How do I find bills I am interested in?
The New Hampshire Legislature considers roughly 1,000 bills every year. These steps will help you find bills important to you.
Every year Citizens Count summarizes every bill in the New Hampshire Legislature and organizes them by topic on our website.
Go to the Citizens Count Bills page to search and browse bills by topic.
If you click on a bill number on our website, it takes you to more detailed information about that bill. We have a separate tutorial on how to read this information here.
If you want to learn more about an issue in general in New Hampshire, you can also check out articles, issue briefs and trending bills on our topic pages.
Many national and New Hampshire organizations will highlight bills that they believe are important. Once you find an organization that shares your interests, visit their website to see if they have a page or newsletter about legislation or advocacy.
To help you get started, here are some of the organizations in New Hampshire that share news about bills with their followers:
- 350NH
- American Civil Liberties Union of New Hampshire
- Americans for Prosperity New Hampshire
- American Friends Service Committee
- Business and Industry Association
- Coalition of New Hampshire Taxpayers
- Conservation Law Foundation
- Cornerstone Action
- FIRST® (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology)
- Granite State Home Educators
- Granite State Taxpayers
- Kent Street Coalition
- League of Women Voters of New Hampshire
- NAACP Manchester Branch
- National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) New Hampshire
- New Futures
- New Hampshire Animal Rights League
- New Hampshire Liberty Alliance
- New Hampshire Right to Life
- New Hampshire School Funding Fairness Project
- New Hampshire SPCA
- New Hampshire Women’s Foundation
- Open Democracy
- Planned Parenthood New Hampshire Action Fund
- Reaching Higher NH
- RebuildNH
- Rights & Democracy NH
- Right to Know NH
- Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests
New Hampshire has statewide and local newspapers that cover many bills making their way through the Legislature. Check out local news coverage from outlets such as:
- The Concord Monitor
- The Conway Daily Sun
- The Eagle-Tribune
- Foster's Daily Democrat
- InDepthNH
- The Keene Sentinel
- The Laconia Daily Sun
- The Nashua Telegraph
- NH Bulletin
- NHBR
- NHPR
- Seacoast Online
- The Union Leader
- WMUR
Citizens Count also summarizes all the daily state news from these sources on our website, here.
Once you find a bill you care about, you can testify at a public hearing, contact elected officials, write a letter to the editor, and more.
