HB1447: Bill Hearings & Public Record

HB1447 - Anti-Trans Bathroom Ban

• Official Title: restricting the use of certain public and private facilities on the basis of sex and establishing that such restriction does not qualify as discrimination.

• Bill Sponsors:(Prime) Mazur (R), DeVito (R), Harvey-Bolia (R), Kelley (R), Korzen (R), Litchfield (R), McGrath (R), Mary Murphy (R), Prudhomme-O'Brien (R), Reinfurt (R), Victoria Sullivan (R)

• Watch Bill Hearings & Public Record here: https://603equality.org/news-updates/hb1447

• Total Time spent on HB1447 public hearings + votes: 1 hour, 1 minutes

• Summary: HB 1447 is a bathroom ban bill. This bill seeks to restrict access to “private spaces” on the basis of what the bill sponsor defines as “biological sex” like many of the other proposed bathroom and locker room bans this legislative season. Additionally, the bill sponsor also singled out trans women, and references the SRY gene as a way to scientifically define sex to a binary, despite the vast number of variations to biological sex that exist. This bill is another example of the state legislature attempting to police the movements of trans people in New Hampshire, despite two separate Governors vetoing three similar bills already. The original bill text can be read by clicking the bill number. The committee hearings & public record of the bill can be watched and reviews at the “Bill Hearings & Public Record” linked above.

  • BILL UPDATE:

    • Introduced to House on 01/07/26 and referred to House Judiciary Committee

    • Committee Hearing Scheduled (02/20/26 at 1 Granite Place, room 231 @ 11:30am) 🎬Committee hearing lasted 49 minutes.

    • Majority Committee Report: OTP Ought to Pass, (10-7) Minority Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate 🎬Committee Exec lasted 7 minutes.

    • Will go on House Calendar (03/11/26) House passed 184y-154n on 03/12/26 - will go to Senate 🎬Floor vote + Remarks lasted 5 minutes.

    • Introduced to Senate on 03/12/26 and referred to Senate Judiciary Committee

    • Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing scheduled on 04/21/26 at 1:50pm at the State House, Room 100