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HR30 • 2026

finding that planning, zoning, and related regulations have been and should continue to be the responsibility of municipal government.

finding that planning, zoning, and related regulations have been and should continue to be the responsibility of municipal government.

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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
Len Turcotte (R), Jose Cambrils (R), Louise Andrus (R), David Preece (D), Laurel Stavis (D), Susan DeRoy (R), Diane Kelley (R), Julie Gilman (D), Jennifer Mandelbaum (D), Jim Maggiore (D)
Last action
2026-02-05
Official status
HOUSE
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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finding that planning, zoning, and related regulations have been and should continue to be the responsibility of municipal government.

finding that planning, zoning, and related regulations have been and should continue to be the responsibility of municipal government.

What This Bill Does

  • finding that planning, zoning, and related regulations have been and should continue to be the responsibility of municipal government.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-02-05 H

    Inexpedient to Legislate: MA DV 259-81 02/05/2026 HJ 3 P. 50

  2. 2026-02-05 H

    Reconsider ITL (Rep. Perez): MF RC 72-274 02/05/2026 HJ 3 P. 51

  3. 2026-01-27 H

    Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate 01/13/2026 (Vote 17-0; RC) HC 5 P. 24

  4. 2026-01-16 H

    Executive Session: 01/13/2026 09:00 am GP 231

  5. 2026-01-08 H

    Public Hearing: 01/13/2026 09:00 am GP 231

  6. 2025-12-01 H

    Introduced 01/07/2026 and referred to Housing HJ 1 P. 39

Official Summary Text

finding that planning, zoning, and related regulations have been and should continue to be the responsibility of municipal government.

Current Bill Text

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HR 30 - AS INTRODUCED

2026 SESSION
26-2604
04/09

HOUSE RESOLUTION
30

A RESOLUTION
finding that planning, zoning, and related regulations have been and should continue to be the responsibility of municipal government.

SPONSORS: Rep. Turcotte, Straf. 4; Rep. Preece, Hills. 17; Rep. D. Kelley, Hills. 32; Rep. Maggiore, Rock. 23; Rep. Cambrils, Merr. 4; Rep. Stavis, Graf. 13; Rep. Gilman, Rock. 11; Rep. Andrus, Merr. 5; Rep. DeRoy, Straf. 3; Rep. Mandelbaum, Rock. 21

COMMITTEE: Housing

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ANALYSIS

This resolution finds that planning, zoning, and related regulations have been and should continue to be the responsibility of municipal government.

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26-2604
04/09

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty-Six

A RESOLUTION
finding that planning, zoning, and related regulations have been and should continue to be the responsibility of municipal government.

Whereas, the Standard Zoning Enabling Act was originally drafted at the federal level in 1924 as a model law for states to adopt and was clearly intended to be an “enabling act [that] is advisable in all cases" and intended to be modified "as little as possible”, thereby encouraging state legislation to empower municipalities and their residents to zone, if they choose; and
Whereas, there is a recent effort to chip away at the local zoning regulations of municipalities by implementation of state mandates under the guise of “property rights”; and
Whereas, any theoretical property rights gained for the benefit of a few are ultimately at the expense and property rights of the vast majority; and
Whereas, RSA 672:1, I and II, clearly and unambiguously states the declaration of purpose for planning, zoning, and related regulations is the purview of municipalities; now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the House of Representatives:
That the house reaffirms the unambiguous intent of RSA 672:1 "Declaration of Purpose" which states that the general court hereby finds and declares that planning, zoning and related regulations have been and should continue to be the responsibility of municipal government; and that zoning, subdivision regulations, and related regulations are a legislative tool that enables municipal government to meet more effectively the demands of evolving and growing communities.