Legislative Review Page - Planning

Below you will find Legislative House and Senate Bills pertaining to Planning related issues. Click on the House or Senate Bill number to go the State of New Hampshire Bill Status page. Also on this page you will find links to view the full text of the bill and docket information.

If the status of a Bill is not listed on our page, it is still in the legislative process and will require that you look to the State site for further information relative to its disposition. Our page will only indicate if the Bill has been adopted or defeated.

Bill Number Description of legislative initiative
HB1149 allowing the planning board chairperson to administer oaths and compel the attendance of witnesses.
HB1233 establishing a statute of limitations on wetlands filling and dredging.
HB1282 relative to workforce housing and the definition of community.
HB1296 relative to net energy metering.
HB1380 relative to the development of wetland mitigation banks.
HB1398 relative to lighting on bicycles at night.
HB1453 relative to requiring planning boards to require a deeded right-of-way to a public road as a condition for approval of plans for certain developments.
HB1490 repealing New Hampshire's regional greenhouse gas initiative cap and trade program for controlling carbon dioxide emissions.
HB1515 relative to the assessment of the land use change tax and the use of land use change tax revenues.
HB1525 repealing the wetlands and shorelands review fund.
HB1540 relative to conservation easements on public land.
HB1545 relative to control of land received or acquired by a conservation commission.
HB1561 discontinuing regional planning commissions.
HB1586 relative to the acquisition of land for conservation purposes.
HB1634 prohibiting the state, counties, towns, and cities from implementing programs of, expending money for, receiving funding from, or contracting with the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives.
HB1636 relative to the extension of fill and dredge in wetlands permits. 
SB19 relative to the definition of "prime wetlands."
SB258 authorizing group net metering for limited electrical energy producers.
SB260 relative to the state fire code and the appeal process for decisions of the state fire marshal.
SB291 relative to the use of currently allowed impact fees by municipalities.
SB304 relative to the waiver of state fees associated with historic preservation.