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SB231 • 2026

relative to road frontage requirements and setbacks for wetlands.

relative to road frontage requirements and setbacks for wetlands.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Keith Murphy (R), Howard Pearl (r), Joe Alexander (R), Daniel Innis (R), Jason Osborne (R)
Last action
2026-01-07
Official status
SENATE
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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relative to road frontage requirements and setbacks for wetlands.

relative to road frontage requirements and setbacks for wetlands.

What This Bill Does

  • relative to road frontage requirements and setbacks for wetlands.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-01-07 S

    Inexpedient to Legislate, MA, VV === BILL KILLED ===; 01/07/2026; SJ 1

  2. 2025-11-04 S

    Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate; Vote 5-0; CC; 01/07/2026; SC 46

  3. 2025-03-13 S

    Rereferred to Committee, MA, VV; 03/13/2025; SJ 7

  4. 2025-03-07 S

    Committee Report: Rereferred to Committee, 03/13/2025; Vote 5-0; CC; SC 12

  5. 2025-03-04 S

    Hearing: 03/04/2025, Room 103, SH, 09:00 am; SC 11

  6. 2025-01-23 S

    Introduced 01/09/2025 and Referred to Energy and Natural Resources; SJ 3

Official Summary Text

relative to road frontage requirements and setbacks for wetlands.

Current Bill Text

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SB 231 - AS INTRODUCED

2025 SESSION
25-1142
06/08

SENATE BILL
231

AN ACT
relative to road frontage requirements and setbacks for wetlands.

SPONSORS: Sen. Murphy, Dist 16; Sen. Innis, Dist 7; Sen. Pearl, Dist 17; Rep. Osborne, Rock. 2; Rep. Alexander Jr., Hills. 29

COMMITTEE: Energy and Natural Resources

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ANALYSIS

This bill adopts limits on road frontage requirements and setbacks for wetlands and lot lines to improve housing density, ensuring these requirements do not exceed 50 feet and are consistent with existing shoreland protection and environmental standards.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
25-1142
06/08

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Five

AN ACT
relative to road frontage requirements and setbacks for wetlands.

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

1 New Subparagraph; Purposes of Zoning Ordinances. Amend RSA 674:17, I by inserting after subparagraph (j) the following new subparagraph:
(k) To limit road frontage requirements and setbacks for wetlands and lot lines to improve housing density, ensuring these requirements do not exceed 50 feet, and ensuring such limitations are consistent with existing shoreland protection standards under RSA 483-B:9 and do not override environmental standards under the affected programs as defined in RSA 489:2.

2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.