    • Donald S McFarlane: other
    • Linda McGrath: yes
    • Peter L. Mehegan: no
    • Julie Miles: no
    • 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: yes
    • Rich M Nalevanko: yes
    • James Newsom: no
    • Terri O'Rorke: no
    • Thomas Oppel: no
    • Kathleen Paquette: yes
    • Wayne Pearson: no
    • Raymond C. Peeples: other
    • 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: other
    • Dale Swanson: no
    • Brian R. Taylor: yes
    • James R Thibault: yes
    • Travis J Toner: yes
    • Alice Wade: no
    • Toni Weinstein: other
    • Vicki A Wilson: yes
    • Billie Butler: no
    • Bobbi Boudman: no
    • David John Preece: other

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Official source

https://gc.nh.gov/bill_Status/billinfo.aspx?id=1335&inflect=2

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