HB1447: Bill Hearings & Public Record

2026 LegislationCivic Education

Jan 7

Written By 603 Equality

HB1447 - restricting the use of certain public and private facilities on the basis of sex and establishing that such restriction does not qualify as discrimination

Link to bill on General Court: https://gc.nh.gov/bill_status/billinfo.aspx?id=1962&inflect=2

Links to Bill Sponsors on General Court:

(Prime) Mazur (R),http://gencourt.state.nh.us/house/members/member.aspx?pid=10667

DeVito (R),http://gencourt.state.nh.us/house/members/member.aspx?pid=11401

Harvey-Bolia (R),http://gencourt.state.nh.us/house/members/member.aspx?pid=9865

Kelley (R),http://gencourt.state.nh.us/house/members/member.aspx?pid=9909

Korzen (R),http://gencourt.state.nh.us/house/members/member.aspx?pid=10612

Litchfield (R),http://gencourt.state.nh.us/house/members/member.aspx?pid=9940

McGrath (R),http://gencourt.state.nh.us/house/members/member.aspx?pid=11421

Mary Murphy (R),http://gencourt.state.nh.us/house/members/member.aspx?pid=11360

Prudhomme-O'Brien (R),http://gencourt.state.nh.us/house/members/member.aspx?pid=903

Reinfurt (R),http://gencourt.state.nh.us/house/members/member.aspx?pid=11364

Victoria Sullivan (R) http://gencourt.state.nh.us/senate/members/webpages/district18.aspx

We define HB1447 as an anti-trans bathroom 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.

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 Scheduled for 04/21/26 at 1:50pm at the State House, Room 100 🎬Committee hearing lasted minutes. 187 minutes (combined with HB1299)
Committee met in executive session on 04/30. Recommended OTP🎬Committee Exec lasted 2 minutes.
Senate voted to lay it on the table on 05/07/26