Every 2026 bill you were tracking is dead, including the ones sent to study
Every 2026 bill you were tracking is dead, including the ones sent to study
2026-09-15 · New Hampshire · Legislation
What happened. New Hampshire's 169th General Court adjourned sine die on June 4, 2026, and its final procedural day was August 19, 2026. The 2027 session convenes January 6, 2027 as the first year of a new biennium.
That combination has a consequence a lot of association boards and managers have not absorbed: every 2025 and 2026 bill is dead. Not paused, not pending, not waiting for the fall. Dead.
Why "retained" and "interim study" do not mean what they sound like
New Hampshire's House retains bills in committee over the interim, and refers others to interim study. Both sound like survival, and within a biennium they are: a bill retained in the first year comes back in the second.
Across a biennium boundary, neither does. When the 169th General Court ended, everything before it ended too, regardless of the motion that had parked it. A bill sent to interim study in March 2026 did not survive August 2026.
The example that is circulating wrongly
HB 1357, which would have permitted newly constructed manufactured homes by right in all residentially zoned areas, was referred for interim study on a 16-1 committee vote, adopted by the full House on March 12, 2026. Reporting at the time said it would be studied over the summer and could "be brought back in the fall."
There is no fall session. The bill is gone. For it to return, a member must file it as a new legislative service request for 2027 — and no such title appears on the 2027 House list as filed.
What this changes for a board or a manager
It changes the status of every 2026 bill in your file, and the status is the same for all of them: closed.
The bills that died in the 2026 session and would have reached New Hampshire associations include, on the reporting we have been able to assemble: an electric utility rate classification measure that would have let condominiums request residential rates for shared septic and well-pump meters; a bill authorizing remote and hybrid unit-owner meetings with electronic voting; a measure barring separate condominium conveyance of an accessory dwelling unit from its principal unit; a voucher set-aside for new developments of six or more units; and a private-road cost-sharing default for subdivisions with no active homeowners association.
Each of those is a real gap somebody was counting on being filled. None of them was.
The 2027 filing calendar, and why it already happened
This is the part that catches people who assume there is time.
The House filing window for incumbents seeking re-election ran September 1 to 11, 2026 and has closed. As of mid-September the public 2027 list carried 232 legislative service requests — 211 House bills, 12 constitutional amendment concurrent resolutions, 8 House resolutions, 1 House concurrent resolution, and zero Senate bills. Newly elected representatives may begin filing from around November 4, 2026, after the November 3 general election; Senate requests come in December.
So an association or a trade group that wants a 2027 bill has two remaining routes: a newly elected member in November, or a senator in December. The incumbent House route is closed until the next cycle.
What is actually on the 2027 list
We searched all 232 titles for condominium, homeowner, common interest, association, covenant, lien, foreclosure, reserve, construction defect and cooperative. No 2027 legislative service request on the list today uses the words "condominium" or "homeowners association" in its title.
What is there, adjacent to the beat: LSR 2027-0012 (Rep. Rosemarie Rung) on disclosure of rights and responsibilities during the sale of a mobile home in a park; LSR 2027-0235 (Rep. Ellen Read) on the number of accessory dwelling units permitted; LSR 2027-0017 (Rep. Read) authorizing municipalities to stabilize rent increases; LSR 2027-0089 (Rep. Michael Harrington) on planning board authority over subdivision applications; LSR 2027-0095 (Rep. James Guzofski) on ZBA public notice requirements; LSR 2027-0114 (Rep. Kat McGhee) allowing subdivision regulations concerning water supply; and LSR 2027-0205 (Rep. David Walker) requiring probate notices of real estate acquired by inheritance to be recorded at the registry of deeds — a quiet one that changes how an association identifies the current record owner of a unit after a death.
All of these are titles and sponsors. No 2027 bill text exists publicly. A title does not disclose direction: "relative to the number of accessory dwelling units permitted" could raise the number or lower it, and nobody outside drafting knows which.
What to watch next
November 4 onward, as newly elected members file, and December for the Senate. The full picture of the 2027 session is not visible until then, and bill text arrives later still.
The honest summary of where New Hampshire's 2027 pressure is coming from: not Concord. The items that will actually change a New Hampshire condominium's 2027 budget are the reserve floor rising on January 4 and the insurance requirements that came with it — decided in March 2026 by the secondary mortgage market, two days before the legislature convenes.
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