State AI law
New Hampshire
AI laws
We track 20 artificial-intelligence bills and regulations in New Hampshire. 8 have been signed or enacted, and 2 are still moving.
Last updated Oct 13, 2026 · How we collect and check bills
Where New Hampshire’s bills stand
20 bills- Introduced
- 0
- In committee
- 1
- Passed a chamber
- 1
- Signed or enacted
- 8
- Dead or vetoed
- 10
Overview
How New Hampshire regulates AI
New Hampshire has 20 published AI-related bills in our register, 8 of them signed or enacted. Every bill below links to its own page with the status, dates and a plain-English summary.
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New Hampshire AI bills
RSS feed for New HampshireCreating an exception to the restricted uses of artificial intelligence by state agencies.
New Hampshire's HB 1506 (2026) would let the commissioner or head of a state agency request an exception to the applicability of RSA 5-D, the chapter on state agency use of artificial intelligence. Approval by the Department of Information Technology commissioner would be followed by a final decision of the executive council. The House referred it for interim study on March 11, 2026; the docket lists a work session on October 15 and an executive session on October 22, 2026.
Relative to the use of information technology and artificial intelligence systems by state agencies.
Did not pass. SB 657 would have expanded New Hampshire's oversight of AI in state government: the information technology council would advise on agencies' development, procurement and use of AI, including compliance with the state's AI code of ethics (RSA 5-D) and privacy safeguards, and the Department of Information Technology would keep a public inventory of executive-branch AI systems and report each October 1 on their use, compliance, incidents and workforce effects. Both chambers passed versions, but the Senate refused the House amendment on May 21, 2026 and no further action followed.
Relative to the right to compute.
New Hampshire's HB 1124 would enact a Right to Compute Act (new RSA chapter 507-J) barring any state or local government entity from restricting the ability to privately own or use computational resources for lawful purposes, except as demonstrably necessary and narrowly tailored to fulfill a compelling government interest. The House passed it by voice vote on March 11, 2026 after a 15-0 Ought to Pass committee report. The Senate Judiciary Committee recommended interim study (vote 5-0) and the Senate referred it to interim study on May 14, 2026; it has not passed the Senate and has not become law.
relative to the use of artificial intelligence to provide services requiring a professional license.
New Hampshire's SB 640 (2026), as amended by the Senate, would bar anyone from offering mental health or therapy services, including through AI, unless provided by a New Hampshire licensed mental health professional, reenact RSA 310:13 on unlicensed practice with a $10,000 civil penalty per violation, and create a review commission. It passed the Senate March 12, 2026; the House voted it Inexpedient to Legislate on May 14, 2026.
Relative to health carrier recordkeeping requirements in utilization review, including specifications regarding the use of artificial intell…
New Hampshire's HB 1406 (2026), as amended by the House, would require health carriers to keep written records on their use of algorithms and AI in utilization review and require adverse determinations, including payment reductions and down coding, to be made by a qualified health care provider, with written notice and records. It passed the House with amendment on March 11, 2026; the Senate voted it Inexpedient to Legislate on May 7, 2026 and it was killed.
relative to the regulation of artificial intelligence technologies.
New Hampshire's HB 1725 (2026) would have created RSA chapter 359-V, "Responsible Artificial Intelligence Governance": a 7-member AI council, AI interaction disclosures, bans on AI developed with intent to unlawfully discriminate or for social scoring, limits on government biometric identification, a regulatory sandbox, and attorney general enforcement with civil penalties. The House voted it Inexpedient to Legislate on February 19, 2026, and it died.
Criminalizing and creating a private right of action for the facilitation, encouragement, offer, solicitation, or recommendation of certain …
New Hampshire's HB 143 (Chapter 270 of 2025) targets chatbots that steer children toward harm. The owner or operator of an AI chat program, chatbot, character AI or similar service whose sole purpose is open-ended generative conversation commits endangering the welfare of a child if it knowingly directs communications to a child intended to encourage the child to imminently engage in sexually explicit conduct or its depiction, drug or alcohol use, self-harm or suicide, or violence. The same conduct creates civil liability for damages of at least $1,000 per violation, which the Attorney General, who has the sole right of action, enforces after a 90-day cure notice. Effective January 1, 2026.
Criminalizing the creation of child intimate visual representations
New Hampshire's SB 300 (Chapter 259 of 2025) creates RSA 649-A:3-c, which makes it a class B felony to knowingly create, produce, manufacture or direct an intimate visual representation of a child for prurient purposes when the child can be identified from it or from information shown with it. An intimate visual representation includes any photo, video, digital image, synthetic image or computer-generated image showing a child's intimate parts, and a synthetic image is one altered or created to show a person in a realistic but false way. The offense is added to the sex offender registry as an offense against a child and a Tier II offense. Effective January 1, 2026.
Preventing the dissemination of deepfake materials of political candidates before an election.
New Hampshire's HB 630 (2025) would have amended RSA 664:14-c, which bars distributing a deepfake of a candidate, election official or party within 90 days of an election unless it carries a prescribed disclosure, so that it covers deepfakes created using any "synthetic media technology" rather than only "artificial intelligence or generative AI", and so the disclosure refers to "digital technology" instead of "artificial intelligence technology". The House adopted the committee's Inexpedient to Legislate report 201-169 on March 20, 2025, and the bill died.
Creating a public county registry of the monthly rent charged by landlords for each owned unit and prohibiting landlords from using algorith…
New Hampshire's HB 558 would create a public county registry of monthly rents kept by registers of deeds, require landlords to file rent lists and a notarized affidavit that they used no algorithm or software to set rents, and prohibit landlords from using any algorithm or software to determine rental rates. The House Housing Committee recommended Inexpedient to Legislate (10-8) and the House adopted that on March 20, 2025, so the bill did not pass.
Relative to prohibiting the unlawful distribution of misleading synthetic media.
New Hampshire's HB 1500-FN would have made it a class A misdemeanor to purposely distribute synthetic media (media created or modified with artificial intelligence algorithms) of an identifiable person without consent and without a conspicuous synthetic-media notice, intending to mislead others. An election-related offense would have covered the 90 days before an election. Referred for interim study March 14, 2024; the October 31, 2024 report was Not Recommended for Future Legislation, so it is dead.
Requiring a disclosure of deceptive artificial intelligence usage in political advertising.
New Hampshire's HB 1596 adds RSA 664:14-c. Within 90 days of an election, no person or entity may distribute a message created with AI or generative AI that it knows or should have known is a deepfake of a candidate, election official or party on the ballot, unless the media carries the required AI disclosure. Candidates and election officials may seek an injunction or damages. Signed August 2, 2024 (Chapter 345); effective August 1, 2024.
Relative to the use of artificial intelligence by state agencies.
New Hampshire's HB 1688 adds RSA chapter 5-D. State agencies may not use AI to classify people in ways that cause unlawful discrimination, use real-time remote biometric identification for public surveillance (except law enforcement with a warrant), or use deepfakes for deceptive or malicious purposes. Irreversible AI decisions need human review, generative AI material not reviewed by a human must be labeled, and users must be told when they interact with AI. Signed July 12, 2024 (Chapter 209); effective July 1, 2024.
Relative to prohibiting certain uses of deepfakes and creating a private claim of action
New Hampshire's HB 1432 (Chapter 243 of 2024) makes fraudulent use of deepfakes a class B felony. A deepfake is video, audio or other media in which a person's face, body or voice has been digitally altered so they appear to be someone else or to say or do something they never did. Knowingly creating, distributing or presenting a deepfake of an identifiable person to embarrass, harass, entrap, defame, extort or cause financial or reputational harm is a crime, and a deepfake that leads to the person's arrest is a separate felony carrying liability for their defense costs. Victims may also sue for damages. News, satire and parody are excepted. Effective January 1, 2025.
Relative to prohibiting the nonconsensual dissemination of synthetic sexual images
New Hampshire's HB 1319 (Chapter 127 of 2024) extends the crime of nonconsensual dissemination of private sexual images to synthetic images. A synthetic image is an image altered or created to depict a person in a realistic but false way. It is a class B felony to purposely share, to harass, intimidate, threaten or coerce the person shown, a synthetic image that manipulates a recognizable person's image to create a realistic but false depiction of their intimate parts or sexual activity without consent. Exceptions cover investigations, reporting unlawful conduct and lawful public purposes. Effective January 1, 2025.
Relative to the use of artificial intelligence for personal defense.
New Hampshire's HB 1599-FN, the "Affirmation of Artificial Intelligence for Personal Defense Act", would have made a person justified in using autonomous artificial intelligence in any circumstance where the person would be justified in using the same level of force, judged by the same standards as a human's decision. If the AI's decision were not justified, justification would not be a defense for its owner or employer. The House found it Inexpedient to Legislate February 1, 2024; it is dead.
Relative to civil actions regarding the prohibited use of synthetic media.
New Hampshire's HB 1710-FN would have created a civil action over misleading synthetic media (media made or modified with AI algorithms): distributing it of an identifiable person without consent, without a conspicuous notice, and with intent to mislead. It would also have required political communications that include synthetic media to carry an AI-assistance disclosure. The House found it Inexpedient to Legislate February 1, 2024; it is dead.
Establishing an autonomous vehicle advisory commission, establishing an autonomous vehicle testing pilot program, and providing requirements…
New Hampshire's SB 216 creates an Autonomous Vehicle Advisory Commission (RSA 241) and an automated vehicle testing and deployment pilot program run by the Division of Motor Vehicles (RSA 242). Testing entities need department approval, $5 million in financial responsibility and pay a $500 annual fee; driverless vehicles and on-demand driverless networks may operate if conditions are met. Signed August 2, 2019 (Chapter 310); the commission provisions took effect August 2, 2019, RSA 242:1 I-VIII, XIII and XIV on September 1, 2019 and RSA 242:1 IX-XII on July 1, 2021.
Relative to licensing requirements for autonomous vehicle testing and establishing an automated and connected vehicle testing and deployment…
Vetoed. HB 314 (2017-2018) would have created a New Hampshire autonomous vehicle testing license, requiring at least $10 million in insurance, bond or self-insurance, a $500 annual fee, federal safety-standard compliance and a law enforcement interaction plan; allowed SAE level 5 fully automated vehicles on the road only for licensed testers with an escort vehicle; and set up an automated and connected vehicle testing and deployment commission. Governor Sununu vetoed it on July 2, 2018. The House voted to override (279-66) but the Senate sustained the veto (5-19) on September 13, 2018.
Prohibiting the use of facial recognition technology in connection with driver's license photographs.
New Hampshire's HB 1329 adds RSA 263:40-b, which prohibits the department from using any facial recognition technology in connection with taking or retaining any photograph or digital image for purposes of RSA chapter 263 (drivers' licenses). Signed July 28, 2014 (Chapter 274); effective September 26, 2014, 60 days after passage.
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