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HB1349 • 2026

relative to exemptions from multi-family zoning requirements for small or low-density communities.

relative to exemptions from multi-family zoning requirements for small or low-density communities.

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Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
David Meuse (D), Jennifer Mandelbaum (D)
Last action
2026-02-19
Official status
HOUSE
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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relative to exemptions from multi-family zoning requirements for small or low-density communities.

relative to exemptions from multi-family zoning requirements for small or low-density communities.

What This Bill Does

  • relative to exemptions from multi-family zoning requirements for small or low-density communities.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-02-19 H

    Inexpedient to Legislate: MA VV 02/19/2026 HJ 5 P. 23

  2. 2026-02-09 H

    Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate 02/03/2026 (Vote 17-0; CC) HC 7 P. 14

  3. 2026-01-28 H

    Executive Session: 02/03/2026 10:00 am GP 231

  4. 2026-01-14 H

    Public Hearing: 01/22/2026 11:30 am GP 231

  5. 2025-12-02 H

    Introduced 01/07/2026 and referred to Housing HJ 1 P. 16

Official Summary Text

relative to exemptions from multi-family zoning requirements for small or low-density communities.

Current Bill Text

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HB 1349 - AS INTRODUCED

2026 SESSION
26-3144
06/08

HOUSE BILL
1349

AN ACT
relative to exemptions from multi-family zoning requirements for small or low-density communities.

SPONSORS: Rep. Meuse, Rock. 37; Rep. Mandelbaum, Rock. 21

COMMITTEE: Housing

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ANALYSIS

This bill exempts municipalities with fewer than 250 residents per square mile from the statutory requirement to permit multi-family residential development on commercially zoned land, regardless of federal rural or urban designations or overlapping area classifications.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
26-3144
06/08

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty-Six

AN ACT
relative to exemptions from multi-family zoning requirements for small or low-density communities.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

1 New Paragraph; Amendment to Zoning Regulations. Amend RSA 674:80 by inserting after paragraph IV the following new paragraph:
V. A municipality with a population density of less than 250 residents per square mile, as determined by the latest population data from the United States Census Bureau, shall be exempt from this section. This exemption shall apply to municipalities regardless of any designation by the United States Census Bureau of a community being a rural or urban area and by any resulting overlapping of these areas.

2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect upon its passage.